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Example sentences for "awakened"

Lexicographically close words:
awaiting; awaits; awake; awaked; awaken; awakening; awakenings; awakens; awakes; awaking
  1. The sun, rimming the east wall, shining into Joan's face, awakened her.

  2. Then he awakened as if from a trance, and, leaping down the steps, he violently swept aside the curtain and disappeared.

  3. When Joan was awakened her room was shrouded in gray gloom.

  4. That night she had slept in Dandy Dale's clothes, except for the boots; and sometimes while turning in restless slumber she had been awakened by rolling on the heavy gun, which she had not removed from the belt.

  5. For a man as weak and weary as he had been, it was remarkable how quickly a touch awakened him.

  6. Joan slept late next morning, and was awakened by the unloading of lumber.

  7. I was, however, quickly awakened by the thongs cutting my limbs as I bent forward.

  8. I haven't seen any savages, but those sounds seem scarcely human, I wonder Bracewell hasn't been awakened by them.

  9. Its gleam had led her through storms and lonely journeyings, but she had followed, and she had found it at last, found it in the new light of hope that had awakened in many dull eyes in Willow Lane.

  10. Young Algonquin had but recently awakened to the fact that society was not society unless you built a fence about it and kept somebody--it didn't matter much who--out.

  11. But just now she could attend to nothing but Lulu, who had not ceased her frantic cries for mamma and "hupper" from the moment she had been awakened in lifting her from the boat.

  12. I hope later on in these letters to describe some of its details, and some of the thoughts awakened by them in a woman's mind.

  13. And the old Countess was conscious of an emotion never awakened within her by her son, yet now aroused by her grand-daughter,--pride in her own flesh and blood.

  14. Moreover, she was the late-awakened poetry of her life, the transfigured resurrection of her own youth.

  15. Your fair form, the angelic beauty of your face--perhaps your very grief--awakened interest in a heart whose love never meant else than ruin to its object.

  16. The cowardly manner in which these hired ruffians had dogged him had awakened his vengeance.

  17. The lone hatero, couched beside his silent flock, was awakened by a growl from his watchful sheep-dog.

  18. Now it is necessary for such persons as these to be awakened from their illusion.

  19. From the wholesale burning of books at Ephesus, as a consequence of awakened convictions, the most pregnant of all commentators upon the New Testament has drawn a powerful lesson.

  20. Men are apt to mistake the emotion awakened by the very sound of these magnificent expressions of duty for the discharge of the duty itself.

  21. OLD PLAY After passing the night in that sound sleep for which agitation and fatigue had prepared him, Roland was awakened by the fresh morning air, and by the beams of the rising sun.

  22. Maternity revived her worn-out energy, awakened her conscience to new duties, to new sacred responsibilities which now devolved upon her.

  23. I used to stay in bed several days at a stretch, sunk in the brutishness of obscene dreams, awakened now and then by sudden nightmares, by painful attacks of heartache which caused my skin to perspire.

  24. I was awakened by a rough hand on my shoulder to find it dark beyond the windows and Semyonov watching me impatiently: "Come, get up!

  25. I was awakened by a cold fierce apprehension of terror.

  26. The feelings of the boys were too keen, however, for them long to remain silent, and in a moment they broke into a cheer which must have awakened the echoes along the shore.

  27. How long they had been sleeping they did not know, but they were suddenly awakened by a yell that startled them all.

  28. But who can say whether, if the evening had been devoid of these occurrences, and no emotions of contrition and pity had been awakened in her behalf in the breast of her chivalrous host, she would ever have become Mrs. Ashley?

  29. He had even desired to be awakened at six o'clock; and it was his failure to respond to the summons of the bellboy which led to so early a discovery of his death.

  30. Not understanding her or myself or the strange thrill awakened by this contact, I tore open the front door and looked out, expecting, of course, to see her on the steps or on the sidewalk in front.

  31. He, on his part, as the door fell back, watched her for some token of awakened interest.

  32. The scheme did not fully succeed, owing to the interest awakened in one man's mind by the beauty and seeming truth of Miss Demarest.

  33. But this soon passed in the more human sentiment awakened by the soft pleading which infused her gaze with a touching femininity.

  34. There is no gulf between me and one whom I adore, who has thrown a spell over me which I cannot resist, which I glory in not resisting; for you have been my guide, my morning star, which has awakened me to new life.

  35. The negro nodded, his eyes filled with awakened interest.

  36. An instant he gazed about wildly, like one suddenly awakened from sound sleep, then hid his face in his hands.

  37. The old eyes, now scanning my face, gleamed with awakened pride.

  38. I caught the quick responsive smile lighting his hard, thin face, observing how suddenly awakened pride and contempt combined to curl his upturned moustache.

  39. My beauty has always been my undoing," I ventured, in awakened good humor.

  40. The exciting incidents of the night had awakened me to the humor of the venture, and I smiled grimly at the rare conceit of the contemplated masquerade.

  41. Before either De Noyan or myself could mutter a hasty warning, the half-awakened preacher sent his great, gruff voice booming out into the air: "O Lord God of Israel deliver Thy servant from destruction and the clutch of the Evil One.

  42. About midnight that night I was suddenly awakened by yells and loud shouting and hammering close to my tent and next to that in which Bullock and Mallory were sleeping.

  43. During the night we were awakened by a regular shower bath.

  44. I was awakened by rats gnawing at the food which had been left out on the boxes in my tent.

  45. All the flutes and pipes, which have lain frozen to death in dusty corners throughout the winter, have now awakened and remembered their best beloved melodies, which they trill cheerfully like the birds in the air.

  46. Religious associations were thus awakened without the artist, whether of the time of Pericles or of the time of Leo X.

  47. But how, then, explain this intense conviction, and the emotion awakened in us by the bas-relief?

  48. It seemed exactly as though the graceful vessel had awakened from sleep, and was longing to spring into the free blue sea, and spread her wings to the breeze.

  49. It was wonderful what martial ardour was awakened by the possession of a vessel armed with two real guns.

  50. Mrs. Banker was very fond of Helen, and not even the sight of the farmhouse, with its unpolished inmates, awakened a feeling of regret that her only son had not looked higher for a wife.

  51. As if the reappearance of Katy had awakened all that was weak and silly in Sybil's nature, she now put forth her full powers of attraction, but met only with defeat.

  52. Above, in her room under the gables, the singer lady had been awakened by the brushing of a white-capped old locust bough against her casement as it attempted to climb with all its bloom into her dormer window.

  53. But now is the time for the awakened kindred ideas to assume control and lead the stranger captive, to bring him in among themselves and give him his appropriate place and importance.

  54. Interest is awakened and self-activity exercised at every step in the progress toward general truths.

  55. Esthetic interest is awakened by what is beautiful, grand, and harmonious in nature or art.

  56. It is life giving and is prompted by the objects themselves, just as the interest of boys is awakened by deeds of adventure and daring or by a journey into the woods.

  57. If the interest awakened by bringing the mind in contact with the subject is not spontaneous, it is not genuine and helpful in the best sense.

  58. Interest in every study is awakened and constantly reenforced by an appeal, not to books, but to life.

  59. We forget that the feelings or sensibilities awakened by knowledge are what give it personal significance to us.

  60. Moreover, by excluding an interesting subject-matter derived from other studies, the interest and mental life awakened by language lessons are reduced to a minimum.

  61. A natural interest is also awakened by what is strange, mysterious, and even frightful, but these kinds of interest concern us from a speculative rather than a pedagogical point of view.

  62. The narrowing idea of a trade or calling should be kept away from the public school, and as far as possible varied interests in knowledge should be awakened in every child.

  63. The interest that is awakened in a subject because of its innate attractiveness, leaves incentives which may ripen sooner or later into action.

  64. Then, it happened that he was awakened by a severe chastisement from his Heavenly Father from this sleep of death to a higher life.

  65. She saw that she had been living to herself and not to God, and this, whatever particulars she might lament, was the heavy burden of her awakened spirit.

  66. The Garden of Eden awakened at sunrise, and this silence even when the sun was high alarmed the gambler.

  67. He lay awake, turning over the possibilities of a last minute failure, and when he finally dropped into a deep, aching slumber it was to be awakened almost at once by the voice of David calling in the patio.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "awakened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.