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Example sentences for "awaking"

Lexicographically close words:
awakened; awakening; awakenings; awakens; awakes; awanting; award; awarded; awarding; awards
  1. It seemed as if every sweet note, that died here, Was again brought to life in some airier sphere, Some heaven in those hills, where the soul of the strain They had ceased upon earth was awaking again!

  2. The aforesaid edifice of the Duomo in Pisa, awaking the minds of many to fair enterprises throughout all Italy, and above all in Tuscany, was the cause that in the city of Pistoia, in the year 1032, a beginning was made for the Church of S.

  3. By these words more is implied than expressed; for this awaking of Noah, not only informeth us of natural awaking from sleep, but of his spiritual awaking from his sin.

  4. But at last, Stéphane, awaking suddenly with a paroxysm of coughing, so swayed himself to one side as to overturn the canoe; and both found themselves in the sea.

  5. A young man, awaking as I pass to my cabin, turns upon me a pair of peculiarly luminous black eyes,--creole eyes.

  6. Again, Sarah, let me counsel you to beware of such insensate dreams,--the awaking would be terrible!

  7. He is awaking from his torpor," he said, approaching his bed very quietly; "perhaps another crisis may ensue!

  8. This is the postman who knocked in the morn awaking the gourmand all forlorn from his dream of the table, &c.

  9. Here Our Lord disappeared, and the religious, awaking from her ecstasy, was reflecting upon His words, when there suddenly appeared to her the Blessed Virgin, all lovely and resplendent.

  10. On awaking she was perfectly cured, and has never since experienced the slightest symptom of the disease.

  11. Awaking for a minute, I tried to realise the passion which not long ago rent and racked me, but I was flatly incapable of understanding it.

  12. Presently he comes to himself, stares vacantly about like a man awaking from sleep, and then rises, holding the soul in his clenched right hand.

  13. M28 Danger of awaking a sleeper suddenly before his soul has time to return.

  14. So many affronts, so many pinpricks, day after day, had made his heart quiver, lodging in it to sleep the sleep of lethargic vipers, and they now were awaking to shake and hiss with fury.

  15. Only the sea, whose waves were rippled by the night breeze, as though awaking from the heat of the day, sent its hoarse roar, its eternal chant, as it rolled against the jagged rocks.

  16. At sunrise he rested and slept a while, then, awaking after midday, went on his road.

  17. A man who has once enjoyed the blessed feeling of awaking every morning with the thought that he has a certain salary despises the idea of having to drum up a business by his own talents.

  18. The slow awaking of morning life scarcely disturbed its tranquillity.

  19. Wearied and dejected faces pass before the eyes without awaking any interest.

  20. Inez was uneasy at the thought of Donna Benita awaking from her siesta, and being frightened at finding no one beside her.

  21. Chico is not likely to stop long in Seville, where he could not, without awaking suspicion, dispose of such gems as you have described.

  22. This, however, would only be awaking in a better world.

  23. It was like awaking from a brilliant dream when the Cherub stopped abruptly, to point up at the vast, incongruous bulk of the cathedral towering over us.

  24. On awaking next morning Comorre found that his wife had fled, and pursued her on horseback.

  25. One day on awaking from sleep the Queen walked in the garden and espied a ship drawing near the land.

  26. Perhaps that sense of fear and anxiety which we feel on awaking (as we have said), of which the cause is hidden from us, may be the lingering echo of some mighty spell which has forced us out of ourselves.

  27. I have kept my promise as regards the spinett, dear Signor Capuzzi," Salvator whispered into the old man's ear, and Capuzzi sprang up like one awaking from sleep.

  28. Edmund cried, "the most vivid remembrances out of my childhood are awaking themselves in my mind.

  29. And then, like one awaking from a dream, he would add in a hollow, mournful voice, "Good morning!

  30. Awaking in the morning by daylight, they all hurried up on deck, and encountered there a new disappointment; for all around them they saw again the hated presence of the fog.

  31. On awaking the next day, he arose and looked around.

  32. France is awake, and the awaking of France is the dawn of liberty for Italy.

  33. I went to bed, leaving with Hinge the responsibility of awaking me in time for the first train next morning to Southampton.

  34. I have felt sometimes, during the last few days, as if I were awaking out of a long long dream, or recovering from a severe illness in which delirium had played a prominent part.


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