Although now quite unknown among adherents of the Scottish Presbyterian Church, such wakes were at one time common enough, even after the Reformation.
In Wytheburn City there wakes not one To see those dim forms hastening on; But at Wytheburn Ferry may travellers wait, For busy with guests for Armboth gate, The boatman's sinews are aching.
The old Kaiser sometimes wakes up for a moment and speaks to his visitors.
It touches the ocean with the same soft hand that wakes the flowers and brings the birds, and as these return to upland and meadow, the waters stir and the rivers and streams become alive with fish.
The bluebird comes and broods over this death and birth, until the old winter sleeps his long sleep, and the young spring wakes to her beautiful life.
She wakes their smiles, she soothes their cares, On that pure heart so like to theirs, Her spirit with such life is rife That in its golden rays we see, Touched into graceful poesy, The dull cold commonplace of life.
Is it, that time steals on with downy feet, Nor wakes indulgence from her golden dream?
Wrapped up in his cloak, the earth is his bed; he sleeps soundly, and wakes without anxiety for his next meal.
Among the features recently introduced in connexion with district Wakes may be enumerated out-door fetes, flower-shows, bazaars, and excursions.
Nevertheless, the Wakes are still disgraced by sad scenes of intoxication and other excesses: the agencies of education and religion are not working in vain in the district; let us hope that the progress, though slow, may be sure.
These instances might, of course, be multiplied by records of each town in the district, but they will suffice to show the extent of the barbarity which distinguished the Wakes of our forefathers.
But, perhaps, the most powerful agent in improving the character of modern Wakes is the influence of popular excursions.
Two of the most successful exhibitions ever held in the district were inaugurated at the Wakes of Willenhall, in 1857, and at those of Bilston a year or two later, both in connexion with the progress of popular education.
Happily, modernWakes have been divested of nearly all the characteristics of the olden festivals.
Wakes were originally established to commemorate the erection of the church in the parish where they were held.
Peona wakes her brother from his trance, and takes him in a shallop to an arbour of her own on a little island in a lake.
Let us observe more closely how Browning wakes Pippa up.
It is the early morning and she wakes with joyous anticipation of her holiday, her only one.
Every child in Vienna is careful to hang up his stocking on the eve of the 'Nicolo,' and, on the morning of the great day, he wakes up very early to see what is in it.
And yet it has food to find, a family to bring up, a winter nest to make, and several stores of food to lay up ready for those occasional days when it wakes up from its long winter's sleep.
Whenever there is a warm, mild day in winter, itwakes up, feeling very hungry, and turns out of its nest for a run.
Then all the garden wakes to sound, for not a bird is mute: The robin pipes the piccolo; the blackbird plays the flute; While high upon a cedar-top a thrush with bubbling throat Lifts up to this accompaniment her clear soprano note.
The mysterious mandrake in sympathy with his old life wakes up and speaks to him.
I am going to keep that just as it is and show it to him when he wakes up.
Mose, you tell him that as soon as he wakes up we want to see him down to the Eldorado, where we are stopping.
I looked up at him, and his eyes had such a beautiful expression that a queer tenderness began stirring in my heart, just as a young bird stirs in a nest when it wakes up.
Soon after Mrs. Moran heard her singing at her work, "The far east glows, The morning wind blows fresh and free; Should not the hour that wakes the rose Awaken thee?
There is a man at Wagawaga who has often gone thither and come back; whenever he wishes to make the journey, he has nothing to do but to smear himself with a magical stuff and to fall asleep, after which he soon wakes up in Hiyoyoa.
It is only loosely attached to its owner, wandering away from his body in sleep and returning to it when he wakes with a start.
My father will sleep now till the doctor wakes him to give him his medicine.
Because my father wakes so frightened, and I don't know what he would do if he didn't find me by his bedside.
But you shall see how lightly she wakesthe moment I speak to her.
I caught the chits looking at each other in a guilty manner when she says this, and my curiosity wakes up.
And Sam Hamilton wakes up and says: 'No, sir; not this one.
To Gudrun, who wakes from sleep by his side, he points to Brynhild as the instigator of the crime, and dies.
The woman wakes and asks if it be the hero Sigurd who has awakened her.
Nor laurel'd wreath or harp had he, To deck his brow or touch the note That wakes the soul to sympathy.
A glow of brightness and delight, That wakesto years of pain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
