I seem to be all the time toting one child or another about, or giving somebody paregoric or rhubarb, or putting somebody to sleep, or scolding somebody for waking up papa, who is miserable, and his oration untouched.
On waking up on Monday morning, they would find themselves considerably richer than the Saturday night previous, simply because their money placed at interest had worked faithfully for them all day Sunday, according to law!
During our waking hours in day-time, when hid in the lonely woods, we were careful not to talk, or laugh out boisterously, knowing the liability to be heard at a distance.
On waking we snatched a hasty meal, and made ready for further travels.
We then lay down and slept about an hour, and on waking we found that our blankets and the ground were covered with snow to the depth of an inch.
The figure representing a river which is under the Waking of the Waters; at the south extremity of the gallery.
Mr. Hardy poured some water over the bandage, and then, waking Charley, gave them instructions as to the part they were to play.
If can take little White Bird without waking village, not kill men?
I was pretty well accustomed to sleep on the ground, and I slept without waking for nearly seven hours; for when I did so I saw at once it was nearly sunset.
Say it is a dream: say it passes: better the recollection of a dream than an aimless waking from a blank stupor.
I care about nothing but Arthur: my waking and sleeping thoughts are about him; he is never absent from me.
This is weakness--worse Than a scared beldam's dreaming of the dead, 350 And waking in the dark.
He was weary, however, and when he did retire to rest, sleep soon visited his eyelids; but the form which had troubled his waking thoughts, visited him with more calming and pleasing influence in his dreams.
Such were the tidings which sent Algernon Grey to rest with a heart somewhat relieved; but still many an anxious apprehension crossed his mind, and kept him waking for more than an hour.
Listen to what a great mystic said: "In waking state we are conscious of the objective universe.
Keeping the mind free from evil thoughts is most essential to enable the sincere investigator to enter that larger state of consciousness, for the thoughts of our waking state have a more or less effect on the ego during sleep.
It is a very difficult matter for the layman to bring his actual astral experiences into the waking state (but fortunately for us) any faculty that is lacking may be evolved.
He now functions in his astral body, which becomes a vehicle for expressing consciousness, just as the physical body is an instrument for expressing consciousness in the waking state.
We do not consciously direct the circulation of the blood, or any of the natural bodily functions during our waking state.
The information is often conveyed through another person, as the above would indicate, who is sensitive enough to bring the information in the waking state.
The unselfish soul who acts unselfishly can be of much service to his fellow-man, not only the living but also the misnamed dead, and they can often remember their astral happenings inwaking consciousness to the minutest detail.
The beginner will find it to his advantage, to resolve before falling asleep that he will bring his astral experience through into his waking consciousness.
He would contend, no doubt, that your waking thoughts having been a good deal engaged with Western life, your dream carried the same train of thought straight through.
If you persist in your suggestion on retiring, your spirit will go where you demand it to go, although you may not remember your experience in your waking state.
It was possible for the warden in sleep, out of his body, to be mentally impressed of the delivery and bring it through into waking consciousness.
I had six weeks in which to prepare my sermon, and I gave it most of my waking hours as well as those in which I should have been asleep.
THE WOLF AT THE DOOR When I returned to Albion College in the autumn of 1875 I brought with me a problem which tormented me during my waking hours and chattered on my pillow at night.
Just imagine them waking up in the morning and finding the boat and the crew both gone.
No attention was paid to this and the chapters, waking up to the advantage that it gave them, refused to pay the fruits, giving rise to multitudinous suits.
May they be accursed wherever they be, in the city, or in the country, in eating and in drinking, in waking and in sleeping, in living and in dying!
His sleep is more powerful than the waking of myriads of other men.
And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill-adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn, Without the torment of the night's untruth.
When she learned that it had not yet struck six she seemed disconcerted, assuming a sportive air to hide her embarrassment, saying it was unfair to come waking people up at such an hour.
If I slept, then, it was more owing to my utter weariness and exhaustion than to that languid frame of mind; and although too tired to dream, my first waking thought was how to commence hostilities against the rats.
If my waking thoughts represented him exactly as I saw him at Anticosti, my sleeping fancies filled up a whole history of his life.
The very cares with which I am surrounded bespeak a certain consequence pertaining to me; I am one whom ministers of State think and speak about, whose name is often on their lips, whose memory haunts them in their half-waking moments.
It was not so much sleep as a semi-waking state that merely dulled and dimmed impressions,--a frame of mind I have often found very favorable to thought.
Now, earth, waking from her sadness, Joins the chorus of the song!
Whose waking is supremely blest: No fear, no woe, shall dim the hour That manifests the Saviour's power.
Beyond the smiling and the weeping, I shall be soon; Beyond the waking and the sleeping, Beyond the sowing and the reaping, I shall be soon.
Through ten thousand channels flowing, Streams of mercy find their way: Life, and health, and joy bestowing, Waking beauty from decay.
O let the same Almighty care My waking hours attend; From every danger, every snare, My heedless steps defend.
The orator Aristides relates this: "I thought I touched the god and felt him draw near, and I was then between waking and sleeping.
Life and death, waking and sleeping, youth and age are the same; this in changing is that, and that again this.
At half-past eight a bell was rung, and a chapter was read to us, in a book of meditations, to employ our minds upon during our waking hours at night.
My mind became much agitated, worse than it had been before; and what between waking fears, and sleeping visions, I spent a most wretched night.
I don't know,' Margaret answered lightly, and she glanced at Madame De Rosa, as if she thought ofwaking her.
Then our fellows get nightmares, and are bolstered for calling out and waking other fellows.
The little limbs fell into a new place and sensation of rest, as larger limbs do; little Karen put off waking up and crying for one delicious instant, as anybody would; and in that instant sleep laid hold of her again.
I'm rather waking up to the idea of earning my own way first,--before I take it.
Or is a man who thinks he sees a ghost, who knows he sees a ghost, who knows that a ghost is a continual attendant of his waking and of his sleeping hours alike--must such a man be in labour with some horrible delusion of his senses?
He passed his hand over his eyes, as a man might who is waking from a dream.
As in a waking vision, E'en while I chant I see it rise, I scan and prophesy outside and in, Its manifold ensemble.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
