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Sentence Examples
| Sometimes they were there as the crash of surf as I waked lazily along the dazzling white beaches of my home. |
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| Jonathan coming in had not waked me, for he lay by my side when next I remember. |
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| I only waked him because I felt scared that being out too long might give Buck brain damage or such. |
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| I tried to keep awake, and succeeded for a while, but when the clock struck twelve it waked me from a doze, so I must have been falling asleep. |
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| I must have slept long and soundly, for it was broad daylight when Van Helsing waked me by coming into my room. |
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| Again I waked with a sense of guilt and of time passed, and found Madam Mina still sleeping, and the sun low down. |
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| For the rest of lunch we waked around the courtyard and I saw that people were staring at me because of the thing with Lachlan but I knew that it would soon blow over. |
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| After another hour Lucy waked from her sleep, fresh and bright and seemingly not much the worse for her terrible ordeal. |
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| He had waked up with the image of Galas into the spirit. |
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| The wise man Zarathustra said, with common sense that, in order to sleep well one must have waked a long time, and that is confirmed by the progress of neuroscience. |
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| She waked often in the solitude of the night, imaging the bride and bridegroom on the track of rapture, following the unwaning star. |
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| The advocates of civil rights, having waked up to what was happening in the case of civil rights, assumed Family Assistance to be more of the same. |
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| Mr. Watkins waked suddenly, put on his coat and hat, and smiled at Mrs. Compton, who was gathering her parcels to her in a series of maternal gestures. |
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| The phrase came to Charlie an instant after the alarm clock had waked him, and named for him an amorphous depression that had troubled him all the previous evening. |
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| I was waked by the flapping at the window, which had begun after that sleep-walking on the cliff at Whitby when Mina saved me, and which now I know so well. |
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| The opiate worked itself off towards dusk, and she waked naturally. |
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| Then someone approached, someone who in your youth had been a soldier in the Legion of Pompeii, and in the name of that glory he waked the flame until the greatest of the captains was ash. |
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| If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. |
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| He now gave Mrs Deborah positive orders to take the child to her own bed, and to call up a maid-servant to provide it pap, and other things, against it waked. |
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| Ayman Waked formerly was chief technical analyst at EFG-Hermes, an investment bank with offices in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| He then bit Fngs arm, and the latter waked up with the pain to find that the cicatrix on his arm was no longer there. |
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| In the hall below, the parlormaid Annie encountered Mrs. Heth, waked from her nap by the two rings at the bell. |
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| She waked up Sofya and they went together into the cowshed to milk the cows. |
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| I think it was the zoon of a cicada which waked my attention, and once I heard them they seemed to fill the air with shrieking. |
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| Then suddenly it waked, for the moon was sinking, and the charm had lost its potence. |
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| Here, when all else was numbed by loneliness and hunger and unsuccess, it waked and warned me. |
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| Now you've got all cool and waked up, you run back to bed, unless you'll get in here. |
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| Well, I waked this morning just after sunrise with a feeling that kilo was there staring at me. |
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| But when cabriole perceived it was broad day, he fell a barking so loud that he waked his master. |
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| This showed that Bahadur Khan, his body-servant, had waked from sleep and wished to put Strickland to bed. |
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| When I waked up just at daybreak he was sitting there with his head down betwixt his knees, moaning and mourning to himself. |
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| When he waked, the talk, still in spate, was more within his comprehension. |
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| When he waked he listened for the first breakfast-bell on the steamer, wondering why his stateroom had grown so small. |
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| The man who had waked him grasped him by the lapel of his coat. |
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| But come before the lark with its shrill song Has waked a world of dreamers. |
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| Rebecca waked before six the next morning, so full of household cares that sleep was impossible. |
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| She would lie down with me, and get me to sleep, but long before I waked she was gone. |
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| Hence never would be waked in him the ambition to become a bullfighter. |
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| I guess yeou kinder waked me up when you flung them goo-goo eyes at Frank. |
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| You jabbed it into the small of the back and waked life that way. |
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| Bell had a raft of canes afloat beside the amphibian when she waked. |
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| It was a moonlight night, and about one o'clock Flo and I were waked by the most delicious music under our windows. |
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| The trader waked up bright and early, and came out to see to his live stock. |
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| I could hardly get you waked,' said Charley, who stood there in his shirt. |
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| He was waked from his thoughts by a knock and a voice at the door. |
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| People who have never been waked up are apt to be dull people. |
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| I reckon I've waked only just in time to keep from being hanged or drowned or burned or something. |
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| Dan waked him at twelve for his vigil, and he in turn was wakened at two. |
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| As soon as they waked and felt like going home, he was ready to take them. |
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| I've seen as much myself when I waked up in the middle of the night. |
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| I must have slept soundly, for I was not waked by Jonathan coming to bed, but the sleep has not refreshed me, for today I feel terribly weak and spiritless. |
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| Little Tommy Barnes was asleep now, and when they waked him up he was scared, and cried, and said he wanted to go home to his ma, and didn't want to be a robber any more. |
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| If the poor wretch waked in the flames and perished, no one cared. |
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| Then it was most daylight and everybody went to bed, and I went to bed with Buck, and when I waked up in the morning, drat it all, I had forgot what my name was. |
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