How To Use Awake In A Sentence
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The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
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He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
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Here's the good news: When you bring what I call unconditional presence to the trance of fear, you create the foundation for true spiritual awakening.
Undefined
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I was partly awakened by noise and a couple of guys crowding me as they sat on the edge of my cot.
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We shall be awake with her yowling all night.
Somewhere East of Life
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How she just now speaketh soberly, this drunken poetess! hath she perhaps overdrunk her drunkenness? hath she become overawake? doth she ruminate? —
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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She works days as a chambermaid at a local hotel and at night lies awake fearing the sound of his tread.
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The fall in popularity of the death's head and the subsequent prevalence of the cherub was a reflection of the Great Awakening and the belief in the immortality of the soul: "Cherubs reflect a stress on resurrection, while death's heads emphasize the mortality of man.
Headstones for Dummies, the New York Edition
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Hassan in frequently going to sleep in one town, to awake in another far distant, but without the benighted Oriental's surprise at the transfer, the afrit who performed this prodigy being a steam-engine, and the magician it obeyed the human mind.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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Claudia came awake slowly.
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Until you awaken this feeling, you should not expect the affirmation to work.
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This magnificent bit of luck, the finding of the calisaya, awakened in the susceptible bosom of Mr. Marcoy an ardent desire to explore for himself the site of its discovery.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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Every morning he would be up before sunrise raring to go, throwing clods of earth at the windows of staff to awaken them.
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But memories of prior political awakenings that ended disastrously were revived when the Polish military cracked down in 1981.
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Sparrows, chickadees, woodpeckers, and an assortment of other creatures were awake and bustling that summer morning.
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I lay awake for much of the night.
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Closing his eyes he fell into a light sleep, ready to awaken at the slightest noise.
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Or the first man awakened to a sense of the divine.
Christianity Today
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His sleep patterns differ on a nightly basis and he will often be awake all night if he is bored in the day.
The Sun
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Once wide awake, even enterprising, they slowly become dilatory, leaden, slow, laggard, and lumpish.
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Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. Helen Rowland
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It started at four this morning when I was jolted awake by a particularly hideous hypnogogic hallucination.
Actually, Today Is Pretty Typical, So Far
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Do you ever lay awake at night dreaming of ways to introduce the word "cyclopean" into everyday speech?
The Lovecraft News Network
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She would lie awake worrying.
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What many patients experience is an awakening of emotions which they have never had, rather than a repetition of phantasies from the past.
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So he sleepeth and wotteth not whither she goeth, nor what she doeth; but we know that after giving him the drugged wine, she donneth her richest raiment and perfumeth herself and then she fareth out from him to be away till break of day; then she cometh to him, and burneth a pastile under his nose and he awaketh from his deathlike sleep.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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If anyone can help to reawaken people's interest and support in Christianity, our new archbishop certainly can - and I wish him well in his new and elevated position.
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Do you think the newly awakened lionhearted people are going to be frightened by an official hat?
An Enemy of the People
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He contends that ‘public pressure can awaken Congress to an opposition role.’
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I lay in the bed with my eyes still closed but my mind was awake listening to the sound of the breeze blowing through the leaves of the coconut tree near my room window.
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The best way to ensure this is to be awake fully during the day.
The Sun
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The sharp downturn in the US economy has brought a rude awakening to many in the IT sector.
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Meanwhile, the cognitive dissonance of the experience should shock any uniformitarian in the audience fully awake.
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It was just not necessarily at a speed at which the audience could fairly be expected to stay awake.
Times, Sunday Times
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When he was still awake he thought he heard the faint creak of a floorboard, he immediately filed that away as Kira getting her midnight snack.
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It cures the sexually frigid and the easily upset; it reawakens interest in sex for those suffering from physical or psychological problems.
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A few hours later Benjamin shook me awake.
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You will only be a half-awake and half-asleep zombie.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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Three cars forward the steward unlocks the kitchen, the pantryman begins to prepare bread and muffins, and Ashby's Tavern awakens for breakfast.
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If they had expected a warm welcome, they were in for a rude awakening .
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It should not be confused with night terrors or panics, in which a child becomes acutely agitated and terror-struck at night, appearing to be awake while in fact asleep and unable to be woken.
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Coinciding with the moon landing of Apollo 11, the gates of Faerie flood open and Trods and balefires reawaken.
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Will, dragging Raven behind him, who was also nearly falling asleep after being awake all night, left and shut the door quietly behind him.
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By the time I actually made it to the clinic, I had been awake so long, and had been depriving myself of anything other than just water, that I was beginning to hallucinate.
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the sound awakened them
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Count Robert had taken a single, indeed, but a deep draught, was more potent than the delicate and high-flavoured juice of the Gascogne grape, to which he was accustomed; at any rate, it seemed to him that, from the time he felt that he had slept, daylight ought to have been broad in his chamber when he awaked, and yet it was still darkness almost palpable.
Count Robert of Paris
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But after we got into bed, and after Frank had fallen asleep, I lay awake, listening to him breathe.
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What keeps me awake at night is that.
Times, Sunday Times
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If they had expected a warm welcome, they were in for a rude awakening .
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In particular, he must not miss the opportunity offered by an awakening India.
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The hedgehog caper had somehow affected his pattern of sleep and he was wide awake at six, with nowhere to go.
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But to watch a whiplash rapper ride the crest of an orchestral forte is a genuine awakening.
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The children were still wide awake, when the clock struck twelve for the New Year's Day.
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The Banksy Effect, the term coined by journalist Max Foster several years ago, speaks to an awakening of interest in the (often illegal) interventions that artists use to call attention to the way we complacently live under larger-than-life infrastructures built (often) by one-eyed men.
Dylan Kendall: Street Art: A Window to a City's Soul
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Today, he would be called ‘born again’; a spiritual awakening convinced him he was one of the elect, placed on earth as an instrument of God's will.
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I secretly revere it, as the idolater in me awakens once again.
Learning to Die in Miami
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At about midnight they were suddenly awakened from their sleep by a loud noise and the earth trembling, which caused the whole building to shake about them.
The Gods of Asgard
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Catherine was awake, half asleep, walking down her boss' hall.
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He noticed a phrase that was occasionally repeated throughout the book: Do not arouse or awaken Love until it so desires.
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He was still asleep and I shook him gently awake and told him.
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All at once he was wide awake.
A Time of War
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After an hour, though still wide awake, I crimped the page and turned off the light.
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For the intellectuals and the urban lower middle class, the new situation was a rude awakening of disillusionment and broken promises.
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The promo won the brand 100 new retail accounts, while awakening interest from other Hollywood studios for future tie-ins.
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The clone's awakening after the embryo has been removed from her body opens the possibility for the emergence of a new type of hero by conflating images of rebirth and transformation.
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They would be awakened before daybreak and by eight had already had prayers and a math or science lesson.
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The King would awaken and the nobles of the realm would compete to take away his chamberpot, remove his nightshirt, and dress him with his britches.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Status Symbols and the American Express Black Card
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Suddenly, I awaked, and there I lay, myself again.
Chapter 36
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To do so would, but unchristianize the deep grief which bereavement awakens, and which true piety sanctifies; it would unhumanize the very constitution of home itself.
The Christian Home
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How do you keep your guests awake during the slow bits, until the big hitters swagger up to feign surprise and humility?
Times, Sunday Times
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When I did awake I noticed a shadowy figure standing over me.
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The kiss of a young prince awakens Sleeping Beauty.
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Sukarno began to tour Java, addressing massive crowds on the theme of the awakening of national consciousness.
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The larl stroked my cheek with his great, smooth paw, the ivory claws hooded but quivering slightly, as if about to awake.
Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories
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Currado, began to consider Giannotto and some remembrance of the boyish lineaments of her son's countenance being by occult virtue awakened in her, without awaiting farther explanation, she ran, open-armed, to cast herself upon his neck, nor did overabounding emotion and maternal joy suffer her to say a word; nay, they so locked up all her senses that she fell into her son's arms, as if dead.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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Iceman lay awake at night and wondered about the way of things.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was told last night by one of our choirmen about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac, who lays awake at night wondering if there's a dog…
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What was it that had awakened her — what in awakening had changed the inpouring human consciousness into this flood of fury?
The Metal Monster
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Although...the incoherence could be a side effect of my continued insomnia--I've been either lying awake until 4, or waking up at 2 for a few hours, almost every other night, even though I ran out of my exciting cough medicine last week.
Ainmosni.
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She lay awake thinking about the money.
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When you remain awake all night, your circadian rhythm does not cease.
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Luckily, Dylan was awake, so they could fawn over him some more.
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For a little while Donald lay awake under the eaves in his loft room, but his sleeplessness was the result neither of worry or nervous tension.
'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
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The light flashes on and I am rudely awakened.
Times, Sunday Times
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Brother Jonathan," then just published by Blackwood in three large volumes, was read to him every night for weeks, and greatly to his satisfaction, as I then understood; though it seems by what Dr. Bowring -- I beg his pardon, Sir John Bowring -- says on the subject, that the "white-haired sage" was wide enough awake, on the whole, to form a pretty fair estimate of its unnaturalness and extravagance: being himself a great admirer of Richardson's ten-volume stories, like
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
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Beyond sentimentality and self-indulgence, these backward glances at a naïve landscape awaken - or reawaken - the conservationist within us.
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Elsewhere, again, might be seen the first awakening of this Maytime of the leaves, and those of an ampelopsis, a smiling miracle, like a red hawthorn flowering in winter, had that very morning all ‘come out,’ so to speak, in blossom.
Swann's Way
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I was happy to observe that one member of the jury was having difficulty in staying awake.
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I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma. By faith I mean a vision of good one cherishes and the enthusiasm that pushes one to seek its fulfillment regardless of obstacles. Faith is a dynamic power that breaks the chain of routine and gives a new, fine turn to old commonplaces. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections and awakens a sense of creativeness.
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She has drugged the soldiers' wine, but when she hears movement, she thinks that one of them is awake.
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People are finally awakening.
The Sun
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At night, he lay awake beside her.
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The children were hardly awake and watched Tess with big round eyes.
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The question is: Is the sleepwalker actually awake or asleep?
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We stayed awake at night listening to him breathe.
The Guide to Lesbian and Gay Parenting
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I was only half awake .
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That didn't stop him lying awake on Monday and Tuesday night pondering the imponderables.
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By degrees, perhaps under the spell of some influence which stirs us when sleeping nature awakens once more to life, I lost myself in reverie, and recalled drowsily
Lorimer of the Northwest
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Now, at 8: 00 a.m., the calliope hauled out of the local museum each year awakens the open-windowed slothful for blocks around.
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But an ugly awakening could well be lurking around the corner.
Times, Sunday Times
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The prophetesses peer into the future, and see nothing untoward, but they, too, dream and awake screaming.
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And look at what happened to him by the end of his life because those of us who spoke out awakened him to understand that what he's doing is not acceptable.
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This trip marked the beginning of my homosexual awakening.
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When I was awake I passed the time by munching on bags of sweets.
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But sometimes it can be a rude awakening for students who think of spirituality as a palliative, a pill, or a magic healer of emotional ills.
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I wanted to sleep a little longer, but the faint light of the sun had awakened me.
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Liverpool, then, seemed to be growing in confidence, Luis Suárez - booked early on for a kick out at Michael Dawson - beginning to work his fleet-footed, impish magic, nutmegging opponents, his electricity jolting the Kop awake.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Are you awake, Lucy?" she whispered.
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It produces circadian misalignment — when workers need to be wide awake while their body is telling them to sleep.
The Sun
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Arianna Huffington, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (Dailykos) Josh Marshall (talkingpointsmemo. com) are all opening up venues where people who practice the occupation of awakener can do their good work.
Awakener; My Occupation. And yours?
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I lay awake much of the night.
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I turned to see the awakening Eli outstretching his arms, mouth wide open.
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He recalls how the young woman's aim was to travel further west, to awaken a sense of pride and importance among the islanders, in their culture, language and education.
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Staying awake long enough to finish his sentences seemed an almighty struggle.
TUNNEL VISIONS: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher
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But there was nothing but the unrelieved monotony of dormant fields, no significant growth yet awakened by the spring.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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We lay awake for hours, each immersed in his or her own thoughts.
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He likes to awake to the sound of a radio.
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Maybe it was his unbrushed teeth that kept Vaughn awake.
MY BABYSITTER BITES BACK
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The celtic crone, having slept through the dead winter, awakens restored to maidenhood.
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I was five then, and had never been back, but I wanted to find that house, see if it would awake long dormant memories.
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Some of the images still keep me awake.
Times, Sunday Times
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Without compunction, Fox kicked him awake.
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But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.
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In her mid- to late-20s, she had what she describes as a "reawakening," exploring indigenous, land-based roots in her own religion and culture.
Gabe Crane: Tu B'Shvat: An Ancient Jewish Holy Day For Modern Environmentalists
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He lay awake,[Sentencedict] scourged by his conscience.
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But the civilized world has awakened, as if from a long sleep, to look for the first time upon a real new day for the underman.
My Own Life Story
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I've stopped drinking coffee in the evenings, as it tends to keep me awake at night.
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He had finally dozed into a fitful sleep only to be awakened by a horrible dream, his only problem, he couldn't remember it.
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History was a realm of illusions, a dream or a nightmare from which the wise seek to awaken.
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The middle of the nineteenth century marked the beginning of the national awakening.
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The patient is completely awake and aware.
The Sun
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I was awake all through the night.
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Thnx Dan – u still trin to keeps awake or u sooooo far past sleeping it will be another 3 days before you get the cawfee outta your system
U sed u wouldnt b mad. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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He was always an early riser, usually awake by the time the newspaper arrived.
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Once dawn came, she could awaken from an unsatisfying sleep, turn off the light, and feel the kind of physical and mental peace that comes after a fever has broken.
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Visually and choreographically, the show is a snore, but you might be awakened by the hyperboisterous audience carrying on like a claque, which it may have been.
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Old people awaken early in the morning.
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Blue light emitted from phones will keep you awake.
The Sun
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After a serious accident, a man awakes from a coma of several years.
Archive 2007-02-01
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By now, the baby was wide awake.
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I was awakened before cockcrow by the sound of distant rifles.
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I sleep six hours and still feel wide awake in the morning.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every summer it seems America is reawakened to the destructive forces of forest fires.
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his stewing over the fight kept him awake most of the night
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Sometimes the traffic kept her awake at night.
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Increasingly now those who "ignorantly" voted for him ... literally not pejoratively have awakened saying to themselves over and over and over again, "What the heck have I done?
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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I lay awake for hours that night trying to make sense of the evening's events.
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"He's awake now, " she said proudly, with a slight lisp.
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At the same time, the awakening interest in international trends at the expense of the Irish landscape tradition and pretty pastel abstraction is revealing.
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She reflects an awakening need in Seon-woo that he doesn't know how to deal with.
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A note from the other world will strike upon the chord of my being, and the spirit which has been dozing within me awakens and fiercely beats at its bars, demanding some nobler thought, some higher aspiration, some wider action, a more saturnalian pleasure, something more than the peasant life can ever yield.
My Brilliant Career
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In sympathy with its subject matter, the work has a veiled, half awake quality.
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He shows moments of consciousness and awakening.
The Sun
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What little sleep she managed to get the night before had been troubled by dreams of violence and talking animals, and she had awakened, time and again, wringing wet.
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The telephone starts to ring awakening me from sleep.
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it was an early awakening
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Daniel was indeed awake, carrying the lit lantern and already halfway to the door when she burst in.
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These men who had awakened, laughed dissolvent laughs, and the old muddle of schools and colleges, books and traditions, the old fumbling, half-figurative, half-formal teaching of the Churches, the complex of weakening and confusing suggestions and hints, amidst which the pride and honor of adolescence doubted and stumbled and fell, became nothing but a curious and pleasantly faded memory.
In the Days of the Comet
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It took her some time to awake to the dangers of her situation.
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Deep in the night, he came awake to the sound of growling, like animals fighting.
A Plague of Angels
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Stephen jerked awake from a nightmare.
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I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma. By faith I mean a vision of good one cherishes and the enthusiasm that pushes one to seek its fulfillment regardless of obstacles. Faith is a dynamic power that breaks the chain of routine and gives a new, fine turn to old commonplaces. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections and awakens a sense of creativeness.
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To measure the action of pentylenetetrazol Ahlgren proposed to employ its awakening action against central depressants.
Arvid Carlsson - Autobiography
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After a century of "noble savage" idealization, the peasantry's violence during the French Revolution had reawakened fears of more "ignoble" savagery.
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Buelow was appointed kapellmeister of the Court Theatre; reforms, peculiarly disagreeable to those reformed, were set on foot; and singers, players, regisseurs, who had anticipated sleeping away their existence in the good old fashion, were violently awakened by this reckless adventurer, charlatan, and what not, who had won the King's ear.
Wagner
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Be your own awakener to the beauty and power that are alive in you right now.
Anne Naylor: 12 Ways To Build Your Inner Strength
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She lay awake listening to his snores.
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I could not relax and still felt wide awake.
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Spencer-Devlin lay awake for three nights, kicking off a manic episode that was followed by a depression that lasted until June.
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But after their stay in that sun-kissed paradise they got a rude awakening on heading out into the Atlantic, which was to prove stormy and rough.
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The baby is awake.
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When by our continued posture in sleep, some uneasy sensations are produced, we either gradually awake by the exertion of volition, or the muscles connected by habit with such sensations alter the position of the body; but where the sleep is uncommonly profound, and those uneasy sensations great, the disease called the incubus, or nightmare, is produced.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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I had rejections, a string of unrequited loves that I laid awake at night uselessly pining over, and once I even got caught in a bear trap.
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She was awakened by a noise at two in the morning.
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Fighting the infowar is our last resort, we must inform people on the truth and awaken peoples mind ….
Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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He can also soothe the crying child with the ‘Mozart effect’, and inspire the non-reader to an awakening.
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With today's vending machines offering an ever wider range of products from fresh pizzas and toasties to women's tights, major companies are fast awakening to the commercial possibilities of vending machines.
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Suddenly he found himself awake and fully alert.
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She was only half awake until the whitter of skeeter blades roused her from her reverie.
Beowulf's Children
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Awakening but also on his wide reading in the litera - ture of illuminism, especially Scottish and Dutch.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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The entire team awoke early, all unable to sleep when they were awakened.
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I could maybe deal with being awakened in the night by a precognitive event, especially if it was a specific one.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
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I find it so difficult to stay awake during history lessons.
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As new imaging technologies offer us graphic evidence of the visible humanity of the growing fetus, our moral sentiments may be powerfully awakened or reawakened.
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I awake feeling physically wrecked but pleased to see that our quinzhee still stands.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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But April, with its whimsical showers and surprised days of panting heat, unnerves me and awakens animal desires.
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Of all the mysteries of unipolar depression, a condition marked by sleep problems to begin with, the most clinically useful may be the paradoxical observation that keeping people awake may actually help them get better.
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But an ugly awakening could well be lurking around the corner.
Times, Sunday Times
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A feeling of awakening power was undeniable to distinguish.
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Two days later the former Enniskillen high school principal slipped into a coma from which he never awakened.
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Though 19th century translators of Buddhist texts sometimes used the word "enlightenment" to refer to Gautama's moment of spiritual awakening on seeing the morning star, the first time a large number of general English readers saw the word used as a spiritual term was with the publication Essays on Zen Buddhism First Series by D.T. Suzuki in the 1930s.
Lewis Richmond: A Cultural History Of The Word 'Enlightenment'
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And it may also involve early morning awakenings without being able to go back to sleep.
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At 7: 50 p.m., Koffi Koffiento shakes you awake with a fine blend of rumba, zouk and salsa, Congolese style..
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The poem balances the driver's sleeping consciousness with her awakening subconscious.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you must be awake, seem to be glad he came home early.
Times, Sunday Times
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Are the children still awake?
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Fergus and I, after having lain awake for a considerable time, taking it for granted that they had given up all intention of attacking the house, at length fell into a kind of wakeful doze from which we were at once aroused by a loud knocking at the hall-door.
The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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The prediction of this calamity is here given very largely, and in lively expressions, which one would think should have awakened and affected the most stupid.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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How many babies before mine have been jolted awake by the bumps and cracks in the concrete created by unruly tree roots and water damage?
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The first advance of the little army of the elect reawakened their rage; they grasped their arms, and waited but their leader's signal to commence the attack, when the clear tones of Adrian's voice were heard, commanding them to fall back; with confused murmur and hurried retreat, as the wave ebbs clamorously from the sands it lately covered, our friends obeyed.
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