This trick having come to his notice by a sudden awakening, he sometimes thereafter played to be asleep and snored in such a mighty gust that the wheels spun.

Well, I suppose it is a rude awakening from your sunny land, but you will get used to it.

You and I may live to see the results of this religious awakening: it is elemental and epochal.

In its broadest sense the Puritan movement may be regarded as a second and greater Renaissance, a rebirth of the moral nature of man following the intellectual awakening of Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

There has been a little awakening in this place, and a desire to obtain the Scriptures.

If there come no spiritual awakening, no sense of responsibility of service, then perhaps war alone can save it.

Of all its merits, none is greater than the delineation of uncertainty and gradual awakening to life.

With the preaching of this Second Crusade, as with the invitation to the First, was connected an extraordinary awakening.

There is a tremendous awakening all over the country with regard to kindergarten and primary work, and this is well, since the greatest and most fatal mistakes of the public school system have been made just here; and the time is surely coming when more knowledge, wisdom, tact, ingenuity, forethought, yes, and money, will be expended in order to meet the demands of the case.

Though seer He was, he immortality did fear, As some unknown awakening in space.

Arndt and the nationalist awakening in Germany

In girls, those definite signs, menstruation and the growth of the breasts, before the age of ten, mean premature awakening of the ovaries and a concomitant co-reaction of the other endocrines, creating the ensemble of maturity.

I feared almost to enter her room when I heard her stir; I had dreaded her waking,that terrible hour that all know who have suffered, the dim awakening shadow that darkens so swiftly to black reality; but I need not have dreaded it for her.

It was an awful awakening for Kavanagh.

About a year and a half or two years ago, there was a remarkable awakening in the canton of Berne, and a few here and there of a more spiritually-minded sort seceded.

Then there were minor awakenings.

What bitter thoughts passed through his brain; what a sad awakening after so many sweet and joyous dreams.

The entire pedagogical world watches with interest the educational awakening of which the kindergarten has been the dawn.

Japan, which for more than two centuries had jealously excluded Europeans from her shores, received her memorable awakening from the friendly American expedition of Commodore Perry.

Nothing, however, can be done from without to hasten the mental awakening; Nature in her own due time will do this, and do it much better if not hurried or interfered with.

But, all unknown to her, the mighty religious awakening begun at Oxford in 1729, and publicly preached in 1738 by Whitefield and the Wesleys, was destined to be the cause of her spiritual awakening also.

They had then guessed nothing, and now they were amazed at this miraculous awakening, this conquering fertility, which had changed a part of the marshy tableland into a field of living wealth.

And this miserable awakening had not yet come to William Pressley.

In France especially there was a notable literary awakening.

In this slow fashion, with long Rip Van Winkle slumbers and occasional faint awakenings, the French Academy faltered on with fitful persistence towards the completion of its famous Dictionary.