126 collocations for waken

He did not waken the sleepers.

Indeed I will not; goe, I have much to doe; Prethee to bed; I will not waken thee.

From the first hint that wakens the fancy, till the hour of actual execution, all is improvement and progress, triumph and felicity.

"For that thine eyes do waken memory, lady.

It may waken in some breast a feeling of sympathy for the American slave.

He turned the handle as he spoke, and walked out into a gloomy little hall paved with cold, bare flagstones, which caused their footsteps to waken mournful echoes in the empty house.

You heard the thunder; It was loud enough to waken the dead.

For this dark season wakens up the remembrance of many similar dark seasons which in more cheerful days are quite forgot; and these cheerful days drop out of memory for the time.

But suppose he let Perris come back to his senses, wakened those insolent blue eyes, started that sharp tongue to lifethen it would be a very much easier matter to shoot.

Whereof when he was wakened with the noyse, And saw the beast so small, "Whats this," quoth he, "that gives so great a voyce, That wakens men withall?"

The cause of Pincy's flogging was, not working enough, or making some mistake in baking, &c. &c. Many a night Pincy had to lie on the bare floor, by the side of the cradle, rocking the baby of her mistress, and if she would fall asleep, and suffer the child to cry, so as to waken Mrs. Ruffner, she would be sure to receive a flogging.

With horns and with hounds, I waken the day, And hie to the woodland walks away; I tuck up my robe, and am buskin'd soon, And tie to my forehead a waxing moon; 30 I course the fleet stag, unkennel the fox, And chase the wild goats o'er summits of rocks; With shouting and hooting we pierce through the sky, And Echo turns hunter, and doubles the cry.

To waken doubt in one Holding so fast by thine infinity; So surely anchored on The steadfast rock of immortality.

" This report tended to waken a great ambition in the widow's heart.

" That morning she had cautioned her mother to be careful lest they waken the children, for if the little ones roused and began, as the mountain phrase has it, "takin' on," she scarcely knew how she should find heart to leave them.

I moved carefully so as not to waken my companion.

And thus, repentance, while it brings Forgiveness to the broken heart, Still leaves contrition's thousand stings To waken sorrow with their smart.

The past had simply ceased to exist for him; and because it is some way the key to the future, the latter seemed likewise blank,a toneless gray that did not in the least waken his interest.

Reader, do you wish to improve agriculture? then buy you a good book, and place it in the hands of your tenant or your neighbouring farmer; if he be a reading man, he will thank you, and his children may live to bless you; if he be not a reader, you may have the gratification of wakening a dormant spirit; and though you may appear to be casting your bread upon the waters, yet you shall find it again after many days.

Teach me, some power, the happy art of speech, To dress my purpose up in gracious words; Such as may softly steal upon her soul, And never waken the tempestuous passions.

Don't waken the kids.

After a good while he came back and said that he was pretty sure Williamson Green had gone to bed, and as it wouldn't do to waken people up from their sleep to ask them for nautical instruments they had borrowed, he sat down for a minute on the top of the wall, and then he slapped his knee, not making much noise, though.

When at the fountain I met him again, the sight of him wakened Pleasure as great as if there had met me an angel from heaven; And with what gladness I followed, when asked to come as his servant.

CHAPTER III. "Then blame mo not that I should seek, although I know not thee, To waken in thy heart its chords of holiest sympathy, It is for woman's bleeding heart, for woman's humbled form, O'er which the reeking lash is swung, with life's red current warm.

'T was daybreak, and the arrows of the dawn Were shot in golden glory through the trees, And from the castle came a trumpet blast To waken life in all the slumbering host, Warriors and yeomen in the castle halls.

126 collocations for  waken