Do we say wake or awake

wake 2756 occurrences

Then the boy understood that the sun had said to all these tiny creatures: "Wake up now, and come out of your nests!

When they flew over the big potato patches, which are so plentiful in the country around Christianstadand which still lay bare and blackthey screamed: "Wake up and be useful!

It was strange for one who had but lately believed himself in heaven, to wake up suddenly to such fear and lamentation.

He should wake up soon from this unnatural torpor of pain to an empty house of life, through the cold halls of which he would seek in vain for Jenny for evermore.

"He will wake soon enough, poor boy!"

"While thou dost not awake I cannot move; And something tells me thou wilt never wake, And I alive feel turning into stone.

There is not a word of slang or anything modern; one quite understands how he was able to wake up the House of Lords before his legs gave way.

But it was not so pleasant for Fru Heyerdahl to get her husband to wake her in the middle of the night and go padding across herself to the servants' room to see if they were at home.

His companions are not so wise, and will not take advice; they lie down in the heather, and wake up feeling cold, and sneezing.

Then let us ever caution take, His holy laws to keep; And praise him from the time we wake, Until again we sleep.

He had avoided them of old as bores and fanatics who would needs wake him from his luxurious dreams.

I wont know what on top o' the round earth to do, efefYou know sheshe might wake upor he!

o' bed like ez ef we was shot; and do you b'lieve thet that baby, not able to talk, an' havin' on'y half 'is teeth, he ain't never failed to wake up an' roa' out a-laughin' ever' time that clock 'd go off in the night!

Before me lies a fair retreat, Whose every breath brings balm From plants replete with odors sweet And many a fronded palm; Hence at its gate I, spellbound, wait To feast my gladdened eyes On buds that wake and flowers that make A perfumed paradise.

Through glistening green Gleams a merry, festive scene; Trees, with candles burning bright, Wake in children's hearts delight.

My sweet-voiced fountain softly sings Its good-night lyric to the lake; A skiff glides by on slender wings With scarce a ripple in its wake; And pleasure-boats, their canvas furled, Float idly in an ideal world.

For I, who love this classic lake, And cruise along its storied shores, See Roman galleys in my wake, And hear the stroke of phantom oars.

IN MY PERGOLA Beyond the blue-robed, sleeping lake, I watch the flush of morning rise, While birds and flowers once more wake, To share with me my paradise.

What had it meant to him to wake And mid familiar things to grope?

He happened to wake up while the somnambulist was in his chamber, and, not knowing his infirmity, caught hold of him and gave him a dreadful shaking, after which he tied his hands and feet, and then went to sleep till morning, when he introduced him to a gentleman used to taking care of such cases of somnambulism.]

Then you will wake up and do big things, but in the meantime you must eat.

Why didn't you wake me up, so I could prevent this catastrophe?" "I supposed you were awake.

, Thou hast been chambering in the topmost clouds, List'ning to peeping, glist'ning stars on high, Pillow'd upon their thin, aërial shrouds; But when the breeze of dawn refreshfully Swept the rude waters of the ocean flood, And the dark pines breath'd from each leaf a sigh, To wake the sylvan genius of the wood, Thou burst in glory on our dazzled sight, In thy resplendent charms, a flood of golden light!

There were a few patches of vineyard, the leaves showing the ugly stains of sulphate of copper with which they had been splashed as a precaution against mildew, which in so many districts has followed in the wake of the phylloxera, and hastened the destruction of the old vines.

Then could I wake a thrilling strain That would with mystic power enchain, But now, alas!

awake 3188 occurrences

Suddenly the boy was startled from these agitated slumbers, by what sounded to him like a cry of distress; he was broad awake in a moment, and sat up in bed,but the noise was not repeated, and he endeavoured to persuade himself it had only been a continuation of the fearful images which had disturbed his rest; when, on glancing at the door, he observed underneath it a broad, red stream of blood silently stealing its course along the floor.

He was a sound sleeper, and when awake he was very wide awake.

He was a sound sleeper, and when awake he was very wide awake.

But Fru Heyerdahl was wide awake enough, and her suspicion was not gone; she waited a week, and tried at four in the morning.

It troubled his heart, and many hours of the night he had been kept awake by the thought of it, that he could not send his children to school, nor teach them himself to read.

Awake: the Morning shines, and the fresh Field Calls us, we lose the Prime, to mark how spring Our tended Plants, how blows the Citron Grove, What drops the Myrrh, and what the balmy Reed, How Nature paints her Colours, how the Bee Sits on the Bloom, extracting liquid Sweets.

now is the pleasant Time, The cool, the silent, save where Silence yields To the night-warbling Bird, that now awake Tunes sweetest his love-labour'd Song; now reigns Full orb'd the Moon, and with more [pleasing ] Light Shadowy sets off the Face of things:

"Good Sir, awake from sleep and dream, Good Sir, come out and carry me Across this dark and raging stream Till safe on the other side I be.

All about them the sheep were sleeping, too, but the solemn white sheep dogs were wide awake.

Kept awake nearly all last night by a severe toothache; sent for a dentist and had the tooth extracted, for which he had the conscience to ask me three dollarshe took two.

"It is considered dangerous in the summer to sleep while crossing the Campagna; indeed, in certain parts of it, over the Pontine Marshes in July and August, it is said to be certain, death, but, if the traveller can keep awake, there is no danger.

I awake; How swift the rush of memory's turning tide, Whose ruthless waves the will's frail barriers break, And flood the cells where consciousness would hide!

If you knock at the back door of the kitchen, I'll hear you, whether I am awake or asleep.

It was not likely that Andy was awake yet.

He was so wearied that he did not awake until daylight, when he was aroused by the five Indians, whose trail-hunt led them to the spot where he lay sleeping.

The problem was no easy one to my mind, and I lay awake upon it far into the night.

Tired out with travel, I fell asleep in the end, to awake with a start in broad daylight.

And in the sunlight, looking his best in knickerbockers, as only thin men do, with face greased against wind and glare, and blue spectacles in rest upon an Alpine wideawake, stood the lad who had taken his share in keeping me awake.

Awake their memory in the tomb."

Awake, thou that sleepest!

It is sweet to lie awake musing

Cuddy was now wide awake, and felt, when he got up, his joints sadly cramped, which it was only natural they should be, considering the hard texture of the stone, and the depth his knees had sunk into it.

Who cares whether Napoleon or Wellington came out ahead at Waterloo, as long as your listener is kept awake by your recital? I related a sprightly incident only last night about a watch which Francis the Second gave to Mary Stuart, only with my usual airy touch I said Francis the Second gave it to Marie Antoinette!

The whole world becomes new to those who suddenly awake to the beauties which they never had thought of before.

"We don't particularly want Mr. Weiss to be put on his guard, for I take it, he is a pretty wide-awake gentleman under any circumstances.

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