6446 examples of wakes in sentences

" Then Black Roger, coming feebly to his knees, looked about him as one that wakes upon a new world, and lifted wide eyes from green earth to cloudless sky.

In doing this, they made one stretch so far in our direction, in the hope of tacking in their enemies wakes, that I saw they would probably speak us.

The instant the French kept away, he did the same; but instead of falling broad off before the wind, he luffed again in time, not having touched a brace, and crossed the wakes of his enemies, giving a most effective broadside into the cabin-windows of Le Cerf.

But "cursed be Canaan" is a poor drug to ease a throbbing consciencea mocking lullaby, to unquiet tossings, and vainly crying "Peace be still," where God wakes war, and breaks his thunders.

That these anniversaries and wakes led to much unseemly revelling we have evidence that cannot be gainsaid.

Evens or Wakes, 83. Fonts, 51, 76.

At the close of every century he falls into a trance, and wakes up after a time a young man about thirty years of age.

"Open the window," I said to Atkinson, "and persuade Mr. Gurrage to go to bed when he wakes."

I think it was not until about 1865 that, retiring from a professional career, he made Selborneand the Wakes, the very house of Gilbert Whitehis residence.

He lived, however, to be nearly ninety, and died in the Wakes at last, in the very room, and if I mistake not, the very spot in the room, where his idol had passed away in 1793.

Overgrown with creepers to the very chimneys, divided by the greenest and most velvety of lawns from a many-coloured furnace of flower-beds, scarcely parted by lush paddocks from the intense green wall of the coppiced hill, the Wakes has always retained for my memory an impression of rural fecundity and summer glow absolutely unequalled.

On his father's death, White became the occupier of his house in Selborne known as "The Wakes," and afterwards became curate of the parish.

[Illustration: THE WAKES.

JAN, who lies nearest the PIPER, wakes up.

TRUDE wakes up and joins them.

Let it never be said, but sung, but sung, 'Out of your cage, out of your cage!' Maiden, maiden, [He wakes her gently.

At times the sorrow that seemed to be lulled to sleep wakes up with renewed force.

Without a hint, so far as we know, from any philosophy, by a sheer flash of genius she pierced to the secret of the world and crystallized it in two lines: The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling Can centre both the worlds of Heaven and Hell.

Have I not loved thee long? As long as thou, the solemn night, Whose silence wakes my song.

* * Wakes up the storm more madly wild, The mountain drifts are tossed on high; Farewell, unblessed, unfriended child, I cannot bear to watch thee die.

It is Isabella's morbid passion for Heathcliff that wakes the devil in Catherine.

The dragon wakes.

But who wakes the bugler?

The sleeper wakes.

"You might tell him we've gone for a little stroll when he wakes," she added, turning to Blundell.

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