Waken
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You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall
waken
it.
More example sentences with word waken
When they
waken
in the morning and and start hauling the whiskey out, of course they're spotted and shot at, losing some of their precious cargo in the process.
At their birth, John Maynard Keynes memorably warned that if these institutions did not get good leaders they would “fall into an eternal slumber, never to
waken
or be heard of again in the courts and markets of Mankind.”
Not so did Sancho Panza spend it, for having his stomach full of something stronger than chicory water he made but one sleep of it, and, if his master had not called him, neither the rays of the sun beating on his face nor all the cheery notes of the birds welcoming the approach of day would have had power to
waken
him.
All this time Don Quixote was asleep, and they thought it best not to
waken
him, as sleeping would now do him more good than eating.
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