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Maheude, who had been silent for a while, awoke as from a dream.
And the doubt which sometimes touched him awoke again in the frightful melancholy of the twilight, and tortured him with a discomfort which he had never felt so strongly before.
But he awoke and started at the voice of Maheu, who was narrating his luck, a superb trout which he had fished up and sold for three francs.
At last he awoke, and really hearing a voice, got out and opened the window.
At Montsou, during this period, the inhabitants awoke with a start every night, their ears buzzing with an imaginary alarmbell and their nostrils haunted by the smell of powder.
He desired to live, his beast's memory awoke; the longing to breathe once more the air of the plains drove him straight onwards to the discovery of that hole, the exit beneath the warm sun into light.
How long I was sunk in this torpor I cannot estimate; but when I awoke, it seemed as if the sun were settling toward the horizon.
When it stopped of its own accord in front of those holes surrounded with thorns that are dug on the margin of furrows, Charles awoke with a start, suddenly remembered the broken leg, and tried to call to mind all the fractures he knew.
Whenever the Wednesday came round she said to herself as she awoke, "Ah!
At night, when the carriers passed under her windows in their carts singing the "Marjolaine," she awoke, and listened to the noise of the iron-bound wheels, which, as they gained the country road, was soon deadened by the soil.
But each morning, as she awoke, she hoped it would come that day; she listened to every sound, sprang up with a start, wondered that it did not come; then at sunset, always more saddened, she longed for the morrow.
At four o'clock Hivert awoke her.
Then he felt somewhat stifled by the over-heavy atmosphere of the room; he opened the window; this awoke the chemist.
But he uttered a cry of horror that awoke the other two.
Madame de Renal tried to work, and fell into a deep sleep; when she awoke, she was less alarmed than she should have been.
One of the most painful moments of his life was that in which, every morning, as he awoke, he discovered his distress.
Julien awoke with a start.
This unexpected obstinacy awoke all the latent pride in Mathilde's nature.
We flew across and slung the clothes off him, and Harris landed him one with a slipper, and I shouted in his ear, and he awoke.
I found him in trouble, the next time I awoke, because he could not find his socks; and my last hazy remembrance is of being rolled over on my side, and of hearing Harris muttering something about its being an extraordinary thing where his umbrella could have got to.
IIIt was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke from his deep and coma-like sleep.
His comrade, we have shown, had deserted his couch; and Henry Wharton awoke from a sleep that had been undisturbed by anything but a dream of suffering amputation under the hands of a surgical novice.
The noise of their entrance, and the exclamations of their party, awoke the woman.
As the moment of trial, however, approached, the uneasiness of the youth himself increased; and after spending most of the night with his afflicted family, he awoke, on the following morning, from a short and disturbed slumber, to a clearer sense of his condition, and a survey of the means that were to extricate him from it with life.
When Tom awoke, Sid was dressed and gone.
CHAPTER XIVWHEN Tom awoke in the morning, he wondered where he was.
About midnight Joe awoke, and called the boys.
[Then to the clerk:] "Call Thomas Sawyer!"A puzzled amazement awoke in every face in the house, not even excepting Potter's.
All that they knew was, that after what seemed a mighty stretch of time, both awoke out of a dead stupor of sleep and resumed their miseries once more.
The weary time dragged on; they slept again, and awoke famished and woe-stricken.
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