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Waken in sentence

12 examples of Waken in a sentence

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.
"Then it will be necessary to waken him and take him with us," said the renegade, "and everything of value in this fair mansion."
"To match that plan," said Sancho, "I have another that is not a whit behind it; I will take a cudgel, and before your worship comes near enough to waken my anger I will send yours so sound to sleep with whacks, that it won't waken unless it be in the other world, where it is known that I am not a man to let my face be handled by anyone; let each look out for the arrow—though the surer way would be to let everyone's anger sleep, for nobody knows the heart of anyone, and a man may come for wool and go back shorn; God gave his blessing to peace and his curse to quarrels; if a hunted cat, surrounded and hard pressed, turns into a lion, God knows what I, who am a man, may turn into; and so from this time forth I warn you, sir squire, that all the harm and mischief that may come of our quarrel will be put down to your account."
Grimaud had tried to waken the stable boys, and the stable boys had beaten him.
For a long time he watched this child's face with the shut eyes, this child's face that was so peaceful you could not wish it to waken or ever be troubled.
I wiped my tears and hushed my sobs, fearful lest any sign of violent grief might waken a preternatural voice to comfort me, or elicit from the gloom some haloed face, bending over me with strange pity.
You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.
He thus grasps and cries, and gazes, because he no longer fears to waken by any sound he can utter--by any movement he can make.
Only when they were near the house did Ursus stop praying, and say in a low voice, as if he feared to waken Lygia,--"Lord, it was the Saviour who rescued her from death.