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  • Wakening from a troubled dream of fighting gophers that turned to wild-cats, Mr. Neelands, in No. 17, made a hurried toilet, on account of the temperature of the room, for although the morning was warm,

    Purple Springs 1921

  • GPS Briefs: Number of GPS Satellites Expanding, Jamming Threat Increases, "Wakening"

    Planet Geospatial Caitlin Dempsey 2010

  • Wakening from their apathetic misery, the starveling garrison hailed him as a deliverer.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

  • Wakening before the others, Raven went to the creek and made three pairs of fishes: sticklebacks, graylings, and blackfish.

    A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss

  • Wakening from a drugged sleep in the grey morning, his mouth ablaze, his brain muddled and full of resentment against her, he had remembered the gin he had brought home with him; there was not much left in the bottle.

    Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924

  • Wakening Little Fellow, I told him my plan and ordered him to slip away north while the two tribes were parleying and to await me a day's march from the Sioux camp.

    Lords of the North 1903

  • The sun kept gaining, and early one day in the dark of the Wakening Moon of

    Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • She crept out of bed and went to Helen's bed, but Helen had gone to make one of the Easter Wakening Chorus.

    Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life Adele W. [Illustrator] Jones 1895

  • Wakening with a start from this disquieting dream, Dante finds himself in a different spot, with no companion save

    The Book of the Epic 1894

  • Spring, of Sleep and Wakening, of Life and Death; and there is between them not even the thin line which Rabbi Jochanan on his death-bed beheld as all that divided hell from heaven.

    The Roadmender Michael Fairless 1885

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