coming-to

Dorcas tells me, that her lady denies to admit me to dine with her; a favour I had ordered the wench to beseech her to grant me, the next time she saw her — not uncivilly, however, denies — coming-to by degrees!

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

For agent and patient are contrary to one another, and coming-to-be is a process into the contrary: hence the patient must change into the agent, since it is only thus that coming-to be will be a process into the contrary.

On the Generation and Corruption Aristotle 2002

The former bore in mind her chief object in coming-to the station and kept a sharp lookout for freshmen.

Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore Pauline Lester

However, I remember coming-to just on daylight, and hearing someone crashing through the bushes.

The Lost Valley James Morgan Walsh 1924

"Why, I believe he's coming-to," said the man, who seemed to be a doctor.

The Great Hunger Johan Bojer 1915

In that smooth water and light wind it was impossible to feel the ship coming-to.

The Secret Sharer 1911

Each will be thinking of his country as one thinks of a patient of doubtful patience and temper who is coming-to out of the drugged stupor of a crucial, ill-conceived, and unnecessary operation ...

What is Coming? 1906

Annoying, you know, to hold your own coat like a parasol over a man's head while he is coming-to.

Youth And Two Other Stories 1899

At his first coming-to, Louis Racine, at his wife's insistence, had come and offered his hand, and made apology for assaulting him in his own house.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

At his first coming-to, Louis Racine, at his wife's insistence, had come and offered his hand, and made apology for assaulting him in his own house.

The Lane That Had No Turning, Volume 1 Gilbert Parker 1897