wakened

And the second night I stayed there I was wakened from a dream,

Archive 2008-08-01 Not a sheep 2008

When that story ended, Lestat had wakened from a long sleep in New Orleans to listen to some very beautiful and seductive music.

Excerpt: Merrick by Anne Rice 2000

I wakened from a troubled doze to find her dressing herself with feverish haste.

Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

One morning, when the proud grain wakened, it found itself wet through and through with rain which had fallen in the night, and the next day the sun shone down and warmed it so that it really began to be afraid that it would be obliged to grow too large for its skin, which felt a little tight for it already.

Little Saint Elizabeth, and Other Stories 1893

But, after lunch, after he had wakened from the short siesta; and realised that it was not yet three o'clock, and that six, seven hours still remained to be lived through before he could reasonably hope to settle for the night -- that was a dreary time indeed, and Pat, whose interests lay all outdoors, knew no means of lightening it.

The Love Affairs of Pixie George de Horne Vaizey 1887

A crow's call wakened me from another terrible dream.

Dreams of Steel Cook, Glen 1990

It was superior to any door we had "wakened" that afternoon -- made of pale, cinnamon-coloured wood, and immensely wide, carved up above and brightened with great fork-like hinges and nail-heads as large as pennies.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

In her terror, which increased every moment, she had the man wakened, meaning to give him some order which still she did not give.

Sons of the Soil Honor�� de Balzac 1824

“Who?” demanded those who had been really asleep, and who had wakened to they knew not what.

Chapter 14 2010

But there is dark magic present as well; a "shadow-demon" has sapped the powers from Alavaro's father and wakened his family's status.

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