Wakened
[weikənd]
Definition
(imp. & p. pr.) of Waken
Typist: Mason
Examples
- No need to ponder the cause or the course of that sigh; I knew it was wakened by beauty; I knew it pursued Ginevra. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- All had gone well through the house; her mother had only wakened once. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I had wakened the glow: his features beamed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- As dawn approached, the setting stars and breaking day dimmed the creation of fancy; the wakened song of birds hushed her whispers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Lily's taste of beneficence had wakened in her a momentary appetite for well-doing. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She looked like one who is suddenly wakened. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The wanderer, decoyed into the enchanted castle, heard rising, outside, the spell-wakened tempeSt. What, in all this, was I to think of Madame Beck? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Well, sir, it wakened me from my sleep, so it is hard to judge. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The bugles had wakened everybody: there was no use in concealment now. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I asked for wine--they gave me some, but it must have been highly medicated, for I slept yet more deeply than before, and wakened not for many hours. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- They were watching, open-eyed and open-mouthed, the thread of dark-red blood which wakened them up from their trance of passion. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She turned from sight and sound--touched, if not rapt; wakened, if not inspired. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The voice of Mrs. Fairfax, speaking to a servant in the hall, wakened you: and how curiously you smiled to and at yourself, Janet! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Typist: Mason