Awakens

Examples

• For, it may alone be worth half the sum to madame, to be freed from the suspicions that my droll idea awakens. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Compliance, by rendering our strength useless, makes us insensible of it: but opposition awakens and employs it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He awakens the servant below with an electric bell, calls down the speaking tube to order breakfast, and perhaps lights the gas for her by the push button. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• You do not know what all around you see in Esther Summerson, how many hearts she touches and awakens, what sacred admiration and what love she wins. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I--I am much interested in this brother and sister, and the subject awakens very strong feelings within me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He had that sense of peace, and of being lightened of a weight of care, which country quiet awakens in the breasts of dwellers in towns. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But every leaf awakens my grief, As it lieth beneath the tree; So let Autumn air be never so fair, It by no means agrees with me. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

Edited by Kitty