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Old scenes, but still fresh and young; and  I am sometimes tempted to believe that the intervening years have been the illusion of a dream, and that I am awakening in their midst.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord

"I am awakening to the fact that too long have I been neglecting my daughter; and that since this investment of mine has turned out so happily, it must become her property."

From The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave by Carson, James

It is all gradual, crescendo; and meanwhile I am awakening.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 8, 1917 by Various