Example Sentences

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Men and women have not only become better themselves; and that often suddenly and in very truth miraculously better: but the yearning has awoke in them to make others better likewise. 

From Westminster Sermons with a Preface by Kingsley, Charles

A noise enough to wake the dead has awoke Mr. Briggs at the unpleasant hour of five in the morning.

From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by Frith, William Powell

The public has awoke to a sense of virtue and selected me for punishment.

From Grey Town An Australian Story by Baldwin, Gerald

The youth of Germany has awoke out of the dreams of Burschenschaft freedom; and the sounding rush of steam-engines will probably not permit them easily to fall again into this giddy trance.

From The Student-Life of Germany by Howitt, William

Who has not seen the lightsome earth, the balmy atmosphere, and basking nature become dark, cold and ungenial, when the sleeping wind has awoke in the east?

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft