Example Sentences

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What they call German sentiment is awaking again, and I have been so unused to it.

From Magda A Play in Four Acts by Sudermann, Hermann

Woman at length is awaking from the slumber of ages.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Know you the might of the world they are making, This nation of nations whose heart is awaking?

From The New Morning Poems by Noyes, Alfred

It would seem that the town, under its misty blankets in the hollow of the valley, is awaking later than its inhabitants.

From Light by Wray, Fitzwater

"The good Parisians love me still; they, like me, remember past times, and the old loyalty is awaking in them."

From Marie Antoinette and Her Son by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)