Example Sentences

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Might it reawake the dying nerve if the family were living close against her eyes?

From Howards End by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)

To lie thus in deadly weakness and drink in the traits of the beloved, is to reawake to love from whatever shock of disillusion. 

From Merry Men by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Only from without could reality impact upon him and reawake within him an awareness of reality. 

From The Red One by London, Jack

He began also to observe a certain imperiousness in Harriett's manner to Elsie herself, which struck him as being particularly ungraceful, and the old pity began to reawake the old love.

From Mr. Hogarth's Will by Spence, Catherine Helen

In brief was not this the site of an ancient volcano, one which had slept through ages, but whose inner fires might yet reawake?

From The Master of the World by Verne, Jules