wake
verb (used without object)
to become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed byup ).
unwaking
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a word derived from
wake.
Example Sentences
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So when she slept the unwaking sleep, Ruth, I came here and made her bed with my own hands, and then carried her to it, covered her, and she sleeps well.
From The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter
Never shall state nor gold Shelter his heart from aching Whoso the Altar of Justice old Spurneth to night unwaking.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
Must I go to sleep among the unwaking, with no one to rouse me?
From Lilith, a romance by George MacDonald
Can it be that Christ and Herod, Paul and Nero, Timour and Fenelon, drop through the blind trap of death into precisely the same condition of unwaking sleep?
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
By spirits of the deep He’s cradled on the billow To his unwaking sleep.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
