Example Sentences

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But she got waker and waker, and at last she coon’t howd up no longer, but took whŏlly to her bed. 

From Two Suffolk Friends by Groome, Francis Hindes

Gilfoyle was a graceless sleeper and a surly waker.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

But he fare to get waker, and to stupe more ivry year.

From Two Suffolk Friends by Groome, Francis Hindes

Be then a waker, and rise quickly, and thank heartily thy Lord God, for the rest thou hast had, and for the care of angels.

From The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises by Hodgson, Geraldine Emma

Then the chamberlain felt a spasmodic pain in the forehead, which he knew very well, and which he used to call "the waker."

From Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von