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Longfellow ended his poem on a confident note, declaring that, “borne on the night-wind of the Past, through all our history, to the last,” Americans would “waken and listen” to Revere’s “midnight message.”
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Enough noise to waken the dead, but not this lot, I thought.
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The work of the sitcom is to waken them to this fact — as often as it takes.
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In order to secure democratic victories in all three branches of government, we need to waken the silent.
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Sometimes I waken up again and it's dark out there.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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