wakening
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Eliot thought otherwise: "Evening quickens faintly in the street,/ Wakening the appetites/ of life in some/ And to others bringing the Boston Evening Transcript."
From Time Magazine Archive
Naught left but Memory whose dreary tread Sounds thro' this ruined heart, where all lies dead— Wakening the echoes of joy long fled!
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael
Kindling to fondness through their mist of tears, Wakening afresh the light of fading years!—
From The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Leyland, Francis A.
Wakening for an instant from this stupor, she saw her husband's woe-worn face, and caught the sound of some murmured words of prayer that God would spare her.
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John
She crept out of bed and went to Helen's bed, but Helen had gone to make one of the Easter Wakening Chorus.
From Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life by Jones, Adele W.
