wakes the dead

Example Sentences

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Revive Thy work, O Lord, Thy mighty arm make bare, Speak with the voice that wakes the dead, And make Thy people hear.

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron

I hear a shout that moves the earth, A cry that wakes the dead!

From The New Morning Poems by Noyes, Alfred

And then, across the breathless wood, a Bell began to sound, The only Bell that wakes the dead, And Stockton Signer raised his head, And called to all the deacons in the ancient burial-ground.

From The New Morning Poems by Noyes, Alfred

Thy mighty arm make bare; Speak, with the voice that wakes the dead, And make thy people hear.

From The Otterbein Hymnal For Use in Public and Social Worship by Lorenz, Edmund S.

So a soul may stiffen into the death of self and sin, even though the voice that wakes the dead to a life of love be calling to it.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Maclaren, Alexander