What is "wakening"

Usage examples of "wakening".

She made herself look away, forcing her attention to the wakening morning and rapidly scudding cloudsq Those clouds, she thought, might make it difficult to call in the helicopter if someone got hurt.

She tried to think of the bargain that was being made with Yves in order to examine its risks and test it for flaws, but her thoughts soon slipped away from that, and away from the memory of shadows and a fall, away from the mixed vision of herringbone cobbles and a quaint child lifting a brightly striped mallet into the innocent air, away from the hard silver chill of a pair of scissors in her own hand and her ignorant scuffle with Yves at the drawingroom door, away from her wakening from a dream of truth into a nightmare of false reality, away from all those disasters into a new consoling dream: a dream of gOillg away to become somehow suave, experienced, independent, admired, highly placed, and then returning returning witty and worldly, equal to anything, elegant in black with pearls and a fur piece and a smart hat.

They had passed a camp of refugees on the Brous Road, an old woman wakening to tell them the raiders had caught up with them earlier and stolen everything of value, as well as two young girls and their mother.

The tides of wakening consciousness roll in upon them daily as we unclose our eyelids, and keep up the gentle movement and murmur of ordinary mental respiration until we close them again in slumber.

I fell into sleep as into a pit, disturbed by pertinent dreams of crystals and mines and dead bodies along the road, wakening when the others returned along about noon.

She was riding right in the curl of the wave, surfing the interface, wakening into the Dreamtime in full sentient awareness.

Willow wiped the needle on a bit of leather and put it in the case Hyaroll had given her a couple of wakenings ago.

Glimmering fields, And wakening wealds, And rising lark, And meadows dark, And idle rills, And labouring mills, And far-distant hills Of the fawn and the doe.

Jackstraw was wide awake -1 was pretty sure he'd never shut an eye lest one of us slip away from sleep into that easy frozen sleep from which there would have been no wakening - and Zagero was stirring.

At his wakening, he would protect the family for another season and help bear the harvest home.

The missionaries sometimes slept on deck, wakening to enjoy any phenomenon that the night produced.

Softly, careful to make no sound, the undergroom laid out his shaving gear on a side table and sat patiently to await his wakening again.

She probably imagined that she was thinking about the Aids and their missionary box and the new carpet for the vestry room, but under these reflections was a harmonious consciousness of red fields smoking into pale-purply mists in the declining sun, of long, sharp-pointed fir shadows falling over the meadow beyond the brook, of still, crimson-budded maples around a mirrorlike wood pool, of a wakening in the world and a stir of hidden pulses under the gray sod.