"Wake up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... after day we wake up to find our house invaded by these abominations. That is a nice thought to begin ...
— Three Dramas - The Editor--The Bankrupt--The King • Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson
... rose every man seemed to wake up and feel new life in him, and they began to talk, just as the dicky birds tune up for a song on the like occasion. Yet the scene was desolate and dreary enough for Dante or ...
— For Fortune and Glory - A Story of the Soudan War • Lewis Hough
... if it were all entirely true, or whether I should knock my elbow against something and wake up. We were on the north bank of the Valley River, with every head of those six hundred steers. Out there they were, strung along the road, shaking their wet coats like a lot of woolly dogs, and the afternoon sun wavering about on their shiny backs. And there was Ump with his thumbs against ...
— Dwellers in the Hills • Melville Davisson Post
... Civilisation has done away with curl-papers, yet at that hour the soul of the Hausfrau is as tightly screwed up in them as was ever her grandmother's hair; and though my body comes down mechanically, having been trained that way by punctual parents, my soul never thinks of beginning to wake up for other people till lunch-time, and never does so completely till it has been taken out of doors and aired in the sunshine. Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning? It is the hour of savage instincts and ...
— Elizabeth and her German Garden • "Elizabeth", AKA Marie Annette Beauchamp
... Tyrol, the trees are beaten to make them bear. On New Year's Eve at Hildesheim people dance and sing around them,{40} while the Tyrolese peasant on Christmas Eve will go out to his trees, and, knocking with bent fingers upon them, will bid them wake up and bear.{41} There is a Slavonic custom, on the same night, of threatening apple-trees with a hatchet if they do not ...
— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles
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