And as the slight figure ran from his sight he had a sickening feeling as if, wakening from a dream of mystery and enchantment, he found himself in the midst of sordid reality.
"A Son of the Hills"
Harriet T. Comstock
As she was to Oliver, who, wakening at the storm in the nursery, took to sleepy crying, and was immediately lulled in her arms with the fondest soothing; the fiercest threatenings between whiles being directed to Letitia and Arthur, until they both slunk off to bed, sullen and silent-at war with one another, with Phillis, and with the whole world.
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
She laughed when Hans told her how the dog had found her, and had licked her face without wakening her.
"The Bridal March; One Day"
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson