waken

Longfellow ended his poem on a confident note, declaring that, “borne on the night-wind of the Past, through all our history, to the last,” Americans would “waken and listen” to Revere’s “midnight message.”

Enough noise to waken the dead, but not this lot, I thought.

The work of the sitcom is to waken them to this fact — as often as it takes.

In order to secure democratic victories in all three branches of government, we need to waken the silent.

Sometimes I waken up again and it's dark out there.