| Groggy farmers and their families awoke with throats, eyes and lungs seared and burning, pain shooting into their chests. |
| He awoke to a subliminal judder and then a hollow, deep boom that rocked through the fortress and was not so much heard as felt. |
| Karya finally awoke to a weak light, nothing like the radiant shine in her now lost home. |
| Joel awoke the next day to find Oak Branch and Ivy Petal at the foot of his bed. |
| The next morning I awoke to the bellows, grunts and snorts of a dozen huge elephant seals wallowing on the black beach below the sleeping dongas. |
| The people of Abbeyleix awoke on Christmas morning to an unexpected white Christmas. |
