Sentence examples for and woke with a from inspiring English sources

"I survived a terrible storm last night and woke with a resolve to go to my demise without regret," Conant wrote his brother Jim.

He finally fell asleep, and woke with a start upon hearing the bugler who would become his pet aversion and the inspiration for the song "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning".

Against this backdrop of what Twain called "wonderful waterfalls of green leaves as deftly overlapping each other as the scales of a fish," I stayed the night perched over the river near the village of Boca de Sábalos, listening to rain pound the corrugated metal roof of my bamboo cabin, and woke with a scorpion in my bed.

"Altitude is already playing tricks on the brain - had a sad dream last night and woke with a tear-stained face," tweeted Heather Fell, silver medallist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

For a long time after, "He would dream about it and wake with a start in the night," Silvia recalled.

Most nights I would eventually sleep – about two hours here and there – and wake with a jolt, disoriented and unsure if I'd drifted off at all.

Augusta slept alone in the bed, and woke with the sheets askew and a strange, metallic smell coming from the mattress.

My husband held me all night, and I woke with a pillow soaked with tears I don't even remember crying, and all her brothers were knocking on the door because life doesn't care about a whole world ending.

I opened the garage door from the inside, and the man woke with a start.

On day two, I woke with a headache, and Mae's hair in my mouth.

I woke with a start and looked out the window.