Do we say rouse or rows

rouse 942 occurrences

It will rouse into activity their innate energies, and bring forth their inward might.

And yet how exciting it would be to rouse her from that cool composure.

Whilst powerless I heard the words 'temperature' and 'observation,' and I knew Mr. Coxwell was in the car, speaking to me, and endeavouring to rouse me; and therefore consciousness and hearing had returned.

But the mission of John Wesley was to rouse the masses.

What do you think, Hugh?" Gifford seemed to rouse himself by an effort from an absorbing train of thought.

Ods bobs, when I was a young Fellow, I wou'd not let the young Wenches look pale and wanbut would rouse 'em, and touse 'em, and blowze 'em, till I put a colour in their Cheeks, like an Apple John, affacksNay, I can make a shift still, and Pupsey shall not be jealous.

Some of them rouse us like the notes of a war trumpet, and have become exceedingly popular; which every one who has heard the deep rolling voice of Braham or Phillips in Hohenlinden, will attest.

Useless for Frank to rouse him for the second time.

He would rapidly glance at the thickly peopled street and wonder, with a thrill, how soon he would include these lives in his own, how soon he would grip and rouse and awaken the careless multitude....

And indeed, that were enough to rouse the veriest mollusk of a woman.

But long intervals of pleasure dissipate attention, and weaken constancy; nor is it easy for him that has sunk from diligence into sloth, to rouse out of his lethargy, to recollect his notions, rekindle his curiosity, and engage with his former ardour in the toils of study.

As I knew that neither of these gentlemen had more money than myself, I could not discover what had depressed me in their presence; nor why they were considered by others as more worthy of attention and respect; and therefore resolved, when we met again, to rouse my spirit, and force myself into notice.

The sportsman and the man of dress have their heads filled with a fox or a horse-race, a feather or a ball; and live in ignorance of every thing beside, with as much content as he that heaps up gold, or solicits preferment, digs the field, or beats the anvil; and some yet lower in the ranks of intellect, dream out their days without pleasure or business, without joy or sorrow, nor ever rouse from their lethargy to hear or think.

Even my father praised my conduct, and said that it was pretty well for a girl of ten years, under such circumstancesat the same time representing to me how much more reasonable such a course was, than screaming would have been, to rouse the household for nothing.

For even apart from the promptings of a former birth, thy beauty and thy haunting voice, which I seem as it were to have heard before, are quite sufficient to rouse emotion even in a stone, much more in a man of flesh and blood.

can I do nothing to rouse thy recollection?

It is good to behold those who draw breath; if I have not loved you enough, my good neighbours, forgive me now!' 'Rouse yourself, Lecamus,' said I with some anxiety.

" The last word alone seemed to rouse him from his indifference.

He had no key, and to attempt to effect an entrance through the window would be hazardous, for, unless Gaydon could be prevented from giving the alarm, he would rouse the whole establishment.

Thither forth-right he rode to rouse the prey, That, shaded by the fern, in harbour lay; And thence dislodged, was wont to leave the wood For open fields, and cross the crystal flood.

But nothing seemed to rouse her from the depression into which she had fallen.

It shall, in later days, unfailing, Rouse many an ear to rapt emotion; Its solemn voice with Sorrow wailing, Or choral chiming to Devotion.

And as He thus walked among them, living a life with them, human in every part, and exercising a human influence on them; so also His most important business was to talk with them of the kingdom of God, to reprove and rouse them up from their slowness of heart, and to open the eyes of their minds.

; their standard exhibited the lion of the tribe of Judah couchant, with the motto, "Who will rouse him up?"

And thus, when solitude my spirits shook, Or fearfor all but fools know fear sometimes To rouse myself and them, I piped and took A gay revenge in all my wanton rhymes.

rows 1619 occurrences

The stately elms still arched the highway to Warchester, but here and there rough gaps were seen in the trim hedge-rows.

Not far from these two rows of houses and cottages, a green lane, overshadowed with trees, turned aside from the main road, and tended towards a square, gray tower, the battlements of which were just high enough to be visible above the foliage.

Round the walls of the living-rooms, and of the bedroom even, are fixed rows of wooden boxes, lined with hay; and it is the business of the wife and children to nurse and comfort the feathered lodgers, to feed the little ducklings, and to take the old ones out for an airing.

We find, as might be expected, no mention of that peculiar architecture of Chester called the "Rows," which has so puzzled antiquarian writers.

The low streets in which the Rows are situated have the road considerably beneath them, like the cutting of a railway; and from the covered way of the Rows an enemy in the road beneath might be assailed with great advantage.

The low streets in which the Rows are situated have the road considerably beneath them, like the cutting of a railway; and from the covered way of the Rows an enemy in the road beneath might be assailed with great advantage.

In the civil wars of Charles I the possession of the Rows by the Royalists, or Parliamentary troops, was fiercely contested.

The interior of this interesting structure, which still remains at Jerusalem, after a lapse of more than thirteen centuries, in an excellent state of preservation, is adorned with six rows of columns, from whence spring arches supporting the cedar beams and timbers of the roof; and at the end of the building is a round tower, surmounted by a dome.

He slipped out a little way, as much as to say, 'I await you,' but did not come forward to meet us; so the woman and I passed along through the rows of kneeling worshippers, by the strolling students, and past the lounging touristswho, guide-book in hand, are seen in every foreign churchuntil we came to the standpoint from which the Father had been watching us.

Unless the terms of peace between Japan and Russia include the belligerents in our show, there will be rows every day.

Again, the gentle slope of the Avenida, a hundred yards wide, is clothed by no fewer than ten rows of low trees, acacias, and the like, five rows on each side of the comparatively narrow roadway, which is blocked at the lower end by a massive monument to the liberators of 1640.

Again, the gentle slope of the Avenida, a hundred yards wide, is clothed by no fewer than ten rows of low trees, acacias, and the like, five rows on each side of the comparatively narrow roadway, which is blocked at the lower end by a massive monument to the liberators of 1640.

And the terrace, Marcos, was covered with soldiers; rows and rows of them, like shadows.

And the terrace, Marcos, was covered with soldiers; rows and rows of them, like shadows.

The floor of the building was occupied by rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews, and the broad aisle formed a sexual division, impassable except by children beneath a certain age.

CHAPTER XXV A BEAR ON THE RAMPAGE "Hoop-la!" All a-spangle, to the blare of quick music, the great tent ablaze with light, the rows of benches crush-crowded with excited humanity, Andy Wildwood left the spring-board.

Among the many fields, variously cultivated, was a square one dotted over with small manure heaps in rows.

Fine rows of hotels and restaurants, and other buildingsmostly let as furnished apartmentsform the outer edge of the triangle.

They were levelling a stretch of newly-turned and smoothed ground, and they pointed with pride to the portion of the work already accomplished, serried rows of spick-and-span headstones, all "plumb," as they explained, and freshly scrapednot a sign of caressing moss or a tendril of vine to be seen.

One of a stump fence particularly delighted himthose stump fences made out of the roots of pine trees set side by side, which had been a feature of the country some miles back, and which make such a weird impression on the landscape, like rows of gigantic black antlers, or many-armed Hindoo idols, or a horde of Zulus in fantastic war-gear drawn up in battle-array, or the blackened stumps of giants' teethColin

The carpus, or wrist, includes 8 short bones, arranged in two rows of four each, so as to form a broad support for the hand.

The phalanges, or finger bones, are the fourteen small bones arranged in three rows to form the fingers.

The members of the choir sit in collateral rows in the chancel; they are all surpliced; all very virtuous and clerical in look; seldom put their hands into their pockets whilst singing; and, whatever quantity of "linen" may be got out by them they invariably endeavour to obviate violence of expression.

Rows of small forms run down each side.

Some of the temples had double rows of columns on all sides, like that of Diana at Ephesus and of Quirinus at Rome.

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