3528 examples of roused in sentences

It roused none, and he wandered across the room and dragged an enormous book out upon the floor.

He roused himself suddenly.

She had never experienced anything like that before; it tantalized her, roused her curiosity.

And he who roused this consciousness in them showed them, at the same time, by every word he spoke in the pulpit, and by his whole daily life, how that battle was to be fought; and stood there before them, their fellow-soldier and the captain of their band.

And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning-star; While throng'd the citizens, with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips,"The foe!

when the monster, roused at once from inactivity by the blow of the factor's missile, blew, with a noise resembling the explosion of a steam-engine, a huge shower of water into the air, and at the same time began to lash the waves with its tail in every direction.

"I will not fly, you detestable fellow," was Becket's reply, roused to his usual vehemence, and wrenching the cloak out of Fitzurse's grasp.

Cecil asserted that she "must" go to bed, and the word roused her like a trumpet.

No lady, we understand, when suddenly roused in the night, would think of hurrying on "a frock."

" "That's a nice sort of thing to say to a fellow," said Marmaduke, roused.

To her intense disappointment, Lord Carbury entered just then, and roused her from what was unaccountably like a happy dream.

It roused his hearers to a pitch of demonstrative enthusiasm such as I have never seen equalled.

Terror prevailed, and the confusion was fast spreading, when Napoleon, who had been roused from an attempt to obtain some rest under a shelter formed of drums, fit materials for a house for him, arrived on the scene.

The roar of cannon has roused us from this Arcadian dream.

A murmur of voices roused me, or perhaps I was going to wake at any rate, for they were singularly low, and the speakers quite unconscious of my presence.

Though monsters should that form devour, 'Twill rise in beauty, strength and power; That voice, which rends the tombs and graves, Will sound through all the ocean caves; Then 'roused by heaven's eternal King, He'll tune his golden harp and sing; While, quick as thought, to join the song, Will Burman converts round him throng, And on that bright auspicious morn, Like jewels his rich crown adorn.

Lloyd Garrison commenced, under great difficulties and discouragements, the publication of the Liberator, in Boston; and by the energy and earnestness of his appeals, roused the attention of many minds to the subject of slavery.

Practically this was of little importance, for it was taking away a right, the exercise of which, if attempted, would have roused popular indignation to the peril of their lives.

When I roused myself, I found that we were back again at Clarens!

The grasp of old Ochiltree, who had appeared on the scene, roused Lovel to movement, and leaving M'Intyre to the care of a surgeon, he followed the bedesman into the recesses of the wood, in order to get away by boat the following morning.

The fame of this and other pieces of jewellery roused against him the envy and malice of the elder goldsmiths, and led to a serious fray, in the course of which he assaulted a young man of the Guasconti family, and was obliged to fly disguised like a monk to Rome.

The victories which Montrose was gaining in the north had roused his hopes, and the evil advice of his wife and Prince Rupert, and the earnest remontrances which he received from Montrose against surrendering to the demands of Parliament, overpowered the advice of his wiser counselors.

Even the sombre mass of the tiers roused themselves to enthusiasm, which was redoubled when Monsieur le Duc d'Orléans made his appearance with the clerical deputy from Crépy-en-Valois, who, he insisted, should enter before him.

He was roused from his thoughts by the stopping of his train in Chislehurst station.

"Here goes," he said, and roused his machinery to motion again, followed intently by that great white eye.

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