Which preposition to use with arousing

in Occurrences 173%

Perhaps the long walk and the excitement she had undergone accounted for the profound sleep into which she fell almost immediately, and from which she was aroused in the dead of night by a noise in the next room.

from Occurrences 94%

After knocking several times at the right door without reply, she turned the knob, and entered so softly that the venerable lawyer was not aroused from the slumber into which he had fallen in his chair by the window.

to Occurrences 64%

Then, aroused to the horror of their nearness, he seized a torch and made at the slimy heap.

at Occurrences 32%

Was Steinmetz aroused at last?

within Occurrences 19%

Therefore I instantly arrived at the conclusion that the clean-shaven fellow who looked so much like a London barrister had some distinct and ulterior purpose in arousing within my mind suspicion of his host's sanity.

against Occurrences 18%

If the spirit of feud was aroused against the mill owners, if the Groners and Dawsons had been able to enlist their kin and clan, she was well aware that the man or woman who gave her smiling information as to ways and means, might, the hour before, have looked on Gray Stoddard lying dead, or sat in the council which planned to kill him.

of Occurrences 9%

There the poet would find a complete panoply of arms forged for the arousing of the feelings in an audience, and for stirring the springs of action.

among Occurrences 8%

If the spirit of rivalry had been aroused among the crew of these two boats before, it was now excited to a degree that menaced acts of hostility.

for Occurrences 7%

At the same time, though her pity was aroused for the abandoned one, she also began to bewail the loss of their happiness.

as Occurrences 5%

" I have often been brought to realize that the latent nobility in our human nature is never so effectually aroused as at the second stage of alcoholic dementia.

out Occurrences 5%

This thing of being aroused out of a sound sleep to have the covers whipped off by a roaring gale may read all very nice, but the reality is quite a different matter.

with Occurrences 4%

Nettuno, who had been crouching with his bushy tail between his legs, barked, seemed to arouse with renewed courage, and then leaped with evident joy and good-will upon the back of his old antagonist Uberto.

by Occurrences 4%

Recently the suspicions of some of the French troops were aroused by coming across a farm from which the horses had been removed.

during Occurrences 3%

The passions aroused during the struggle, the fierce hate animating the breasts of the combatants, the deadly incidents of the strife, which without intermission lasted for nearly two years, and deluged with blood the plains and cities of Hindostan, have scarcely a parallel in history.

through Occurrences 2%

Nearly every evil instinct in the child is aroused through fault-finding and scolding.

amongst Occurrences 2%

There had been a softening of feeling to him in the village since the day of his robbery, and now an active sympathy was aroused amongst the women.

into Occurrences 2%

Even education, gentle training and the sharpest of mental discipline do not always so effectually subdue the passions that they may not be aroused into unwonted fury during a long journey through a country filled with obstructions.

between Occurrences 2%

Perhaps, in the turmoil, and uncertainty, arising from a knowledge of Sanchez's death, and the jealousy thus aroused between those who would succeed him in command, I might discover the very opportunity I sought.

of Occurrences 1%

Max, with all his simplicity, though not susceptible, had about him an impetuosity when his interest was aroused of which I had learned to stand in wholesome dread.

like Occurrences 1%

But when Lafayette speaks, then the old messenger awakes from his twilight drowsiness, he seems to be aroused like an old war-horse of hussars when he hears the sound of a trumpetthere rise within him sweet memories of youth, and he nods delightedly with his silver-white head.

about Occurrences 1%

Of course, I didn't let on that I knew anything about a quarrel, but I gradually steered the conversation around to you, and while I don't want to hurt your feelings, I am violating no confidence when I tell you that the mention of your name aroused about the same sort of enthusiasm that Bill Bryan's does in Wall Streetonly Helen is a lady

on Occurrences 1%

Then I saw no more of her; and my wonder was aroused on hearing some of the tradespeople say that Mrs. Dornham had not been in town for some weeks.

over Occurrences 1%

He gets all aroused over some scheme or other which comes to him in the dead of night, hops out of bed before any one civilised is awake, and rings up for ambassadors.

than Occurrences 1%

"All right," he said, his fighting blood more fully aroused than ever by the unjustness of the proceeding.

throughout Occurrences 1%

Intense feeling was aroused throughout the United States when it was learned on February 28 that Germany had suggested to Mexico an alliance by which war was to be made on the United States if it did not remain neutral.

Which preposition to use with  arousing