Use rouse in a sentence
Sentences starting with rouse
- Rouse the cathedral priests and go to the bishop. [10]
- Rouse out Bob and Tom, some of you, and fetch the guns. [5]
Sentences ending with rouse
- He contented himself with the belief that the most vigorous natures are the most difficult to rouse. [11]
- O gentle King, rouse! [5]
Short sentences using rouse
- Gaston tried to rouse her. [11]
- I cannot rouse him. [11]
More example sentences with the word rouse in them
- She felt angered with herself that he could rouse her temper by such small mean irony. [11]
- Medea, so the wise woman was called, though scarcely past five and forty, harmonized in appearance with this strange habitation, full as it was of objects calculated to rouse repulsion, dread, and amazement. [10]
- Who could tell whether her surprise, instead of pleasing him, might not rouse his anger? [10]
- Then you know what Rouse was like, and some other cities. [5]
- As the night went on, however, a feeling began to stir which it is not good to rouse in frontier lands. [11]
- No, this nocturnal wanderer had left no hour of bliss behind him; and if his demeanor was calculated to rouse any feeling it was not envy, but pity. [10]
- All that is very pretty, but all the good it will do will be to rouse spiteful tongues. [10]
- Only at the very close of the sitting did he appear to rouse himself. [11]
- She tried in vain to rouse herself from the lethargy into which she had fallen, to cast off the spell. [9]
- But Milcah languished under the blow, and the only person who could rouse the pale, silent woman from brooding over her grief was Miriam. [10]
- I want something to-day to rouse me from lethargy, even if it should make me angry. [10]
- Her vain attempts to rouse the sleeper, though somewhat pathetic, had in them at the same time something irresistibly ludicrous, and Pollux felt sorely tempted to laugh. [10]
- When he tried to rouse him and spur him to greater energy his favorite would look at him beseechingly, and though he made every effort to be of use to him and to show him a cheerful countenance it was always with but brief success. [10]
- It is difficult to rouse her to any sense of her duty as a standard of aspiration. [4]
- They were told to keep their own counsel, and not rouse the suspicions of the household. [5]
- Now she wants to inflict on the old man, Barine's grandfather, whom she loves, some injury which the spoiled, imprudent woman will scarcely accept quietly, and which will rouse her to commit some folly that can be used against her. [10]
- Therefore, the next time little Jacob woke, Kit set himself to attract his wandering attention, and this not being a very difficult task (one sneeze effected it), he signed to him to rouse his mother. [12]
- He had been thrust into an unwatched kitchen, the first day of his return; he not only came forth empty-handed, but tried to rouse the housemates. [5]
- In spite of this, and although his absence threatened to rouse Caesar to fury, and everything pointed to the necessity of his remaining within call, Macrinus, drawn by an irresistible craving, had followed the invitation, which sounded more like a command. [10]
- From afar came the sound of cheering, and it was this that seemed to rouse him. [9]
- Only don't rouse the devil in me by praying for Tull! [13]
- What is sweeter than sound sleep, and who will disturb and rouse me when Death has lowered his torch before me? [10]
- By his couch stood his mother who had laid her hand on his feet to rouse him. [10]
- Then the auctioneer stepped up to her, and gave her a blow with his whip, that she might rouse herself up, and appear less miserable to the buyers. [10]
- The hounds are sent into the forest to rouse the deer, and drive him from his cover. [4]
- He has often said that nothing would better serve to rouse the dreamer from torpor than your charming vivacity. [10]
- Don't expect to rouse me; to me, all ministries and all oppositions seem to be pretty much alike. [14]
- She tried to rouse herself, to think, to consider a situation in which her instinct had whispered just once--there must be some hidden danger: but the electric touch of his hand destroyed the process, and made her incapable of reason. [9]
- You--" Suddenly she relented, seeing the look in his face, and realising that, after all, it was a tribute to herself that she could keep him for four years and rouse him to such fury--"but yes, Abe," she added, "you have some rights. [11]
- But even the rattling of the carts and the trampling of the horses' hoofs could not rouse the Cologne professors, who, with their clerical companions, had gone to rest, and slept in darkened rooms until late into the morning. [10]
- She was looking over some of the last of them in a rather listless way,--for the poor thing was getting sleepy in spite of herself,--when she came to one which seemed to rouse her attention, and lifted her drooping lids. [6]
- No matter, if only his brother Alexas does not rouse Antony against you. [10]
- There is only one thing which can rouse the machine; not will,--that cannot reach it; nothing but a ruinous agent, which hurries the wheels awhile and soon eats out the heart of the mechanism. [6]
- Her head was on her son's shoulder when they reached home, and Orion's anxiety for the mother he truly loved was enhanced when he found it difficult to rouse her. [10]
- After the death of her best-beloved lord the young widow was overcome with brooding melancholy from which nothing could rouse her. [10]
- They bethought them of a removal from the scene of this last sorrow; of trying whether change of place would rouse or cheer him. [12]
- Denise, the cameriera, noticed the light in the room, entered, and after vainly endeavoring to rouse Henrica, called her mistress. [10]
- But I did not, for I knew that to carry that point farther might rouse a general thought of Alixe, and I had no wish to make matters hard for her. [11]
- Our object was not to let him relapse into intoxication, to rouse the hero's strength and courage from their slumber, render him for love's sake a fellow-combatant in the common cause. [10]
- If she did not succeed, or if he never found strength to rouse himself, he, too, would be one of Caesar's victims. [10]
- Scenes that could not fail to rouse both ruth and anger were seen and heard on all sides. [10]
- It was a May morning to rouse a sluggard; the night air tingled into life at the touch of the sunshine, the trees in the flitting glory of their first green. [9]
- She spoke the man she hated fair before the jealous Marchese, only to rouse that potent noble's fury against my brother. [10]
- He took one look and then flew to rouse out his forces. [5]
- But, in a little time, this closed, the light was extinguished, and all was gloomy and quiet, except when some stray footsteps sounded on the pavement, or a neighbour, out later than his wont, knocked lustily at his house-door to rouse the sleeping inmates. [12]
- Pentaur was wonderfully like her lost husband, and the priest, experienced in humanity, thought that the sight of him would rouse the dormant powers of her mind. [10]
- The glorious sunshine lighted up the smiling marble face; with the charm of bewitching beauty he seemed to gaze at the lurid crimson pools on the ground, and at the armed cohorts which marched in front to shed more blood and rouse more hatred. [10]
- A hundred ways Jo had tried to rouse his memory. [11]
- Her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied with a calm smile that she was not so stupid as to be jealous: 'Let him do what he pleases,' she used to say of me. [2]
- If only now it were possible to rouse the conscience of that imperial criminal! [10]
- He knew what it was to rouse wild hope and then to see despair follow, but he kept an outward calm and told the diver to go down again. [11]
- They rouse my inmost soul to wrath, and I have other matters to discuss with you. [10]
- There is nothing in them to rouse his advertising instincts. [8]
- Barine felt as if every moment might rouse her from a blissful dream, and yet she gladly told herself that she was awake, for the man walking before her, leaning on the arm of a friend, was Dion. [10]
- Rarities are always helped by any device which will rouse curiosity and compel remark. [5]
- The next thing he wished to do was to go to Coniston and rouse Jethro. [9]
- He would certainly have spared himself this mission, had he not been sure that she who had brought her lover to ruin was the only person who could rouse him from spiritless languor to fresh energy and interest in life. [10]
- It was a happy idea, but she would never have ventured to rouse the woman from her sleep, so she must wait. [10]
- Now that he had confronted the bloodstained face of war with all its horrors, he fell into a state of melancholy from which he could scarcely rouse himself. [10]
- To rouse the giant was not now so easy. [11]
- Could he never get the simple fact into his head that the sure way and the only way to rouse her up and set her on fire was to show her where some other person was going to suffer wrong or hurt or loss? [5]
- From motives of friendship, urged by no one, he came unbidden to the woman whom he had formerly so sincerely admired, to entreat her to cheer the unfortunate man, rouse him, and remind him of his duty. [10]
- The sunbeams poured fiercely on her head, her cheeks glowed, a painful anxiety overpowered her, and certainly not to rouse Phaon, but merely to hear some noise, she coughed twice, not without effort. [10]
- Until the last few days there had been little in her life to rouse passions. [13]
- For the next few days Bartja must not come near the king; the mere sight of him might rouse his anger again, and a monarch can always find unprincipled servants . [10]
- When discussing the facts of ecclesiastical history, he understood how to rouse us to the utmost, for he was a talented man and a clever speaker, but no word of appeal to the heart, no exhortation to love and peace, ever crossed his lips. [10]
- I would seek explanations from Great Britain and Russia, and send agents into Canada, Mexico, and Central America to rouse a vigorous continental spirit of independence on this continent against European intervention. [7]
- He was perfectly exhausted, and they were careful not to rouse him. [12]
- Diodoros must forthwith cross the lake and rouse Polybius and Praxilla, to warn them of the imminent danger, while Alexander undertook to hire a ship for the party. [10]
- Your arts will convince him that it is she who speaks to him, for he never heard her voice in life, and all this must rouse his desire to see her again and again. [10]
- The highest exercise consisted of disputations on all manner of subtle and captious questions, and the Latin verses which the scholars hammered out under the rule of Father Jodocus were so vile as to rouse Magister Peter to great and righteous wrath. [10]
- She must be brought to the palace without the least delay--Iras would understand--even if it should be necessary to rouse her from her sleep. [10]
- The mind gradually becomes inert, dull, blunted; it loses its accustomed interest in intellectual things; nothing but horse-play can rouse it, nothing but wild and foolish grotesqueries can entertain it. [5]
- He at once became possessed by an absorbing interest in the woman who, of all others in London, had gifts which were not merely physical, but of a kind that stimulate the mind and rouse those sensibilities so easily dulled by dull and material people. [11]
- This man, riding at the head of the simple villagers, was part of her vision; and, at the moment, she did not rouse from the ecstasy of reverie where her new-born love had led her. [11]
- The lion was at rest--but nevertheless he was a lion, and terrible things might be looked for when he should rouse himself, and when the mighty hand, which now dispensed bread, should be clenched for the fight. [10]
- If our borders are invaded, it is only as the spur that is driven into the courser's flank to rouse his slumbering mettle. [6]
- There is hardly any pulse at Elsie's wrist; no stimulants seem to rouse her; and it looks as if life were slowly retreating inwards, so that by-and-by she will sleep as those who lie down in the cold and never wake. [6]
- At first Prince Andrew, considering it his duty to rouse the courage of the men and to set them an example, walked about among the ranks, but he soon became convinced that this was unnecessary and that there was nothing he could teach them. [2]
- She waited silently and watched, and twice or thrice made ineffectual efforts to rouse him. [11]
- You shall be allowed to return home in peace; but beware of remaining too long within my reach, lest the thought of the vengeance I owe my father's soul should rouse my anger, and your end draw suddenly nigh. [10]
- He and she alike would probably pay for the deed with their life; for the murder of his lion would inevitably rouse Caesar's wildest passions. [10]
- Now hasten, fly after the incendiaries, rouse the servants, and try to rescue the king. [10]
- But he was a strange man,--a genius, as I soon discovered, to rouse the most sluggish nature to enthusiasm. [9]
- It can teach a brave heart to feel the woes of others more deeply; it can rouse a desire to assuage the griefs of others with beautiful self-devotion. [10]
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