The boy does not see daylight clearly; he has to be shaken hard to rouse him, since I made your reverence a promise not to beat him again.
Ah, sweet little Dornroeschen, did I not tell you that the day would come when the knight would appear and break through the thick hedge, and rouse the Sleeping Beauty with a kiss?
My system is to rouse patients from their illusions, and when this Udo von Eberstein began to recite his old chronicles I quickly made clear to him my views with regard to his mediaeval nonsense.
Why will you not rouse yourself from the melancholy that is sapping your physical strength?
Both Conscience and Stuart sought futilely to rouse themselves because the dream had now ceased to be pleasant, and yet it was only an ugly picture projected against a beautiful background deepening into a purple velvet stupor.
You accuse me of assaulting your duty, but I'm trying to rouse you to a bigger conception of duty.
If he had permitted the affliction, which God had visited upon him, to blind his eyes against duty to his daughter, he must rousehimself and remedy the matter.
The girl is to "wake up," that would be to rouse up, be merry, dress in bridal array and prepare for the coming festival.
Mr. Rouse says: "I cannot recollect more of Old Cranny Crow than that she entices children one by one out for a walk, and steals them from their supposed mother.
David was breathing regularly, so loudly sometimes that Tom felt disposed to rouse him up; but each time the breathing became easier, and he refrained.
With this nucleus of five mighty men, men to be feared on land or sea, Hovey started to rouse the rest of the mutineers.
Hall caught him by the shoulder to rouse him, but Klopp's head merely sagged far to one side, though his glazed eyes still seemed to be fixed upward upon the same spot on the ceiling at which he had been staring before.
They stood around looking stupid at me and left me alone in the fireroom, and I had to come back on deck, in the sight of Kate, and rouse you out of your sleep and beg you to go back and try to make the lads keep at their work.
By going to bed in daylight and lying with the blinds up and the sun on her face, she never wholly lost consciousness; her brain was sentinel enough to rouse her, if she began to dream of the banqueting-hall at Loring Castle.
Barbara remembered making a great effort to rouse herself and look at him; but he had dived into the crowd without even telling her his name.
Only when her ears caught the sound of subdued voices on the stairs did she rouse with a shiver and jump into bed.
If he had said that I was mad I should not have minded, but those horrid little expressions of his always tried me very much, and I am bound to confess that my first efforts to rouse the college met with more ridicule than success.
I thought that must be enough torouse Dennison, but he actually smiled at me and told me to go on.
It is a poor imagination," returned Donal, "that requires age or any mere accessory to rouse it.
Whether the presence of his niece made the earl rouse himself to be agreeable, or he had grown better since the morning and his spirits had risen, certainly he was not like the same man.
The main danger is perhaps, of being caught in some sudden gust of unsuspected impulse, and carried away of the one tendency before the other has time to assert and the will to rouse itself.
At one time it much affected his temper, taking from him all mastery of himself; at another made him so dull and stupid, that he resented nothing except any attempt to rouse him from his hebetude.
Here, you Joe, rouse and bitt, man; here's the skipper come to life again.
That "the attempt to enforce the Wilmot Proviso" would rouse the people of Virginia to "determined resistance at all hazards and to the last extremity.
Messengers were accordingly stationed at Charlestown and told to ride in every direction and rouse the people, the moment they saw lights displayed from the tower of the Old North Church in Boston.
He employed all the energy and pathos of eloquence, to rouse them out of that lethargy of indolence and inattention to the publick safety, into which their own luxury, and the flatteries of their corrupt demagogues, had thrown them.
We have nothing more to do than to rouse and diffuse that martial spirit through the nation, which the arts of ministerial policy have so long endeavoured to keep dormant.
Emily had tried in vain to rouse and cheer her with sympathetic feminine talk.
She could not rouse herself to think, she wanted to go on.
Your good uncle is like to die of jealousy; if he finds I am closeted with you he will come to the Council in an ill temper, and rouse the lion in me.
The noise and bustle mayrouse little Philip,' she said to one of her maids; 'watch in the parlour till I return.
Illustration: House in which Abraham Lincoln was born] What was there in that rude frontier forest, where this poor boy scarcely ever saw any one who knew anything of books, to rouse his ambition and to stimulate him to self-education?
He could rouse to immediate and enthusiastic action the dullest troops, and inspire with courage the most stupid men.
But if you make a tinkering job of it, and ask for too little, you will rouse your opponents and discourage your friends.
By this time her old disposition had begun to rouse again.
She went to him and sought to rouse him, but neither tongue nor hands were of the slightest avail.
Rouse up, every one of you; rouse up, you young villains, and go to your duty?
There often exists a predisposition to disease, which cold bathing is sure to rouse to action.
But I had got into a rather weak and unworthy state, from which it became very desirable I should rouse myself.
He tried, rousing himself to conversation, to rouse himself also to the practical and commonplace.
To rouse her brother, or Julius, she must make a tour of half the house.
His testimonials were ignored and even the presence of the French fleet had no power to rouse Congress from a stony indifference.
The stand for freedom, for individual rights, for the liberty of expansion which was there made, was destined to rouse the warmest sympathies amongst all classes, especially in France.
Vergennes hastened to inform the Court of Spain of the secret actions of England, with a design to rouseit to action.
Whence arose that melancholy, that avoidance of all society, our best friends have so fruitlessly sought to rouse me from?
Is it fancy and nothing else, the poetic flight of an ardent soul eager to rouse a nation?
Still a business of the kind he proposed was likely to rouse their superstitious fears, and he had to conquer these.
The usual is worshipped; the pleasure and profit of the day occupy us; even the sight of the cross does not rouse the heart.
Has Deborah seen at last, after long efforts to rouse the careless people, one and another responding to her appeals and seeking her tent among the hills?
It may be asked how, while polygamy was practised among the Israelites, the sin of Gibeah could rouse such indignation and awaken the signal vengeance of the united tribes.
It would be hoped by the sacred historian that this tale of the fierce indignation of the tribes might rouse afresh the same moral feeling.
