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Example sentences for "roused"

Lexicographically close words:
roundworms; roup; rous; rouse; rouseabout; rouser; rouses; rousing; rousse; roust
  1. A variety of insects preyed upon us, and made not very unwelcome the dawning of the early hour that saw us roused and dressed.

  2. Helen winced, but Stillman, roused to a sort of malevolent courage, quieted the angry voices.

  3. Why, I kept my word and waited until they were out of sight, then I roused the camp, and set Mr. McNamara and his men right after them down the gulch.

  4. About all the coast, the surf, roused by the tornado of the night, beat with a particular fury and made a fringe of snow.

  5. From this pause, which grew the more embarrassing with every second, he was roused by the sudden laughter of the lady.

  6. The fault is that your description is so slight.

  7. The viscount sprang into the coach, up to the door of which went the baron's son.

  8. You believe it an easy matter to make odious the lilyflowers, emblem of the Bourbon line, but it would take you ages to do it.

  9. The coach," cried Dubarry, ringing the bell so loudly that she would have roused all the spellbound servants of the palace of the Sleeping Beauty.

  10. The many cities had not roused my wonderment.

  11. He was roused only by the grating of the lock.

  12. But the jealous pang roused by the thought of Buntingford, once felt, persisted.

  13. It was evident that they had never got on during her mother's lifetime, and that his habitual bantering or sarcastic tone towards her while she was still in the school-room had roused an answering resentment in her.

  14. This is cheerful news, but our temper is roused by this time and we flatly refuse to give any information to our questioner or to permit him to examine our baggage.

  15. And the girl who had roused this discussion, her nervousness forgotten now, rose up again and again with so many quick, eager suggestions, that when the first relief station was opened that evening she was one of those placed in charge.

  16. I was nearly asleep when I was roused by a thick voice from the harbor.

  17. She bought some particularly costly furs for the campaign that roused enthusiasm whenever she appeared.

  18. A certain Father Blodgett had been preaching against social corruption with extraordinary force, and had roused the Church of England people to a kind of competition in denunciation.

  19. I was coming behind her, musing remotely, when the quality of her voice roused me.

  20. He knew it was useless then to attempt any concealment, for the noise was enough to have roused the seven sleepers.

  21. He roused Prince Tom, who rose with an alacrity that surprised him, and lying down he was soon sound asleep.

  22. I roused myself, and looked about me in the room where I was left alone: this was furnished like the first, only after a more elegant manner.

  23. That calm has been nothing more than a repose of the winds previous to their being roused up to do their worst; and that is my real opinion?

  24. At daybreak they had roused up, and going on deck had found old Ready asleep on the hen-coop, and were licking his face in their joy at having discovered him.

  25. Knox roused himself to answer the charges in detail.

  26. For Mary's imprudent favouritism of Rizzio had roused the deadly jealousy both of her husband and of the nobles who remained at home.

  27. I roused myself at last from introspection, and I saw Marie Lagoutte had risen and was about to depart.

  28. Suddenly I was roused from these cheerless reflections by three discreet taps on my door.

  29. After some time, I roused myself sufficiently to regain my tottering feet, and to crawl into the garden.

  30. Is a passion that is roused by a figure gliding past like a shadow, by one who is inwardly dead, and only outwardly has a semblance of life; is not that passion but a freak of madness; and is a madman responsible for the words he utters?

  31. Then in the midst of her convulsive sorrow, she roused herself, and turning me she said, "You must escape; I hastened hither to caution you and Beatrice.

  32. In proportion to the progress of the child's recovery did the doctor's melancholy, from which the sudden call of duty had roused him, appear to increase.

  33. This roused my pride, and my courage; I drew back my hand, and could at last ask him what authorized him to speak in that way to a stranger.

  34. Suddenly I was roused from my repose by a rough blow on my face, as if some overhanging bough had grazed me as I passed.

  35. He was roused from these thoughts by a moan from the little girl.

  36. A cart which passed him in its slow progress up the hill, roused him from his painful thoughts.

  37. This roused the coachman, he jerked the reins and away we crawled; I with my head still turned backwards, though no trace of the fair one was to be discovered.

  38. I am no longer displeased at being roused from my own thoughts; so I went, as I very much like the cither, and have always wished to hear a virtuoso perform on it.

  39. It roused at once a variety of difficulties.

  40. There was nothing in her slight, bent figure, with its heavy, brown hair neatly plaited in a crown about her head, which should have roused any town clerk to sudden fury.

  41. But the refugee at Thorn had roused no generous impulses as yet.

  42. The sound roused the girl from her lethargy, like the challenge of a trumpet waking a sentinel at his post.

  43. The fellow’s bullying tone roused John Gore’s grimness, but he felt that nothing was to be gained by a squabble.

  44. The thought roused in him a shock of rebellion at the heart, and an instinct of strong tenderness that woke a longing to cherish and to protect.

  45. He has already roused the girl to some show of spirits, and for that, Nan, you should be thankful.

  46. Farmer Jennifer would have had them stay the night, but Mr. Pepys roused himself to refuse, remembering the comforts of “The Half Moon” and the dimples of Mistress Green Stays.

  47. His voice roused her suddenly to a sense of keen reality.

  48. Seeing the boy seems to have roused him to old feelings of home.

  49. And sometimes when there are a lot of them together under circumstances which you would think would have roused their pity, the devil of wanton cruelty enters into them.

  50. Dirdumwhamle sat opposite to her, and was apparently in a profound sleep, from which he was not roused until some time after the entrance of his brother-in-law.

  51. In this situation he fell asleep, from which he was roused by another messenger with still more interesting intelligence to him than even the convalescence, as it was supposed, of his favourite son.

  52. At this moment, a shriek from Mary roused Ellen, and they both ran to the spot where Walkinshaw was standing.

  53. The approach of his son roused Claud from his reverie; and he went briskly forward to meet him, shaking him heartily by the hand, and inquiring, with more kindness than the occasion required, for the health of his young wife.

  54. In this fit of apathy and abstraction, he was roused by the sound of some one approaching; and on looking up, and turning his eyes towards the path which led from the house to the bench where he was then sitting, he saw Walter coming.

  55. But Pitwinnoch will soon fin' the weight o' the lion's paw that his doobileecity has roused in me.

  56. Queen Elizabeth, in the midst of her war with Philip II, would certainly never have been brought to this step, and even now it roused the bitterest dislike.

  57. He sacrificed, as formerly Empson and Dudley, so Wolsey and now Cromwell to the public opinion roused against them.

  58. The proud feeling of independent existence was roused in all its force in the breasts of the churchmen.

  59. But in proportion as he now gave intimation of a retrograde tendency in favour of the Catholic lords, he roused the prejudices of the Protestants against himself.

  60. He is right in taking them from a foreign country: for events nearer to his audience would have roused an interest of a different kind, and yet would not have had so universal a meaning.

  61. For the advancing revival of Catholicism roused the hostile feelings of Protestants, while the union of the German and the independent feeling of the Italian princes resisted the extension of the alliances of Spain.

  62. A strong territorial confederacy had thus gradually grown up, confronting the royal power with a claim to independent rights; events now happened that roused it into full life.

  63. She roused herself, and said briskly-- "I see you make this a playroom as well as a study.

  64. The boys straightened themselves at that, roused into eager protest.

  65. At long past midnight the strains died away, and in the hope of an early release the ladies roused themselves to fresh conversational effort.

  66. At the end of two hours he roused himself perforce.

  67. Unfortunately, as he arrived at this conclusion a cry from the steersman roused him.

  68. He was still staring dreamily at the table when a shadow falling on the table roused him.

  69. At length, with a sigh drawn from his very soul, he roused himself, and, taking a candle, he made the round of the chamber.

  70. For it roused in him a stronger passion than fear--the passion of hatred.

  71. Squire Tuck roused The Harbor after a fashion not known for years.

  72. He was brisk enough, however, when once roused up.

  73. Scarcely had he spoken, when the voice of the officer of the watch roused his sleeping men with the order to furl the topgallant-sails quickly, followed by that to take a reef in the topsails.

  74. Pity is the sole sentiment that can be roused in us by a being who is so good that He cannot wish evil, and so powerless that He is obliged to see nothing but evil accomplished in the world.

  75. Moreover, what we believe destined to subsist in the future in a multitude of forms, and to replace religions, is not pure and simple sentiment, but sentiment roused by metaphysical symbols, by speculation and thought.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roused" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agitated; agog; aroused; awake; bursting; ebullient; effervescent; excited; exhilarated; fired; high; impassioned; inflamed; manic; moved; stimulated; susceptible; thrilled; tingling; yeasty