As he turns now in his sleep, Agnes rouses him, and leads him from the room.
They see in her cool courage a taunt that rouses them to desperation.
But the American abroad rouses from the lethargy which the commonness of these things throws over him at home; and to see the disorder as others see it is the first step toward reform.
It is nothing but love of country that rouses us to make our land full-blooded and beautiful where now she is pallid and wasted.
I will not think that this which rouses me so is but power upon one side, and effect upon the other.
It rouses the idle man to labor; it stirs up envy in the heart of the poor man, making him eager to possess the advantages of wealth; it sets neighbor against neighbor, craftsman against craftsman, in commendable emulation.
This rouses the Chorus, and they ask: "What cry of wailing hast thou shrieked about Apollo?
It was surely a mistake to divert the attention of the audience, at the very end of the tragedy, from its heroine to a character which, like that of Creon, rouses impatient scorn as well as antipathy.
Presently a drop of blood trickling slowly down--the sickly flavor of it in his mouth--rouses him.
Molly, with a shiver, rouses it, throws on a fresh log, and amuses herself trying to induce the tardy flames to climb and lick it until Lady Stafford returns.
Nature in giving her everything, has denied her that flame divine which puts the crown on all other endowments; while sherouses in others the ardor of passion, she feels none herself, she is a thing of marble.
The infatuation of love always rouses the pity of the judges who pass sentence on it.
Even when sympathy with another rouses feelings on first sight, a struggle always takes place, whose duration discounts the total sum of conjugal infidelities.
But if you flatter the exterior man with your hand, the Homo duplex, the interior man, to use an expression of Buffon, immediately rouses himself and rends you with his keen points of contact.
He rouses the steersman, who begins singing again a phrase of his song, until Daland points out the strange vessel to him, when he springs up and hails her through a speaking trumpet.
Poetry rouses us," said he, "courtesy upholds us; music is our crown.
The force which rouses up the highest in you, rouses up also the lowest; and there must be battle-royal and victory at last, or surrender to hell.
Each one nods upon his neighbour's shoulder, till a red light, gradually illuminating all the faces, and every moment growing brighter, rouses the dullest.
I am like yourself, the spectacle of inefficiency rouses my holy ire.
He attracts liking, he rouses sympathy, but he is doomed to final overthrow.
This rouseshis haughty insolence; he plucks the statue by the beard, and invites it to supper, that it may execute his vengeance.
This rouses the pride of the ladies, and they break into a rage so violent in its demonstrations that the others begin to be doubtful of their sincerity; the first finale closes amid general confusion.
But her maidenly pride resents his unworthy advances; the idea that an insult so great should remain unpunished rouses such passion within her, that she loses sight of all save her just revenge.
It descends into us like immediate inspiration; heavy, sanguine and violent, itrouses our spirits.
Perceive that it is the call of God that rousesyou from this selfish melancholy.
It is your very helplessness that rouses our magnanimity; your delicacy demands our indulgence.
There is something strange in the official silence of royal apartments, which rouses the greatest excitement and impatience in any one who is anxiously awaiting an important audience.
One evening, sitting together at sunset on the tower, the sound of horses’ feet galloping rapidly on the grass rouses them.
Not a breath stirs outside the old palace, so quaint in its homely outlines, except when the sereno passes and rouses the ire of some whelping cur to bay at the full moon.
Perhaps his very shyness and awkwardness creates a sympathy between the two, and rouses a keener remorse for her yawns under his sermons and a keener gratitude for the heavenly generosity with which he bestowed on her the confirmation ticket.
Long before daybreak the banging of big crackers rouses the island from its slumbers, and high mass is hardly over when a procession of strange picturesqueness streams out of church into the sunshine.
Those men of sober fancy, when anything rouses their imaginative faculty, are very thorough.
One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one whorouses game.
His touch recalls her to life, and rouseswithin her a sudden outbreak of passion.
This insolent answerrouses Rylton from his remorse.
He rouses himself from the lethargy into which he has fallen, and looks at Margaret.
The sound of a rapidly approaching footstep, quite as well known to them as the knock, rouses both to a sense of desperation.
Zeal of the converts towards the heathen--rouses backsliders.
Zeal of the converts towards the heathen rouses backsliders.
Not that it was a severe wound--on the contrary, it was little more than a graze--but even that causes pain androuses a man to exertion.
With sudden effort of resolve Telramund rouses himself and gets to his feet.
With dark artfulness she rouses in Elsa more than proportionate compassion for her plight, by casting upon the tender-conscienced creature the whole blame for it.
It rousesthe light on Messa'pion's height, And they feed its breath with the withered heath.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rouses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
