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Example sentences for "rousing"

Lexicographically close words:
rouse; rouseabout; roused; rouser; rouses; rousse; roust; roustabout; roustabouts; rousted
  1. Julia had not observed Mrs. Silver closely nor paused to wonder what thoughts were rousing in her mind, but bade her take the poodle forth for exercise outdoors and keep him strictly upon the leash.

  2. Rousing himself, he went back for the golf tools, and with a lingering gentleness set them in a corner.

  3. It almost broke my heart when I heard it,--to think of you rousing yourself every day from your semi-unconsciousness to write to your mother.

  4. Vesper relapsed into silence, only occasionally rousing himself to answer some of Agapit's restless torrent of remarks about the ancient letter.

  5. The Council dragged on at great length, the Emperor only once rousing himself from his weariness to declare that all was not lost; that he, and not the Chambers, could save France.

  6. The priests were rousing the people against the newly decreed Civil Constitution of the Clergy; and one of these disturbances endangered the life of Napoleon himself.

  7. While Bonaparte was culling laurels in Northern Italy, Hoche was undertaking the most necessary task of quelling the Vendéan risings, and later on braved the fogs and storms of the Atlantic in the hope of rousing all Ireland in revolt.

  8. Because I've come to call," he replied, rousing himself from his reverie.

  9. That specter of the dreadful days without him--that specter so easily called up--began to glide about in the background of her thoughts, rousing those fears before which she was abject coward.

  10. What business has a good woman flaunting her charms--rousing in other men thoughts she ought to rouse in her husband only?

  11. Perhaps you're right," said he, rousing himself.

  12. The soul lies brooding—it is about to wake; the precise time can be foreknown only by watching the course of previous attacks; whatever engrosses the rousing faculties most powerfully on waking, will probably hold them for awhile.

  13. Vincent or one of the counselors to come and give us a rousing lecture.

  14. It was the commencement of July when he arrived at Carlisle, where the news of Bruce's fresh successes, and the defeat and close besiegement of his generals, had the effect of rousing his irritable temperament to a desperate effort.

  15. It has been supposed that the preaching of Wycliffe had no little effect in rousing this storm in England, and there can be no doubt of it.

  16. He knew full well what was going on behind that florid countenance, knew the antagonism which the proposed Spanish marriage was rousing just then in the hearts and minds of Englishmen of all classes.

  17. The first missionaries who succeeded in rousing the attention of European scholars to the extraordinary discovery (Sanskrit literature) that had been made were the French Jesuit missionaries.

  18. He evinced no inclination to be communicative, but showed a determination to make a rousing meal--something to which he was evidently not accustomed.

  19. Up with your glasses, boys; if he comes near, let's give him three rousing cheers.

  20. There is no doubt but that the Saxons were blundering fools for rousing the lion by making inroads into Charles' domain.

  21. Then, however, it all came on again, or something very like it, and nothing less than Lady Bertram's rousing thoroughly up could really close such a conversation.

  22. The rousing of the appetite which they had for so long been unable to gratify was like applying a light to a heap of straw.

  23. He took one sip at the mug when it was handed to him, to avoid rousing the convicts to a still further feeling of hostility, after which he and I edged away from the rest, and sat down at the farther end of the platform.

  24. Mr. O’Brien and Brother Young take dinner with us, and our people show their appreciation of the courtesy and kindness of these gentlemen by giving them three rousing cheers.

  25. To one and all of these gentlemen who so kindly contributed toward our happiness and pleasure the Pennsylvania Railroad Conductors’ Excursion gives, through the writer, a rousing vote of thanks.

  26. Now there was a man on first, another on second, and rousing cheers came from the stands.

  27. Then the only thing that remains to be done is to get Matson within his reach without rousing suspicion.

  28. A rousing shout rose from the eager group.

  29. Demands unknown before are continually being made upon the Christian: it is the ever fresh rousing and calling, asking and sending of the Spirit that worketh in the children of obedience.

  30. Physical suffering may be a factor in rousing this mental pain; but 'I would I had never been born!

  31. The wrong in it may be so small, that the parent has only to influence the child for self-restraint, and the rousing of the will against the wrong.

  32. Still the trappers, with their rousing fires and abundant clothing, found no difficulty in keeping warm.

  33. Carson built a rousing fire, piling on the green wood to make as much smoke as possible.

  34. Though night came down upon the wanderers, cold and stormy, rousing fires and smoking steaks made all happy.

  35. Generally inside the circle there is a rousing fire.

  36. It was a rousing sermon, but it contained not a single reference to the fundamental axiom.

  37. But it was a rousing sermon; and well delivered.

  38. Janet crept softly over the strip of lawn without rousing him, and went through the wicket that opened on the pasture-fields.

  39. A little at first," said Waife, rousing himself.

  40. By the jealousy, rankling in her own bosom, she finally succeeded in rousing her husband to conspire against Napoleon, and thus the hero of Hohenlinden was ruined.

  41. Fairbrother had a genius for rousing devotion in the men who worked for him, and probably this man was another Sears.

  42. Then, possibly with an intention of rousing me, he remarked: "There is another small fact which may interest you.

  43. Well, I will, as a reward to you for rousing yourself up a bit.

  44. Louise, rousing herself and clinging to his arm.

  45. His ear was caught by his own name, always an infallible means of rousing the most careless attention.

  46. When the young man, rousing himself with an effort, shook off the stupor of his disappointment and vexation, and went on to the open door, his foot on the gravel seemed to wake a hundred unaccustomed echoes: and nobody appeared.

  47. So, after a rousing send-off from every one on the plantation, I departed.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rousing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alluring; arousal; awful; bracing; brisk; challenging; cheering; cordial; crisp; dashing; deadly; dreadful; encouraging; energizing; erotic; exciting; exhilarating; fearful; fresh; frightful; galvanic; horrible; howling; impassioned; inflammatory; inspiring; intoxicating; invigorating; inviting; lively; moving; piquant; provocative; provoking; quickening; refreshing; reveille; rousing; sensational; stimulate; stimulating; stirring; superb; tempting; terrible; terrific; thrilling; thumping; tonic; viable; whacking; zestful