ROUSING in a Sentence

rousing

 a.  lively; vigorous; inducing enthusiasm or excitement; stirring

1  Daughter," said Gerald rousing himself, "you are profane.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

2  With the rousing of fresh hope, her spine stiffened and she forgot that her feet were wet and cold.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV

3  And so saying, he placed himself half way within the scuttle, and slouching his hat, stood there till dawn, except when at intervals rousing himself to see how the night wore on.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.

4  Yes," said Hawkeye, rousing himself again; "'tis as you say, too late to harbor further thoughts about it.

The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14

5  Boy, I thank thee," exclaimed the old man, rousing himself from his stupor; "you have, for once, reminded Munro of his duty.

The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16

6  Till his rousing waked her completely.

Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16

7  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.

Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII

8  Away they run, pell-mell, helter-skelter, slap-dash: tearing, yelling, screaming, knocking down the passengers as they turn the corners, rousing up the dogs, and astonishing the fowls: and streets, squares, and courts, re-echo with the sound.

Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X

9  'Yes,' said the Jew, as suddenly rousing himself.

Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX

10  Now, this must be very bad for you," said he, suddenly rousing from a little reverie, "to be coming and finding us here.

Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13

11  He felt that this was rousing in his soul a feeling of anger destructive of his peace of mind and of all the good of his achievement.

Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 20

12  Noticing in the next act that her box was empty, Vronsky, rousing indignant "hushes" in the silent audience, went out in the middle of a solo and drove home.

Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 33

13  The complexity of Petersburg, as a rule, had a stimulating effect on him, rousing him out of his Moscow stagnation.

Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 22

14  Now Aunt March possessed in perfection the art of rousing the spirit of opposition in the gentlest people, and enjoyed doing it.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

15  He tried to resume his former easy, indifferent air, but it was an affectation now, for the rousing had been more effacious than he would confess.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE

1  We're more united than ever, we're feeling exhilarated again, rousing from a crushingly bleak freeze.

2  After reveling in a rousing Olympic summer of sporting success, Britain awoke Tuesday to another major milestone.

3  The audience gave the band a rousing welcome.

4  The dogs rouse a deer from the bushes; quickly the deer becomes the target of hunters.

5  We have to shake him for a long while to rouse him from his sleep.

6  I roused up from deep sleep when the storm came suddenly.

7  His words roused a great rage inside her.

8  The pain roused him from his drunken stupor.

9  I was roused by the sound of a bell.

10  The refreshing meal, the brilliant fire, the presence and kindness of her beloved instructress, had roused her powers among them.

11  I roused him out and say: Get up and hump yourself, Jim! There isn't a minute to lose.

12  And if I had loved him less I should have thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, sitting by him, roused from the nightmare of parting -- called to the paradise of union -- I thought only of the bliss given me to drink in so abundant a flow.