bestir

More wakeful than he’d been, he realized that winter had become less cold, and he bestirred himself to be up and around.

If they bestirred themselves to ask “how is he right?” those questions and his answers didn’t make it into the broadcast.

If the United States needs workers and desperate people in flight want to work, as Mr. Thiessen correctly argued, then Congress should bestir itself and reform the legal immigration system.

Travel across the plains of western Minnesota and you’ll find plenty of people who are bestirred by a new and often dark vision of America.

So, forgive me if the sudden rush on vasectomy clinics fails to bestir my gratitude.