roused

How to use roused in a sentence

At any rate his stirring advice and the dispatches he brought roused the military authorities at Meerut into activity.

Ripperda roused himself from his portentous trance, and arrayed his noble figure in the rugged habiliments of the muleteer.

Lost as he was to most external things, Hugh roused himself to some surprise at the name of the hotel.

And here he might have stopped with safety; but his roused, suspicious, sensitive nature, would not suffer him.

This, added to Woolf's sarcastic manner of speech, roused Trevithick's anger.

His temper was lively but though quickly roused soon subsided, and he never harboured resentment.

The kind honest sympathy of this true friend roused Dorothy from her stupor of grief.

The news of Bruce's revolt and the death of Comyn roused Edward into full martial vigour.

Instantly Eudora, who had seemed so listless, woke up with all the hospitality of her Southern nature roused to action.

THE CROMPTONSMARY J. HOLMES

The shot had roused neighboring flocks; several dark clouds had risen simultaneously, but in a few moments they settled again.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985