Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold from the mines. From LearnThat.org. [A. Owen Penny]
However, I've never eaten a single rouse from a bowl of rice. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-02-01] Reference
In these circumstances why should Pechorin rouse himself to care about anything?. From Wordnik.com. [A Doomed Young Man] Reference
Gold you have none to bestow, but you can give interest; you can, in short, rouse others to help the helpless. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace Beautiful A Story for Girls] Reference
In fact, this rouse is so clever that your credit card statement will even show “donation to Planned Parenthood”. From Wordnik.com. [Good Riddance, Scott Roeder. « Biodork] Reference
Lord Vincent followed Mrs. Dugald's advice and tried to "rouse" himself. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Raised] Reference
Test, compare and then rouse - "rouse" being the strategy that Julia Gillard recommends that parents do to. From Wordnik.com. [On Line Opinion - Latest Articles] Reference
Yesterday morning, just before daylight in Fort Willshire, I desired his bugler to blow the "rouse," which you well remember. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.] Reference
Sydney endeavoured to rouse the man from his stupor. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
"It is impossible to rouse her," continued Vogotzine. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Grandma called to rouse me from bed early that morning. From Wordnik.com. [Who's The Daddy? Grandma Didn't Ask.] Reference
We'll rouse the neighborhood an 'search for the villains. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
Maybe you can rouse Damon from whatever stupor he happens to be in. From Wordnik.com. [And then she was gone] Reference
Marsa's forehead, he tried to rouse some memory in the dormant brain. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
These arguments are no cause for concern, but I rouse myself regardless. From Wordnik.com. [Emily Farache: A Dream of Paris] Reference
But the best hope is that the competition itself will finally rouse the crowds. From Wordnik.com. [Can Rocca Rev up Torino?] Reference
ABC's still trying to rouse viewers lulled to sleep by ex-anchor Boomer Esiason. From Wordnik.com. [The Kick Is Good, And I ... Am ... Outta Here!] Reference
The anchor was hoisted, and the sails were set, but the noise failed to rouse them. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
Lying down he hath slept as a lion, and as a lioness, whom none shall dare to rouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision] Reference
But you can no more rouse them, with all of their fine arguments, than you can a log. From Wordnik.com. [The trouble with boys] Reference
It now only remained to rouse the slumbering owner of the tent, and put the usual questions. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
It was also fitted to rouse the martial spirit of the northern soldiers, as afterwards appeared. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
SIMON: (Reading) All through town, Mary Smith shoots dried peas to rouse sleeping townspeople. From Wordnik.com. ['Mary Smith' Wakes Up Village Sleepyheads] Reference
Her acts are turned into "propo" videos designed to rouse the reb els and demoralize the Capitol. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Books] Reference
Georges said from time to time, as if to rouse her from that apathy which made him uncomfortable. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Tom Hayden, the old New Leftist, planned a 75-city tour to rouse the cuttees against the cutters. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics of Austerity] Reference
The images helped rouse us to act, to say that hunger is morally wrong and that there must be another way. From Wordnik.com. [The '30S] Reference
The speech itself, and the manner of its reception, could not other than rouse Douglas to a tempest of wrath. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
You were scared someone would rouse you and you would awake to the nightmare that was apartheid's harsh reality. From Wordnik.com. ['Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science'] Reference
So having an external foe may rouse more productive emotion than simply citing numbers and bungled opportunities. From Wordnik.com. [John F. Wasik: What to Create Millions of Jobs? Look to China] Reference
The only reason I would rouse him out of his male complacency would be if there were a chance that I might die. From Wordnik.com. [Fourteen Days In November] Reference
They resort to this theory to rouse the ambition of their more sluggish pupils, and thus get more study out of them. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Perhaps stories can rouse cells merged with other bodies, hidden beneath strangers 'skins, deep under donated organs. From Wordnik.com. [Reading at the Anatomy Museum] Reference
It is the voice of a man who expects to be heard because he has something important to say, not because he has a rabble to rouse. From Wordnik.com. [Vince Cable's wake-up call for sleeping partners] Reference
Like many talk-show hosts, he uses martial language to rouse the faithful: "The enemy camp is the White House right now," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Hate] Reference
He cannot settle into deep sleep and, yet, he cannot rouse himself to put an end to the turmoil deep inside this snare of a dream. From Wordnik.com. [Green Animals] Reference
Yanski made special efforts to rouse in Andras the old memories of his fatherland, and to inspire in him again his love for Hungary. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
One afternoon, I made an effort to rouse myself from this growing lethargy, which had begun to undermine the whole tenor of my character. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
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