All 11 Uses of
rouse
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- The arrival of his breakfast roused him, and he said to the drawer, as he moved his chair to it: "I wish accommodation prepared for a young lady who may come here at any time to-day.†
Chpt 1.4
- Monsieur Defarge put this provender, and the lamp he carried, on the shoemaker's bench (there was nothing else in the garret but a pallet bed), and he and Mr. Lorry roused the captive, and assisted him to his feet.†
Chpt 1.6
- He rubbed his eyes and roused himself; but he doubted, when he had done so, whether he was not still asleep.†
Chpt 2.19
- Instantly Madame Defarge's knife was in her girdle; the drum was beating in the streets, as if it and a drummer had flown together by magic; and The Vengeance, uttering terrific shrieks, and flinging her arms about her head like all the forty Furies at once, was tearing from house to house, rousing the women.†
Chpt 2.22
- Then, the mender of roads having got his tools together and all things ready to go down into the village, roused him.†
Chpt 2.23
- Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within; uneasy rushes of wind went through the hall, among the old spears and knives, and passed lamenting up the stairs, and shook the curtains of the bed where the last Marquis had slept.†
Chpt 2.23
- The latent uneasiness in Darnay's mind was roused to vigourous life by this letter.†
Chpt 2.24
- Charles Darnay roused himself, and gave the required information, in words as suitable as he could find.†
Chpt 3.1 *
- The nervousness and dread that were upon him inspired that vague uneasiness respecting the Bank, which a great change would naturally awaken, with such feelings roused.†
Chpt 3.2
- And he told him this, very strongly, with the hope of rousing him from any despondency or dangerous retrospect towards which he foresaw he might be tending.†
Chpt 3.13
- I must not urge them too much; it would rouse suspicion.†
Chpt 3.13
Definition:
to awaken, make more active, or excite