All 31 Uses
rouse
in
Sons and Lovers
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- With an effort she roused herself to see what it was that penetrated her consciousness.†
Chpt 1.1
- Following it with her eye roused her.†
Chpt 1.1
- She must not rouse the children, nor the neighbours.†
Chpt 1.1
- A few gentlemen were practising, and Mrs. Morel could hear the chock of the ball, and the voices of men suddenly roused; could see the white forms of men shifting silently over the green, upon which already the under shadows were smouldering.†
Chpt 1.2
- But now his wife was fully roused.†
Chpt 1.3
- Once roused, he opened his eyes to see his mother standing on the hearthrug with the hot iron near her cheek, listening, as it were, to the heat.†
Chpt 1.4
- And sometimes the fury in his eyes roused her, made her sleeping soul lift up its head a moment, surprised.†
Chpt 1.4
- Now, when all her woman's pity was roused to its full extent, when she would have slaved herself to death to nurse him and to save him, when she would have taken the pain herself, if she could, somewhere far away inside her, she felt indifferent to him and to his suffering.†
Chpt 1.5
- It hurt her most of all, this failure to love him, even when he roused her strong emotions.†
Chpt 1.5
- Mrs. Morel sat perfectly still for an hour in the lodging bedroom; then she roused the household.†
Chpt 1.6
- His mother tried, but she could not rouse herself.†
Chpt 1.6
- White clouds went on their way, crowding to the back of the hills that were rousing in the springtime.†
Chpt 2.7
- It roused a warmth in her.†
Chpt 2.7
- "Because you're not; because you're different inside, like a pine-tree, and then you flare up; but you're not just like an ordinary tree, with fidgety leaves and jolly—" He got tangled up in his own speech; but she brooded on it, and he had a strange, roused sensation, as if his feelings were new.†
Chpt 2.7
- It made his blood rouse to see her there, as it were, at his mercy, her mouth open, her eyes dilated with laughter that was afraid, apologetic, ashamed.†
Chpt 2.7
- And when she held herself in a grip, seemed so utterly humble before the lesson, it made his blood rouse.†
Chpt 2.7
- And because of the intensity to which she roused him, he sought her.†
Chpt 2.7
- He laughed, hating her voice, but his blood roused to a wave of flame by her hands.†
Chpt 2.8
- She saw him, whenever they spoke of Clara Dawes, rouse and get slightly angry.†
Chpt 2.9
- Clara's blood was roused.†
Chpt 2.9
- Everywhere the trees, and the grass, and the far-off water, seemed roused from the twilight and shining.†
Chpt 2.11
- The old lady at whose house they had tea was roused into gaiety by them.†
Chpt 2.12
- "Have you been saying SO!" she exclaimed, a light rousing in her old eyes.†
Chpt 2.12
- His mettle was roused.†
Chpt 2.12
- At last Mrs. Radford roused herself stiffly, and said: "Isn't it nigh on time you two was thinking o' bed?"†
Chpt 2.12
- He rubbed his face, pushed the tumbled hair off his forehead, and roused himself.†
Chpt 2.12
- It was the bits of snow that kept rousing him when he did not want to be roused.†
Chpt 2.13
- It was the bits of snow that kept rousing him when he did not want to be roused.†
Chpt 2.13
- She kissed his face, and roused his blood, while his soul was apart writhing with the agony of death.†
Chpt 2.14 *
- Something felt sulky, as if it would not rouse.†
Chpt 2.15
- Everywhere the vastness and terror of the immense night which is roused and stirred for a brief while by the day, but which returns, and will remain at last eternal, holding everything in its silence and its living gloom.†
Chpt 2.15
Definitions:
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(1)
(rouse) to awaken, make more active, or excite
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)