Shakes awake

Usage examples of rouses.

It's your own participation that rouses your emotions most," whole thing breaks your heart, here's another.

The great scene in which the wife tells her husband the plot of a movie she has seen: he falls asleep, coma seems about to supervene until, with a tremendous effort, he rouses himself and retorts with a description of his bridge game at the club, recalling each hand in detail.

So -- to rouse the King from his bed he contrives a war between Math's kingdom and that of his neighbour, and the King rouses himself and puts on his armour and takes his sword and goes off to fight.

As Thomas Gilmartin had said of his father, this boy has something of the nature of a herald, and the pomp and splendour of county gentility feeds his imagination and rouses his ambition.

Smell -- which our age has made the least acceptable of the five, but which rouses emotion with a painful immediacy.

This tells us that, when we move a limb, all that we know of is the intention (in its conceptual form) which rouses the will and gives it its direction, and the fact of the completed deed.

Take a fairly heavy object in your hand, stretch out your arm lightly and move it slowly up and down, watching intently the sensation this operation rouses in you.

And when it rouses at last, there will not be a blade of grass in this land untouched by it.