Roused
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We do not mean to assert that the application of this brevity to himself, struck exactly that indignation to Mr. Pickwick's soul, which it would infallibly have
roused
in a vulgar breast.
Mr. Pickwick
roused
at the name.
Mr. Weller was then
roused
by his master from a sweet sleep of an hour's duration; and, bidding adieu to Lowten, they returned to the city.
He ought to be ashamed of himself (here Mrs. Raddle sobbed) to allow his wife to be treated in this way by a parcel of young cutters and carvers of live people's bodies, that disgraces the lodgings (another sob), and leaving her exposed to all manner of abuse; a base, faint- hearted, timorous wretch, that's afraid to come upstairs, and face the ruffinly creatures--that's afraid--that's afraid to come!'Mrs. Raddle paused to listen whether the repetition of the taunt had
roused
her better half; and finding that it had not been successful, proceeded to descend the stairs with sobs innumerable; when there came a loud double knock at the street door; whereupon she burst into an hysterical fit of weeping, accompanied with dismal moans, which was prolonged until the knock had been repeated six times, when, in an uncontrollable burst of mental agony, she threw down all the umbrellas, and disappeared into the back parlour, closing the door after her with an awful crash.
These motions, although unquestionably of the greatest assistance to original composition, retard in some degree the progress of the writer; and Sam had unconsciously been a full hour and a half writing words in small text, smearing out wrong letters with his little finger, and putting in new ones which required going over very often to render them visible through the old blots, when he was
roused
by the opening of the door and the entrance of his parent.
Mr. Pickwick was sitting up by himself, after a day spent in this manner, making entries in his journal, his friends having retired to bed, when he was
roused
by a gentle tap at the room door.
Not a word, my dear friend, not a word.'Short as this conversation was, it
roused
in Mr. Winkle the highest degree of excitement and anxiety.
These expressions, delivered in a most boisterous tone, and accompanied with loud peals of laughter,
roused
Mr. Pickwick from one of those sound slumbers which, lasting in reality some half-hour, seem to the sleeper to have been protracted for three weeks or a month.
Another man, evidently very drunk, who had probably been tumbled into bed by his companions, was sitting up between the sheets, warbling as much as he could recollect of a comic song, with the most intensely sentimental feeling and expression; while a third, seated on one of the bedsteads, was applauding both performers with the air of a profound connoisseur, and encouraging them by such ebullitions of feeling as had already
roused
Mr. Pickwick from his sleep.
The noise of some one stumbling hastily into the room,
roused
him.
'Dear, dear,' exclaimed Mr. Pickwick, who had been evidently
roused
by his friend's appeal; 'what an annoyance that door is!Who is that?''Me, Sir,' replied Sam Weller, putting in his head.
This
roused
Mr. Bob Sawyer, who had been hitherto quite paralysed by the frenzy of his companion.
This
roused
my uncle more and more, and he resolved, come what might, to see the end of it.
It was quite dark when Mr. Pickwick
roused
himself sufficiently to look out of the window.
Messrs. Bob Sawyer and Benjamin Allen, who had irreverently fallen asleep during the reading of the quotation from the Eatanswill GAZETTE, and the discussion which followed it, were
roused
by the mere whispering of the talismanic word 'Dinner' in their ears; and to dinner they went with good digestion waiting on appetite, and health on both, and a waiter on all three.
The man observed too, that, whereas Mr. Pott's scorn had been
roused
by a newspaper headed the Eatanswill INDEPENDENT, this gentleman's withering contempt was awakened by a newspaper entitled the Eatanswill GAZETTE.
Now, whether the shake had jumbled the fat boy's faculties together, instead of arranging them in proper order, or had
roused
such a quantity of new ideas within him as to render him oblivious of ordinary forms and ceremonies, or (which is also possible) had proved unsuccessful in preventing his falling asleep as he ascended the stairs, it is an undoubted fact that he walked into the sitting-room without previously knocking at the door; and so beheld a gentleman with his arms clasping his young mistress's waist, sitting very lovingly by her side on a sofa, while Arabella and her pretty handmaid feigned to be absorbed in looking out of a window at the other end of the room.
We had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he
roused
himself from his reverie.
Some of the blows of my cane came home and
roused
its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person it saw.
"You then
roused
his anger by calling him names at a moment when he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks.
From a reverie of this kind, as she sat at her drawing-table, she was
roused
one morning, soon after Edward's leaving them, by the arrival of company.
In this situation, Elinor,
roused
from sleep by her agitation and sobs, first perceived her; and after observing her for a few moments with silent anxiety, said, in a tone of the most considerate gentleness, "Marianne, may I ask-?""No, Elinor," she replied, "ask nothing; you will soon know all."
Her mother, still confident of their engagement, and relying as warmly as ever on his constancy, had only been
roused
by Elinor's application, to intreat from Marianne greater openness towards them both; and this, with such tenderness towards her, such affection for Willoughby, and such a conviction of their future happiness in each other, that she wept with agony through the whole of it.
In the splendor of a yellow-and- violet morning, ten days after his arrival, he was
roused
from his sleep by a small, shrill voice in the veranda demanding the immediate attendance of the new Englishman.
The shadow of the Tower of Glory lengthened, fell across the walls, and ran far across the plain; the kites began to drop from the sky by twos and threes; and naked children, calling one to another, collected the goats and drove them to the smoky villages before Tarvin
roused
himself for the homeward journey.
She went on to tell him how, that morning, the barouche, the escort, and a pompous native had hurried up to the missionary's door bearing the almost lifeless form of the Maharaj Kunwar; how she had at first attributed the attack, whatever it might be, to exhaustion consequent upon the wedding festivities; how the little one had
roused
from his stupor, blue-lipped and hollow-eyed, and had fallen from one convulsion into another, until she had begun to despair; and how, at the last, he had dropped into a deep sleep of exhaustion, when she had left him in the care of Mrs. Estes.
This manner of acting
roused
much respect for d’Artagnan’s policy among the Musketeers.
"It seems to me," said d’Artagnan, "with a thousand livres each--I do not speak as a Spartan, but as a procurator--"This word PROCURATOR
roused
Porthos.
Milady had already rung her bell, and
roused
the whole hotel.
"This evening?" asked Milady,
roused
from her reverie by these words.
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