Roused
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Then the horses,
roused
by the driver's whistling, darted off at a gallop on the road to Altona.
The word '_forlorad_' again returned; then the rolling of thunder which had
roused
me from my lethargy.
This
roused
a general astonishment; and he had the pleasure of being eagerly questioned by his wife and his five daughters at once.
While settling this point, she was suddenly
roused
by the sound of the door-bell, and her spirits were a little fluttered by the idea of its being Colonel Fitzwilliam himself, who had once before called late in the evening, and might now come to inquire particularly after her.
In spite of her deeply-rooted dislike, she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man's affection, and though her intentions did not vary for an instant, she was at first sorry for the pain he was to receive; till,
roused
to resentment by his subsequent language, she lost all compassion in anger.
After sitting in this manner a quarter of an hour without hearing Miss Bingley's voice, Elizabeth was
roused
by receiving from her a cold inquiry after the health of her family.
She was
roused
from her seat, and her reflections, by some one's approach; and before she could strike into another path, she was overtaken by Wickham.
I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike _them_.
Your brain may, as you say, be
roused
and excited, but it is a pathological and morbid process, which involves increased tissue-change and may at last leave a permanent weakness.
It was him that
roused
him up yesternight, and, what's more, my man knew he was comin', for he had steam up in the launch.
Cedric paced the apartment, filled with indignant reflections on the past and on the present, while the apathy of his companion served, instead of patience and philosophy, to defend him against every thing save the inconvenience of the present moment; and so little did he feel even this last, that he was only from time to time
roused
to a reply by Cedric's animated and impassioned appeal to him.
His words
roused
Vronsky from his reverie and reminded him of his mother and of the coming meeting.
She had not yet gone to bed, and Kuzma, whom she had roused, came running out barefoot and still half-asleep into the porch.
This lovely spring
roused
Levin still more and confirmed him in the determination completely to renounce the past in order to fashion his solitary life firmly and independently.
This interference
roused
him to anger, a feeling he rarely experienced.
Levin saw that he had been
roused
by his conversation with the doctor and wanted to have a talk.
Two or three times, during the month of January and the first fortnight of February, I was
roused
out of my sleep in that way.
I found, indeed, some intervals of reflection; and the serious thoughts did, as it were, endeavour to return again sometimes; but I shook them off, and
roused
myself from them as it were from a distemper, and applying myself to drinking and company, soon mastered the return of those fits—for so I called them; and I had in five or six days got as complete a victory over conscience as any young fellow that resolved not to be troubled with it could desire.
However, the men
roused
me, and told me that I, that was able to do nothing before, was as well able to pump as another; at which I stirred up and went to the pump, and worked very heartily.
It was in vain to sit still and wish for what was not to be had; and this extremity
roused
my application.
Eliza and Georgiana, evidently acting according to orders, spoke to me as little as possible: John thrust his tongue in his cheek whenever he saw me, and once attempted chastisement; but as I instantly turned against him,
roused
by the same sentiment of deep ire and desperate revolt which had stirred my corruption before, he thought it better to desist, and ran from me tittering execrations, and vowing I had burst his nose.
The refreshing meal, the brilliant fire, the presence and kindness of her beloved instructress, or, perhaps, more than all these, something in her own unique mind, had
roused
her powers within her.
When I awoke it was day: an unusual movement
roused
me; I looked up; I was in somebody's arms; the nurse held me; she was carrying me through the passage back to the dormitory.
My faculties,
roused
by the change of scene, the new field offered to hope, seemed all astir.
The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of a pitcher which I flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed,
roused
Mr. Rochester at last.
What charade Colonel Dent and his party played, what word they chose, how they acquitted themselves, I no longer remember; but I still see the consultation which followed each scene: I see Mr. Rochester turn to Miss Ingram, and Miss Ingram to him; I see her incline her head towards him, till the jetty curls almost touch his shoulder and wave against his cheek; I hear their mutual whisperings; I recall their interchanged glances; and something even of the feeling
roused
by the spectacle returns in memory at this moment.
The consequence was, that when the moon, which was full and bright (for the night was fine), came in her course to that space in the sky opposite my casement, and looked in at me through the unveiled panes, her glorious gaze
roused
me.
It was from companionship with this baby-phantom I had been
roused
on that moonlight night when I heard the cry; and it was on the afternoon of the day following I was summoned downstairs by a message that some one wanted me in Mrs. Fairfax's room.
I retorted,
roused
to something like passion.
And if I had loved him less I should have thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, sitting by him,
roused
from the nightmare of parting--called to the paradise of union--I thought only of the bliss given me to drink in so abundant a flow.
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