Literary notes about rousing (AI summary)
Writers deploy "rousing" to convey both a literal and metaphorical awakening, imbuing characters and settings with renewed energy. In many narratives, a character "rouses himself" from sleep or distraction to take decisive action or regain composure [1][2][3], while in other texts the term intensifies the call to collective action or emotional fervor [4][5][6]. It is also used to describe nature or atmosphere that inspires or stirs inner feelings [7][8], highlighting the word’s versatility in evoking both a physical stirring and a resurgence of passion or thought [9][10].
- he cried, rousing himself, and collecting his ideas with the promptitude usual to seamen.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne - “Yes, I’m going,” said Anna, rousing herself and getting up.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - “Here is your papa!” said Vassily Lukitch, rousing him.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - I thought that he might give me information about the Faubourg St. Antoine, and help us in rousing the people.
— from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo - If I ever come to Russia, Monsieur Kramenin, I shall expect a rousing welcome, and——”
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie - “I have come to make a statement about the sufferings of poor students and the means of rousing them to protest.”
— from The possessed : by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - While maniac Winter rages o'er The hills whence classic Yarrow flows, Rousing the turbid torrent's roar, Or sweeping, wild, a waste of snows.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns - Never did music more sink into and soothe and fill me—never so prove its soul-rousing power, its impossibility of statement.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - I can only say that I took long and searching eyesweeps as I sat there, and it seem'd so, rousing unprecedented thoughts, problems unanswerable.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - He felt that this was rousing in his soul a feeling of anger destructive of his peace of mind and of all the good of his achievement.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy
