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  • The point of mentioning it again is to hone the point that recesses like this are a time when the Executive Branch should be on vacation, too, rousable in case of real emergency, but basically supine in a hammock somewhere, recharging depleted batteries.

    The Guns of August 2007

  • I thought her endowed with a temper that might be very violent when roused, though not easily rousable.

    Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

  • I thought her endowed with a temper that might be very violent when roused, though not easily rousable.

    Famous Affinities of History — Volume 4 Lyndon Orr

  • For although Clare knew himself and Abdiel Gunn's prisoners, he feared no surprise with two such rousable companions.

    A Rough Shaking George MacDonald 1864

  • A heavy drinker may have been rousable, but would have been "stuporous," unlikely to have the coordination necessary to carry out three murders involving multiple stabbings and bludgeonings.

    Reason Magazine Radley Balko 2010

  • A heavy drinker may have been rousable, but would have been "stuporous," unlikely to have the coordination necessary to carry out three murders involving multiple stabbings and bludgeonings.

    Reason Magazine Radley Balko 2010

  • A heavy drinker may have been rousable, but would have been "stuporous," unlikely to have the coordination necessary to carry out three murders involving multiple stabbings and bludgeonings.

    Reason Magazine Radley Balko 2010

  • Specific antidote is naloxone given as IV in boluses of 0. 4mg at 2-3 minute intervals until rousable and respiratory depression corrected.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows rajud521 2010

  • Specific antidote is naloxone given as IV in boluses of 0. 4mg at 2-3 minute intervals until rousable and respiratory depression corrected.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows rajud521 2010

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