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Mr. Pickwick had many a "rouze" with his followers.

Pickwickian Manners and Customs Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

Your Softness (said she) makes me almost asham'd to own you for my Son; rouze up your Resolution, and act as becomes your Sex and Quality, and not languish under the Effects of I know not what Fears and Fancies of a rigorous Beauty.

Exilius 2008

His mission is to "rouze the senses to act," to activate the transforming imagination.

Blake's Contraries Game 2005

She has made no attempts to rouze my slumbering passions, nor has She ever conversed with me till this night on the subject of Love.

The Monk 2004

Aboune [74] the hyghe empryze [75], & rouze the champyones strayte.

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

Shall from the lessel [16] rouze the foxe awaie; 25

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

After his preferment such bold plans of operation were introduced to the council, as were calculated at once to rouze the

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 Alexander Hewatt

Eyes are open; I will, I will, _Chargee_, I'll rouze you, I saith.

The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre

It would rouze the anguish and indignation of a humane person to stand by while a puny overseer chastises those slaves, and behold with what piercing stripes he furrows the back of an able negro, whose greatness of soul will not suffer him to complain, and whose strength could crush his tormentor to atoms.

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 Alexander Hewatt

Yette rouze thie honoure uppe, and wayte the daie,

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton