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  • And he was utterly still and quiescent, without desire, soft and unroused, within his own ambiente.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • For it depends on circumstance, which of the chances that slumber within us shall awake, and which shall fall unroused with us into the darkness.

    Rousseau Morley, John 1905

  • It is probable that many persons go through the world with a congenital predisposition to inversion which always remains latent and unroused; in others the instinct is so strong that it forces its own way in spite of all obstacles; in others, again, the predisposition is weaker, and a powerful exciting cause plays the predominant part.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

  • The dissembler of a secret wishes for obscurity and silence: he wants to have the eyes of men turned away from him and their curiosity unroused.

    Moral Philosophy Joseph Rickaby 1888

  • For it depends on circumstance, which of the chances that slumber within us shall awake, and which shall fall unroused with us into the darkness.

    Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

  • Here it flowed calmly, reflecting the sunset, a giant with its energies untaxed and its passions unroused -- a kindly St. Christopher, yet capable of being transformed into a destroying Thor.

    A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 A Novel Harry Coghill 1871

  • His limbs were regaining the strength of adolescence, but more perceptive sensations remained unroused.

    La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871

  • If the audience fail to concur with him, he smites a second time, when, if the audience still remain unroused, he looks round him with great wrath and administers a third blow, which never fails to produce the desired effect.

    A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856

  • Of the two millions remaining alive at this time, about 1,400,000, are already the miserable living victims and dupes of white man's cupidity degraded, discouraged and lost in the bewildering maze that is produced by little use of whiskey and its concomitant vices; and the remaining number are yet unroused and unenticed from their wild haunts or their primitive modes, by the dread or love of white man and his allurements.

    Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841

  • Yet it seemed that the parliamentary government had defeated its reactionary foe only by conjuring up a dangerous spirit which might have been better unroused.

    Mises Dailies 2009

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