Lexicographical Neighbors of Rousement
Literary usage of Rousement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seventy Years in Dixie: Recollections and Sayings of T.W. Caskey and Others by Fletcher Douglas Srygley (1891)
"... and preachers and church members put in the "rousement" at revival meetings.
lie said: "Oh, yes; I quit the bottoms and follered Josh an' his partner ..."
2. A Hoosier Autobiography by William Dudley Foulke (1922)
"... to de 'rousement." And he did. Now with me the subject and the subject- matter
of my toast are too gigantic for after-dinner treatment. ..."
3. The Southern Workman by Hampton Institute (1913)
"... an' sisters," says he, "ez I'se push' fer time I'll p'o- ceed to de rousement
right now. ... to de rousement fust off. fer dere chu'ch ..."
4. A Hoosier Autobiography by William Dudley Foulke (1922)
"And, alas II have not the Ethiopian qualifications for the " 'rousement."
Indiana's output! Where shall I begin and where shall I end? ..."
5. Negro Life in the South: Present Conditions and Needs by Willis Duke Weatherford (1911)
"The church which does not have its shouting, the church which does not measure
the abilities of a preacher by the 'rousement' of his sermons, and, indeed, ..."
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