Lexicographical Neighbors of Rousements
Literary usage of Rousements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Whillikins: A Study in Social Hysteria by Elmer Willis Serl, Neale Publishing Company (1913)
"... II "GIVE 'EM THE 'Rousements" Three days before yesterday a Kentucky preacher
was telling me his experience. It seems that he went to deliver his first ..."
2. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1904)
"I want to put in the "rousements" on this matter so that our brother, who came
from Missouri, may know that we believe there is a good deal in it— enough in ..."
3. Public Speaking Today: A High School Manual by Frank Cummins Lockwood, Clarence De Witt Thorpe (1921)
"All you haf to do is to take a tex, an' den mystify, an' sprangle out, an' bring
in de rousements." A good speech is made in very much the same way. ..."
4. Public Speaking Today: A High School Manual by Frank Cummins Lockwood, Clarence De Witt Thorpe (1921)
"All you haf to do is to take a tex, an' den mystify, an' sprangle out, an', bring
in de rousements." A good speech is made in very much the same way. ..."
5. Record of Christian Work edited by Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt (1905)
"... that his favorite outline for sermons was this: First, what is not in the
text; second, what ií K the text; and thirdly, the "rousements" I will leave ..."
6. Negro Year Book by Tuskegee Institute Dept. of Records and Research (1913)
"Fifty years ago the only demand made of Negro ministers was that they should have
good lung power and be able to put on the "rousements. ..."
7. Negro Life in the South: Present Conditions and Needs by Willis Duke Weatherford (1911)
"... that they frequently had to abandon their gospel and more and more fall into
the habit of putting on the "rousements." Rev. WH Holloway's Testimony Rev. ..."
8. Story of My Life: An Account of what I Have Thought and Said and Done in My by William Taylor, John Clark Ridpath (1895)
"My father took me to his revival meetings to help him, and depended very much on
my praying up the rousements. So my life, for years, was a series of long ..."
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