"Roust" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... time that Josiah Allen had acted queer. He would seem lost in thought anon or oftener, and then seemin'ly roust himself up ...
— Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition • Marietta Holley
... and do himself justice, and settle the heftiest kind of questions, and say the kind of things these ladies ought to have said to 'em, and then measure out molasses and weigh coffee and slash off calico dresses and trade for eggs. Some of you've got to roust out and do some clerking, or I've got to quit. I've not got the constitution to stand it. Jim, you 'tend to Mis' Pike, and Bill, you wait on Mis' Jones. Lord! Lord! half a dozen of you here, and not one doing a thing—not ...
— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett |
