aroused

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Aroused by fierce party competition and irresistible entertainment, an astonishing 78 percent of eligible voters came to the polls and handed William Henry Harrison the victory.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Aroused by Bacon’s defiance, a new Assembly passed reforms to empower ordinary settlers and clean up official corruption.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Aroused from Curtain'd sleep … but what secrets about Elizabethan playhouse conditions will be revealed by the excavation of the Shoreditch theatre?

From The Guardian • Jun. 7, 2012

Aroused from sleep, the villagers of Ver-sur-Mer aided in dragging the America into shallow water, bringing ashore the three Wright Whirlwind engines which had not once whimpered during the flight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Aroused by the British during the Revolution, the Indians of the Six Nations descended from New York into the West Branch Valley to harass and, finally, to drive the Fair Play settlers from their homes.

From The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography by Wolf, George D.