He seems a little confused, like a man roused from sleep.
Toddlers have been roused from sleep just after bedtime by chanting and pounding drums.
Talking to someone just roused from sleep offered a special, intimate opportunity.
An English captain, Walter Devereux, ran his halberd through Wallenstein, who, roused from sleep, asked in vain for quarter.
I was roused from sleep by a pounding on my door, followed by the voice of one of my hallmates saying my last name.
On the first morning after she got it, I was roused from sleep to accompany her, in the chill of dawn, to the library parking lot up the street.
Villagers from Manicaland said they were roused from sleep around midnight one night this month by young marauders who had come to punish them for voting against Mr. Mugabe.
And it was on 103rd, in the dark hours after midnight on Oct. 5, that Mr. Najera was roused from sleep in front of a church and set afire.
Her account: It started with something every parent dreads: being roused from sleep in the middle of the night by a phone call from a stranger, whose first words are "Your daughter…" In a way, the words that followed — "…has just been arrested at the Zuccotti Park eviction" — were a huge relief.
The attentions (upacharas) paid to him begin in the morning, when he is gently roused from sleep, and extend through the day, including ritual bathing and dressing, the serving of the usual three meals, and the final ceremony of putting him to bed for the night.
