In a rousing call to other female scribes who had reacted in horror to her embarrassing true confessions, she says, in her E-mail, "Wake up oh my sisters."

The tide of the discussion turned when Susan Iadevaia, a lawyer, gave a rousing call to arms.

His speech was a sombre appeal to reason, not a rousing call to arms.

During the congressional deliberations on whether to approve the use of force to drive Iraq from Kuwait, House Speaker Tom Foley delivered a rousing call for bipartisan patriotism.

In his rousing call for resistance, Demosthenes urged the Athenians to be ready for war and called for a great outpouring of effort.

The following rousing call he gave to the thousands of delegates in the Calicut session, still rings in their ears:

As a ballet, "Chichester Psalms," like its music, is a rousing call to spiritual arms.

A fanfare of dozens of trumpets rang forth, filling the city-mountain with its rousing call, and somewhere a choir of dwarves began to chant.

In some games, a battle is signaled with a rousing call to arms broadcast in German.