Still following the sure footing of rocky drainages, we flushed ptarmigan from the willows as we went, at one point rousting several hundred of them. |
A small pile of eight, near a fire ring, that reminded me of some bored cowboys practicing, or sheep herder rousting a coyote. |
With a large flock like Cinnamon Nose's, Nop casts from one side to another, rousting one flank of the retreating flock and then the other. |
I mean, they're confiscating nail clippers and cuticle scissors and all of these things, and basically rousting people at the security gates. |
The trajectory of the story, following the rhetorical sermonic pattern of an American jeremiad, involves rousting Cole from his somnambulant life. |
In their own oddball fashions, these untutored mutts did it all, from treeing squirrels and rousting rabbits to flushing pheasants. |