Rouser

The principal among the many distractions is the "rouser," a squib peculiar to Lewes, to which the bonfire boys (who are, by the way, in great part boys only in name, like the postboys of the past and the cowboys of the present) have given laborious nights throughout the preceding October. ❋ E.V. Lucas (N/A)

After this "rouser," as he called it, he sat down again, and almost immediately fell fast asleep. ❋ Unknown (1859)

I find Krugman's journalism to be pretty disgraceful - to me he comes across as a power-seeking rabble-rouser, who is trading on his high professional reputation as an economist. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It seems another little boy, something of a rabble rouser, had been egging Finn on to try to toss it into the garbage and make the basket. ❋ Susan Engel (2011)

He is what he is, a new kind of hybrid politician — part CEO with prodigious management abilities, part rabble-rouser with a fierce ideological following — who is both impressive and disturbing in his own right. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You can buttress a rabble-rouser at conferences and other events. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Titled "The Face of the Enemy," the webisodes run about three to six minutes each and revolve around Felix Gaeta, Lieutenant Junior Grade, cripple, and general rubble-rouser. ❋ Pabba (2009)

Another early rabble-rouser said that everybody has certain inalienable rights, and government shall not infringe them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mr. Sadr has sought to shed his rabble-rouser image over the years to fashion a disciplined movement akin to Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah working on several tracks – political, military and cultural. ❋ Sam Dagher (2011)

It just seemed fitting to start with something like that, before turning to a full-tilt carnival-style rouser, one that lifted Lunise even further off her feet, and sent one of her earrings flying. ❋ Michal Shapiro (2011)

Pablo Defendini is the producer of Tor. com, and a general rabble-rouser. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In office, he immediately saw that politically, the President had an untapped resource – the power a preacher or rabble-rouser used. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Vendola's idiom - part university professor, part rabble-rouser, part abstract poet - distinguishes him from the predictable rhetoric of Italian politicians. ❋ Jason Horowitz (2011)

That early American rabble-rouser, Thomas Paine, wrote “Rights of Man”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She feared being tainted as some sort of rabble-rouser when she sought a job as a law professor. ❋ Unknown (2010)