Example Sentences

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"And how do you call it? Throwing, "aggressively" charging... what are they? Signs of friendship? Childish unquietness?"

From Economist • Nov. 22, 2013

And, not content with this, Abus'd your honest name with sland'rous words, And fill'd your hush'd house with unquietness.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various

"At last," however, "the evil savours, great unquietness, with over many drafts of air," threw the poor gentleman into a burning ague.

From The Reign of Mary Tudor by Rhys, Ernest

I shall be fain to send for her and with me she shall but lose her time, and without she be the better occupied she shall oftentimes move me and put me to great unquietness.

From Little Essays of Love and Virtue by Ellis, Havelock

And though thou visitedst my sinfulness among With pestilent plagues and other unquietness, Yet never tookest thou from me the plenteousness Of thy godly spirit, which thou in me didst plant.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew