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

What pleasure can there be in that estate, Which your unquietness has made me hate?

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir

His look bespoke the unquietness of his mind, and frequently wandered with an expression of disconsolateness and anxiety.

From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William

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

Master I bid thee not, Child, to do harm to anyone, thereby to create to thyself any misery or unquietness.

From Dialogues on the Supersensual Life by Böhme, Jakob