Example Sentences

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It's a pared-down novel where the use of "unrestfully" instead of "restlessly" is important, and where Carraway can speak of Jordan "changing the subject with an urban distaste for the concrete".

From The Guardian • May 18, 2013

They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

And hour after hour in the darkness she tossed unrestfully.

From The White Moll by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)

He joined us in our walk, but kept wandering unrestfully to the roadside.

From Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion by Twain, Mark

Our friend walked up and down unrestfully, casting now and then a look at the knights and dames whose ancient figures hung round him on the walls.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von