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There is still an atmosphere of tension and unrestfulness in the air, though.

From Man and Maid by Glyn, Elinor

Multitudes are living lives of unrestfulness, simply because they have set the lowest parts of their nature upon the throne, and subordinated the highest to these.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander

My faults of melancholy and unrestfulness had not appeared, I think, in my intercourse with Mrs. Oldcastle, so cheery and enlivening was her influence.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)

Any fortune-teller might introduce a dark man into the picture of a fair girl's destiny; but the allusions were so marked that Victoria's vague unrestfulness became distress.

From The Golden Silence by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)