"First take this point," he said with nervous restlessness, once more taking up his bit of string, and forming with each point raised a series of knots which would have shamed a navigating instructor, "obviously it was impossible for Kershaw not to have been acquainted with Smethurst, since he was fully apprised of the latter's arrival in England by two letters.

Their poetry is a thing of half lights and half spoken suggestions, of hints that imagination will piece together, of words that are charged with an added meaning of sound over sense, a thing that stirs the vague and impalpable restlessness of memory or terror or desire that lies down beneath in the minds of men.

Extreme restlessness and irritability, confusion of thought and an undefined perplexity, all the prominent symptoms of exhaustion psychosis, making him hyperactive and inclined to acts of violence, were in evidence.

And the same feeling of vacancy in her heart, of which she was ever painfully conscious, produced in her also a constant restlessness, and a craving for excitement which exhibited itself in an insatiable appetite for amusement (as she confessed to her mother), and led her to seek distraction even in pastimes for which naturally she had but little inclination.

He hardly showed pleasure; only in her absence his feverish restlessness returned; in her presence he was quiet.

He had not grown less sulky, but he found himself a victim of unusual restlessness.

Doubtless they were impelled largely by sheer restlessness and love of change and excitement; [Footnote: Phelan, p. 111, fails to do justice to these motives, while very properly insisting on what earlier historians ignored, the intense desire for land speculation.]

A queer restlessness had taken possession of her, totally foreign to her old tranquil, composed state of mind.

There was no loud talk; no boisterous laughter; no uneasy restlessness.

When they were moving the morbid restlessness gradually wore away; for the time being she became her old careless-happy self; and in sympathy her companion opened as a flower to the sun.

Lastly, the exciting pursuit of wealth helps to produce a curious restlessness and instability of character, of which we have many examples in the age we are studying.

The divine restlessness, the Wanderlust had seized him, and to its fascination he yielded.

But it was eminently characteristic of the eighteenth century, an age of staid and decorous subsidence from the energetic restlessness of the seventeenthan age in which men eschewed revolution and innovation, and devoted themselves assiduously to conserve, consolidate, polish, refine, and make the best of what they had.

Factory faces have a look of their own,not only their common dinginess, and a general air of being in a hurry to find the wash-bowl, but an appearance of restlessness,often of envious restlessness, not habitual in most departments of "healthy labor."

All these symptoms being increased towards evening, when the febrile restlessness is often succeeded by delirium.

His home is a desert to him,and the love of social converse, which is so natural, and so amiable at the same time keeps him eternally in a state of fidgetty restlessness, which precludes all possibility of serious and persevering labour.

A kind of fierce restlessness had begun to get hold of me as we drew nearer to London, and I watched the fields and houses flying past with an impatience I could hardly control.

And I may be the more emboldened in my refusal, when I consider how mixed, or how selfish, are often the motives of those who solicit me, and that the love of notoriety, or the gratification of a feeling of self-importance, or a fussy restlessness, or the craving for preferment is frequently quite as powerful an incentive of their activity as a desire to promote the objects explicitly avowed.

The whole of the miserable Sunday that followed was spent by Eric and his companions in vain inquiries and futile restlessness.

These labors brought him to Washington, where the same Gallic restlessness which made the restraint of schools insupportable, brought about an attachment, elopement, and marriage with the daughter of Senator Thomas H. Benton, of Missouri.

She was young still, and it was yet in her to be ardent; but she had none of the giddy restlessness of youth.

and then I had the rest of the night to endure, with the same strange, light feeling in my headthe restlessness not much, but somewhat abated.

His love of books, his love of strangers, his questionings of travellers and scholars, betray an imaginative restlessness that longs to break out of the narrow world of experience which hemmed him in.

I do not know whether there be immense restlessness, or a peace so perfect as only Omnipotence and Love can bestow on us.

Through the window-gratings under the doors, through the walls, the virginal perfume of the vast orchards filteredan intoxicating breath, that Rafael, in his impassioned restlessness, imagined as wafted from the Blue House, caressing Leonora's lovely figure, and catching something of the divine fragrance of her redolent beauty.