But, violently as Versailles and Paris were agitated throughout May and June, Marie Antoinette took no part in the discussion which these questions excited.

The Southern people are deeply agitated by Butler's attempts to arouse the negroes.

A woman is always balancing between two irreconcilable passions which continually agitate her mind: the desire to please, and the fear of dishonor.

It was after this occasion, when she had been so profoundly agitated by a seemingly insignificant cause, that her father and Old Sophy were sitting, one at one side of her bed and one at the other.

Maulevrier's presence had not an unduly agitating effect on her ladyship.

" Marston was fearfully agitated as he spoke, and repeatedly wiped from his face the cold sweat that gathered there.

Their contents seemed to agitate him exceedingly; as he walked up and down the room with hasty strides, muttering angrily to himself, and occasionally returning to the desk to re-peruse the letters which had so strangely excited him.

Cosimo motioned the sorrowful bearers to proceed, and they and their burden were no sooner out of sight than Duchess Eleanora came up in her sedan-chair, terribly agitated by the cries she had heard in the forest.

For the rest the question mainly agitating Members has been "to warn or not to warn."

A few bright and beautiful stars gemmed the wide concave of heaven; the air was soft and balmy, scarcely agitating the leaves of the forest trees; the fragrance-weeping limes gave out their richest scent, and the gentle gush of fountains, and the tricklings of the mountain springs, came in music on the ear; and had the traveller been more at ease, the calm and tranquil scene must have diffused its soothing influence over his heart.

" He passed the rest of his watch agitated alternately by hope and impatience.

Painfully agitated by the tale she had heard, and this unexpected confidence of her father, Emmeline glanced her eye over the paper, and read as follows: "To the Rev. Arthur Myrvin, Hanover.

Russia has also solved that other great problem which perpetually agitated the mediaeval worldthe conflict between the secular and the spiritual power.

But not a word was spoken by either upon the subject agitating them so powerfully.

There was no wind and I could not see what it could be that so strangely agitated the water.

All sounds imply time; because they are the transient effects of certain percussions which temporarily agitate the air, an element that tends to silence.

Nevertheless, Captain Monk confessed emotion at sight of those two in a quite perceptible start; and Lanyard saw the eyebrows tremendously agitated as their manipulator moved aft.

Society had forgotten him, but he unconsciously was agitating, and drawing to himself the attention of the outside world.

For long they agitated vainly, and they might long have continued to do so.

The Princess, at first, seemed totally to have forgotten their former intimacy, and Undine was made to feel that in a life so variously agitated the episode could hardly have left a trace.

The phrase is characteristic of the peculiar species of ingenuous sensibility which so oddly agitated this sceptical man of the world.

Its Legislature is annually agitated from the sands of Cape Cod to the hills of Berkshire over the question.

It is held out to the labourer, as an inducement to agitate briskly, that, in time, a state of things will be brought about when every man will have a small farm of four or five acres upon which to live comfortably, independent of a master.

There are men who, though unable to put forth a substantial grievance, are ceaselessly agitating.

It was judged advisable by Lord Grenville, that the expected motion on this subject should, contrary to the practice hitherto adopted, be agitated first in the Lords.