203 examples of astir in sentences

She thought all at once of a summer morning when she was a child, when she had woke in the deep night which yet was day, early, so early that the birds were scarcely astir, and had risen up with a delicious sense of daring and of being all alone in the mystery of the sunrise, in the unawakened world which lay at her feet to be explored, as if she were Eve just entering upon Eden.

" Now as they crouched thus, with weapons tight-gripped and eyes that glared upon the coming day, a sudden trumpet brayed alarm upon the battlementsshouts were heard far and near, and a running of mailed feet; steel clashed, the great castle, waking at last, was all astir about them and full of sudden bustle and tumult.

I saw rays from it coming in through the parted curtains, and distinctly traced tree-branches wavering to and fro out in the night-wind, set astir as the moon came up.

My hair was as much astir as Aaron's had been one morning, not long before, and I truly believe there was as much of theology in it.

All the animal world was astir.

But if ever you come beyond the borders as far as the town that lies in a hill dimple at the foot of Kearsarge, never leave it until you have knocked at the door of the brown house under the willow-tree at the end of the village street, and there you shall have such news of the land, of its trails and what is astir in them, as one lover of it can give to another.

But to take the trail again; the coyotes that are astir in the Ceriso of late afternoons, harrying the rabbits from their shallow forms, and the hawks that sweep and swing above them, are not there from any mechanical promptings of instinct, but because they know of old experience that the small fry are about to take to seed gathering and the water trails.

Every one in the village had been astir since daybreak, preparing for the great event.

As usual, Frank was the first one up, and he soon had the camp astir with his cheery calls.

But the lateness of the hour, the stillness of the sleeping household, made it seem quite in order that she should pause to look cautiously this way and that and make sure that nobody else was astir to spy upon her or challenge the purpose of this as yet aimless nocturnal flitting.

He seemed to travel through a vast emptinessthe only living thing astir.

meddling &c v.; meddlesome, pushing, officious, overofficious^, intrigant^. astir, stirring; agoing^, afoot; on foot; in full swing; eventful; on the alert, &c (vigilant) 459.

Lady Kirkbank would be astir presently, and there would be no more solitude for them till they were married, and could shake her off altogether.

Of course he had many opportunities of judging, to the best of his capacity, of certain phases of character appertaining to Mr Candy's cashier; and, among other things, he came to the conclusion that probably she was a young woman who would get up early in the morning, and he, therefore, determined to do that thing himself, and see if he could not have a talk with her before the rest of the family were astir.

From the silence and retirement of his home in Picardy he had come to Meaux,the town that was so astir, busy, thoroughly alive!

As we return we shall pass the cathedral, and can see whether he is astir.

They all run and leap in the merry morning-air, and, as we watch them more nearly, we know them to be the royal family out larking before Paris is astir.

But consider you this,a day will be presently coming When that man shall himself be astir and all of his workmen, Making a coffin for thee to be quickly and skilfully finished.

If you have ever walked about the streets of some of these cities before the rest of the world was astir, at gray dawn, you must have seen them shivering along and scratching among the refuse cast out by the tenants of the neighbouring houses.

All Ross's male instinct for unquestioning approval from the female was astir.

Everything was astir with life in that scummy little corner.

Usually Bobby is astir shortly after jolly, round, red Mr. Sun has gone to bed behind the Purple Hills.

The walls are astir; little waves of blue Run through my fingers murmuring: We follow the winds and the snow!

The castle was astir early, as if there was naught but a glorious day before them, and they would make it of much length.

One morning early, before the office-seekers were astir, he went out for a walk.

203 examples of  astir  in sentences