2319 examples of restless in sentences

The tree tops were like a restless green sea just a little beneath them.

Sat on the headland there the warrior king; Farewell he said to hearth-companions true, The gold-friend of the Geats; his mind was sad, Death-ready, restless.

] More formidable at all times than any discontent on the part of the quiet and orderly French habitans was the chronic disaffection of the restless, roving Irish; and especially when connected with a threatened invasion of American 'sympathisers.'

And this was wisdom of the Maid; but I to be a little irked-like and restless; and this mayhap because that my blood did itch me, because that it did be so full of the poison of my bruises.

To be famous and fascinating like Miss Amesbury, this was the secret ambition that filled her restless soul.

Creedon was restless and excited all the evening; for him a great decision was to be rendered.

" "No wonder you are restless, and I am now as much interested in our success on your account as I am on my own.

Polly, I think, was not sorry when she heard I was going out, for Duncan was away in the boat fishing, and little John was so feverish and restless that she could not put him down even for a moment.

Here, in the silence of night, she turned often towards the bed, when the restless sleep of the child broke in on her meditation.

Inconstant they are in all their actions, vertiginous, restless, unapt to resolve of any business, they will and will not, persuaded to and fro upon every small occasion, or word spoken: and yet if once they be resolved, obstinate, hard to be reconciled.

Now prodigal, and then covetous, they do, and by-and-by repent them of that which they have done, so that both ways they are troubled, whether they do or do not, want or have, hit or miss, disquieted of all hands, soon weary, and still seeking change, restless, I say, fickle, fugitive, they may not abide to tarry in one place long.

for an Italian Abbot, he makes it one of the greatest reasons why this disease is so incurable, "because the parties are so restless, and impatient, and will therefore have him that intends to be eased," "to take physic, not for a month, a year, but to apply himself to their prescriptions all the days of his life."

Rule thyself then with reason, satisfy thyself, accustom thyself, wean thyself from such fond conceits, vain fears, strong imaginations, restless thoughts.

"It makes a child quiet," the nurse's song, and many times the sound of a trumpet on a sudden, bells ringing, a carman's whistle, a boy singing some ballad tune early in the streets, alters, revives, recreates a restless patient that cannot sleep in the night, &c.

And they passed on and found the sentinel still restless in the night and calling on Rollory.

Lights shimmer in thee, thou art restless.

As the season warmed, the light would kindle afresh in her eyes, and the old woman's sleep would grow restless again,for she knew, that, so long as the glitter was fierce in the girl's eyes, there was no trusting her impulses or movements.

In those miserable days he used to wander all over The Mountain in his restless endeavor to seek some relief for inward suffering in outward action.

He had resisted the seductions which always beset solitary men with restless brains overwrought by depressing agencies.

The Count of Flanders gave his daughter, his only legitimate child, in marriage to the Duke of Burgundy; and the provinces soon came into the hands of those ambitious and restless enemies of the Court of France.

"That brings me to the other feature that made me wander around here like a restless spirit myself that night.

In appearance he was prematurely old and withered up, with a pallid face and palsied frame, with great restless, staring eyes.

He was descended from a respectable family in Yorkshire, and having soon squandered the property he inherited at the decease of his father, his restless spirit associated itself with the discontented and factious of his age.

Above whate'er content can give, Above the charm of ease, The restless hopes, and fears that live With her, have power to please.

this restless heart I fear Will never be at rest, 'Till Lucy cease to live, or tear Her image from my breast.

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