Which preposition to use with restless
I felt six eyes bent on me, six unwinking eyes moving restless in motionless figures, suspicious, deadly as cobras Up to now my standing with the men had been well enough.
Now cannot I sleep, but am as restless as a Merchant in stormy Weather, that has ventur'd all his Wealth in one Bottom.
For some ten years before that battle the Barons of England had been restless under the yoke of the central government, the Crown, which stood not for them but for us all.
"They are both wise people and neither tip their mit, though Soul Mate grew restless with his feet.
He's too restless for that.
The Wren is a very active bird, and one of the most restless of the feathered tribe.
Did not the planters, as I have before related, declare in the House of Commons in the year 1816, that their Negroes had then imbibed the idea that they were to be made free, and that they were extremely restless on that account?
It withdraws the attention of the publick from domestick grievances, and affords opportunities of dismissing the turbulent and restless to distant employments.
The sea is far more restless than upon our coast, the surf habitually higher; and there is such a depth of water in many places around the shore, that, on one occasion, a whale-ship, drawn too near by the current, broke her mainyard against the cliff, without grazing her keel.
So joys that slip like dead leaves down, And hopes burnt out that die in ashes, Rise restless from their graves to crown Our mother's brow with fadeless flashes.
She had intended, a little later, to walk out along the river road in search of marguerites, but when Mary, more than usually restless after her fainting spell of yesterday, had offered to go instead, she had not demurred.
It is a sky that makes one ill-tempered and restless by its sameness and indecision.
It is far better, if the child is restless at night, to have it frequently taken out of its cot, and carried about in an airy room; for the cool air, and change of posture, will do much to allay the feverishness and restlessness of the child.
There was something so adventurously restless about Red Perris that she thought of a thoroughbred fresh from the stable; just as a blooded hunter is apt to be "too much horse under the saddle," so she was inclined to feel that Perris was "too much man."
On the last night of his life, he had observed that Herbert was restless during his sleep, and in the morning insisted on knowing the cause.
Tresses of white hair hung on his shoulders, and his watery eyes were red and restless like a ferret's.
Before the Army of the Potomac began to arrive, I had recovered all my old vigour, and had become restless through inaction.
He grew restless over his paper and strolled into the bar.
A vision of being restless amidst ease, of being languid among all appliances had quickened her resignation of the Transome estates.
After pouring out thy soul in prayer to thy Heavenly Father, dost thou not feel the outraged sense of right, like a perpetual motion, restless within thy breast?
Michael Angelo labored till eighty-seven, and Titian till over ninety; but they were artists who worked from the love of art, restless without new creations.