But I was ill at ease, and the sound of voices in an adjoining room increased my restlessness.

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.

And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness, Round our restlessness, his rest.

But Etta had shown a strange restlessness, a petulant desire to hurry forward at all risks.

"Yet let him keep the rest But keep them with repining restlessness: Let him be rich and weary, that, at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast.

In a word, you do not know to what cause to attribute the restlessness which torments you.

The absence of the cares and toil of business occasions a restlessness and desire of change, which makes him discontented here.

" After breakfast, Mrs. Delano sat some time in Flora's room, inspecting her recent drawings, and advising her to work upon them during the day, as the best method of restraining restlessness.

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.

Jane, who had not felt satisfied with the ordering of Providence for the disposal of her sympathies, and had long felt a restlessness that prompted her to look abroad for a confiding spirit to whom to communicate hersecrets she had none that delicacy would suffer her to revealbut to communicate her crude opinions and reflections, she had early selected Catherine for this person.

But he wanted time; he wanted liberty to choose his own life or enjoy his restlessness, and he realized the more keenly, from the sense of power that was so chafed in the curbing, that he was too young to be forced into such ruthless service; and he could not but acquiesce the less fervently because it was not open to him to give himself, since the claim of Venice was absolute and resistance was a crime.

The restlessness of body did not equal the restlessness of soul, and the past came back with a startling vividness.

not even that poor little speck could escape European restlessness.'

This new source of chagrin exasperated the complexional restlessness, which now made our author think that he should be more easy any where than in Ferrara; perhaps more able to communicate with and convince his critics; and, unfortunately, he permitted himself to descend to a weakness the most fatal of all others to a mind naturally exalted and ingenuous.

Creedon did not sleep; much danger would not have kept him awake, but the possibilities of the dawning day did cause exceeding restlessness.

It served only to excite their restlessness, to hold them there at the crack of the door, snuffling and slobbering.

The agitations of jealousy had given a new restlessness to his passion.

He had exulted then, identifying for the first time his restlessness inside, his search for something larger than himself, something that could fill a universe.

Hot baths, besides their use for the purposes of cleanliness, have a sedative influence upon the nervous system, tending to allay restlessness and weariness.

He himself does not know; hence his restlessness, and the multitude of letters he sends to young Chwastowski.

There were avarice and prodigality, the pride of blood and the pride of money, morbid restlessness and morbid apathy, frivolous garrulity, supercilious silence, a Democritus to laugh at every thing, and a Heraclitus to lament over every thing.

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.

Can it be," he then said solemnly, "that much of the Word is a parablethat Christ was truly, as He says of Himself, the corner-stone, but not the whole buildingand that we have to carry on the work in His spirit, but in our own way, and not merely to try and repeat His acts?" It was after this that we noticed a certain restlessness in Joshua.

This will prolong the restlessness which in others is sobered down at forty: it will extend the period during which you will every now and then have brief seasons of feverish anxiety, hope, and fear, followed by longer stretches of blank disappointment.

The self-denial which they display is a rebuke to our ever-growing luxury; their generosity contrasts favourably with the increasing bitterness of our cynicism; their contented acquiescence in God's will rebukes our incessant restlessness; above all, their constant elevation shames that multitude of little vices, and little meannesses, which lie like a scurf over the conventionality of modern life.