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Restless   /rˈɛstləs/   Listen
Restless

adjective
1.
Worried and uneasy.  Synonyms: ungratified, unsatisfied.
2.
Ceaselessly in motion.  "The restless wind"
3.
Lacking or not affording physical or mental rest.  Synonym: uneasy.  "She fell into an uneasy sleep"



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"Restless" Quotes from Famous Books



... invalid. When I heard this account of the horse, I don't mind confessing that my heart warmed to him. Visions of Thomas Idle ambling serenely on the back of a steed as lazy as himself, presenting to a restless world the soothing and composite spectacle of a kind of sluggardly Centaur, too peaceable in his habits to alarm anybody, swam attractively before my eyes. I went to look at the horse in the stable. Nice fellow! he was fast asleep with ...
— The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices • Charles Dickens
... clothed in some coarse, black stuff that bristled as though loosely woven of stiff hair, and yet which was not a true fabric, for it seemed to move within itself, and scintillate, as though composed of billions of restless motes. And as the strange creatures closed in quickly, I saw that theirs was not solid flesh, but, like the clothing that partially covered them, an attenuated substance that was not ...
— The Infra-Medians • Sewell Peaslee Wright
... noticed at the time, and commented on largely by-and-bye. If the all-absorbing topic of the day, Beatrice's wedding, was discussed, she invariably grew grave, her face would become a shade paler than its wont, and her bright, restless eyes would ...
— The Honorable Miss - A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town • L. T. Meade
... that even as pleasant a cycle as his could not be pursued indefinitely. At Davos he first noted a change. Though he took the curves in the long run with a daring that proved his eye to be as quick and his nerves as steady as ever, he was restless. ...
— The Triflers • Frederick Orin Bartlett
... and restless, hardly able to bear the thought of the hours that must pass before she could see ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward


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