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Unquiet

adjective

Characterized by unrest or disorder. "Following the assassination of Martin Luter King ours was an unquiet nation" , "Spent an unquiet night tossing and turning"

Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety. Synonyms: anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy. "Cast anxious glances behind her" , "Those nervous moments before takeoff" , "An unquiet mind"

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"Unquiet" Quotes from Famous Books

... on the canvas hood till the girl's face was beaded with sweat, and the sick man's blankets were hot against the intenser heat of his body. Outside the world held its breath spellbound in a white dazzle. The river sparkled like a coat of mail, the only unquiet thing on the earth's incandescent surface. When the afternoon declined, shadows crept from the opposite bluffs, slanted across the water, slipped toward the little caravan and engulfed it. Through the front opening Susan watched the road. ...

— The Emigrant Trail • Geraldine Bonner

... it that he did not understand. Stooping down, he suddenly tried the handle. It opened smoothly. The gate was unlocked. He withdrew the key with trembling fingers. All his relief at the dismantled appearance of the cottage had disappeared. A strange unquiet look shone in his eyes, and his manner suddenly became nervous and hurried. He had locked the gate on his departure, he was sure, and Mr. Thurwell's steward had told him that there was no duplicate set of keys. How could it have been opened ...

— The New Tenant • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... not. Don't be in too big a hurry; take your own time;" and they parted, mutually pleased with each other; Morton treading upon air, and very much disposed to build castles and other edifices in that unquiet element. ...

— An Old Sailor's Yarns • Nathaniel Ames

... that I dreaded going to bed, an hour later; yet I certainly went with an unquiet anticipation that I should find that child in no peaceful sleep. The forewarning of my instinct was but fulfilled, when I discovered her, all cold and vigilant, perched like a white bird on the outside of the bed. I scarcely knew how to accost her; she was not to be managed ...

— Villette • Charlotte Bronte

... days were evidently numbered, and as he grew weaker, he grew more exacting. Patience had never been one of Joyce's strong points, and, though she did her best, time often dragged, and she mourned the cruel fate that had cast her lot in such an unquiet age. Instead of wearing her coronet at Court, here she was moping and mewed up in a ...

— A Book of Quaker Saints • Lucy Violet Hodgkin

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