"Ill at ease" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... kept up the pursuit of the flying Moors, and only rested from sheer weariness. The next morning Meer Jaffier rode into our camp at Daudpore, ill at ease. But Colonel Clive received him with friendship, and caused him to be saluted as the Nabob of Bengal. From him we learned the particulars of what had taken place on the previous day in Surajah ...
— Athelstane Ford • Allen Upward
... their faces were pointed and red, because they were vexed. The peonies were sulky; it was well that they could not speak, otherwise they would have given the daisy a good lecture. The little flower could very well see that they were ill at ease, and ...
— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen
... and I wheeled round in my chair to confront him. He was still exceedingly pale—paler, I thought, than I had left him. He seemed decidedly ill at ease, though not on his own account. His answer to my first question made me fairly leap in ...
— The Laird's Luck • Arthur Quiller-Couch
... it, and accept your hospitality. Isabella, my love, our worthy host will provide you a bed. My daughter, good franklin, is ill at ease. We will occupy your house till the Scottish king shall return from his Northern expedition. Meanwhile call me Lord Lacy ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... Mrs. Leighton?" asked Florence, quietly, looking her employer in the face. "Well—ahem!" answered Mrs. Leighton, a little ill at ease, "you were ...
— Adrift in New York - Tom and Florence Braving the World • Horatio Alger
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