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Unquiet

adjective
1.
Characterized by unrest or disorder.  "Following the assassination of Martin Luter King ours was an unquiet nation" , "Spent an unquiet night tossing and turning"
2.
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



... a platform or pulpit, | but on level with the rest and | delivered the following address... | (III, 559; Farrington's translation). | | Bacon's portrait doubtless resembles | Galileo or Einstein more than it does | the turbulent Paracelsus or the | unquiet and skittish Cornelius | Agrippa. The titanic bearing of the | Renaissance magus is now supplanted | by a classical composure similar to | that of the "conversations" of the | earliest Humanists. Also in Galileo's ...
— Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature • Sir Francis Bacon
... us have no scandal about that departed—woman, who left the earth two hundred years ago. Also, if her unquiet spirit still haunts the place, as many say, I know not why it should speak with the voice ...
— The Lady Of Blossholme • H. Rider Haggard
... nobler actions, there are as many quiet, as quick and vehement: still, even if we grant this, temperance will not be acting quietly any more than acting quickly and energetically, either in walking or talking or in anything else; nor will the quiet life be more temperate than the unquiet, seeing that temperance is admitted by us to be a good and noble thing, and the quick have been shown to be as good as ...
— Charmides • Plato
... is impossible. But He wish I remain a girl, and now I have cheated and He punish me very strong in make you so much fatigue you almost die. I cannot write more this day because I am too much sad. But if you die not please tell me soon because I am so much unquiet. I assure you I will nevermore ...
— Deer Godchild • Marguerite Bernard and Edith Serrell
... all the problem of To-Day? I think, not all: yet let it be. Other hands are strong to show you how, in the very instant peril of this hour, is lifted clearer into view the eternal, hopeful prophecy; may tell you that the slumbering heaven and the unquiet earth are instinct with it; that the unanswered prayer of your own life should teach it to you; that in that Book wherein God has not scorned to write the history of America we find the quiet surety that the To-Morrow of the world ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IX., March, 1862., No. LIII. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics, • Various


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