"Unease" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... good faithful servant nor her daughter guessed the fact, Mrs. Otway was the one inmate of the Trellis House to whom the War, so far, brought real unease. She felt jarred and upset—anxious, too, as she had never yet been, about her ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... By the three kings! I have seen a man gasp out his last breath for less. Had you gone through the pain and unease that I have done to earn these things you would be at more care. I swear by my ten finger-bones that there is not one of them that hath not cost its weight in French blood! Four—an incense-boat, a ewer of silver, a gold buckle and a cope worked in pearls. I found them, ...
— The White Company • Arthur Conan Doyle
... reached the southern slope of Indian Ridge, Racey headed to the east. A spirit of unease lit heavily upon the sagging shoulders of ...
— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White
... there Widening slowly everywhere. It was like swinging in a solemn dream to roam In a strange air, far from home— Until I saw the shadows suddenly wake and move, And float, float down from above. Then I ran quickly back, round the large gloomy trees, O with what shivering unease! And stumbled where they waited, and was far too glad, Finding them, to be afraid or sad. —Then waited an unforgetting year once more to see So wide a ...
— Poems New and Old • John Freeman
... recognized ability as a hunter. He strolled arrogantly out into the knee-high grass, crossbow over his shoulder, whistling tunelessly through his teeth. Jason stared after him and once again felt a growing unease. ...
— The Ethical Engineer • Henry Maxwell Dempsey
... into her sides, palms up, and all attitudinized to emulate a Chinese god. Holding this pose for a full minute after Lilly had entered the room, she began to bounce in hilarity up and down on the mattress, probably to allay her own sense of inner unease. ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst
... Hal stopped to tell Wayne that perhaps the Pierce story wasn't worth running, after all. Unease of conscience disturbed his work for a time thereafter. He appeased it by the excuse that it was no threat or pressure from without which had influenced his action. He had killed the item out of consideration for the friend of his friend. What did it matter, anyway, a bit of ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... pause—not one of those calm, happy pauses of other days, when each one dreamed, but a pause wrought with unease. The Cure's old black eyes had a questioning expression, and ...
— The Man and the Moment • Elinor Glyn |
