"Uneasily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... aisles the woods people paused in their night's occupation to listen, stirred and terrified by the throb and thrill in the air; the grazing caribou lifted his growing horns and snorted in terror; the beasts of prey paused in the chase, growling uneasily, gazing with fierce, luminous eyes in the direction ...
— The Sky Line of Spruce • Edison Marshall
... by the roadside inviting, he sat down in it, and gave the rein to grief. It was with a mild surprise that, when his sense returned, he found himself under the ilex-tree before the little church which Mitri served. Afraid of interruption he looked round uneasily. But no one was in sight, and he was loth to move. He opened his sketch-book for a suggestion of employment in case any one should espy him, ...
— The Valley of the Kings • Marmaduke Pickthall
... reply. He did, indeed, look at the speaker once, uneasily, but took no notice of his request. Thus, clasping his enemy to his breast he ascended the steep hill, struggling and stumbling upwards, as if with some fixed and stern purpose in view, until at last he gained the shelter of ...
— The Madman and the Pirate • R.M. Ballantyne
... doctor's car, and then hung uneasily about the door of the sick-room until Laura came out and told him to go to bed. In the morning, his mother did not appear at the breakfast table, Cora was serious and quiet, and Laura said that he need not go to school that day, though she added that the doctor thought ...
— The Flirt • Booth Tarkington
... He slept uneasily at night, awoke when the bells were ringing for lauds, lifted up his hands in prayer, and breathed his last on the ...
— Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... to be realising this, for he glanced uneasily at his brother, whose morose, sullen face was ...
— The Grey Lady • Henry Seton Merriman
... this, lads," said a man on my father's wharf, tugging uneasily at his sou'wester, "that afore midnight you'll be needin' t' glue your ...
— Doctor Luke of the Labrador • Norman Duncan
... to have, which is the corresponding motive of the rich, is quite as bad in its effects; it compels men to close their minds against justice, and to prevent themselves from thinking honestly on social questions while in the depths of their hearts they uneasily feel that their pleasures are bought by the miseries of others. The injustices of destitution and wealth alike ought to be rendered impossible. Then a great fear would be removed from the lives of the many, and hope would have to take on a better ...
— Political Ideals • Bertrand Russell
... long to wait, for in a short time Jack, as we have seen, appeared on the scene, and began his search. At the sound of his voice, calling for Mark, the man started in his hiding place, and glanced uneasily at Mark. ...
— Lost on the Moon - or In Quest Of The Field of Diamonds • Roy Rockwood
... still with his back to the fire, uneasily moving his fingers among the contents of his side-pockets, and looking at the floor. That big muscular frame of his held plenty of animal courage, but helped him to no decision when the dangers to be braved were such as could neither be knocked down nor throttled. ...
— Silas Marner - The Weaver of Raveloe • George Eliot
... a dark yard Prescott was led between rows of prisoners sleeping on the ground. Some of them, too cold and miserable to sleep, stirred uneasily as the ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops - Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche • H. Irving Hancock
... gratitude that flashed across the congregation to him from the gray-brown eyes made Murdie feel more than ever pleased at what he had been able to do. But he was somewhat disturbed to notice that neither Ranald nor Don nor Aleck had followed him into the church, and he waited uneasily ...
— The Man From Glengarry - A Tale Of The Ottawa • Ralph Connor
... bestirring himself uneasily, "it's a natural thought. She needs all she can get to balance the trouble she began life with. Most other little chaps begin it in a livelier way—in a way that's more natural, born into a home, and all that. ...
— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... is no wish to harm him," said Content, glancing an eye uneasily around at his companions. "Strife hath done enough in our settlement this day. The Sergeant hath a right to claim the scalp-bounty, for the man that is slain; but for him that ...
— The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish • James Fenimore Cooper
... "But," he thought uneasily, "what is it that I bring home this time? How much is paste? My God, how droll that smile of Clinch.... Which is the false—his jewels or mine? Dieu que j'etais bete!—— Me who have not suspec' that there are two trays within my jewel-box!... ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers
... Uneasily conscious that Helen was watching him, Thurston cast a swift hungry glance at the food. Then, remembering his frayed and tattered garments and the hole in his boot, he answered: "I thank you, but as I must be well on my ...
— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss
... Several men laughed uneasily; one or two old line trust companies were mentioned; then somebody spoke of the Minnisink, lately ...
— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers
... She will not doubt my secret thought, and you will all bear me witness." The minister looked around him as he spoke, and Spener would never point him out to man again as yesterday he had called Leonhard's attention to the little minister. Leonhard sat uneasily on his chair, doubting whether to go or stay, but nobody thought of him, and he felt himself to be in the centre of a charmed circle, out of which he could not remove himself. Every one was looking at Mr. Wenck, who, pausing a second as if to assure himself again ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 • Various
... about in his chair uneasily for a moment. I knew what he wanted to say, but saw no ...
— The Mystery Of The Boule Cabinet - A Detective Story • Burton Egbert Stevenson
... other, the delicateness of the sensitive plant. Mrs. Carleton herself was not without some sense of this distinction; she confessed, secretly, that there was something in Fleda out of the reach of her discernment, and consequently beyond the walk of her skill; and felt, rather uneasily, that more delicate hands were needed to guide so delicate a nature. Mrs. Evelyn came nearer the point. She was very pleasant, and she knew how to do things in a charming way; and there were times, frequently, when Fleda thought she was everything lovely. But yet, now and ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... said Alice, surprised, and beginning uneasily to fear that her superior perception of gentility was in some way the effect of her social inferiority to Miss Carew. "I thought ...
— Cashel Byron's Profession • George Bernard Shaw
... Madeline wriggled uneasily. "What's the use?" she objected. "It's too nice a day to waste indoors. There'll be nothing doing for us. We elected Rachel last year, and none of the rest of the crowd will ...
— Betty Wales Senior • Margaret Warde
... his throat, ran his fingers down his beard, moved uneasily in his chair, and at length, while a smile began to spread over the ...
— The Young Railroaders - Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity • Francis Lovell Coombs
... Aunt Helen shifted uneasily in her chair. "I don't know what your father would say to that. He disapproves of your intimacy ...
— A Romantic Young Lady • Robert Grant
... competition lined the corridors, and discontent sat glum or rustled uneasily in each stone cell. Some of the inmates brought pictures, busts and ornaments to embellish their rooms. Friends from the outside world sent presents; the cavalier who played the guitar beneath the window varied his entertainment by gifts; flowers filled ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 6 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists • Elbert Hubbard
... the vicar entered. She took up a chair for him, and placed it near the invalid. But he did not sit immediately. His eye traversed the kitchen at a glance. He saw Mrs. Ray propped up with her pillows, and looking vacantly about her, but his attention seemed to be riveted on Sim, who sat uneasily on the bench, apparently trying to ...
— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine
... muttered he, uneasily, "I foresaw it. That's the worst of it! Some wretched trifle like this might spoil it all. Yes, this hat is certainly too remarkable; it looks so ridiculous. I must get a cap to suit my rags; any old thing would be ...
— The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales • Various
... said uneasily, "that we should get married just so that we can go on—as we have been these last ten days. Really, we'll still only be engaged, but no one need know that. Besides, no one will ...
— The Triflers • Frederick Orin Bartlett
... She submitted, moving uneasily about the place, but busy, folding things and putting them away. He ran upstairs to wash. She could hear him overhead, splashing, rubbing, ...
— The Combined Maze • May Sinclair
... my friend! By Proteus, the old shepherd of the seals, you slumber uneasily. If I had not caught hold of you, you would have tumbled into the Eunostos. It is as true as that my mother sold salt fish, that ...
— Thais • Anatole France
... plants out by the roots, pursuing with his hands the flashes of vermilion and gold hidden in the cracks of the rocks. Minutes would pass by; he was going to stay down forever; he would never come up again. And the boy was beginning to think uneasily of the possibility of having to guide the bark back to the coast all alone. Suddenly the body of white crystal began taking on a greenish hue, growing larger and larger, becoming dark and coppery, ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... Presently he stirred uneasily. Perhaps he felt the cessation of the music, the sense of someone moving in the room. A moment later he opened his eyes and saw her ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... uneasily. The tone of the conversation was growing harsh and the atmosphere of the library ...
— The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... kid, I tell you," said Wallace, uneasily watching her. "Why, Mart," he added, dropping on his knees beside the bed, and putting his arms about her, "all boys are like that! Every one knows it. There isn't a man you know——And you're the only girl I ever loved, Sweetheart, you ...
— Martie the Unconquered • Kathleen Norris
... if she were peering past a misty veil into the childhood of the world to whose simple beauty and delights civilization had made her alien. The vibrating voices chanted slower and slower. Rhoda stirred uneasily. To be free again as these voices were free! Not to long for the civilization she had left but for open skies and ...
— The Heart of the Desert - Kut-Le of the Desert • Honore Willsie Morrow
... out the light and smiled uneasily, as he was not sure of his reception. He was covered with yellow clay, and Sina's shoulder bore traces of this, for she had rubbed against the ...
— Sanine • Michael Artzibashef
... once," said the matron, glancing uneasily at her son; "but, as Jonah says, we like our young men to stay in, especially at night. We parted with Mr Fison because he ...
— A Dog with a Bad Name • Talbot Baines Reed
... The boxes seemed to have subdued Ann effectually. But he pondered uneasily all the way home on the small vessel of wrath which was perched up behind him, and there was a tingling sensation at the roots of his queue. He wondered what Polly would say. The first glance at her face, when he lifted Ann off the horse ...
— The Pot of Gold - And Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins
... an awful thing to beard the lion in his den—for a new boy to face so great a personage as the football captain, and refuse point-blank to do as he was told. Diggory shifted uneasily from one foot to another, and then glancing up he became aware of the fact that Allingford was gazing at him across the table with a curious expression, which somehow gave him fresh encouragement to persist in his refusal to disclose the contents ...
— The Triple Alliance • Harold Avery
... affirmed Bannerman. His fat pink fingers drummed uneasily on the cloth for a few moments. "There isn't any question that the Dougherty people induced you to sink your money in their enterprise ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance
... she was walking quickly towards the river, a lonely little figure in that great place. Mr. Dove watched her uneasily till she was hidden in the haze, for his reason told him that this was a ...
— The Ghost Kings • H. Rider Haggard
... thousand autumns; here they hunted for iris and wild lilac in April, and hung Japanese lanterns through the long, warm summers. It was a perfect life for the old man; it was only lately that he begun uneasily to suspect that they would some day want something more, that they would some day tire of empty forest and blowing mountain ridge, and go away from the shadow of Mt. ...
— Sisters • Kathleen Norris
... the music-room were burning brilliantly and on a table stood siphons and bottles and glasses. At the door Hamilton paused and glanced uneasily about, then he saw Paul, and smiled. Weary with his vigil Paul, the affectionate and faithful, had evidently fallen asleep in his chair. Hamilton crossed and laid a hand on his brother's shoulder. ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck
... Galenas, across the canyon, the girl tiptoed into the house, to bend over the sleeping woman, in tender solicitude. With that mother tenderness belonging to all true women, she stooped and softly kissed the disfigured face upon the pillow. At the touch, Myra Willard stirred uneasily; and the girl—careful ...
— The Eyes of the World • Harold Bell Wright
... And yet there is more, which no man speaks, which all men now vaguely understand. Disquietude, absence of mind is on every face; Members whisper, uneasily come and go: the order of the day is evidently not the day's want. Till at length, from the outer gates, is heard a rustling and justling, shrill uproar and squabbling, muffled by walls; which testifies that the hour is come! Rushing and crushing one hears now; then enter ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle
... Ajax ruffled them so rudely. In her great, troubled eyes you read terrible memories, and a prescience of coming death—death, most grateful to the dishonored princess, but before which the frail womanhood can not but shudder and quail. No wonder that the reverend men glance at her uneasily, scarcely mustering courage enough sometimes to answer her with a pious platitude. Alas! ...
— Guy Livingstone; - or, 'Thorough' • George A. Lawrence
... his knife and fork, and had launched bravely forth upon his theme. Sir Joseph moved uneasily. Things were getting serious. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 • Various
... and left the door open. The wind flew into the hut. The flame of the candle flickered uneasily, flared ...
— The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... music and moonlight, and were happy. The atmosphere seemed more human, less unreal. Going up stairs at last, I looked in at the nursery, and found my pet seeming rather flushed, and I fancied that she stirred uneasily. It passed, whatever it was; for next morning she came in to wake me, looking, as usual, as if a new heaven and earth had been coined purposely for her since she went to sleep. We had our usual long and important discourse,—this time tending to protracted narrative, of the Mother-Goose ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. • Various
... lingered. He felt oppressed and miserable. The place seemed to him sinister. He hated these fumblings at locks that were surely meant to remain closed. Yet he did not know what to say. Mr. John had wandered off to one of the windows and was humming uneasily ...
— Come Rack! Come Rope! • Robert Hugh Benson
... anybody in. I know they're to home 'cause they was a fixin' t' leave the mill when I left 'bout an hour ago. Was the river up much when you come acrost?" As the native spoke he was still peering uneasily ...
— The Shepherd of the Hills • Harold Bell Wright
... Barnes stood uneasily by the desk. "I—I don't know, Tony," he answered. "To tell yuh the truth, I'd be a little bit scared to try it. Yuh see, I—well, if you wasn't an old friend of mine, I couldn't say it—but, confidentially, ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. • Various
... Pres?" inquired Annixter a little uneasily. "I don't know whether they're good or not. They were painted by a three-fingered Chinaman in Monterey, and I got the lot for thirty dollars, frames thrown in. Why, I think the frames alone are worth ...
— The Octopus • Frank Norris
... uneasily. "He says something's moving about—" The buzzer of the telephone was humming ...
— The Fifth-Dimension Tube • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... infidel, and proud of being an infidel, as a 'triumphant' settler of Christian scruples? But if the infidel is right, a point which I do not here discuss—but if the infidel is a man of genius, a point which I do not deny—was it not open to cite him, even though the citer were a bishop? Why, yes—uneasily one answers, yes; but still the case records a strange alteration, and still one could have wished to hear such a doctrine, which ascribes human infirmity (nay, human criminality) to every ...
— Theological Essays and Other Papers v1 • Thomas de Quincey
... Nan," he said earnestly, looking at her with an intentness that caused her to move uneasily; "it would seem quite natural for a partnership like this to be extended further. This world would be a pretty bleak place without you. You know and understand that. And there is Phil; Phil needs you just as I do. I mean to start afresh at the law; I mean to make myself ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson
... presently set the flats steaming, and did not dare to move lest some sharp eye should spy us. We could only hope for night and stars, and then sooner or later to come across some place where food could be got, if it was only green grain out of a field, for our stomachs were calling uneasily. ...
— Carette of Sark • John Oxenham
... about uneasily, then glances towards the door leading into the hall.] Who is at the door? Curious ... I thought I heard someone ...
— The Return of Peter Grimm • David Belasco
... cheerful place for any who might visit it; she flitted about the house in the prettiest and neatest of spring dresses; her hair, her face, her white hands and neck shone amid the shadows of the panelling like jewels in a casket. Everyone was conscious of her—uneasily conscious. She yielded herself to no one, was touched by no one. She stood apart, and through her cold, light ways spoke the world and the spirit that deny—the world at which the ...
— Helbeck of Bannisdale, Vol. I. • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... muttered the man, shifting uncomfortably and looking rather uneasily at the giant. "You ain't got nothin' on me. I just found that chunk of ...
— Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope • Victor Appleton
... burning look. He did not turn toward her nor Rufe, but his face grew sullen, and his voice was low and harsh. "I reckon he'll find out about that when the time comes," he said, quietly-too quietly, for the old mother stirred uneasily, and significant glances went from eye to eye. Rufe did not look up from the floor. He had been told about Rome's peculiar conduct, and, while the reason for it was beyond guessing, he knew the temper of the boy and how to kindle it. He had thrust a thorn in a tender spot, and he let it rankle. ...
— A Cumberland Vendetta • John Fox, Jr.
... No reply, but the sleeper turned uneasily, and then opened her eyes. "I certainly do hate to call you, but jes' look here; what you say for dat, little missy?" and Miranda held up a letter. "Dat was left wif me at daybreak by de young boy who came wif Sambo—missy knows who ...
— An Unwilling Maid • Jeanie Gould Lincoln
... and stirred uneasily in his chair, feeling that the tale of Aunt Marian's domestic troubles was putting on the semblance of ...
— The House of Souls • Arthur Machen
... opened the book-case and replaced the volume which she had been reading; and he saw that she glanced uneasily toward the door, as ...
— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans
... shadow suddenly rushed over Piedmont from the west, and in a moment the town was shrouded in twilight. The cries of birds were hushed and chickens went to roost as in a total eclipse of the sun. Knots of people gathered on the streets and gazed uneasily at the threatening skies. Hundreds of negroes began to sing and shout and pray, while sensible people feared a cyclone or cloud-burst. A furious downpour of rain was swiftly followed by sunshine, and the negroes rose from their knees, shouting with joy to find ...
— The Clansman - An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan • Thomas Dixon
... and looked around uneasily. Sandy gave him a significant wink and then he went without ...
— The Second Chance • Nellie L. McClung
... into the life which offered itself to these children: behind them a past forever destroyed, moving uneasily on its ruins with all the fossils of centuries of absolutism; before them the aurora of an immense horizon, the first gleams of the future; and between these two worlds—something like the Ocean which separates the old world from Young America, something ...
— The Confession of a Child of The Century • Alfred de Musset
... grow warm with active being, and the world stirs with busy life. On the veld, with the first delicate glow, the head of a meerkat, or a springbok, is raised above the gray-brown grass; herds of cattle move uneasily. Then a bird takes flight across the whitening air, another, and then another; the meerkat sits up and begs breakfast of the sun; lizards creep out upon the stones; a snake slides along obscenely foraging. Presently man and beast and all wild things ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... a shade. She laughed, a little uneasily. "I am so awkward on board ship," she replied, and turned away and shut herself up in ...
— Miss or Mrs.? • Wilkie Collins
... through the gloom. Each night seemed to be lonelier than the preceding, but Free Joe's patience was proof against loneliness. There came a time, however, when little Dan refused to go after Lucinda. When Free Joe motioned him in the direction of the Calderwood place, he would simply move about uneasily and whine; then he would curl up in the leaves ...
— Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches • Joel Chandler Harris
... I am quite sensible how kind it is in you—a man of your starch habits and strict views, coming here to pay a mark of respect to Kate (Mr. Robert turned uneasily in his chair)—even before you knew of the private marriage, and I'm sure I don't blame you for never having done it before. You did quite right to try your ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 1 • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... shake off gloomy speculation, uneasily aware that much of the carefree confidence of the last hour had deserted him. In a more normal state of mind again he became prey to tension once more, a pounding heart and dry mouth recalling mercilessly the essential frailties of his kind. So, with ...
— Far from Home • J.A. Taylor
... startlingly pretty woman, with the delicate features and colour and the snow-white hair of an 18th century belle. She stood, now, drawing on her gloves and watching her son out of dark-fringed deep blue eyes, until he glanced around uneasily. Then he rose at once, looking ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers
... quite aback. "What in the world is the young un after now?" thought he; "I've swallowed a good many of his crotchets, but this altogether beats me. He can't be quite right in his head." He didn't want to say a word, and shifted about uneasily in the dark; however, Arthur seemed to be waiting for an answer, so at last he said, "I don't think I quite see what you mean, Geordie. One's told so often to think about death that I've tried it on sometimes, especially this last ...
— Tom Brown's Schooldays • Thomas Hughes
... confidently that I looked at her uneasily. Was there really a Royalist plot on foot, and did she ...
— At the Point of the Sword • Herbert Hayens
... about detaining the servants," she said uneasily, evidently a bit disconcerted. "Dinner has been ready to serve for nearly ...
— The Ordeal - A Mountain Romance of Tennessee • Charles Egbert Craddock
... inside. The people drew back from him. They spat at him, too, and pelted him with food and pebbles. He spoke to them, sternly, in the tone of one speaking to unruly dogs, and he spoke words, in his own tongue. The people began to shuffle about uneasily. They stopped throwing things. ...
— The Stars, My Brothers • Edmond Hamilton
... trick have you got up your sleeve, Jack?" questioned George, uneasily, as the three gathered ...
— Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise - or, The Dash for Dixie • Louis Arundel
... the archway leading into the parlor swayed noiselessly toward her and then settled back to their normal position. Presently the major, who was at Miss Bayard's right, and with his back close to the hall-door, began to fidget and look uneasily about. The doctor was just telling a very good story at the moment and she could not bear to interrupt him, but after the laughter and applause had subsided she ...
— 'Laramie;' - or, The Queen of Bedlam. • Charles King
... had made a bad break and looked around a little uneasily at the principal, violently condemning in his heart that rule which led principals to escort young men around; especially when there was a likelihood of meeting with such a lovely girl. If you had consulted Belton's wishes at that moment, school would have been adjourned ...
— Imperium in Imperio: A Study Of The Negro Race Problem - A Novel • Sutton E. Griggs
... ends of his moustache and fidgeted uneasily in his chair. He always prided himself upon being a man of his word, but much regretted at the present moment that he had been so rash ...
— Probable Sons • Amy Le Feuvre
... her glance rested uneasily on Dubois, and there was no mistaking her expression. Dubois's face inspired her with as much distrust as the regent's ...
— The Regent's Daughter • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)
... a huge hairy seaman, with the frame of an elephant, the skin of a walrus, and the tender heart of a woman! He glances uneasily round. ...
— Battles with the Sea • R.M. Ballantyne
... at Elsie uneasily, but he could read nothing in her face. Then he was guilty of laying ...
— Little Folks - A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) • Various
... uneasily; but even as he did so she received another dove which fluttered in at the window. And as she read the message it had brought she said musingly—almost as if she were reading the message, and not speaking to him at all—"Everychild shall ...
— Everychild - A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old • Louis Dodge
... naked with filth and disease. Their leather aprons hung in tatters. One or two in the crowd were humans, the dregs of the Kharsa. But the star-and-rocket emblem blazoned across the spaceport gates sobered even the wildest blood-lust somewhat; they milled and shifted uneasily in their ...
— The Door Through Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... followed, suggesting that he had walked away forward to join his superior; but as the man at my feet just then stirred uneasily, as though his senses were returning to him, I made a quick grab at my cutlass, and drawing from my belt a loaded pistol, the existence of which I had until then forgotten, I pulled myself together and made ...
— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood
... Second Blast, I fear, shall sound somewhat more sharp, except men be more moderate than I hear they are." (1) But the threat is empty; there will never be a second blast - he has had enough of that trumpet. Nay, he begins to feel uneasily that, unless he is to be rendered useless for the rest of his life, unless he is to lose his right arm and go about his great work maimed and impotent, he must find some way of making his peace with ...
— Familiar Studies of Men & Books • Robert Louis Stevenson
... of the ranch came the faint clink of glasses and the murmurous flow of voices. Presently the boom of the veterans' jovial laugh swelled the "concourse of sweet sounds," and Blake stirred uneasily. ...
— A Wounded Name • Charles King
... 'What about him?' said I. 'Never was such a thing seen in this place, not since Queen Mary's times and the Pope and all,' said Mrs. Maple. 'Why, do you know he lived in this very house, him and them that was with him, and for all I can tell in this identical room' (she shifted her feet uneasily on the floor). 'Who was with him? Do you mean the people of the house?' said Uncle Oldys suspiciously. 'Not to call people, Doctor, dear no,' was the answer; 'more what he brought with him from Ireland, I believe it ...
— A Thin Ghost and Others • M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
... in no mood for facetiousness, and refused to answer his question. "I surely can't have made a mistake," she observed uneasily. ...
— Rowdy of the Cross L • B.M. Sinclair, AKA B.M. Bower
... Holman moved uneasily in his seat, and seemed on the point of interrupting the speaker, but for ...
— Frank's Campaign - or the Farm and the Camp • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... was not tired enough either to sit still or to sleep. She got up and walked restlessly round the camp. Known problems and unknown longings were stirring uneasily ...
— The Desert Fiddler • William H. Hamby
... all ready?" asked the referee. There was no reply. Only here and there a foot moved uneasily as weights were thrown forward, and there was a general, almost imperceptible, tightening of nerves ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour
... were shining as with fever out of a ghostly face. Her lips trembled as she answered: "Oh it's nothing. I do this often." She went slowly into the back room where the maid was. In a few minutes she returned, apparently as usual. She flitted about uneasily, taking up now one thing, now another in a ...
— The Great God Success • John Graham (David Graham Phillips)
... naturally no reply. Mr. Alfred Burton laughed uneasily to himself. The shadows of the room and its curious perfume were ...
— The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... the kitchen window. "It's Billy Laws and Horeb Potter. What are they peekin' around here for I want to know." One of the boys now advanced toward the house, but at the appearance of Miss Ada on the porch, he took to his heels, and lurked in the distance where his companion was uneasily waiting. ...
— Three Little Cousins • Amy E. Blanchard
... his forehead again. The carriage had turned in at the drive, and he glanced towards Brooks a little uneasily. ...
— A Prince of Sinners • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... was too unwell to go down stairs, I descended to the breakfast-room where I found Mr. Dunbar uneasily walking the room. ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 • Various
... uneasily in his camp-chair. He had an Englishman's horror of putting into speech those things which we all think, while only Frenchmen and Italians say them. The Spaniards are not so bad, and Victor Durnovo had enough of their blood in ...
— With Edged Tools • Henry Seton Merriman
... ter one another," concurred Rowlett, wondering uneasily whither the conversational trend was leading, "an' we went ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck
... discontented May? On her soft couch uneasily she lay: 420 The lumpish husband snored away the night, Till coughs awaked him near the morning light. What then he did, I'll not presume to tell, Nor if she thought herself in heaven or hell: Honest and dull in nuptial bed they lay, ...
— Poetical Works of Pope, Vol. II • Alexander Pope
... where are you going?" said du Bousquier, uneasily. "This is what comes of a bachelor's life!" thought he. "The devil take me if I ever did anything more than rumple her collar, and, lo and behold! she makes THAT a ground to put her ...
— An Old Maid • Honore de Balzac
... and turning round made signs to the dog to follow them. Longears, however, only moved his head uneasily, and wagged ...
— The Last of the Foresters • John Esten Cooke
... Peterman stirred uneasily. At that moment he beheld more clearly than ever the picture of this man with his great arms about the body of the woman he coveted, and feeling lent ...
— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum
... and glanced uneasily at Morris. "Is that so?" she said. "Well, I'm pleased to meet ...
— Potash & Perlmutter - Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures • Montague Glass
... and Ross stirred uneasily as his sleep thinned to waking. He lay with his eyes closed, fitting together odd bits of—dreams? No, he was certain that they were memories. Rossa of the Beaker traders and Ross Murdock of the project were again fused into one ...
— The Time Traders • Andre Norton
... about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it—but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone—" He broke off uneasily. She had risen and was standing, dry-eyed, picking little ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... raging waters, fading into the obscurity of the wind-driven rain. While he stared aghast, a great tree struck the wall like a battering-ram, so that the stable shook. The horses, which had been for some time moving uneasily, were now quite scared. There was not a moment to be lost. Duff shouted for his men; one or two came running; and in less than a minute more those in the house heard the iron-shod feet splashing and stamping through the water, as, one after another, the horses were brought ...
— Sir Gibbie • George MacDonald
... uneasily. The Foxes had been in the lead ever since the last contest. If they won again, they would be out so far in front that it would be almost impossible ...
— Don Strong, Patrol Leader • William Heyliger
... at such discourse from so young a man, told him he wished he were in his health, and that he wanted good counsel and good friends, to tell him the burden of being executor to Caesar would sit very uneasily upon his young shoulders. This was no answer to him; and, when he persisted in demanding the property, Antony went on treating him injuriously both in word and deed, opposed him when he stood for the tribune's office, and, when he was taking steps for the dedication of his father's golden chair, ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough
... plump and pleasing maiden lady, whose gold beads lay in a crease especially designed for them, stirred uneasily in her seat and gave her sisters an appealing glance. But she did not speak, beyond uttering a little dissentient noise in her throat. She was loyal to her minister. An embarrassed silence fell like a vapor over the assemblage. Everybody longed to talk; ...
— Tiverton Tales • Alice Brown
... to know that his eyes are fastened on her as she droops her head again; but her whole figure reveals that she knows it uneasily. ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
... girl, who a moment before had asked questions and still seemed interested a little in life, stirred uneasily, and murmured, ...
— Prince Zilah, Complete • Jules Claretie
... turned upon the flushing youth. The girl and Bridge could not prevent their own gazes from wandering to the bulging coat pockets, the owner of which moved uneasily, at last shooting a look of defiance, not unmixed ...
— The Oakdale Affair • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... pretty,' said the squire, uneasily, for he dreaded a repetition of the arguments which Roger had often used to make him give Aimee her proper due of affection and position. 'Now your Miss Cynthia was pretty, I will say that for her, the baggage! and to think that when you two lads ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... stern. As she dozed off to sleep, she reminded herself to ask Georgie to lunch next day. He and Peppino and she must have a serious talk. She had seen Georgie comparatively little just lately, and she drowsily and uneasily wondered how ...
— Queen Lucia • E. F. Benson
... agreed the driver, uneasily, pulling his cap farther over his snow-hung eyebrows. "I've been thinking so for ...
— The Second Violin • Grace S. Richmond
... ornaments, my prettiest feature," said the Woozy, uneasily. "If I give up those three hairs ...
— The Patchwork Girl of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... that upper sort, and make no pretence to be so; but Time, perhaps, may be excused for thinking—having had such a very short turn at my clothes—that I belonged to the aristocracy. At any rate, while I drew, and rubbed, and dubbed, and made hieroglyphics, Time was. uneasily shifting and shuffling the lines of the hills, as a fever patient jerks and works the bed-clothes. And, worse than that, he was scurrying westward (frightened, no doubt, by the equinox) at such a pace that I was scared by the huddling together of shadows. Awaking ...
— George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris - From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore • R. D. Blackmore
... He shifted uneasily, debating. When he spoke he was even more explosive than before. "Not a cent! Not a red! Give that whelp money to run his crazy paper on? Not your father, while ...
— The Conflict • David Graham Phillips |
