Noun : beset by myriad inquietudes. From Dictionary.com.
But his inquietude was the offspring of love; and his wariness and caution originated in the docility of his mind, and his anxious attachment to innocence and spotless rectitude. From Wordnik.com. [Imogen A Pastoral Romance] Reference
What a source was this, too, for domestic inquietude!. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2] Reference
She had observed with inquietude that at the mention of. From Wordnik.com. [The Monk] Reference
Sarah Purday was pacing the cell in a frenzy of inquietude. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
His mind relieved from inquietude respecting his Sister, and his. From Wordnik.com. [The Monk] Reference
'As you say, mademoiselle - it is the future that causes one inquietude.'. From Wordnik.com. [Hercule Poirot's Casebook]
Of these glories Lady Lufton always thought with much inquietude of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Framley Parsonage] Reference
The Marquis was almost distracted, and Lorenzo felt scarcely less inquietude. From Wordnik.com. [The Monk] Reference
Our only cause for inquietude was now the appearance of the precipitous slope above us. From Wordnik.com. [The Master of the World] Reference
Sleep was not long absent, and his presence relieved her from her terrors and inquietude. From Wordnik.com. [The Monk] Reference
There was neither jealousy, inquietude, or mistrust in his sentiment; it was devotion and faith. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
It wrung my heart to think that I had had to keep anything from her and so caused her inquietude. From Wordnik.com. [Dracula] Reference
An event was in preparation which, had She known it, would have relieved her from her inquietude. From Wordnik.com. [The Monk] Reference
I perish if I would give you one moment's inquietude to purchase the greatest possible felicity to myself. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Life in Colonial Days] Reference
His brain was bewildered, and presented a confused Chaos of remorse, voluptuousness, inquietude, and fear. From Wordnik.com. [The Monk] Reference
The Viscount de Chartres, who had lost it and not the Duke de Nemours, was in the utmost inquietude about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess of Cleves]
Still, as I urged our leaving Ireland with such inquietude and impatience, my father thought it best to yield. From Wordnik.com. [Frankenstein] Reference
May I perish before I would give you one moment's inquietude to procure the greatest possible felicity to myself!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
This paroxysm of terror gradually passed away, but was succeeded by other fancies equally productive of inquietude. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"I have offended thee too far," replied Dakianos: "thy life would be my death, it would give me too much inquietude.". From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Again He paced the chamber; But an involuntary movement of awe and inquietude constantly led his eye towards the Alcove. From Wordnik.com. [The Monk] Reference
Nevertheless, there was something occasionally, noticeable in his ways, a look and tone that betrayed inward inquietude. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Duke with a manner which was meant to be graceful and conciliatory, but which could not conceal both art and inquietude. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference
The companions of the imam El-Chafei perceived that he felt a certain inquietude, but none of them knew the reason for it. From Wordnik.com. [Malayan Literature] Reference
A general rising and inquietude to look out for Mrs. Berlinton, gave Edgar, at length, an opportunity to stand next to Camilla. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
It was the month of December; a rigorous winter had afflicted Paris, where the misery and inquietude of the people were extreme. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. From Wordnik.com. [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference
Yet, was it for her he sighed? was it not, rather, from some secret inquietude, in which she was wholly uninterested, and might never know?. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
I know not whether it was a presentiment of the misfortune which menaced us that had made me pass the preceding night in the most cruel inquietude. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
I knew not whether it was a presentiment of the misfortune which menaced us that had made me pass the preceding night in the most cruel inquietude. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
In a significant manner fate willed that seventy years after his death Solomos would reply by means of this message to the inquietude of new generations. From Wordnik.com. [Giorgos Seferis - Nobel Lecture] Reference
There is no soul-searching here, none of the moments of despair, inquietude, fits of gloom that are recorded in the lives of even the most self-possessed of heroic men. From Wordnik.com. [MacArthur] Reference
I know him by sight, and his presence gives me cause for inquietude, for, as a rule, in ordinary cases he is satisfied to leave their conduct to one of his substitutes. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Night came on just as we had finished our operations; and such a night as it was to us! so full of feverish and distracting inquietude, that we were deprived entirely of rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]
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