Now each visiter shall confess The sad valley's
restlessness. Nothing there is motionless - Nothing save the airs that brood Over the magic solitude.
And meet it is, that over these sea-pastures, wide-rolling watery prairies and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their
restlessness. To any meditative Magian rover, this serene Pacific, once beheld, must ever after be the sea of his adoption.
Such a
restlessness possessed me that I was not even able to lie still in the bed.
The single gentleman was inexorable; and whenever he had exhausted all other modes and fashions of
restlessness, it invariably occurred to him that Kit's mother wanted brandy and water.
When he thought of them Philip was seized with a
restlessness he could not account for.
He was not calm; his spirits were evidently fluttered; there was
restlessness about him.
When about to make the land, the spirit of the ship's commander is tormented by an unconquerable
restlessness. It seems unable to abide for many seconds together in the holy of holies of the captain's state-room; it will out on deck and gaze ahead, through straining eyes, as the appointed moment comes nearer.
but no, I will talk to you later on," and with a strange light in his eyes and
restlessness in his movements, Prince Andrew approached Natasha and sat down beside her.
Its solitary passenger had suddenly developed a fit of
restlessness. He left his seat and walked once or twice up and down the saloon.
A great
restlessness was in her and it expressed itself in two ways.
It began with incessant
restlessness while he was reading here.
There was only--spring itself; the throb of it, the light
restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere: in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm, high wind--rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive and playful like a big puppy that pawed you and then lay down to be petted.