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restlessness noun 1. movement, activity, turmoil, unrest, instability, bustle, turbulence, hurry, transience, inconstancy, hurry-scurry, unsettledness noun 2. restiveness, anxiety, disturbance, nervousness, disquiet, agitation, insomnia, jitters (informal) uneasiness, edginess, heebie-jeebies (slang) jumpiness, fretfulness, ants in your pants (slang) fitfulness, inquietude, worriedness Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Now each visiter shall confess The sad valley's restlessness. 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. When he thought of them Philip was seized with a restlessness he could not account for. |
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