For instance, Hunt is sure that Shelley suffered inordinately from the loss of the children because, after the subsidence of his first violent agitation at the Chancellor's cruelty, he never spoke about them.
The sight of his evident agitation was too much for Neaera.
His agitation would not allow him to rest, so he wandered up and down the apartment.
Her agitation increased, and her fingers worked nervously with the dusting cloth she held.
When the eyes of the latter fell on it, his frame trembled with an agitation he could not hide.
During the last hour his nervous agitationhad increased, and had been hard to hide; he now, therefore, hastened to put an end to this painful state of suspense.
The sea still tumbled its foamy billows far below, but, from the great elevation of the villa garden, the agitation was scarcely noticeable.
This steady and undissipated attention to one object is a sure mark of a superior genius, as hurry, bustle, and agitation are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind.
There was evident agitation in the multitudes that filled the sidewalks--an apprehension of something to be dreaded.
Lady Burdon struggled with the dreadful agitation the words had caused her.
You observed my confusion and agitation when you and Henry overtook me.
And accordingly, she turned the key in the chamber door, closed it again, and stood by the young lady's side; such was her agitation that for three or four seconds she could not speak.
It was long before this extravagant agitation subsided so as to allow room for thought or remembrance.
Flurried and frightened as Larry was, his agitation was not strong enough to overcome in him the national, instinctive abhorrence of the character of an informer.
By agitation it becomes granulous like soft cheese.
I believe this agitation is most frequently the effect of some conflict that has arisen in the depths of the forest.
Their dread of the census, exaggerated perhaps, but not wholly unjustifiable, caused greateragitation than any previous statute, and aroused new disputes, in which the old differences between Pharisee and Sadducee were entirely forgotten.
The Talmud introduces us into the laboratory of thought, and in it may be traced the progress of ideas, from their earliest agitation to the giddy height of incomprehensibility to which at times they attain.
The suspense and agitation were, in fact, so great that some violent explosion of the grief of the crowd was apprehended.
The first thought that struck him was, that anxiety about her had produced the dreadful agitation that his father, with all his stoical philosophy, found it impossible to restrain, and which was so painful for him to witness.
Besides, the general political agitation drew the attention of our people away from the more fundamental matters of perfecting themselves in the industries at their doors and in securing property.
My opinion is that it would be better to let the matter rest for the present; the agitation of it may revive animosities, and if any good be attainable, it may be attained at a more favourable period than the present.
The majority must put an end to all agitation in England, and tranquillise Ireland.
Pen, however, did not remark this agitation much, but continued in the same bantering and excited vein.
Since that fatal but delightful night in Grosvenor place, Mr. Harry Foker's heart had been in such a state of agitation as you would hardly have thought so great a philosopher could endure.
In her first moment of agitationshe had dropped the letter, and Laura had read it.
Mr. Blakeman were the chief speakers, and the obnoxiousness of church rates (a subject of great agitation at Bromsgrove) the chief theme.
Colonel Davies opposed it, because he thought that the agitation of the subject was ill-timed.
In his agitation he had said more than he meant to, and he reproached himself for so doing.
Here she walked to and fro for a few minutes in greatagitation of mind.
For just half a moment after he spoke the major's name, Narkom fancied that it seemed to have a disturbing influence upon Cleek; that there was a shadow, just a shadow of agitation suggested.
Resurrection of cerebral agitation in the ganglionic centres and intercorrelate cerebral fibres of Hearn.
Violent agitation in the peripheral centres of Hearn, together with considerable acute anguish, owing to disintegration of cerebral tissue consequent upon the sudden arrest of nerve-force in discharge.
Although the agitation against foot binding is undoubtedly making itself felt to a certain extent in the coast provinces, in Yün-nan the horrible practice continues unabated.
Such a provision roused all the opposition of the mercantile community, and in consequence of the agitation the scheme, as finally submitted to the Reichstag, was for a gold monometallic system.
The close of the conference was, however, followed by a strong bimetallic agitation in England and Germany, which found united expression in the Bimetallic Congress at Cologne in October 1882.
The result was a second melting down and disappearance of the silver coins of the state, a second agitation on the part of the Florentine woollen merchants, and renewed legislation.
In the United States a parallel though more interested agitation was conducted, centring round the yearly proposed repeal of the compulsory minting clauses of the Bland Bill.
The pamphleteer and polemic literature of this crisis is as rich and instructive as any which has accompanied the bimetallic agitation and silver question of our later days.
Another five years' agitation at my age would be impossible--ludicrous (with much emphasis).
Mr. Chamberlain had been rapidly advancing in public prominence, and he now showed that the agitation against the House of Lords was to be only the beginning and not the end.
I hear no challenges upon that statement, for I think it is generally and deeply felt that without the agitation the Land Act would not have been passed.
Again in 1874 during a long walk, when we spoke of the shocks and agitation of our time, he told me how the Vatican decrees had required him to reperuse and retry the whole circle of his thought.
Since that time we have seen our position in Ireland immensely strengthened, and the leader of the agitation has even thought it wise, and has dared, to pursue a somewhat conciliatory course.
Agrarian agitation on the one hand, parliamentary violence on the other, were the two potent weapons by which the Irish revolutionary leader assailed the misrule of the British garrison as the agents of the British parliament in his country.
In a few days the two leaders would have been on their way to America, leaving a half-empty war chest behind them and the flame of agitation burning low.
Suppose I am told," he said in notable and mournful words, "that without the agitation Ireland would never have had the Land Act of 1881, are you prepared to deny that?
The present agitation does not strengthen in my mind the principle of establishment.
The controversy was transported from parliament to the platform, and a vigorous agitation marked the autumn recess.
Hertha made a short cut through bushes and hedge to the bailiff's house, and Elly, who despite her agitation had not let go of the fat pug, obediently followed.
The twilight which reigned in the neighbourhood of the lamp-shade prevented his agitation from being visible, otherwise it must have betrayed him.
As we look around the ecclesiastical horizon, we find agitation and controversy on all sides.
It is not an incident or an accident that the agitation of woman's advancement and the agitation of industrial reform are simultaneous movements.
An agitation which has gathered impetus and strength during more than forty years is a significant phenomenon in the realm of mind and of social progress.
One can see by its agitation this morning that the enemy are not far off.
His agitation was so much increas'd by her words and manner, that I attempted to draw him into another apartment.
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