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Example sentences for "disquietude"

Lexicographically close words:
disquiet; disquieted; disquieting; disquietness; disquiets; disquietudes; disquisition; disquisitions; disrated; disregard
  1. It became my idol, and, as a necessary consequence, it has proved a source of misery and disquietude to me, instead of pleasure and blessing.

  2. I was now disgusted with the hawks, and no wonder, seeing all the disquietude they had caused me; I soon totally neglected the poor birds, and they would have starved had not some of the servants taken compassion upon them and fed them.

  3. The predicament was so strange, and involved constitutional considerations of such importance, as to give the most serious disquietude to the Administration.

  4. This caused the other robber some disquietude and he cursed his compatriot and the doctor and his wife with a use of epithets that will not bear repeating and which showed him to be none other than a low ruffian.

  5. As I am about to unite with the Presbyterian church this coming Sunday, it might cause my wife some disquietude and fear of backsliding, were I to retain possession of my eight copies of the Koran.

  6. It is true they were brief in duration compared to those of old, but that they should exist at all was a cause of anxiety and disquietude both to my father and physician.

  7. A whirl of vivid joy passed through me like an electric flash, however, as I recognized in his disquietude the strength of his affection.

  8. His only disquietude was the fear of hell: whereby he was led to pay the wage of a succession of parsons, if they preached comforting doctrine and blue-pencilled the needle's eye from the Testament; but not otherwise.

  9. It is restlessness, ambition, discontent, and disquietude that make us grow old prematurely by carving wrinkles on our faces.

  10. He resolutely steeled his conscience once for all against even wholesome disquietude and anxiety, and of set purpose he bore down all misgivings.

  11. His doctrine of good works was no less a source of disquietude to Luther.

  12. And Mr. Smythe, true to his order of mind, treated the first with outrageous contumely, the second with silent contempt, and the third with a respect born of vague disquietude and anxiety for the morrow.

  13. Soon a disquietude from another source set my mind at work in troubled calculation of probabilities.

  14. Hence the well-concealed disquietude of the company was nothing in comparison with my own perplexity-- which, I trust, was no less successfully disguised.

  15. In future, we shall have disquietude every few years; that is whenever the president is changed.

  16. Therefore, I conclude that the successor to the presidential chair has to prevent chaos by wielding the monarchical power, while the new emperor can avert internal disquietude forever by means of his constitutional government.

  17. A shadow passed over his sly face, and a secret disquietude was traceable through all his voluble expression of joy.

  18. Blanche attributed her tortures at night to the disquietude she suffered during the day.

  19. Such was his disquietude that he resolved to apply to Chupin, even though this traitor inspired him with extreme repugnance.

  20. The disquietude of my thoughts admonished me that I too loved this Mexican maiden.

  21. Don't have any disquietude about the result.

  22. One fact, made evident by the communication, gave me disquietude of another kind.

  23. In the medicine of Nature a chronic and abiding disquietude or morbidness of temperament is often cured by some keen though more transient sorrow which violently changes the current of our thoughts and imaginations.

  24. I now met with a fresh cause for disquietude in my present situation, for, Dayelle being gone, the King my husband placed his affections on Rebours.

  25. This abominable plot, which proved the source of so much disquietude and unhappiness, as well to my brother as myself, was as artfully conducted as it was wickedly designed.

  26. It is difficult, very difficult, for me to judge myself, in the state of disquietude in which I am, but I dare assure you that I have not deliberately given cause for scandal.

  27. When she recovered consciousness Rosario manifested great disquietude at finding herself at such an hour out of her own room.

  28. She felt queerly tired; she felt also rather sick at heart, and looking at Daisy, she could not bear the thought of the trouble and disquietude she must bring to the girl whom she so loved.

  29. The stranger was tranquilly eating his supper; Leroux strove to entertain him, but he constantly listened with marked disquietude for sounds out of doors, and seemed desirous that the traveller should go to bed at once.

  30. The presence of those two men who knew Frederic caused her a disquietude which became more painful with every minute that passed.

  31. I will not disguise from you that my sufferings are terrible--my disquietude almost unbearable, for it is the Republic at stake," he said.

  32. The lad was growing up; nor were there wanting moments causing those around him to look on with disquietude to the day when the nobles ruling in his name might be called upon to give an account of their stewardship.

  33. A shudder of fear sped by, a crack as of doom was heard, arousing pitiful disquietude in every fraternal heart.

  34. Then his causeless doubt and disquietude again came on him so painfully that he could no longer remain at the window.

  35. These words brought Pierre's disquietude and exasperation to a climax.

  36. He became restless and uneasy; but Oriel was so actively engaged in looking for and despatching the game, that he did not notice the disquietude of his friend.

  37. On the evening of the third day the Chamberlain had displayed a strange disquietude and replied to Eckhardt's questions with a wandering mind.

  38. Never possibly, from the hour when the first successor of St. Peter mounted the throne of the Apostle, had there been exhibited so much unrest and disquietude as there was in this instance to be observed among the masses.

  39. The prevailing disquietude was increased when it was found that after his own conversion Paul considered it his duty to convert his former co-religionists.

  40. At times of marriage and the birth of children, joy and feasting are turned into mourning and disquietude of soul.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disquietude" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.