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  • An uneasiness in a horizontal posture attends it, but no disposition to incurvate the body forward. Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart
  • The uneasiness grew into a formless apprehension, which drew him out into the waxing sunlight and drove him to retrace his earlier route through the meadow, towards College Rise.
  • The time was just before daybreak, an hour when the uneasiness of the air affected trees and animals, and made even men-sleepers turn over sighingly. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  • a vague uneasiness
  • I have come a long way from my days of getting jiggy for my "crackberry" as a colleague used to refer to hand-held electronic devices; nonetheless, I feel a vague uneasiness when far from the ability to reach out and touch civilization. Meg Pier: Silence of Spain's Tabernas Desert
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  • If people cannot be brought to an interest in one another greater than they feel to-day, to curiosities and criticisms far keener, and co-operations far subtler, than we have now; if class cannot be brought to measure itself against, and interchange experience and sympathy with class, and temperament with temperament then we shall never struggle very far beyond the confused discomforts and uneasiness of to-day, and the changes and complications of human life will remain as they are now, very like the crumplings and separations and complications of an immense avalanche that is sliding down a hill. An Englishman Looks at the World
  • By 1931 the uneasiness had extended to many conservative bourgeois who viewed the radicalism of the new movement with apprehension.
  • Indeed, it was uneasiness about shmuck that led to the truncated euphemism shmo - and any shmo knows what shmo comes from. March 2004
  • Here, Natalia's search for death is marked as also a quest for ‘authenticity,’ one with which, despite our uneasiness, we may feel some readerly allegiance.
  • There is no ambivalence in his treatment of that primal emotion, but a cursoriness and uneasiness to his approach.
  • She had looked forward with considerable uneasiness to her first encounter with her aunt. The House of Mirth
  • On the other hand, if the good-for-nothing in the next cubicle earns five dollars more an hour than you do, that could be the source of great indignation, uneasiness, and unhappiness.
  • But after experiencing the uneasiness which Lord Chesterfield's fallacious patronage made him feel, he dismissed the word garret from the sad group, and in all the subsequent editions the line stands -- Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood
  • Even though I am a genderqueer person and despite my growing uneasiness with the system, it still works pretty well for me.
  • In addition, he showed how to decode body language: crossing one's legs when sitting was a sign of uneasiness, while standing with one's legs wide apart was the hallmark of a braggart.
  • Despite surface pleasantries at times, an uneasiness derived from their deeply entrenched differences.
  • The pain is not physical, but more sinister, an uneasiness -- anxiety about lack of talent, boringness, poor word choice. Michael Henry: What Work Is: What Labor Day, the Poet Laureate, Adderall, Mountain Biking, and the Philosopher Horace have in Common
  • And of you I think much and anxiously since Mrs. Channing, amidst her delight at what she calls the happiest hour of her absence, in her acquaintance with you and your family, expresses much uneasiness respecting your untempered devotion to study. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
  • And those who were immune to such uneasiness had another reason for disquiet.
  • Perceval appointed him secretary to the Admiralty in 1809, a well-paid post which he held for 22 years, never quitting his office ‘without a kind of uneasiness like a truant boy’.
  • But,” added he, at seeing the old woman’s uneasiness at his discourse, “affliction may gie him a jagg, and let the wind out o’ him, as out o’ The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • Dutocq had seen with great uneasiness what he called the liaison of des Lupeaulx with Madame Rabourdin, and his silent wrath on the subject was accumulating. Bureaucracy
  • In addition, he showed how to decode body language: crossing one's legs when sitting was a sign of uneasiness, while standing with one's legs wide apart was the hallmark of a braggart.
  • All the Branghtons called to take leave of me; but I will not write a word more about them: indeed I cannot, with any patience, think of that family, to whose forwardness and impertinence is owing all the uneasiness I at this moment suffer! Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
  • A man at first, perhaps, feels a kind of grudging and uneasiness all over his body, a deadness upon his stomach, and a drowsiness upon his senses, and he cannot well tell what he ails; but after a few days these uncertain beginnings come to rage in a burning fever, or to strike him with an apoplex; and then it appears what those symptoms foreboded and tended to all along; and the great question now is, not when or how soon the man shall recover and be well, but whether or no he shall live. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
  • An uneasiness, not such as besets one on the eve of some event, but such as one feels on remembering some good that one has lost forever, filled Janina's heart. Komediantka. English
  • Next to me, I could almost feel Cale's hackles rising in defiance and uneasiness, much like a cornered dog about to make a break for it between the gaps in the ring of its attackers.
  • Underlying these questions was a deep uneasiness about the size and purpose of American power.
  • A person in our family was bitten by a snake, but neglected to apply for the remedy for more than half an hour after the accident, when his own expressions were, that 'he suffered great uneasiness in his body, and his faculties seemed darkened;' half a masha, about eight grains of blue stone, was now given in ghee. Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society
  • The table remained quiet for a few moments, and a wave of uneasiness flowed between the two paladins.
  • Though admittedly I did feel a brief uneasiness when I remembered that odd floating movement of Sergia's.
  • I can say that I've never had a moment's uneasiness by (_beating her knee with her hand, stick in left hand_) telling the truth. Mr. Pim Passes By
  • His photographs express his contradictions, his uneasiness about the way he is, they are a way of sloughing off some of that guilt.
  • The start of a new decade, century and millennium, the Year 2000 naturally created some collective uneasiness.
  • But after experiencing the uneasiness which Lord Chesterfield's fallacious patronage made him feel, he dismissed the word garret from the sad group, and in all the subsequent editions the line stands Life Of Johnson
  • Some jury members expressed uneasiness with the fact that Jimmy put his name on the paper and footnoted nothing.
  • A lukewarm attitude of the government is sure to add fuel to the uneasiness of the people when the sales of imported American beef have been virtually suspended.
  • Gives him what he calls a faint picture of his horrible uneasiness, riding up and down, expecting the return of his servant as soon as he had dispatched him. Clarissa Harlowe
  • To be pro-choice does not preclude uneasiness with abortion. American Grace
  • The man of science drew a long, quick breath -- it might have been one of uneasiness -- and called the newspaperman's home number. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • In a sense, then, the disconnect between the cases is a function of our uneasiness with the idea of better living through chemistry. A Tale of Two Pills
  • As the sociologist François Dubet explains, the uneasiness is more deep-seated that just job insecurity.
  • Every dispute in which her undeserving husband engages, is productive of pain and uneasiness to herself; of this I am so sensible, that I even besought her not to send to Madame Duval; but she declared she could not bear to have me pass all my time, while in town, with her only. Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
  • But he was so obviously uncomfortable being there, so uncertain in his intellectual footing that his uneasiness just boiled through.
  • When the dinner was over, De Segur took me to a window, expressing his uneasiness at what he called the imprudence of Jacquemont, who, he apprehended, from Joseph's silence and manner, would not escape punishment for having indirectly blamed both the restorer of religion and his plenipotentiary. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
  • A scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience.
  • At the end of the movie play who is the sadness, the eyes of you sing is who uneasiness.
  • The uneasiness attending this hot paroxysm of fever, or fit of exertion, is very different from that, which attends the previous cold fit, or fit of quiescence, and is frequently the cause of inflammation, as in pleurisy, which is treated of in the next section. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • Perhaps some of his aversion stemmed from uneasiness about his present assignment. TANK OF SERPENTS
  • Perhaps some of his aversion stemmed from uneasiness about his present assignment. TANK OF SERPENTS
  • At that he was an adept, and not the shiftiest, craftiest schemes he had ever devised had given him a moment's uneasiness. Grain of Dust.
  • Bud's past life had not been much in her thoughts; love, the obliterator, had successfully wiped away the last traces of uneasiness that she had felt, and like all true and good women, she had given him the priceless treasure of her love, not questioning, not seeking to discern what he would have shown her had it seemed right in his mind that she should see. The Free Range
  • The novelty and uneasiness soon wore off, though, as they usually did with all but the most ingratiating guests, and soon they were struck by the more bizarre presence here: a wainscoted, crown-molded parlor chockablock with equipment that a crime scene unit in a medium-sized town might envy. The Burning Wire
  • She remembered Kanner -- remembered, also, Caris 'uneasiness at operating without a master, or with only the dottily masterful Antryg to give him orders. The Silent Tower
  • The world over it is the same: the feeling of uneasiness for ageing persons, coping with the multitudinous problems of old age.
  • Which temper Jones was now in, we leave the reader to guess, having no exact information about it; but this is certain, that he had spent two hours in expectation, when, being unable any longer to conceal his uneasiness, he retired to his room; where his anxiety had almost made him frantick, when the following letter was brought him from Mrs. Honour, with which we shall present the reader verbatim et literatim. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • But we being in this world beset with sundry uneasinesses, distracted with different desires, the next inquiry naturally will be, — Which of them has the precedency in determining the will to the next action? and to that the answer is, — That ordinarily which is the most pressing of those that are judged capable of being then removed. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • Fear is emotion, pain, uneasiness, anxiety, caused by the sense of impending danger.
  • Doctors often sense uneasiness in the people they deal with.
  • But the effect, upon the minds of young persons, of frequenting the society of those in whose conversation and manners religious principle or feeling does not appear, will almost inevitably be to render what they know of religion the source of uneasiness, and of fruitless conflicts between conscience and inclination: and if, at the same time, much of hollow religionism is witnessed by them, the probable result will be either immovable indifference, or confirmed infidelity. Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor
  • The writer's sense of uneasiness and disappointment is palpable throughout the book at she surveys the scene.
  • For once I could only think about Becca, the uneasiness growing as I remembered the look in her eyes, and the deliberate way she phrased her last words to me.
  • At the end of the movie play who is the sadness, the eyes of you sing is who uneasiness.
  • Back in the engineering lab, things had calmed down a bit, but the feeling of discomfort and uneasiness hadn't escaped the atmosphere.
  • He studied the summer - resort posters, lest he have to acquaintances and expose his uneasiness.
  • But, "added he, at seeing the old woman's uneasiness at his discourse," affliction may gie him a jagg, and let the wind out o 'him, as out o' a cow that's eaten wet clover, and the lad may do weel, and be a burning and a shining light; and I trust it will be yours to see, and his to feel it, and that soon. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
  • Doctors often sense uneasiness in the people they deal with.
  • The suffix "- ec -" is used to form words indicating the "abstract quality" of that which is expressed in the root, or formation, to which it is attached: amikeco = friendship. fleksebleco = flexibility. ofteco = frequency. patreco = fatherhood. indeco = worthiness. patrineco = motherhood. dankemeco = thankfulness. maltrankvileco = uneasiness. A Complete Grammar of Esperanto
  • She had looked forward with considerable uneasiness to her first encounter with her aunt. The House of Mirth
  • Ever since this last pleuritic business I have been troubled with praecordial uneasiness. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
  • She took several deep breaths and tried to settle the uneasiness in her chest.
  • Perhaps no one operation of frequent recurrence and absolute necessity involves so much mental pain and imaginative uneasiness as the reduction of thoughts to paper, for the furtherance of epistolatory correspondence. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841
  • I have been bothered with praecordial uneasiness and intermittent pulse ever since I have been here, and at last I got tired of it and went home the day before yesterday to get carefully overhauled. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
  • Sensing my uneasiness, Keith slipped his arms away from around my waist.
  • Marcey's usual strong voice was laced with uneasiness.
  • His assessment of the audience's uneasiness may have been understated.
  • He is not liable to those uneasinesses, either in contriving what he shall do or reflecting on what he has done, which those are liable to that walk in deceit. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • Not that I think, at worst, any more than you, that he dare to harbour a thought injurious to my honour: but he is very various, and there is an apparent, and even an acknowledged unfixedness in his temper, which at times gives me uneasiness. Clarissa Harlowe
  • At the end of the movie play who is the sadness, the eyes of you sing is who uneasiness.
  • For, in this narrow scantling of capacity which we are accustomed to and sensible of here, wherein we enjoy but one pleasure at once, which, when all uneasiness is away, is, whilst it lasts, sufficient to make us think ourselves happy, it is not all remote and even apparent good that affects us. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • “Pull, pull, my fine hearts-alive; pull, my children; pull, my little ones,” drawlingly and soothingly sighed Stubb to his crew, some of whom still showed signs of uneasiness. Moby Dick; or the Whale
  • He felt a species of uneasiness.
  • They alone bear witness to uneasiness and possible stress.
  • I get the impression that some in the broadcast media are more interested in spreading gloom to garner ratings than quelling people's uneasiness, or giving solid facts.
  • Uneasiness may perseverate, developing into intractable feelings that seem insurmountable. Jessica Zucker, Ph.D.: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Postpartum Depression
  • Is this a sign of the party's uneasiness about the scandal?
  • The idea of it indeed may be in the mind, and viewed as present there; but nothing will be in the mind as a present good, able to counterbalance the removal of any uneasiness which we are under, till it raises our desire; and the uneasiness of that has the prevalency in determining the will. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • Take an ounce of glue, and melt it in a pint of hot water over the fire, stir it until the glue is dissolved, pour it out and dip the part that is affected in this dilution until the uneasiness or burning is allayed, which is mostly in a few minutes. Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
  • Edward shows a strange uneasiness in his relations with her.
  • It might be that her fretfulness was the effect of an uneasiness of mind, which was more hopeful than her previous fierce self-satisfaction, and that her aberrations were the last efforts of old evil habits to re-establish their grasp by custom, when her heart was becoming detached from them. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
  • This is because whenever anyone was feeling sad or afraid or angry or unsettled, the young man simply played his fiddle, and the music banished every bit of sadness, fear, anger and uneasiness.
  • His uneasiness when the whip was used, testified by clamorous complaints, made the whole scene so amusing that the depredators were allowed to depart without a word of remonstrance.
  • He tried to fall asleep, but a sense of uneasiness tugged at him.
  • Or, if it cannot find even such sporadic or fruitive fulfillments, "a balked disposition" will leave the individual with an uneasiness and irritation that may range from mere pique to serious forms of morbidity and hysteria. Human Traits and their Social Significance
  • the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness
  • Ferrari seemed still somewhat disturbed in his mind -- but even his uneasiness dissipated itself by degrees, and heated by the quantity of wine he had taken, he began to talk with boastful braggartism of his many successful gallantries, and related his most questionable anecdotes in such a manner as to cause some haughty astonishment in the mind of the Duke di Marina, who eyed him from time to time with ill-disguised impatience that bordered on contempt. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten
  • At the end of the movie play who is the sadness, the eyes of you sing is who uneasiness.
  • Dread, trepidation or even uneasiness suggest a fearfulness that has mostly dissipated.
  • Doctors at Children's Hospital of Yulin City said the toddler, who was admitted in early May, had "excreted" 21 nails in total, plus at least one steel pin, in the preceding month, though she didn't show signs of "uneasiness" and "eats and drinks as usual," reported Xinhua, which has followed the case closely. China Real Time Excerpts

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