The trait of seeming ill at ease

Usage examples of unease.

He heard the Dominee sigh internally, since he was aware of this display of unease.

The sight of Master Farfalla running at full speed toward him from the far side of the field did little to soothe his unease.

By afternoon, when Reggie went to lodge an official protest with Colonel Fikes, unease had rooted deep in his belly.

Alora, Isen, and Jimi, with conspicuous unease, as if expecting a riot should the verdict go against Edouina.

And those spines, silvery in sheen, suggested ghoulish animation, the existence of which Kaw could sense as a nameless and menacing unease.

It was a beautiful day, the day that Brat Farrar came to Latchetts, but a restless little wind kept turning the leaves over so that in spite of the sunlight and the bright air the world was filled with a vague unease and a promise of storm.

I slept a little and woke to feelings of unease, something like foreboding, remembering, as I still lay reclined on my couch, the marks of division so evident at the majlis that morning, the antagonisms that stirred among us.

Hello, Onan, it is pleasure to meet you, I said, advancing with a proffered hand extended towards him, which I realized belatedly made me appear oafish, but he took it good naturedly, and with his pleasantness eliminated my unease at shaking the hand of one half my size.

Set on edge by such casual firsthand reference to Fellowship resources and magecraft, he bristled, his unease lent preternatural spin by the spell-charged effects of the wine.

She flipped pages, rereading marginalia on Jennifer Gould with a burgeoning sense of unease.

Celia had suffered some unease on first learning that it was intended for pregnant women, to be taken early in their pregnancy when nausea and morning sickness were most prevalent onditions which Montayne would banish.

The corns and bugs and other small items Ross sold them help these to gradually gain a measure of control over the explosion and when things settle down, to establish rather precariously something like a participatory democracy where every individual had some say in what the government does, something the other Gurn-sets watch with unease and in one case outright hostility.

At first glance there was nothing unusual about Vernon Quayle, nothing to cause unease.

The Regrade left its deposits in her hair, a filmy unease in her mind.

The rest of the courtroom audience seemed to share her unease, for Judge Shaheen had to call them to order several times before they settled into silence.