Inability to rest or relax or be still

Usage examples of uneasiness.

I am quite transported at the thought that ere long, perhaps very soon, I shall bid an eternal adieu to all the pains and uneasinesses, and disquietudes of this weary life.

Behind the breast-bone there is experienced a sense of uneasiness, in some cases amounting to pain, more or less severe.

I tell you of a point that has been fretting my mind ever since the Bight of Benin, when you told me of your uneasiness about two of the ships?

If she could have overheard what was being said between her and Derek Burdon, the uneasiness which had led her to drop the subject would have been very seriously increased.

The other thought was of Conant and the vague uneasiness the man had been sending to him through the radiophone these last weeks.

Her noble mind refused to shew any uneasiness, and I could not guess her inmost thoughts because I had no idea that she had anything to fear.

Joel Duffle goes through the groceries down to the turkey causes the Broadway spectators some uneasiness, and they are whispering to each other that they only wish the old Nicely-Nicely is in there.

If it had not been for the uneasiness of the poor captain, which at last struck us, we should never have put a stop either to the dinner or to, our charming prattle.

He thanked me, and I soothed his uneasiness about being punctual to his appointment by telling him that a coach was waiting, and that the fare had been paid.

Notwithstanding this very plausible explanation, Hamel was conscious of the remains of an uneasiness which he scarcely knew how to put into words.

This uneasiness becomes greater as one moves southward from Ethiopia and meets the terraced ruins of Kenya and Tanganyika and Rhodesia, the walls and towers of Zimbabwe, the dwellings of Niekerk and Inyanga, and the golden burials of Mapungubwe.

Cluve cracked careless jokes with one and all on the flop of the search, showed not a sign of uneasiness nor of suspicion that Scott knew anything, still gave him most - favoured - guest treatment and was a jollier old soldier with him than ever.

But there was an uneasiness behind his words, as if he, too, was wondering how much he was subject to lupine instinct rather than human reason.

Their uneasiness was also not a little heightened by new broils between their king and the parliament of Paris, occasioned by the obstinacy of the clergy of that kingdom, who seemed determined to support the church, in all events, against the secular tribunals, and as much as possible to enforce the observance of the bull Unigenitus, which had long been the occasion of so many disputes among them.

John Polen covered the slight uneasiness of his chin by moving his cigarette quickly to his lips.