What is "restlessness"

Usage examples of "restlessness".

For the restlessness of languid digestion, a dose of essence of Aniseed in hot water at bedtime is much to be commended.

It seemed strange to her, seeing its restlessness contrasted so starkly with the autumnal calm that lay elsewhere.

Being angry was a relief, but it was not exactly a solution, and Bernard, at last, leaving his place, where for an hour or two he had been absolutely unconscious of everything that went on around him, wandered about for some time in deep restlessness and irritation.

In consequence of their endlessly varied, constantly recurring, intensely earnest speculations and musings over this contrast of finite restlessness and pain with infinite peace and blessedness, a contrast which constitutes the preaching of their priests, saturates their sacred books, fills their thoughts, and broods over all their life, the Orientals are pervaded with a profound horror of individual existence, and with a profound desire for absorption into the Infinite Being.

Could the small restlessness of his own eyes broadcast the fact that he was damp with the disgust that had bred mustily within him?

She looked at the subdolous, pale-green eyes, with their predatory restlessness, at the square-blocked, flaccid jaw, and the beefy, animal-like massiveness of the strong neck, at the huge form odorous of gin and cigar smoke, and the great, hairy hands marked with their purplish veinings.

The boy evinced a natural restlessness, shifting his weight from one foot to the other, curling and uncurling his fingers.

It was the belief that some wrong had been left unredressed by the deceased, or some treasure hidden, which kept the spirit in a state of trouble and restlessness.

The rolling brume That parts, and joins, and parts again below us In ragged restlessness, unscreens by fits The quality of the scene.

And at last the older members of the tribe had been infected by the new restlessness: Thaggoran sniffing around the old deep tunnels for shinestones, burly red-bearded Harruel climbing the walls like a boy, Konya flexing his muscles and pacing back and forth.

In this case, his restlessness protected him from direct eye contact with Burgo Smyth, as he pronounced the exact steps by which his political execution was to be carried out.

It was a room one could sit in without restlessness, and Domini liked its simplicity, its bare wooden floor and white walls.

Alexandre moved constantly in small jerks, the restlessness of his body at once caused and constrained by the pain of his wound.

What Larus was referring to was the restlessness searing through their brains.

The Motion which acts upon Sensible objects enters from without, and so shakes, drives, rouses and thrusts its participants that they may neither rest nor preserve their identity--and all to the end that they may be caught into that restlessness, that flustering excitability which is but an image of Life.