Word Finder - restless

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Not allowing or affording rest.

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The night before his wedding was a restless one.

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Without rest; unable to be still or quiet; uneasy; continually moving.

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He was a restless child.

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Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose; eager for change; discontented.

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A restless ambition.

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Deprived of rest or sleep.

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They remained restless, sitting by the window the entire night.

She soon grew too restless to sit still and paced.

She wandered the mansion as she often did, restless and starving.

She is restless at night and has no appetite.

She had arrived with eight uneasy, restless men.

She flung herself onto the bed again, restless and scared.

You seem... restless lately.

Even in his old age he displayed the same restless energy, and is said to have been meditating a fresh attack on Carthage at the time of his death.

She fell into a restless sleep that was disturbed long before dawn.

Despite her efforts to stay awake, she fell into restless sleep again.

After a restless half-hour, she set the book aside.

Xander rose, more restless than usual.

A restless night made her a morning grouch.

Restless was exactly the way she felt.

Restless, she rose and paced in front of the safe.

She cried herself into a restless sleep.

Those ahead of him grew more restless with the passing time, eerie quiet, and stifling heat.

The beast within had been restless the past two days, prowling the thawing area of her chest.

Fred attempted to pick the lock, as no keys were provided, but the audience became restless and impatient.

She stared at the silver eyes staring at her, slowly falling into an exhausted, restless slumber.

Bored, restless, fearful, she retreated to the back of the cave, searching it again for any sort of door or anything that might aid her escape.

Her translator had been lost during restless sleep then crushed in her pacing, and the cell was littered with several dozen pieces of colorful clothing.

Restless, she returned to her room in the warehouse and lay on the bed, thinking hard.

Jack was restless, and she rested her hand on his head to keep him still.

The men in his party were restless, considering.

He drifted into restless sleep, praying his unusual visitor was wrong.

Sivaji, however, planned their expulsion, and before the end of his restless life made much progress in the execution of that design.

Puzzled, restless, he returned and crouched beside Logan Myers.

The restless men with her were plainly unsettled by the situation.

He fell under the suspicion of the Inquisition; his mystical teaching was said to be heretical, and his most famous book, the Guia de Peccadores, still a favourite treatise and one that has been translated into nearly every European tongue, was put on the Index of the Spanish Inquisition, together with his book on prayer, in 1559 His great opponent was the restless and ambitious Melchior Cano, who stigmatized the second book as containing grave errors smacking of the heresy of the Alumbrados and manifestly contradicting Catholic faith and teaching.

The whistle of the locomotive penetrates my woods summer and winter, sounding like the scream of a hawk sailing over some farmer's yard, informing me that many restless city merchants are arriving within the circle of the town, or adventurous country traders from the other side.

By sheer tenacity of purpose, Bestuzhev had extricated his country from the Swedish imbroglio; reconciled his imperial mistress with the courts of Vienna and London, her natural allies; enabled Russia to assert herself effectually in Poland, Turkey and Sweden, and isolated the restless king of Prussia by environing him with hostile alliances.

Wollaston also published anonymously a small book, On the Design of the Book of Ecclesiastes, or the Unreasonableness of Men's Restless Contention for the Present Enjoyments, represented in an English Poem (London, 1691).

The provinces were unsettled, the barbarians on the borders restless and menacing, and Hadrian wisely judged that the old limits of Augustus afforded the most defensible frontier.

He couldn't pinpoint what made his instincts restless, but he also saw apprehension in the tense frames and roving eyes of those riding before him.

Too restless to sleep, he tossed the pillow across the bed and snatched another, his gaze settling on the book.

The twelve who replaced the council of nine (as these had previously replaced the council of the nobles) consisted - both as individuals and as a party - of ignorant, incapable, turbulent men, who could neither rule the state with firmness nor confer prosperity on the republic. They speedily broke with the nobles, for whose manoeuvres they had at first been useful tools, and then split into two factions, one siding with the Tolomei, the other, the more restless and violent, with the Salimbeni and the noveschi (partisans of the nine), who, having still some influence in the city, probably fomented these dissensions, and, as we shall see later on, skilfully availed themselves of every chance likely to restore them to power.

Anselm had made an elaborate employment of reason in the interest of faith, but the spirit of pious subordination which had marked the demonstrations of Anselm seemed wanting in the argumentations of this bolder and more restless spirit; and the church, or at least an influential section of it, took alarm at the encroachments of Rationalism.

He's a very restless person at the best of times.

If the snow lies deep, they strap on his snowshoes, and, with the giant plow, plow a furrow from the mountains to the seaboard, in which the cars, like a following drill-barrow, sprinkle all the restless men and floating merchandise in the country for seed.

Only the delighted "Uncle" dismounted, and cut off a pad, shaking the hare for the blood to drip off, and anxiously glancing round with restless eyes while his arms and legs twitched.

They paused a safe distance from Brady's restless team.

Restless, Brady returned to his suite.

You, madam, for the evening shall be Cynthia, head mistress of a poor, but academically superi­or school for restless girls.

His hands traveled her body in a restless attempt to soothe the need for the intimacy of the connection he felt when his fangs were in her neck.

Restless, Jessi sent it then grabbed a book from Xander's library.

His eyes were small and restless, his nose hooked, he had a beard and moustaches of imposing length.

But amid his restless study Avicenna never forgot his love of enjoyment.

The desert peoples who paid tribute on this occasion still continued restless, and in 715 Sargon removed men of Tamud, Ibadid, Marsiman, I;Iayapa, " the remote Arabs of the desert," and placed them in the land of Beth-Omri.

But he was an energetic, clear-headed man, of great practical force and skill, cultivated, accomplished, agreeable, flexible, possibly unscrupulous, just the sort of person whom a restless despot like Justinian finds useful.

But his brilliant ability and restless activity made him the central figure in the dialectical as in the other discussions of his time.