set astir
Example Sentences
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I like to Fletcherize them with my mind, and with those senses which my mind can set astir.
From Sunlight Patch by Credo Fitch Harris
All the old cloudy remorse that has subsided will be set astir again.
From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
She broke forth abruptly, her cheeks flushing, her eyes brave and bright, the subject nearest her heart on her lips, in the sudden influx of courage set astir by the mere contemplation of it.
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree
“I take it all back,” said Migwan, alarmed at the tempest she had set astir, and bursting into tears buried her head on her arms on the kitchen table.
From The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
And if at times her grave eyes clouded and her attention wandered, it was less in ennui than because of occult trains of thought set astir by some chance word or phrase of Lanyard's.
From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Louis Joseph Vance
