set astir
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Other schemes, deeper, treacherous, secret, seemed menaced, and his conscience, or that endowment to quake with the fear of requital that answers for conscience in some ill-developed souls, was set astir.
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree
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
In this man’s mind, which was so near a simple beast’s in all its movings, some remote, unborn consciousness was surely reached and vaguely set astir by the clear words thus spoken.
From A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
May emotions as pure as that song set astir Be the wont that the future shall bring her.
From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 by Abraham Lincoln
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