set astir
Example Sentences
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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
I saw rays from it coming in through the parted curtains, and distinctly traced tree-branches wavering to and fro out in the night-wind, set astir as the moon came up.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various
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
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
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
