set astir
Example Sentences
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For, of course, only by and through them could these wild rumors have been set astir.
From The Brass Bound Box by Diantha W. Horne
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
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
My finger tips, my lips, my nodding head are the points where I part with full control, though indefinitely beyond these I can forecast changes which the automatic agencies, once set astir, will induce.
From The Nature of Goodness by George Herbert Palmer
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
