set astir

Example Sentences

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“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 Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)

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 Lincoln, Abraham

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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 Murfree, Mary Noailles

The country, however, which had once been set astir could not be pacified so easily.

From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Hara, Katsuro