set astir

Example Sentences

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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 Burnett, Frances Hodgson

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

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 Murfree, Mary Noailles

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