It was quite in Maggie's character to be agitated by vague self-reproach.
" At this moment Maggie re-entered with her mother, who came in much agitated by the news that her husband was quite himself again.
" Her voice was rather agitated as she uttered the last words, but the sound of wheels diverted her thoughts.
She burst out at last in an agitated, almost violent tone: "Mother, how can you talk so; as if you cared only for things with your name on, and not for what has my father's name too; and to care about anything but dear father himself!
" he added, looking at Maggie, and thinking that her agitated face was only part of her girlish way of taking things.
It was not without a leaping of the heart that she caught sight of a small pair of bare legs sticking up, feet uppermost, by the side of a hillock; they seemed something hideously preternatural,—a diabolical kind of fungus; for she was too much agitated at the first glance to see the ragged clothes and the dark shaggy head attached to them.
" Yap agitated his ears and wrinkled his brows, but declined to plunge, trying whether barking would not answer the purpose just as well.
And I shall never see you—and you won't mind about little Arthur—and I thought you always would—" Celia's rare tears had got into her eyes, and the corners of her mouth were agitated.
She was too much preoccupied with her own anxiety, to be aware that Rosamond was trembling too; and filled with the need to express pitying fellowship rather than rebuke, she put her hands on Rosamond's, and said with more agitated rapidity,—"I know, I know that the feeling may be very dear—it has taken hold of us unawares—it is so hard, it may seem like death to part with it—and we are weak—I am weak—" The waves of her own sorrow, from out of which she was struggling to save another, rushed
has something agitated you?
Even in her most uneasy moments—even when she had been agitated by Mrs.
The power he longed for could not be represented by agitated fingers clutching a heap of coin, or by the half-barbarous, half-idiotic triumph in the eyes of a man who sweeps within his arms the ventures of twenty chapfallen companions.
We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.
Casaubon; have you been agitated?
Even in 1831 Lowick was at peace, not more agitated by Reform than by the solemn tenor of the Sunday sermon.
In those days the world was agitated about the wondrous doings of Mr.
Mary too was agitated; she was conscious that fatally, without will of her own, she had perhaps made a great difference to Fred's lot.
The old man paused with a blank stare for a little while, holding the one key erect on the ring; then with an agitated jerk he began to work with his bony left hand at emptying the tin box before him.
Casaubon himself was lost among small closets and winding stairs, and in an agitated dimness about the Cabeiri, or in an exposure of other mythologists' ill-considered parallels, easily lost sight of any purpose which had prompted him to these labors.
Bulstrode's voice had become a loud and agitated whisper as he said the last words.
