agitated

• He seemed more than usually agitated, and when I inquired the cause, he told me that he had been separated from his companion, whom, after some time, he had found dead on the ground, stabbed apparently, but not scalped, so that he was in doubt whether an Indian had done the deed. —  In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting
• I was dreadfully agitated, and supposing that my death was immediately to follow instinctively seized my musket in self-defence. —  The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago
• The garden itself was already beginning to be very much agitated, and the clothes on the plants were folding themselves up in a fluttering sort of a way as she ran past them; and she noticed, moreover, that the little shoes on the shoe-shrub were so withered away that they looked like a lot of raisins. —  The Admiral's Caravan
• The longer an affair of this sort is agitated, the more offensive it becomes! —  Capitola's Peril A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand'
• Wait The needle wavered--agitated unmistakably--then the parts of the dynamos and the motor in the boat dragged the reluctant point of steel slowly, flutteringly, but surely, from its affinity, the magnetic North Bruce gulped at something in his throat before he spoke John, we've GOT her I see her!" —  The Man from the Bitter Roots

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