agitated

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The king ordered relief to be given to the importunate friar; but the eager glance of the intrusive applicant so disquieted him--agitated, doubtless, from the idea of his small force being about to engage at such desperate odds--that he presently caused the attendants to look for the friar, but he was nowhere to be found.

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  1. Disturbed; excited; expressing agitation: as, in an agitated manner; “an agitated countenance,” Thackeray. She burst out at last in an agitated, almost violent, tone. George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, iii. 2.

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