restive

• But his affections became restive, and he lost his heart to a Spanish actress (it was always an actress, a virtuoso, or a part) and left poor Ophelia, and went off with Marie Recio, the Ines of Favorite , the page of Comte Ory —a practical, hardheaded woman, an indifferent singer with a mania for singing. —  Musicians of To-Day
• Then the traveller got a little restive, and began to peer closely into the fog, and look aloft to see if he could make out the stay-sails, and then he entered into a long confidential talk with the captain, in relation to the chances of "getting on," of a fresh breeze springing up, and the fog lifting; whether we should make Louisburgh by to-morrow night, and if not, when; with various other salt-water speculations and problems. —  Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
• Many of them are nervous and restive, and not easily approached Cows of this class give, according to size, from three or four to ten quarts of milk. —  Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure
• Those last words--about truth--were of all the most puzzling; Pilate was restive, and perhaps a little frightened under their import. —  Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
• Here are the Chickahominies restive, and those plaguy Ricahecrians amongst us, and the Nansemond Independents prophesying the end of the world, and the witches' trial coming on, and the Quakers to be routed out, and on top of it all this story that Ludlow brings of a redemptioner's assertion that there is afoot an Oliverian plot. —  Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia

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