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This was an inexpressible Grief to her: She lived many Days and Weeks in the utmost Disquietude, using all means possible to know the truth; but he was Universally believed to be dead, though his Body was never found amongst the Slain, nor yet heard of amongst the Prisoners.
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This was an inexpressible Grief to her: She lived many Days and Weeks in the utmost Disquietude, using all means possible to know the truth; but he was Universally believed to be dead, though his Body was never found amongst the Slain, nor yet heard of amongst the Prisoners.
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Silem Mohammad: Notes on Disquietude and the "Post-Avant"
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Silem Mohammad: Notes on Disquietude and the "Post-Avant"
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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This has been the source of all the Disquietude of my Life.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 October 1775 1963
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I at first apprehended, that some fatal Accident had happen'd to the Person or Circumstances of my Friend; but, upon Inquiry, I was set easy as to these Fears, tho 'they would give me no Hint, by which I might guess at the Cause of their Disquietude.
The Theater (1720) Sir John Falstaffe
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Disquietude might waste his ardour; but give him time to reorganise his forces, and his moral energy would triumph at the last.
The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909
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Disquietude broke up the customary mask on Stephen's face: "I don't understand," he stammered.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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Disquietude broke up the customary mask on Stephen's face: "I don't understand," he stammered.
Fraternity John Galsworthy 1900
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Even old Wordsworth, wrapt up in his Mountain mists, and proud as he was, was above all this vain Disquietude: proud, not vain, was he: and that a Great Man (as Dante) has some right to be -- but not to care what the Coteries say.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) Edward FitzGerald 1846
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