Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
restiveness .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Restiveness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
restiveness .
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Examples
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Blucher pricked up his ears at the tones, however subdued, of his rider's voice, which he well knew; but his uneasiness continued; and, just when our young traveller, began to feel some impatience at his restiffness and coyness, a shrill whistle which rang through the forest, from the copse in front, seemed at once to determine the correctness of sense in the animal, and the sort of beast which had occasioned his anxieties.
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia William Gilmore Simms 1838
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But Stevens doggedly kept his horse's head along the back track, though the animal himself exhibited no small restiffness and a disposition to go forward.
Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky William Gilmore Simms 1838
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