upstirs

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And pine upstirs those ceaseless pangs which work my tormentry,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006
The land upstirs he and the reign he rules * From East to West, the King my father slain;

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
And Edward, provoked beyond bearing at what always upstirs a noble soul -- mere worldly-mindedness -- replied, "that he never professed to be a _gentleman_; he was, and ever would be, a farmer, and nothing more; and for all that, he thought a farmer -- an honest, upright, English farmer -- might have as correct ideas as to right and wrong as any gentleman."

Turns of Fortune And Other Tales S. C. Hall 1840
"Dark falls the night and Passion comes sore pains to gar me dree, * And pine upstirs those ceaseless pangs which work my tormentry,

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855