Agitated Sentence Examples

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  • He was very agitated, but I don't think he meant to harm us.

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  • She was agitated to the point of distraught.

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  • Sonya entered the room with an agitated face.

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  • A strange feeling agitated me all the time I was alone with him in the dark chamber.

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  • Agitated and flushed she turned round.

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  • The agitated voice came from behind her, jarring her.

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  • Yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and strangely softened but agitated expression on his face.

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  • Natasha felt happy and agitated, but at once remembered that this would not do and that he had to be quiet.

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  • The fractions are agitated with strong sulphuric acid, and then washed with a caustic soda solution.

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  • But all the same that night Natasha, now agitated and now frightened, lay a long time in her mother's bed gazing straight before her.

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  • He sat on his elevation--the pedestal of the cannon--still agitated as before by the thought of the Emperor and by his love for him.

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  • At that party Natasha again met Anatole, and Sonya noticed that she spoke to him, trying not to be overheard, and that all through dinner she was more agitated than ever.

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  • When she wanted to be agitated, Nicholas and his health would be the pretext, and when she felt a need to speak spitefully, the pretext would be Countess Mary.

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  • The conflict of magnanimity between the mother and the daughter, ending in the mother's sacrificing herself and offering her daughter in marriage to her lover, even now agitated the captain, though it was the memory of a distant past.

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  • Kutuzov suddenly cried in an agitated voice, evidently picturing vividly to himself from Prince Andrew's story the condition Russia was in.

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  • She was still too agitated by the encounter to be able to talk of the affair calmly.

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  • His air was beyond agitated.

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  • She crossed her arms, agitated.

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  • I could tell from Brennan's voice he was agitated.

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  • They reached her room, and she threw down her shower things on the bed, agitated.

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  • She rubbed her neck, agitated.

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  • Her eyes were rimmed with red, and her aura was beyond agitated.

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  • He won't forsake his duty, she said and rose, agitated.

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  • I'm interested— She ignored him and slammed the door behind her, returning to her room, angry and agitated.

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  • Sofia watched her take a bite of a muffin, at once longing and agitated.

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  • He withdrew, and she noticed he was agitated.

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  • He tried to tell himself this was why he was agitated.

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  • The East was then agitated by the advance of the Parthian Empire under the Sassanidae, and the Palmyrenes, in spite of their Roman honours and their Roman civilization, which did not really go much below the surface, were by no means prepared to commit themselves altogether to the Roman side.'

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  • Another class which, seeing itself in danger from the economic changes in society, agitated for special legislation was the small retail traders of the large towns.

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  • The waters of the Nyanza, violently agitated, were foaming like the billows of a sea.

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  • She felt agitated and tormented, and the cause of this was Kuragin whom she could not help watching.

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  • Elderly people who cannot speak at all, or cannot speak clearly, may become agitated because they are trying to tell you what is going on, but can't get the words out.

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  • Deidre noticed the circles under her eyes, and her air was agitated.

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  • In general Grattan supported the government for time after 1782, and in particular spoke and voted for the stringent coercive legislation rendered necessary by the Whiteboy outrages in 1785; but as the years passed without Pitt's personal favour towards parliamentary reform bearing fruit in legislation, he gravitated towards the opposition, agitated for commutation of tithes in Ireland, and supported the Whigs on the regency question in 1788.

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  • At the death of the Jacobite patriarch Cyriacus in 817, the church was agitated by a dispute about the use of the phrase "heavenly bread" in connexion with the Eucharist.

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  • For ten years from this date the relations of sultan and pasha remained in the forefront of the questions which agitated the diplomatic world.

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  • The question of pluralities began to be agitated in 1813, and gave rise to a long struggle, in which Dr Thomas Chalmers took a notable part, and which terminated in the regulation that a university chair or principalship should not be held along with a parish which was not close to the university seat.

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  • Its charge of from 8 to 12 tons of ore or concentrates is slowly agitated at a rate of three revolutions a minute, and in from 24 to 36 hours it is reduced from say 40 or 35% 'to' 7% of sulphur.

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  • The M`Dougall furnace is turret-shaped, and consists of a series of circular hearths, on which the ore is agitated by rakes attached to revolving arms and made to fall from hearth to hearth.

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  • Soon after the restoration of peace between England and the United States by the treaty of Ghent (1814), there arose the so-called "Oregon question" or "North-western boundary dispute," which agitated both countries for more than a generation and almost led to another war.

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  • Towards the close of 1885 the French-Canadian mind was greatly agitated over the execution of Louis Riel, leader of the north-west rebellion, and in consequence of the attitude of Mercier on this question the Liberal minority in the Legislative Assembly, which had been reduced to fifteen, rapidly gained strength, until at the general elections held in October 1886 the province was carried in the Liberal interest.

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  • Hence the bruised seed is, of ter leaving the fiveroller mill, generally warmed at once in a steam-jacketed kettle fitted with a mixing gear, by passing steam into the jacket, and sending at the same time some steam through a rose, fixed inside the kettle, into the mass while it is being agitated.

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  • Both these vessels are mounted on a rocking base, so that the acid can be thoroughly agitated while the machine is being worked.

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  • To produce clear ice the water must be agitated during the freezing process, or previously boiled to get rid of the air.

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  • For cell ice ordinary water is used, agitated during freezing.

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  • He glanced down at the bullet holes and splashes of blood in his chest, agitated at having to change clothes so early in the day.

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  • Dusty studied the scenes on the screens of his command center, agitated by the weather hindering their ability to deal with Talon's vamps.

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  • While the Grey God appeared calm, his air was agitated and his gaze stormy.

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  • I'm interested— She ignored him and slammed the door behind her, returning to her room, angry and agitated.

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  • Agitated, she bit her thumb.

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  • Toby reappeared after a few minutes, tugging a reluctant Lakhna with him.  The otherworldly creature ducked and covered his head from the moon and crowded Toby as they crossed the courtyard.  Rhyn pointed to Kiki, and Lakhna cringed.  Rhyn was about to demand to know where Katie was when he heard her agitated voice.

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  • I seem to remember he would occasionally get a bit agitated.

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  • The sample is sprayed into the oven through the opening in the top, and can be gently agitated throughout.

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  • However, from 1933 the minority ' Sudeten ' German population increasingly agitated for incorporation into Hitler's Reich.

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  • As we approached the scene of the crime I could see that my friend under all his habitual coolness was in truth deeply agitated.

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  • This sparked furious protests, with both camps becoming extremely agitated to say the least.

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  • The farmer was amazed and slightly agitated to see Tom stood under the porch clutching the ' bladder of brandy ' .

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  • The time came when she became very agitated and was pulling the bedclothes about.

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  • At moments of heightened class struggle, the Bolsheviks actively agitated for workers ' defense militias against the tsarist state forces.

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  • They may also seem irritable, tearful or agitated.

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  • At this time the universities were still agitated by the Liberal and patriotic aspirations aroused by the War of Liberation; at Breslau Leo fell under the influence of Jahn, and joined the political gymnastic association (Turnverein); at Jena he attached himself to the radical wing of the German Burschenschaft, the so-called "Black Band," under the leadership of Karl Follen.

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  • Scholars agree in associating the earliest concordats with the celebrated contest about investitures (q.v.), which so profoundly agitated Christian Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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  • The North was especially agitated by the slavery question.'

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  • But at the distance of twenty-five years I can neither forget nor express the strong emotions which agitated my mind as I first approached and entered the Eternal City.

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  • In this latter respect Tisza rendered substantial aid to the joint minister for foreign affairs by repressing the anti-Russian ardour of the Magyars on the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78, and by supporting Andrassy's execution of the mandate from the Berlin Congress to Austria-Hungary for the occupation of Bosnia, against which the Hungarian opposition agitated for reasons ostensibly financial.

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  • Crude bauxite is ground, lightly calcined to destroy organic matter, and agitated under a pressure of 70 or 80 lb per sq.

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  • Founding himself to some extent on the traditional motives, Diirer conceived and carried out a set of designs in which the qualities of the German late Gothic style, its rugged strength and restless vehemence, its love of gnarled forms, writhing actions and agitated lines, are fused by the fire of the young master's spirit into vital combination with something of the majestic power and classic severity which he had seen and admired in the works of Mantegna.

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  • The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.

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  • With the same expression of agitated surprise and guilt she went about the house, taking up now one occupation, now another, and at once abandoning them.

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  • Natasha entered with a softened and agitated expression of face and sat down looking silently at Pierre.

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  • Rarely had Natasha experienced so joyful a feeling as now, sitting in the carriage beside the countess and gazing at the slowly receding walls of forsaken, agitated Moscow.

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  • That pale, sad, refined face, that radiant look, those gentle graceful gestures, and especially the deep and tender sorrow expressed in all her features agitated him and evoked his sympathy.

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  • There was only one expression on her agitated face when she ran into the drawing room--that of love--boundless love for him, for her, and for all that was near to the man she loved; and of pity, suffering for others, and passionate desire to give herself entirely to helping them.

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  • Or a patient might be agitated and think that there were dangers present in the form of communists, devils or reincarnated evil spirits.

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  • The typical twitchy movements of partial reversal may also be seen, and the patient may become distressed and agitated.

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  • We may become fearful, tense, anxious or agitated.

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  • Use five-flower remedy anytime you feel anxious, agitated, nervous or frightened.

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  • She was looking out the window and becoming very agitated that it was raining outside.

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  • Upon rescue, some victims are alert but agitated or disoriented, while others are comatose.

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  • As the disease progresses, the patient becomes agitated and combative and may exhibit increased mental confusion.

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  • If he or she gets agitated or quickly changes the subject, steer clear.

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  • Finally, it slowly spelled out, "K-I-L-L-E-D M-Y-S-E-L-F" and then started to move in a faster figure eight as though agitated.

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  • Later, during the investigative naval hearing, command center personnel reported that Commander Taylor seemed disoriented, very confused and agitated.

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  • Jenn glanced at Jonny, who looked agitated yet distracted.

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  • She hugged herself and faced him, agitated.

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  • Pierre asked, agitated as he trotted through the gate.

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  • He couldn't help but remember her agitated state of mind after learning of Fitzgerald's death.

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  • Toby was agitated and shivering, skipping up and down the sidewalk while shaking with cold.

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  • His arousal rose solid and thick against her belly, and the soft towel agitated her straining nipples.

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  • Agitated and chilled by the chamber, he transformed into his jaguar form to terrorize more Immortals on his way to hunt the demons in the forest.

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  • Rhyn looked around, agitated again by the sense that something else was wrong.

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  • Agitated, he jogged up the stairs to the level where Katie was.

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  • He panted, agitated by the snowfall and not having anything else to kill.

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  • Agitated, she glanced down, then back-- kneeling to pull a handful of it free.

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  • Jonny's dark eyes had taken on a new spark of intelligence, his air settled where it had been agitated before.

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  • Taran tore out of the great hall, followed closely by the madman, whose agitated demon swam visibly beneath his skin.

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  • Xander rubbed his face, agitated at losing his dinner and his night of fun.

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  • Agitated by him and the fire he caused, she was also awed by how small and delicate his muscular frame made her feel.

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  • The news caused the most widespread sensation, and public opinion in Italy was greatly agitated at what it regarded as an act of brigandage on the part of Austria, when Signor Tittoni in a speech at Carate Brianza (October 6th) declared that Italy might await events with serenity, and that these could find her neither unprepared nor isolated.

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  • In February 1679, when the country was agitated by real or fancied dangers to the Protestant religion, the earl entered political life as secretary of state for the northern department and became at once a member of the small clique responsible for the government of the country.

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  • On the much agitated question about the employment of horses or oxen in labour, the most important arguments are distinctly stated.

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  • During those fifteen years the kingdom of Jerusalem was agitated by a struggle between the native barons, championing the principle that sovereignty resided in the collective baronage, and taking their stand on the assizes, and Frederick II., claiming sovereignty for himself, and opposing to the assizes the feudal law of Sicily.

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  • But unlike some sovereigns, whose reigns have been agitated, but whose personal character has left little trace, Maria Theresa had a strong and in the main a noble individuality.

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  • In 1788 Mackintosh removed to London, then agitated by the trial of Warren Hastings and the king's first lapse into insanity.

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  • All modern theologians of the Roman Church answer these questions in the affirmative, but from the 8th to the beginning of the 13th century they were fiercely agitated with the utmost divergence of opinion and practice.

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  • Marine rainbow is the name given to the chromatic displays formed by the sun's rays falling on the spray drawn up by the wind playing on the surface of an agitated sea.

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  • It crystallizes (in long needles) more easily when gently agitated during the cooling, or when mixed with such substances as kieselguhr.

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  • These show that he took part in all the great controversies on predestination and Arminianism which then so agitated and harassed all Europe.

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  • He unsuccessfully agitated for the re-division of upper and lower Canada, and in 1854 retired into private life.

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  • The publication of this letter caused a wide sensation in England and abroad, and profoundly agitated the court of Naples.

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  • These criticisms mean that his most elaborate discussions came forty years too late, for they were concerned with problems which agitated the middle rather than the end of the 19th century.

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  • The alloy, after the preliminary refining, is granulated by being poured, while molten, in a thin stream into cold water which is kept well agitated.

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  • Returning home in 1809 he passed through the United States, where, for the first time, he had an opportunity of observing the working of free institutions; and soon after his arrival in Venezuela he appears to have identified himself with the cause of independence which had already agitated the Spanish colonies for some years.

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  • The exceptional dependence of Iowa on eastern markets has given more than ordinary prominence to railway legislation, and the conflict of interests between the railways and the shippers has agitated the state for forty years, various attempts being made to regulate freight rates by legal enactment.

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  • Kent, from its proximity to London, has been intimately concerned in every great historical movement which has agitated the country, while its busy industrial population has steadily resisted any infringement of its rights and liberties.

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  • The philosophical works, occupying the first six and the last of the twenty-one volumes, are generally divided according to the Aristotelian scheme of the sciences, and consist of interpretations and condensations of Aristotle's relative works, with supplementary discussions depending on the questions then agitated, and occasionally divergences from the opinions of the master.

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  • In 1848 William Smith O'Brien, M.P. for Limerick, raised a rebellion in Tipperary, and the lower classes in Dublin were greatly agitated.

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  • When the question of the Spanish succession was being agitated he advised Charles II.

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  • The boiled salts, the crystals of which are small, are formed in a medium constantly agitated by boiling.

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  • The Celtic risings now were made in defence of the royal claims of a descendant of Duncan, son of Malcolm Canmore; there were also MacHeth claimants to the old rights of Lulach; Galloway and the Celtic north were ceaselessly agitated.

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  • In 1513 Dr West, an envoy of Henry VIII., found James in the state of " a fey man," doomed, distracted, agitated and boastful.

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  • An agitated inquiry which only found contradictory evidence was disturbed by the news of the Irish rebellion (28th of October).

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  • From 1860 to 1864 academical and clerical circles were agitated by the storm which followed the publication of Essays and Reviews, a volume to which two of his most valued friends, Benjamin Jowett and Frederick Temple, had been contributors.

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  • In both regions leagues which agitated for Poland were from the native Polish and Masurian elements of the population, but in the course of the plebiscitary campaign they went over to the Germans.

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  • In a nation so tumultuously agitated one side or the other had to be adopted.

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  • The great questions of religiop and taxation which had agitated the country under the Stuarts were now fairly settled.

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  • In the autumn which succeeded Sir Robert Peels death, an event which had not been foreseen agitated the country and produced a crisis.

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  • The most soluble of the constituents of crude coal gas is ammonia, 780 volumes of which are soluble in one volume of water at normal temperature and pressure, and the water in the hydraulic main absorbs a considerable quantity of this compound from the gas and helps to form the ammoniacal liquor, whilst, although the liquor is well agitated by the gas bubbling through it, a partial separation of tar from liquor is effected by gravitation.

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  • After he became president the action of the king in replacing the expelled fellows with Roman Catholics agitated him to such a degree as to hasten his end; to the priests sent to persuade him on his death-bed to be received into the Roman Church he declared that he " never had been and never would be of that religion," and he died in the communion of the Church of England.

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  • Agitated with successive quantities of sulphuric acid and distilled in a current of steam, it yields terebene, a mixture of dipentene and terpinene mainly, which is used in medicine.

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  • This sets at rest a question, at one time much agitated, whether the book appeared first in French or in Latin.

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  • He held office till 1843, during an agitated period, in which the Carlists reappeared in the north, mutinies were common, and a barbarous attempt was made to kidnap the young queen in her palace on the night of the 7th of October 1841.

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  • It can seem quite jerky - perhaps echoing the agitated mother in confrontation with her daughter?

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  • He got on the phone and started coming out with very agitated, slightly paranoid things.

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  • The first group got highly agitated in response to tape playback.

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  • The crowd were growing restless, the disciples agitated.

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  • To prevent sedimentation in the tanks the slurry is agitated by either mechanical means or by compressed air.

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  • There, like the waves about the Hebrides, the low underwood is agitated continually.

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  • In clear weather, in summer, they appear blue at a little distance, especially if agitated, and at a great distance all appear alike.

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  • The story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked agitated.

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  • Pale and agitated, Natasha ran into the drawing room.

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  • Before the countess could answer, Prince Andrew entered the room with an agitated and serious face.

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  • Flushed and agitated she went about the house all that day, dry-eyed, occupied with most trivial matters as if not understanding what awaited her.

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  • After those involuntary words--that if he were free he would have asked on his knees for her hand and her love--uttered at a moment when she was so strongly agitated, Pierre never spoke to Natasha of his feelings; and it seemed plain to her that those words, which had then so comforted her, were spoken as all sorts of meaningless words are spoken to comfort a crying child.

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  • Pierre was agitated and undecided.

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  • The doctor came out with an agitated face and said she could not enter.

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  • Agitated and flushed she paced the room, sending now for Michael Ivanovich and now for Tikhon or Dron.

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  • Narrow and burdensome and useless to anyone as his life now seemed to him, Prince Andrew on the eve of battle felt agitated and irritable as he had done seven years before at Austerlitz.

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  • Meanwhile an agitated consultation was being carried on in whispers among his generals and marshals at the rear of his suite.

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  • Sonya was not less agitated than her friend by the latter's fear and grief and by her own personal feelings which she shared with no one.

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  • When the Kreiders brought these items to Kate, she reportedly became agitated and refused them, stating that she wanted new, matching cribs for her babies.

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  • The pale, dark-haired youth was drenched, but it was the wild look on his face that made her stop in the middle of the foyer and watch him pace with agitated energy.

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  • She sneaked a peek at her phone, agitated that Darian hadn't been at all concerned with the situation he left her in.

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  • She gave him an agitated look and rolled onto her stomach, twisting her head away from him.

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  • He flipped to the next page as he emerged near the palace, agitated at realizing he'd get no privacy, not with the hundreds of assassins loitering.

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  • Elise was agitated at more than him.

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  • Wired and agitated, Jenn left for the gym.

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  • Agitated, Darian retreated from the wine cellar to the house.

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  • His agitated air was filled with magic.

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  • Three influential people, among them the rector of Bala, agitated some of the parishioners against him, and persuaded his rector to dismiss him.

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  • In order to see the difference in this respect between the schools we have only to compare the peaceful and fortunate life of William of Champeaux (who enjoyed the friendship of St Bernard) with the agitated and persecuted existence of Roscellinus and, in a somewhat less degree, of Abelard.

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  • As soon as Catholic emancipation was carried, the demand for parliamentary reform and extension of the franchise agitated Great Britain from end to end.

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  • The solution of sodium aluminate, containing aluminium oxide and sodium oxide in the molecular proportion of 6 to 1, is next agitated for thirty-six hours with a small quantity of hydrated alumina previously obtained, which causes the liquor to decompose, and some 70% of the aluminium hydroxide to be thrown down.

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  • The Belgian Ultramontanes agitated strongly in favour of the re-establishment of the temporal power and against the policy of Bismarck.

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  • Princess Mary's self-esteem was wounded by the fact that the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both her companions' not having the least conception that it could be otherwise.

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  • Evidently it has to be so, said he to himself, and hastily undressing he got into bed, happy and agitated but free from hesitation or indecision.

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  • Grass tickled her knees, and she shifted, agitated by water and grass.

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  • I couldn't have known what was in his head, she replied, agitated by his harsh words.

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  • It is now allowed to stand for some time, decanted from any sediment, and finally mixed with the calculated quantity of potassium sulphate (or if ammonium alum is required, with ammonium sulphate), well agitated, and the alum is thrown down as a finely-divided precipitate of alum meal.

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  • But a few weeks before, Mr Drummond, who was Sir Robert Peel's private secretary, had been shot dead in the street by a lunatic. In consequence of this, and the manifold anxieties of the time with which he was harassed, the mind of the great statesman was no doubt in a moody and morbid condition, and when he arose to speak later in the evening, he referred in excited and agitated tones to the remark, as an incitement to violence against his person.

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  • Meanwhile the opposition parties openly allied themselves with the Yugoslav Club in Austria, which agitated for complete national unity, but saved itself from prosecution by occasional references to the dynasty and absolute silence regarding Serbia.

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  • Unobservant as was the little princess, these tears, the cause of which she did not understand, agitated her.

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  • Natasha, who had borne the first period of separation from her betrothed lightly and even cheerfully, now grew more agitated and impatient every day.

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  • And the countess bent over her reticule to hide her agitated face.

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  • Her love for Rostov no longer tormented or agitated her.

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  • She was agitated and incessantly tortured by the thought of the dangers to which her brother, the only intimate person now remaining to her, was exposed.

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  • All were conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all.

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