set astir

Example Sentences

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The country, however, which had once been set astir could not be pacified so easily.

From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Hara, Katsuro

All the old cloudy remorse that has subsided will be set astir again.

From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

For, of course, only by and through them could these wild rumors have been set astir.

From The Brass Bound Box by Horne, Diantha W.

My finger tips, my lips, my nodding head are the points where I part with full control, though indefinitely beyond these I can forecast changes which the automatic agencies, once set astir, will induce.

From The Nature of Goodness by Palmer, George Herbert

In this man’s mind, which was so near a simple beast’s in all its movings, some remote, unborn consciousness was surely reached and vaguely set astir by the clear words thus spoken.

From A Lady of Quality by Burnett, Frances Hodgson