set astir

Example Sentences

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I like to Fletcherize them with my mind, and with those senses which my mind can set astir.

From Sunlight Patch by Harris, Credo Fitch

Other schemes, deeper, treacherous, secret, seemed menaced, and his conscience, or that endowment to quake with the fear of requital that answers for conscience in some ill-developed souls, was set astir.

From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles

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

“I take it all back,” said Migwan, alarmed at the tempest she had set astir, and bursting into tears buried her head on her arms on the kitchen table.

From The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)