set astir

Example Sentences

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And if at times her grave eyes clouded and her attention wandered, it was less in ennui than because of occult trains of thought set astir by some chance word or phrase of Lanyard's.

From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Vance, Louis Joseph

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

“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)

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

May emotions as pure as that song set astir Be the wont that the future shall bring her.

From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 by Lincoln, Abraham