set astir
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
I saw rays from it coming in through the parted curtains, and distinctly traced tree-branches wavering to and fro out in the night-wind, set astir as the moon came up.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various
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
