uneasiness

Example Sentences

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I was struck again by the wonder of her, and for the length of my trance, the greedy uneasinesses were held at bay.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

He entrusted him with all his foibles, his disgusts, and his uneasinesses.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

Mather says that poor, sad, heart-sick Baily was filled with "desponding jealousies," "disconsolate uneasinesses," gloomy fears, and thinks the words from his diary "may be profitable to some discouraged minds."

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse

The ordinary necessities of our lives fill a great part of them with the uneasinesses of hunger, thirst, heat, cold, weariness, with labour, and sleepiness, in their constant returns, &c.

From An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by Locke, John

I am quite transported at the thought that ere long, perhaps very soon, I shall bid an eternal adieu to all the pains and uneasinesses, and disquietudes of this weary life.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert