unstirring

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And as to the Cherokee upstirring, that's an old story.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

Come, enter; and bring with Thee the upstirring power and the wide radiance of the life divine.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart

My sluggish soul needs a fierce upstirring, and if it would not get it when Grant enters the meeting place I must doubtless "lay" for the final resurrection.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Paine, Albert Bigelow

Faith purifies the heart also by provocation and upstirring, in as far as it gives the answer of a good conscience.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

She rose to go, and Belinda also, with languid response of motion, as if Paulina Maria were an upstirring wind.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins