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  • He had to keep still long after she went to bed, for she kept making broken-hearted ejaculations from time to time, tossing unrestfully, and turning over.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

  • France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

    The Great Gatsby 2003

  • Our friend walked up and down unrestfully; casting now and then a look at the knights and dames, whose ancient figures hung round him on the walls.

    Chapter I. Book VII 1917

  • Frightened by its coldness, he in the instant let go: he looked unrestfully around him; then turning to the old attendant: ‘I cannot stay with her at present, ’ said he; ‘I have a long, long way to travel; but at the proper time I shall be back: tell her so when she awakens.

    Chapter IX. Book VIII 1917

  • Bushwick sat down before the fire and rubbed his shins with his two hands unrestfully, drawing in a long breath between his teeth.

    Fennel and Rue William Dean Howells 1878

  • He had to keep still long after she went to bed, for she kept making broken-hearted ejaculations from time to time, tossing unrestfully, and turning over.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876

  • He joined us in our walk, but kept wandering unrestfully to the roadside.

    Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion Mark Twain 1872

  • He had to keep still long after she went to bed, for she kept making broken-hearted ejaculations from time to time, tossing unrestfully, and turning over.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872

  • From the shadowy past we drive into the world of human things, for ever changefully unchanged, unrestfully the same.

    New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866

  • From the shadowy past we drive into the world of human things, for ever changefully unchanged, unrestfully the same.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

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