"Unease" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... old man failed quite—apparently from no cause but weakness. The unease of his mind, the haunting of the dread thought of having to part with the chalice, had induced it. He was in his closet one night late into the morning, and the next day did not get up to breakfast He wanted a little rest, he said. In a day he would be ...
— The Elect Lady • George MacDonald
... foolishness? Know that one who lacketh experience in worldly matters readily falleth into misfortune; and whoso considereth not the end keepeth not the world to friend, and the vulgar say:- -I was lying at mine ease: nought but my officiousness brought me unease." "Needs must thou," she broke in, "make me a doer of this good deed, and let him kill me an he will: I shall only die a ransom for others." "O my daughter," asked he. "and how shall that profit thee ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... polished hull of the space-ship slid past them only ten feet away. The ground diminished. They seemed less to be lifted than to float skyward. And in this sling, in this completely unreal ascent, Cochrane roused suddenly. He felt the acute unease which comes of height. He had looked down upon Earth from a height of four thousand miles with no feeling of dizziness. He had looked at Earth a quarter-million miles away with no consciousness of depth. But a mere fifty feet above the surface of the moon he felt like somebody ...
— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... 'unwisdom', 'unbold', 'unsad' (all in Wiclif); 'cunning', but not 'uncunning'; 'manhood', 'wit', 'mighty', 'tall', but not 'unmanhood', 'unwit', 'unmighty', 'untall' (all in Chaucer); 'buxom', but not 'unbuxom' (Dryden); 'hasty', but not 'unhasty' (Spenser); 'blithe', but not 'unblithe'; 'ease', but not 'unease' (Hacket); 'repentance', but not 'unrepentance'; 'remission', but not 'irremission' (Donne); 'science', but not 'nescience' (Glanvill){152}; 'to know', but not 'to unknow' (Wiclif); 'to give', but not 'to ungive'. Or once more, with a curious variation from this, the negative survives, while ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench |
