1 The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY 2 At the Bastille, long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, effected a junction with the procession, and a certain terrible seething began to agitate the throng.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN 3 He had scarcely entered when he began to agitate his nose and his jaws after the example of his clerks.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER 4 To agitate him thus deeply, by a resistance he so abhorred, was cruel: to yield was out of the question.
5 From the day she left Italy the thought of it had never ceased to agitate her.
6 For recreation he could twiddle his thumbs and speculate on the thoughts which must agitate the minds of the generals.
7 Nay, the surly father even began to agitate with the authorities on Chichikov's behalf, and so enabled our hero, on a vacancy occurring, to attain the stool of a Chief Clerk.
8 From the time that Garrison, Lovejoy, and others began to agitate for freedom, the slaves throughout the South kept in close touch with the progress of the movement.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter I. 9 Now they had not only the Bureau agitators and the Carpetbaggers urging them on, but the incitement of whisky as well, and outrages were inevitable.
10 They have seldom been agitators, have withstood the temptation to head the mob, and have worked steadily and faithfully in a thousand communities in the South.
11 When Anna Mikhaylovna returned from Count Bezukhov's the money, all in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess' little table, and Anna Mikhaylovna noticed that something was agitating her.
12 And joyful and agitating thoughts began to occupy his mind.
13 Those dreadful moments he had lived through at the executions had as it were forever washed away from his imagination and memory the agitating thoughts and feelings that had formerly seemed so important.
14 From the habit of fifty years all this had a physically agitating effect on the old general.
15 Let me use my authority as a leech," answered Rebecca, "and enjoin you to keep silence, and avoid agitating reflections, whilst I apprize you of what you desire to know.