Astir

Examples

• Her lodgings were hard by; and they threaded through the crowd without, where everything seemed to be more astir than even in the ball-room within. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Early the next morning the apes were astir, moving through the jungle in search of food. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The feeling called love is and has been for two years the predominant emotion of my heart--always there, always awake, always astir. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A sailor, said Sergeant Cuff, might have done it--early in the morning, before the street was astir. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• My faculties, roused by the change of scene, the new field offered to hope, seemed all astir. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Nothing was astir there but the smell of coffee, wine, tobacco, and syrups; and madame's little counter looked ghastly enough. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Ada said she would go too, and was soon astir. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Very early the next morning I heard him up and astir, wandering from one room to another. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I saw nothing astir. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Early as it was, we found the fisherman's wife astir in her kitchen. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The court was all astir and a-buzz, when the black sheep--whom many fell away from in dread--pressed him into an obscure corner among the crowd. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• When Yeobright reached the cottage of Susan Nunsuch, the mother of the boy he sought, he found that the inmates were not yet astir. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The household was astir at last; the servants were up; the shutters were opened below. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her brain astir, furnished her mind with pictures. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Tom-all-Alone's is still asleep, and nothing is astir. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But now it is morning, and everybody is astir; and the worthy Mr. Skeggs is busy and bright, for a lot of goods is to be fitted out for auction. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• With such fibres still astir in him, the shock he received could not at once be distinctly anger; it was confused pain. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At dawn all were astir, and by sunrise the passengers came on board. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Edited by Eva