Unsettled

Examples

• Unsettled weather, a long journey, uncertain means of travelling, a disorganised country, a city that may not be even safe for you. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• A wild, unsettled morning. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This was always my cordial, to which, like other dram-drinkers, I had eager recourse when unsettled by chagrin. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I am too unsettled even for that. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• At last I began to believe, that, in the flighty and unsettled state of his mind, he had either forgotten his intention or abandoned it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If I get a little thin, it is with anxiety about my prospects, yet unsettled--my departure, continually procrastinated. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It unsettled Miss Verinder's house, and it would end in unsettling Miss Verinder herself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Travelling was in a troubled state, and the minds of coachmen were unsettled. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I feel in a misty and unsettled kind of state; as if I had got up very early in the morning a week or two ago, and had never been to bed since. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He doesn't look well, and he seems nervous and unsettled. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• This influence had become more harassing and decided, since partial insanity had given a strange, weird, unsettled cast to all her words and language. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• We used to be faithful about it, but since Father went away and all this war trouble unsettled us, we have neglected many things. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• What do you mean by 'unsettled hurries,' for instance? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She had been unwilling to mention Bingley; and the unsettled state of her own feelings had made her equally avoid the name of his friend. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• At other times the unsettled condition persists, and his spleen is vented not only on the original instigator but upon others who may have occasion to see him, sometimes hours afterward. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Sir Percival (from distress, I presume, at his lady's affliction and at Miss Halcombe's illness) appeared much confused and unsettled in his mind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The deep fervor of Tom's feelings, the softness of his voice, his tears, fell like dew on the wild, unsettled spirit of the poor woman. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• There was something so very abrupt and unsettled in Mr. Winkle's manner, that Mr. Pickwick involuntarily looked at his two friends for an explanation. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But I liked his physiognomy even less than before: it struck me as being at the same time unsettled and inanimate. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He is not very forgiving: he broke with his family, and now for many years he has led an unsettled kind of life. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Owing (as I think, if you think so too) to Mr Gowan's unsettled and dissatisfied way, he applies himself to his profession very little. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She does not like his unsettled habits. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• We cannot discuss here in detail the still unsettled problems of the new India that struggles into being. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They fight; but, whichever is killed, the point in dispute remains unsettled. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But the grand question was still unsettled of how this epidemic was generated and increased. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This unsettled state of affairs uses up the time, and when one has notions in science, every moment is an opportunity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She was all unnerved; her naturally sanguine complexion was pale; her usually placid, though timid, blue eye was wandering, unsettled, alarmed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He had a trick of half-opening his mouth as if to speak, which constantly unsettled the form of the lips, and gave the face an undecided expression. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The first night's generally rather unsettled, but you'll be set all squares to-morrow. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And he had plenty of unsettled subjects to meditate upon, though he had been walking to the Land's End. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Edited by Karl