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    agitating


    1. The thunder was agitating her


    2. Hearst's media campaign agitating for war against made it increasingly harder to avoid war


    3. Yet a few people in China Grove were still agitating for the bus service, even with $769,000 homes; their SUV’s and BMW’s


    4. The treatment involves agitating her myelin cells


    5. His fiddle-scratching was as pathetic as my piano key-tickling, but agitating in near unison and with the help of strong drink we celebrated many a happy hour


    6. and sweeping was agitating those


    7. Although the Baptist missionaries had attempted to prevent the uprising, the plantation owners blamed them and all missionaries for agitating the slaves and causing the revolt


    8. Going back to August 1944, Montgomery had been agitating to launch a major offensive into North Germany


    9. And on the international dance floor America should be neither a shut-in that avoids contact with others, or the reckless showman agitating for attention


    10. Charlotte and the other kids kept putting their hands and fingers over a fence, teasing and agitating the pit bull, putting their fingers right in front of the pit bull's face, then quickly pulling their fingers back as the pit bull tries to bite at their fingers! They were playing Russian Roulette with their hands and fingers! Diane saw what Charlotte and the other kids were doing from a distance and she flipped

    11. Several minutes later, Charlotte and the kids from the neighborhood approach the pit bull again and start teasing and agitating the pit bull even more


    12. The other two horses started doing the same and it became obvious that something was agitating them


    13. These questions are agitating Arjun’s mind


    14. When this hyper-connectivity is stressed, it leads to a loss of resilience and decreases the body's threshold to agitating stimuli


    15. ” The figure walked slowly towards the agitating crowd, pacing its steps to the SOS dot and dash of moonlight sliced by personal SaS drones stalking unaware marks and recording their suspicious interactions


    16. by agitating the water bath


    17. He gyrated his body, agitating water over his feathers


    18. agitating my spirits; and my imagination collected, in visions sublimely terrible, or soothingly beautiful, an immense variety of the endless images, which nature


    19. Whilst these thoughts were agitating his mind, Dick Wantley suddenly shouted out that he was going to go for the dirty tyke who had offered to work under price last winter


    20. recommence agitating for higher wages, and if refused would illegally run off to more extravagant employers

    21. Though as regards your father, a few months ago a visit might have meant a great deal, but we’re a bit concerned about agitating him just now


    22. He can feel them massed out there now, agitating to take New York back to an imaginary 1954


    23. Casaubon it was a new pain, he never having been on a wedding journey before, or found himself in that close union which was more of a subjection than he had been able to imagine, since this charming young bride not only obliged him to much consideration on her behalf (which he had sedulously given), but turned out to be capable of agitating him cruelly just where he most needed soothing


    24. Featherstone's insistent demand that Fred and his mother should not leave him, was a feeble emotion compared with all that was agitating the breasts of the old man's blood-relations, who naturally manifested more their sense of the family tie and were more visibly numerous now that he had become bedridden


    25. To his preoccupied mind all subjects were to be approached gently, and she had never since his illness lost from her consciousness the dread of agitating him


    26. The morning after his agitating scene with Bulstrode he wrote a brief letter to her, saying that various causes had detained him in the neighborhood longer than he had expected, and asking her permission to call again at Lowick at some hour which she would mention on the earliest possible day, he being anxious to depart, but unwilling to do so until she had granted him an interview


    27. She began to have an agitating certainty that the misfortune was something more than the mere loss of money, being keenly sensitive to the fact that Selina now, just as Mrs


    28. The nineteenth century had seen a great stirring among women agitating for the same opportunities that were open to men, and it soon became clear that this movement would grow even stronger in the new century


    29. Marx said religion was a hypocritical way of fobbing the poor off with stories of how everything would be alright in heaven: ‘the opium of the people’, he called it, a sort of drug that people took each week to keep them docile and stop them agitating for change


    30. 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

    31. ‘But give me time, give me time!’ he said with a grim look, evidently not wishing to continue this agitating conversation, and added: ‘I sent for you to keep you with me


    32. From the twenty-sixth of August to the second of September, that is from the battle of Borodino to the entry of the French into Moscow, during the whole of that agitating, memorable week, there had been the extraordinary autumn weather that always comes as a surprise, when the sun hangs low and gives more heat than in spring, when everything shines so brightly in the rare clear atmosphere that the eyes smart, when the lungs are strengthened and refreshed by inhaling the aromatic autumn air, when even the nights are warm, and when in those dark warm nights, golden stars startle and delight us continually by falling from the sky


    33. And joyful and agitating thoughts began to occupy his mind


    34. 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


    35. From the habit of fifty years all this had a physically agitating effect on the old general


    36. I felt a burning glow mount to my face; for bitter and agitating recollections were awakened by the allusion to marriage


    37. At this period of my life, my heart far oftener swelled with thankfulness than sank with dejection: and yet, reader, to tell you all, in the midst of this calm, this useful existence—after a day passed in honourable exertion amongst my scholars, an evening spent in drawing or reading contentedly alone—I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy— dreams where, amidst unusual scenes, charged with adventure, with agitating risk and romantic chance, I still again and again met Mr


    38. It was long before Fanny could recover from the agitating happiness of such an hour as was formed by the last thirty minutes of expectation, and the first of fruition; it was some time even before her happiness could be said to make her happy, before the disappointment inseparable from the alteration of person had vanished, and she could see in him the same William as before, and talk to him, as her heart had been yearning to do through many a past year


    39. Norris, much discontented, was obliged to compose herself to work again; and Fanny, walking off in agitating consciousness, found herself, as she anticipated, in another minute alone with Mr


    40. She was obliged to call herself to think of it, and acknowledge it to be terrible and grievous, or it was escaping her, in the midst of all the agitating pressing joyful cares attending this summons to herself

    41. There she met Vronsky, and experienced an agitating joy at those meetings


    42. And, moreover, what recollections must have been agitating the souls of those reprobates at the approach of such a solemn day! The common people from their childhood kept the great festival in their memory


    43. When a comic song began, one man might be seen agitating his arms violently, as if to engage his companions to laugh; after which he turned suddenly towards the stage


    44. The agitating impression wrought upon his mind by yesterday's news as to her death had left a painful feeling of mental perturbation


    45. At all events, however, now, as he sat on his bed with agitating thoughts swarming through his brain, he could not but feel that the fact of her being dead was a consolation, amidst all the painful reflections which the mention of her name had called up


    46. At breakfast, as we returned home, we made the acquaintance of the guest, and he immediately proceeded to tell us how he had fought, had been in captivity, had run away from it, and how he had made a patriotic vow, of which he was apparently proud, that he would not stop agitating a war against Germany until the integrity and glory of France should be reëstablished


    47. When Anna Mikháylovna returned from Count Bezúkhov’s the money, all in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess’ little table, and Anna Mikháylovna noticed that something was agitating her


    48. “But give me time, give me time!” he said with a grim look, evidently not wishing to continue this agitating conversation, and added: “I sent for you to keep you with me


    49. From the twenty-sixth of August to the second of September, that is from the battle of Borodinó to the entry of the French into Moscow, during the whole of that agitating, memorable week, there had been the extraordinary autumn weather that always comes as a surprise, when the sun hangs low and gives more heat than in spring, when everything shines so brightly in the rare clear atmosphere that the eyes smart, when the lungs are strengthened and refreshed by inhaling the aromatic autumn air, when even the nights are warm, and when in those dark warm nights, golden stars startle and delight us continually by falling from the sky


    50. [36] He permitted my near approach, without agitating his tail in the menacing manner of the serpent just mentioned, and of the crotali, or manifesting any signs of fear

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    Synonyms for "agitating"

    agitating agitative provoking

    "agitating" definitions

    causing or tending to cause anger or resentment