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"Well, I am looking you straight in the face straight in the two blazing gray eyes, you little tempest in a teapot what then?" "Do I look as though I should be in earnest in what I am about to speak?" "I should judge so." "Then listen, and don't take your eyes off mine until I am done speaking!" "Very well, don't be long, though, for it rather agitates me." "I will not! Hear me, then!
Now, you are at my table, and I assure you of my confidence. Won't you speak your mind freely on this question of slavery, that so agitates the land? You are under my roof, and, whatever you say, you have my protection." I answered: "Governor Moors, you mistake in calling my brother, John Sherman, an abolitionist.
Miss Bellenden started at the sound, and scarcely composed herself upon Lord Evandale's assurances that she had heard but the echo of her own respiration. "It sounded strangely distinct," she said, "and almost ominous; but my feelings are so harassed that the slightest trifle agitates them."
Then immediately all the bailanas drink of the blood in order to attract the prophetic spirit to themselves and to give their auguries or the supposed inspirations of their gods. Scarcely have they drunk the blood, when they become as though possessed by an infernal spirit which agitates them and makes them tremble as does the body of a person with the ague or like one who shivers with the cold."
'No, for she shall never go! 'There! lamented Nanon 'so she agitates herself, when it is but spoken of. And surely she had better make up her mind, for there is no other choice. 'Nay, Nanon, said M. Gardon, 'wherefore should she part with the charge that God has laid on her? Eustacie gave a little cry of grateful joy. 'Oh, sir, come nearer!
And he said to himself, "Hope agitates every man of foolish understanding. I shall drive away hope from my mind." Even such had been his determination. Viradyumna once more questioned that foremost of ascetics in these words: ""'The king said, "What is the measure of the thinness of Hope? What on earth is exceedingly difficult of acquisition?
"Oh, pardon me, sage and venerable Madoc," replied the shepherd. "Edwin did not come from the hands of nature obstinate and untractable. But grief agitates my spirits; anxiety and apprehension conjure up a thousand horrid phantoms before my distracted imagination, and I am no longer myself. I will however subdue my impatient resentments.
You mistake," replied he who had owned the name of Mejnour; "though I care not for love, and am dead to every passion that agitates the sons of clay, I am not dead to their more serene enjoyments. I have still left to me the sublime pleasures of wisdom and of friendship. I carry down the Stream of the countless years, not the turbulent desires of youth, but the calm and spiritual delights of age.
He said: "The Whig and the Democratic were the two great parties then in existence; both national and patriotic, advocating principles that were universal in their application; while these parties differed in regard to banks, tariff, and sub-treasury, they agreed on the slavery question which now agitates the Union.
He had not paid a visit there since the scuffle in the Rue Royale, and the idea of finding himself in the duke's presence gave him, through his thick skin, something of the panic that agitates a boy on his way upstairs to see the head-master after a fight in the schoolroom. However, the embarrassment of this first interview had to be gone through.
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