restirred

Updated: May 24, 2025

The dew, blown on the t'ung tree by the well, doth wet the roosting rooks. Wrapped in a quilt, the maid comes the gold phoenix coverlet to spread. The girl, who on the rails did lean, on her return drops the kingfisher flowers! This quiet night his eyes in sleep he cannot close, as he doth long for wine. The smoke is stifled, and the fire restirred, when tea is ordered to be brewed.

Xueqin Cao - Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I

Have they no right to die? Must an old man who is needed by the public be condemned to live on, his aged cells stirred and restirred while we glean his brains bare? Some Socrates of the future may yet envy that other his hemlock. This, we say it regretfully, is the end of Mr. Day's article. It is admirable fooling.

Sydney Blanshard Flower - The Goat-gland Transplantation: As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley,: M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations: Upon Men and Women