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RESTLESSLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a restless manner
Example:
he cracked his knuckles restlessly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
restless (lacking or not affording physical or mental rest)
Context examples:
Turning restlessly, she drew the bedclothes round her; my elbow, resting on a corner of the quilt, fixed it down: she was at once irritated.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He was a different man from the limp and lounging figure in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown who had prowled so restlessly only a few hours before round the fog-girt room.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When he watched the hairy man sleeping by the fire, head between his knees and hands clasped above, Buck saw that he slept restlessly, with many starts and awakenings, at which times he would peer fearfully into the darkness and fling more wood upon the fire.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Sometimes, I had proceeded restlessly from place to place, stopping nowhere; sometimes, I had lingered long in one spot.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Her eyes wandered restlessly over the distant prospect, and she bit her nether lip to stop that busy mouth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"I've got a nice place here," he said, his eyes flashing about restlessly.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Tom Buchanan who had been hovering restlessly about the room stopped and rested his hand on my shoulder.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
