"Anxiousness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dark-haired, brown-eyed contrast to the others, who demanded love and got it, giving it in return when she chose, and that was not always to those who asked most loudly for it. Fearless, outspoken, and quick, Poppy had none of Penelope's dreaminess, or Esther's anxiousness, or Angela's timidity. She was eminently a practical little person, with deep thoughts and plans of her own, and a will ...
— The Carroll Girls • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... In sickness and in sorrow, how the breast Will garner its affections in their home! Like stricken bird that cowers within its nest, And feels no more an anxiousness to roam; While a thick darkness, like a cloud, comes o'er The gallant spirit;—it can rise no more To wing its way, as if it sought the sky, But falls to earth, forlorn, as though ...
— The Emigrant - or Reflections While Descending the Ohio • Frederick William Thomas
... his glance encountered hers after he said this that each regarded the other with a slow growing anxiousness. Something came to life in each pair of eyes and it was something disturbed and reluctant. The Duchess ...
— Robin • Frances Hodgson Burnett |
