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Restive   /rˈɛstɪv/   Listen
adjective
Restive  adj.  
1.
Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; drawing back. "Restive or resty, drawing back, instead of going forward, as some horses do." "The people remarked with awe and wonder that the beasts which were to drag him (Abraham Holmes) to the gallows became restive, and went back."
2.
Inactive; sluggish. (Obs.)
3.
Impatient under coercion, chastisement, or opposition; refractory.
4.
Uneasy; restless; averse to standing still; fidgeting about; applied especially to horses.





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"Restive" Quotes from Famous Books



... it all again by the time we were ready for our journey to Bathurst. Mr. Deane was to drive with Mary in a light trap and I was to ride, for I had a good steady horse at stable in Sydney growing fat and restive for want of exercise. So we set out and went as far as the inn at Gum Ferry on the Nepean before we made any change in our arrangements. On the second day's journey we were likely to have a long ride, and Mary was anxious ...
— Miss Grantley's Girls - And the Stories She Told Them • Thomas Archer
... the old man grew restive and raw like an unbroken colt. And when the distant mountain peaks began to swim in their summer haze, and the little rushing rivers sang to him, pleading that he come once more to follow them up, he became uncontrollable. ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson
... between Hiens and Duhaut. When the latter so arrogantly assumed the command, Hiens became very restive, and was waiting for an opportunity to dethrone him. Trembling in view of the peril of approaching the French settlements, and having no disposition to imbrue his hands any farther in the blood of innocent men whose conduct had only won his regard, ...
— The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hu • John S. C. Abbott
... well epitomised in the principal statue of Montpellier's fine Champ de Mars, which represents the high-heeled and luxurious Louis XIV in the unfitting armour of a Roman Imperator, mounted on a huge and restive charger. Such affectation in architectural subjects is the death-blow to all real beauty and originality, and Montpellier has gained little from its Bourbon patrons except a series of fine broad ...
— Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 • Elise Whitlock Rose
... the night before that I had wandered into Ghent alone, without even the excitement of getting arrested. Luther, who became restive early the next morning while I was jotting notes in the log-book, went off in search of adventure. Because of the influence exerted by Vice- Consul Van Hee an arrangement was very soon made whereby a Belgian Government car and chauffeur were placed at our disposal. ...
— The Log of a Noncombatant • Horace Green


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