All 50 Uses of
agitate
in
War and Peace
- The story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked agitated.†
Chpt 1
- Pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to all this, rose and approached the princess.†
Chpt 1
- Halfway through supper Prince Andrew leaned his elbows on the table and, with a look of nervous agitation such as Pierre had never before seen on his face, began to talk—as one who has long had something on his mind and suddenly determines to speak out.†
Chpt 1
- When Anna Mikhaylovna returned from Count Bezukhov's the money, all in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess' little table, and Anna Mikhaylovna noticed that something was agitating her.†
Chpt 1
- Involuntarily he felt a joyful agitation at the thought of the humiliation of arrogant Austria and that in a week's time he might, perhaps, see and take part in the first Russian encounter with the French since Suvorov met them.†
Chpt 2
- And the fear of death and of the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one feeling of sickening agitation.†
Chpt 2
- On their familiar faces he read agitation and alarm.†
Chpt 2
- There was not a trace of agitation on his face.†
Chpt 2
- All were conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all.†
Chpt 2
- After a while the moving mass became agitated, someone rode past on a white horse followed by his suite, and said something in passing: "What did he say?†
Chpt 2
- Prince Bagration and Tushin looked with equal intentness at Bolkonski, who spoke with suppressed agitation.†
Chpt 2
- Princess Mary was sitting alone in her room, vainly trying to master her agitation.†
Chpt 3
- Princess Mary's self-esteem was wounded by the fact that the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both her companions' not having the least conception that it could be otherwise.†
Chpt 3
- To tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to dress her would prolong their banter and insistence.†
Chpt 3
- He was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when he heard some French spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, addressing first one, then another.†
Chpt 3
- Unobservant as was the little princess, these tears, the cause of which she did not understand, agitated her.†
Chpt 4
- Yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and strangely softened but agitated expression on his face.†
Chpt 4
- They were very long, and Pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to understand what was being read.†
Chpt 5
- At that time the two famous decrees were being prepared that so agitated society—abolishing court ranks and introducing examinations to qualify for the grades of Collegiate Assessor and State Councilor—and not merely these but a whole state constitution, intended to change the existing order of government in Russia: legal, administrative, and financial, from the Council of State down to the district tribunals.†
Chpt 6
- A strange feeling agitated me all the time I was alone with him in the dark chamber.†
Chpt 6
- He drove to their house in some agitation.†
Chpt 6
- "Something very important is happening between them," thought Pierre, and a feeling that was both joyful and painful agitated him and made him neglect the game.†
Chpt 6
- But all the same that night Natasha, now agitated and now frightened, lay a long time in her mother's bed gazing straight before her.†
Chpt 6
- Pale and agitated, Natasha ran into the drawing room.†
Chpt 6
- Before the countess could answer, Prince Andrew entered the room with an agitated and serious face.†
Chpt 6
- Flushed and agitated she went about the house all that day, dry-eyed, occupied with most trivial matters as if not understanding what awaited her.†
Chpt 6
- He rode in angry agitation toward him, firmly grasping his whip and fully prepared to take the most resolute and desperate steps to punish his enemy.†
Chpt 7
- "A full-grown one?" asked Ilagin as he approached the whip who had sighted the hare—and not without agitation he looked round and whistled to Erza.†
Chpt 7
- Natasha saw and felt the agitation the two elderly men and her brother were trying to conceal, and was herself excited by it.†
Chpt 7
- After Nicholas had gone things in the Rostov household were more depressing than ever, and the countess fell ill from mental agitation.†
Chpt 7
- Natasha, who had borne the first period of separation from her betrothed lightly and even cheerfully, now grew more agitated and impatient every day.†
Chpt 7
- Apart from this insuperable antipathy to her, Princess Mary was agitated just then because on the Rostovs' being announced, the old prince had shouted that he did not wish to see them, that Princess Mary might do so if she chose, but they were not to be admitted to him.†
Chpt 8
- Natasha's looks, as everyone told her, had improved in the country, and that evening thanks to her agitation she was particularly pretty.†
Chpt 8
- She felt agitated and tormented, and the cause of this was Kuragin whom she could not help watching.†
Chpt 8
- Agitated and flushed she turned round.†
Chpt 8
- She was still too agitated by the encounter to be able to talk of the affair calmly.†
Chpt 8
- Clutching her breast to keep herself from choking, Sonya, pale and trembling with fear and agitation, sat down in an armchair and burst into tears.†
Chpt 8
- At that party Natasha again met Anatole, and Sonya noticed that she spoke to him, trying not to be overheard, and that all through dinner she was more agitated than ever.†
Chpt 8
- With the same expression of agitated surprise and guilt she went about the house, taking up now one occupation, now another, and at once abandoning them.†
Chpt 8
- Sonya entered the room with an agitated face.†
Chpt 8
- The Emperor, with the agitation of one who has been personally affronted, was finishing with these words: "To enter Russia without declaring war!†
Chpt 9
- Davout glanced at him silently and plainly derived pleasure from the signs of agitation and confusion which appeared on Balashev's face.†
Chpt 9
- He glanced with pity at the excited face of Ilyin, who talked much and in great agitation.†
Chpt 9
- After those involuntary words—that if he were free he would have asked on his knees for her hand and her love—uttered at a moment when she was so strongly agitated, Pierre never spoke to Natasha of his feelings; and it seemed plain to her that those words, which had then so comforted her, were spoken as all sorts of meaningless words are spoken to comfort a crying child.†
Chpt 9
- Tears, the cause of which she herself did not understand, made Natasha's breast heave, and a joyous but oppressive feeling agitated her.†
Chpt 9
- …who talked casually of how badly things were going in the army, the rumors of the discovery of spies in Moscow and of a leaflet in circulation stating that Napoleon promised to be in both the Russian capitals by the autumn, and the talk of the Emperor's being expected to arrive next day—all aroused with fresh force that feeling of agitation and expectation in Pierre which he had been conscious of ever since the appearance of the comet, and especially since the beginning of the war.†
Chpt 9
- Natasha entered with a softened and agitated expression of face and sat down looking silently at Pierre.†
Chpt 9
- Pierre was agitated and undecided.
Chpt 9 *agitated = emotionally upset
- He sat on his elevation—the pedestal of the cannon—still agitated as before by the thought of the Emperor and by his love for him.†
Chpt 9
- He was agitated; this extraordinary gathering not only of nobles but also of the merchant-class—les etats generaux (States-General)—evoked in him a whole series of ideas he had long laid aside but which were deeply graven in his soul: thoughts of the Contrat social and the French Revolution.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(agitate) to stir up or shake -- emotionally (as when people are angered or upset) or physically (as when a washing machine cleans clothes)