All 20 Uses of
agitate
in
Bleak House
- Even to this hour, Mrs. Rouncewell's calm hands lose their composure when she speaks of him, and unfolding themselves from her stomacher, hover about her in an agitated manner as she says what a likely lad, what a fine lad, what a gay, good-humoured, clever lad he was!†
Chpt 7-9
- It won't much agitate Ma; I am only pen and ink to HER.†
Chpt 13-15
- She was alarmed by an occurrence in the house which might have alarmed a stronger person, and was made ill by the distress and agitation.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- It made me tremble so to be thrown into this unaccountable agitation that I was conscious of being distressed even by the observation of the French maid, though I knew she had been looking watchfully here, and there, and everywhere, from the moment of her coming into the church.†
Chpt 16-18
- Resisting the temptation, but agitating him violently enough to make his head roll like a harlequin's, he puts him smartly down in his chair again and adjusts his skull-cap with such a rub that the old man winks with both eyes for a minute afterwards.†
Chpt 19-21
- Now do they note down, in the watches of the night, how the neighbourhood of Chancery Lane was yesterday, at about midnight, thrown into a state of the most intense agitation and excitement by the following alarming and horrible discovery.†
Chpt 31-33
- "Don't be agitated, my dear.†
Chpt 34-36
- I explained, as nearly as I could then, or can recall now—for my agitation and distress throughout were so great that I scarcely understood myself, though every word that was uttered in the mother's voice, so unfamiliar and so melancholy to me, which in my childhood I had never learned to love and recognize, had never been sung to sleep with, had never heard a blessing from, had never had a hope inspired by, made an enduring impression on my memory—I say I explained, or tried to do it,…†
Chpt 34-36
- Fortunately his elder sister perceives the cause of the agitation in Mrs. Bagnet's breast and with an admonitory poke recalls him.†
Chpt 49-51
- Such crowding reflections, increasing the distress and fear I always felt when the name was mentioned, made me so agitated that I could scarcely hold my place at the table.†
Chpt 52-54
- "Now, I tell you, miss," she proceeded, clapping her hands in her hurry and agitation a dozen times in every sentence, "that what he says concerning no relations is all bosh.†
Chpt 52-54
- The agitation and the indignation from which I have recently suffered have been too much for me.†
Chpt 52-54
- He points again, in great agitation, at the two words.†
Chpt 55-57
- They all try to quiet him, but he points again with increased agitation.†
Chpt 55-57
- Something to this general purpose I made out, but I was thrown into such a tumult of alarm, and hurry and distress, that in spite of every effort I could make to subdue my agitation, I did not seem, to myself, fully to recover my right mind until hours had passed.†
Chpt 55-57
- The old housekeeper weeping silently; Volumnia in the greatest agitation, with the freshest bloom on her cheeks; the trooper with his arms folded and his head a little bent, respectfully attentive.†
Chpt 58-60
- "What does Mr. Bucket mean?" he repeated, and I saw by his face that all the time he talked he was listening for the discovery of the letter, to my own great agitation, for I knew then how important it must be; "I'll tell you what he means, ma'am.†
Chpt 58-60
- She spoke so modestly and softly and her trembling hand expressed such agitation as it moved to and fro upon the silent notes!†
Chpt 58-60
- In Richard, the discovery gave occasion for a burst of business and agitation that buoyed him up for a little time, but he had lost the elasticity even of hope now and seemed to me to retain only its feverish anxieties.†
Chpt 64-65
- Richard was extremely agitated and was so weak and low, though his illness was still of the mind, that my dear girl indeed had sore occasion to be supported.†
Chpt 64-65
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)