All 50 Uses of
agitate
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Edmond then cast his eyes scrutinizingly at the agitated and embarrassed Mercedes, and then again on the gloomy and menacing Fernand.†
Chpt 3-4 *
- …of deep meaning, while Fernand, as he slowly paced behind the happy pair, who seemed, in their own unmixed content, to have entirely forgotten that such a being as himself existed, was pale and abstracted; occasionally, however, a deep flush would overspread his countenance, and a nervous contraction distort his features, while, with an agitated and restless gaze, he would glance in the direction of Marseilles, like one who either anticipated or foresaw some great and important event.†
Chpt 5-6
- Every eye was turned towards the young man who, spite of the agitation he could not but feel, advanced with dignity, and said, in a firm voice, "I am he; what is your pleasure with me?"†
Chpt 5-6
- "Hope!" faintly murmured Fernand, but the word seemed to die away on his pale agitated lips, and a convulsive spasm passed over his countenance.†
Chpt 5-6
- The guests were still at table, and the heated and energetic conversation that prevailed betrayed the violent and vindictive passions that then agitated each dweller of the South, where unhappily, for five centuries religious strife had long given increased bitterness to the violence of party feeling.†
Chpt 5-6
- The prisoner whom you there see pale, agitated, and alarmed, instead of—as is the case when a curtain falls on a tragedy—going home to sup peacefully with his family, and then retiring to rest, that he may recommence his mimic woes on the morrow,—is removed from your sight merely to be reconducted to his prison and delivered up to the executioner.†
Chpt 5-6
- No; my pride is to see the accused pale, agitated, and as though beaten out of all composure by the fire of my eloquence.†
Chpt 5-6
- "I am, sir," said the king, much agitated; "and recently we have had information that the Bonapartist clubs have had meetings in the Rue Saint-Jacques.†
Chpt 9-10
- At the sight of this agitation Louis XVIII. pushed from him violently the table at which he was sitting.†
Chpt 11-12
- Villefort, pale and agitated, ran to the window, put aside the curtain, and saw him pass, cool and collected, by two or three ill-looking men at the corner of the street, who were there, perhaps, to arrest a man with black whiskers, and a blue frock-coat, and hat with broad brim.†
Chpt 11-12
- Danglars was joking in a friendly way, but Fernand looked pale and agitated.†
Chpt 17-18
- You have, indeed, a noble nature, Edmond, and I see by your paleness and agitation what is passing in your heart at this moment.†
Chpt 17-18
- Night came, and with it the preparation for departure, and these preparations served to conceal Dantes' agitation.†
Chpt 23-24
- There was a brief silence, during which the fixed, searching eye of the abbe was employed in scrutinizing the agitated features of the inn-keeper.†
Chpt 25-26
- The agitation of Caderousse became extreme, and large drops of perspiration rolled from his heated brow.†
Chpt 25-26
- During the night, between the 4th and 5th of September, Madame Morrel remained listening for every sound, and, until three o'clock in the morning, she heard her husband pacing the room in great agitation.†
Chpt 29-30
- He was calm; but the agitation of the night was legible in his pale and careworn visage.†
Chpt 29-30
- Luigi slowly relinquished Teresa's arm, which he had held beneath his own, and Teresa, accompanied by her elegant cavalier, took her appointed place with much agitation in the aristocratic quadrille.†
Chpt 33-34
- Twice or thrice during the dance the young girl had glanced at Luigi, and each time she saw that he was pale and that his features were agitated, once even the blade of his knife, half drawn from its sheath, had dazzled her eyes with its sinister glare.†
Chpt 33-34
- Teresa had yielded in spite of herself, but when she looked at the agitated countenance of the young man, she understood by his silence and trembling voice that something strange was passing within him.†
Chpt 33-34
- The surprise and agitation occasioned by this full confirmation of Franz's former suspicion had no doubt imparted a corresponding expression to his features; for the countess, after gazing with a puzzled look at his face, burst into a fit of laughter, and begged to know what had happened.†
Chpt 33-34
- So saying, the countess quitted Franz, leaving him unable to decide whether she were merely amusing herself at his expense, or whether her fears and agitations were genuine.†
Chpt 33-34
- "I do not deny it," returned the count; "but why are you thus agitated.†
Chpt 43-44
- Caderousse, meanwhile, continued to pace the room in gloomy silence, sedulously avoiding the sight of his guest; but as soon as the stranger had completed his repast, the agitated inn-keeper went eagerly to the door and opened it.†
Chpt 45-46
- "Is what true, madame?" inquired Danglars, visibly agitated.†
Chpt 47-48
- Oh, he laughed, and in that singular manner so peculiar to himself—half-malicious, half-ferocious; he almost immediately got up and took his leave; then, for the first time, I observed the agitation of my grandfather, and I must tell you, Maximilian, that I am the only person capable of discerning emotion in his paralyzed frame.†
Chpt 51-52
- "A visitor?" inquired Valentine, much agitated; "who is it?"†
Chpt 51-52
- "It is six o'clock," said Madame de Villefort, evidently agitated.†
Chpt 51-52
- "Yet conscience remains," remarked Madame de Villefort in an agitated voice, and with a stifled sigh.†
Chpt 51-52
- The procureur, who knew the political hatred which had formerly existed between M. Noirtier and the elder d'Epinay, well understood the agitation and anger which the announcement had produced; but, feigning not to perceive either, he immediately resumed the narrative begun by his wife.†
Chpt 57-58
- "Rue de la Fontaine!" exclaimed Villefort in an agitated tone; "at what number?"†
Chpt 59-60
- "What is there more?" said Debray, who had not failed to notice the agitation of Madame Danglars.†
Chpt 63-64
- "Come," said Andrea, with sufficient nerve for his servant not to perceive his agitation, "what do you want?†
Chpt 63-64
- It was evident that Madame Danglars was suffering from that nervous irritability which women frequently cannot account for even to themselves; or that, as Debray had guessed, she had experienced some secret agitation that she would not acknowledge to any one.†
Chpt 65-66
- "I do not understand you, sir," said the baroness, trying to disguise the agitation of her voice and the flush of her face.†
Chpt 65-66
- On leaving the Chamber, Danglars, who had shown violent marks of agitation during the sitting, and been more bitter than ever against the ministry, re-entered his carriage, and told the coachman to drive to the Avenue des Champs-Elysees, No. 30.†
Chpt 65-66
- You recollect that sad night, when you were half-expiring on that bed in the red damask room, while I, scarcely less agitated than you, awaited your delivery.†
Chpt 67-68
- At last I mastered my agitation.†
Chpt 67-68
- "But the child—the child, sir?" repeated the agitated mother.†
Chpt 67-68
- "Oh, dear grandmamma, are you worse?" exclaimed Valentine, perceiving all these signs of agitation.†
Chpt 71-72
- An extreme nervous excitement and a strangely agitated sleep; she fancied this morning in her sleep that her soul was hovering above her body, which she at the same time watched.†
Chpt 71-72
- Oh, I dare not—she forbade my sending for you; and, as you say, I am myself agitated, feverish and out of sorts.†
Chpt 71-72
- "Where are you going?" cried the young girl, extending her hand through the opening, and seizing Maximilian by his coat, for she understood from her own agitated feelings that her lover's calmness could not be real; "where are you going?"†
Chpt 73-74
- It is easy to suppose that Morrel's agitation would not escape the count's penetrating eye.†
Chpt 73-74
- When the afternoon arrived and he felt that the hour was drawing near, he wished for solitude, his agitation was extreme; a simple question from a friend would have irritated him.†
Chpt 73-74
- Just as they were beginning, in the English fashion, to leave the spoons in their cups, the door again opened and Danglars entered, visibly agitated.†
Chpt 75-76
- If Valentine could have seen the trembling step and agitated countenance of Franz when he quitted the chamber of M. Noirtier, even she would have been constrained to pity him.†
Chpt 77-78
- At the same moment, that is, at nine o'clock in the morning, Albert de Morcerf, dressed in a black coat buttoned up to his chin, might have been seen walking with a quick and agitated step in the direction of Monte Cristo's house in the Champs Elysees.†
Chpt 77-78
- But he had been unable to send to Albert the following particulars, as the events had transpired after the messenger's departure; namely, that the same day a great agitation was manifest in the House of Peers among the usually calm members of that dignified assembly.†
Chpt 85-86
- While he was thus agitated by gloomy uncertainties,—wretched waking dreams of grief,—the first rays of morning pierced his windows, and shone upon the pale blue paper on which he had just inscribed his justification of providence.†
Chpt 89-90
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)