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Definition
uneasy, impatient, and difficult to control
- This afternoon she was peculiarly restive.Chapter 4 (19% in)
- Such music is not for the piano, and her audience began to get restive, and Cecil, sharing the discontent, called out: "Now play us the other garden—the one in Parsifal."Chapter 15 (55% in)
There are no more uses of "restive" in A Room With A View.
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