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1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas vi. 88 Hee thought those of his kinde and bloude to be his enimies, and in all restlesnesse, murther, and covetousnesse, bare himselfe without feare.

1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 154 Let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlesnesse.

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. ii. v. sig. O7 The heat, and thirst, and restlessness of an Ague.

a1721 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) I. 295 Yet a restlessness attends such deeds, Tho' ne'er so just.

1764 Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 349 She often complained of a swimming in her head, and a restlessness in the night.

1798 M. Edgeworth & R. L. Edgeworth Pract. Educ. II. xix. 513 Much may be done by education to prevent this boyish restlessness.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xvi. 23 This constant restlessness and flitting to and fro, gave rise to strange stories.

1880 A. Geikie Elem. Lessons Physical Geogr. (new ed.) iii. 139 The restlessness of its water is one of the features of the sea which first impress the onlooker.

1908 E. F. Benson Climber 58 At least, restlessness doesn't seem to me to be a virtue.

1958 Nursing (St. John Ambulance Assoc.) xvii. 214 This form of treatment..allays restlessness and induces sleep.

1989 P. Dally Elizabeth Barrett Browning i. 2 There was increasing restlessness among the plantation slaves towards the end of the eighteenth century.