| 1. | The disquietude of his air, the somewhat apprehensive impatience of his manner, surprised me but I proceeded. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | I might have fallen without a struggle for my life had not a sudden disquietude seized upon me and made me turn my head. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 3. | As I advanced in years it was more strongly developed becoming, for many reasons, a cause of serious disquietude to my friends, and of positive injury to myself. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 4. | Their disappearance at first caused much disquietude but it was soon known that they had joined Cucumetto. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 5. | Edgar's stern rebuke of my carrying tales and I tried to smooth away all disquietude on the subject, by affirming, with frequent iteration, that that betrayal of trust, if it merited so harsh an appellation, should be the last. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 6. | Every time I ascended to the deck from my watches below, I instantly gazed aft to mark if any strange face were visible for my first vague disquietude touching the unknown captain, now in the seclusion of the sea, became almost a perturbation. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |