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1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, IV. (Arb.), 114. The poore vnresting Dido could catch no such happye Season too be quiet.
1604. A. Scoloker, Daiphantus, F 4. The wandring soule Seeking for rest in his vnresting spirit.
1652. Brome, Eng. Moor, IV. iv. What is she? I am fear-struck Tis some unresting shadow.
1748. Thomson, Cast. Indol., II. lxxxi. But ay the ruthless driver goads them on,… Ne ever find they rest from their unresting fone.
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., I. lxxxiii. Life-abhorring gloom Wrote on his faded brow curst Cain’s unresting doom.
1856. H. Dixon, Post & Paddock, x. 168. Those ballads, which they sing with such unresting diligence.
1870. M. D. Conway, Earthw. Pilgr., xxi. 256. This unresting life of the enquiring soul.
Hence Unrestingly adv.; Unrestingness.
1831. Carlyle, Sartor Res., I. x. The silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our imagination.
1839. De Quincey, Roman Meals, Wks. (1854), III. 269, note. The German imagination has been most struck by the duration of the man’s life,… the English, by the unrestingness…, his incapacity of repose.
