c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Thess. v. 14 Reproue, or chastyse, ȝe vnquyete [a1425 L.V. vnpesible; L. inquietos] men. Comforte ȝe men of litil herte.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Aiiii This world..is and euer shalbe vnquiet.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccccxlij Vnquiet and troublesome persons.

a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 299 The more unquiet sort, being..worn out and spent, the rest..came to a composition with the Emperour.

1697 K. Chetwood Pref. to Pastorals in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. ***1 We..can scarcely pass..a whole Day, not ruffled by some unquiet Passion.

1701 J. Swift Disc. Contests Nobles & Commons v. 57 Those hot, unquiet Spirits, who disturb Assemblies.

a1745 J. Swift Henry I in Wks. (1768) XIII. 277 Those perpetual troubles and vexations given to his kingdom by that unquiet people.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 253 The daring, unquiet, and vindictive seaman now sate in the councils.

1871 S. Smiles Character vii. 202 France has been the unquiet spirit among the nations of Europe.

a1926 E. Gore-Booth Poems (1929) 193 They came to a twilight land in the west, Where old unquiet mysteries And pale discrowned spirits dwell, And the world's will is laid to rest.

1984 S. Heaney Station Island ii. ix. 84 Unquiet soul, they should have buried you In the bog where you threw your first grenade.

2000 W. Self How Dead Live (2001) 15 In Piccadilly there were unquiet spirits aplenty, the futile shades of dead junkies and drabs and auto-accident victims.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. lxxiv. 769 The [MS there] Hiberium see toward Britayne is ful of wawes and vnquyete, an [MS in] alle þe ȝeere unneþe able to sayle ynne but fewe dayes.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.:Wallner) ii. 103 (MED) Cancer aposteme is a bolnyng, hard, round, venenous, fusc, swiftely adding, vnquiete, & dolorous.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Esdras xvi. 12 Y^e see aryseth up.., and the floudes of it are vnquyete.

1627 J. Taylor Armado sig. B7^v The tossing of the billowes and vnquiet surges of the Sea.

1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 2 To be tost and turmoild..in fadomles and unquiet deeps of controversie.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 598 In case the Liquor [sc. cider in a cask] be unquiet.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §293 They found the sea so unquiet about the rocks, that [etc.].

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlix. 466 On every side..are the unquiet, grinding floes.

1863 J. Conington tr. Horace Odes iv. xii. 1 The gales of Thrace, that hush the unquiet Sea.

1954 J. Cheever Jrnls. (1991) 46 Rosemary Clooney—a young woman with an unusually deep front and a very heavy and unquiet mantle of yellow hair.

1972 F. Mowat Whale for Killing (1988) i. 7 Clinging to the landwash, often at the very foot of a towering cliff, these sparse encrustations of human life were separated one from the other by many miles of unquiet waters.

2007 D. Bilsborough Wanderer's Tale (2008) 231 Yellowing tussocks of grass that bent in an unquiet wind.

1539 R. Taverner Second Bk. Garden of Wysdome sig. A.iv^v The husbande is very sore noyed and greued with the garrulitie and vnquiet tongue of the wyfe.

1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 45 I sent away the women lest they should be so unquiet.

1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion II. iv. iv. 162 The numerous dogs of the neighbourhood are growing unquiet.

1854 L. C. Moulton This, That & Other 227 The pale hands were outstretched, and the low voice hushed its unquiet wailing at last.

1958 S. Plath Jrnl. 11 Mar. (2000) 348 All I hear is the distant unquiet roararoar of a plane and the screak and whoosh of traffic.

2007 Independent (Nexis) 3 Mar. (Saturday Mag.)18 I hate pubs, clubs, gatherings of the unquiet, exaggeratedly merry crowds.

c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 139 Boþe causes humbleþ and hurleþ doun þe conscience and makeþ hure unquiet wiþoute reste, while he feliþ þe olde passiouns and sinnes not dede.

1508 Remedy Troubles Temptacyons vii. sig. C.i^v He..bryngeth them in suche a combraunce that they wote not whyche waye is best to them to take, all this he dooth vtterly to deceyue them and cause them to be vnquyet to doo ony of theym bothe.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xli. 5 O my soule,..why art thou so vnquiete within me?

1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. ix. 25 Being unquiet and greatly greeued at their falshood.

a1627 J. Beaumont Dial. World, Pilgrim, & Vertue in Bosworth-field (1629) 71 Whose counsels make men draw vnquiet breath.

a1704 J. Locke Conduct of Understanding §6 in Posthumous Wks. (1706) 22 The Mind..hastens to some Hypothesis to bottom it on, till then it is unquiet and unsettled.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 218 I slept unquiet.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 185 As the Hours grew on..my silly Heart was the unquieter.

1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xiii. 15 A countenance visibly unquiet and confused.

1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus i. viii Walking up and down the hall, with an unquiet and somewhat irritated air.

1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 98 On the eve of the marriage morrow The bride is unquiet by night.

1928 E. Waugh Decline & Fall iii. iv. 244 There is usually something..to send the trippers off to their teas with their consciences agreeably unquiet at the memory of small dishonesties in railway trains.

1964 E. Dahlberg Alms for Oblivion 122 The Void made God miserable, and He was unquiet until the waters had receded.

2009 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 12 Jan. 6 An Israeli public that generally supports the war against Hamas in Gaza but is unquiet about how and when it will end.

1534 tr. Erasmus Bellum Erasmi f. 32 Me thynke I haue gayned inoughe, if I maye saue my good name, kepe my frende, and avoyde this vnquiet and chargeable busynesse.

1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. Argt. 199 The vnquiet estate of a tyrant.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 610 Guagida betwixt two stooles had vnquiet sitting, paying tribute [etc.].

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. v. viii. sig. Ll7^v The unquiet Pleasure that the sight of the Stars gives to this Child.

1679 Established Test 18 That insecurity..makes..their dayes unquiet.

1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 531 His sleep is unquiet with frightful dreams.

1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion i. 45 Nine long years, She lingered in unquiet widowhood. View more context for this quotation

a1873 E. Bulwer-Lytton in Ld. Lytton Life & Lett. Lytton (1883) I. 115 I cried myself into an unquiet doze.

1927 C. M. Rourke Trumpets of Jubilee 148 ‘Ma, where have you been,’ a sharp voice would cry when she came in, wet and bedraggled after her long wanderings. But in her unquiet ecstasy she could no longer be reached.

1978 D. Brutus Stubborn Hope 19 One knows Only an unquiet ease Only a comparative peace.

2005 C. Froula V. Woolf & Bloomsbury Avant-Garde v. 166 With this central element of her abstract composition in place, Lily..is finally released from unquiet obsession into ordinary experience.