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Schiller's plays expressed the restless spirit of his generation, depicting the hero's struggle against social pressures and the force of destiny.
" America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants [...] They have proved to be the most restless, the most adventurous, the most innovative, the most industrious of people.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic paid attention to the attempts of Simon in embracing his classic folk sound with Eno's electronic textures, and wrote that " Simon doesn't achieve his comeback by reconnecting with the sound and spirit of his classic work ; he has achieved it by being as restless and ambitious as he was at his popular and creative peak, which makes Surprise all the more remarkable.
In the 1647 campaign, Thomas Francis is mentioned as commanding alongside the French general in the forces sent across north Italy to work with the Duke of Modena Francesco I d ' Este who had just allied with France and opened up a ' second front ' against the Spaniards in Milan, though Mazarin confessed that he had appointed Thomas only because he feared that, if left behind in Piedmont, the Prince's restless spirit would make more trouble.
In the 1647 campaign, Thomas is mentioned as commanding alongside the French general in the forces sent across north Italy to work with the Duke of Modena Francesco I d ' Este who had just allied with France and opened up a ' second front ' against the Spaniards in Milan, though Mazarin confessed that he had appointed Thomas only because he feared that, if left behind in Piedmont, the Prince's restless spirit would make more trouble.
In the years subsequent to this move, her father's restless spirit led them on various moves to a preemption claim in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, living with relatives near South Troy, Minnesota, and helping to run a hotel in Burr Oak, Iowa.
Walther's restless spirit did not suffer him to remain long on his new property.
" But the young Muir was a " restless spirit " and especially " prone to lashings.
Everything conspired in their favour: the anxiety of those candid friends who were calling attention to the defective budget ; the commercial crisis, aggravated by the American Civil War ; and above all, the restless spirit of the emperor, who had annoyed his opponents in 1860 by insisting on an alliance with the United Kingdom in order to forcibly open the Chinese ports for trade, in 1863 by his ill-fated attempt of a military intervention in Mexico to set up a Latin empire in favour of the archduke Maximilian of Austria, and from 1861 to 1863 by embarking on colonising experiments in Cochinchina ( southern Vietnam ) and Annam ( central Vietnam ).
In his Life of Sir Henry Wotton Izaak Walton, calling him Jasper Scioppius, refers to Schoppe as " a man of a restless spirit and a malicious pen.
He was often described as the face and catalyst of a new consumerist urban society, and that he has managed to personify " the restless spirit of post-liberalization, ambitious, assertive and yet feel-good India.
Cabbell's unusual tomb was allegedly designed to keep his restless spirit from roaming Dartmoor.
His restless spirit longed for change, and he determined to seek peace and freedom in America.
Forever a restless spirit, 1951 he signed on for two years as a sailor on a Danish cargo ship.
The name " Larva " is taken from Roman mythology, which like " Lemures " refers to a restless spirit of the dead.
; Lemuri: The Lemuri were the souls of the evil dead, created by Romulus to subdue the restless spirit of his brother Remus.
Her restless spirit then took her to India.
Soon after, Amakusa's restless spirit returns to avenge his fallen comrades and is up to Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi to put a stop to the demonic onslaught.
* Chase-A restless spirit who is always on the go.
His restless spirit and fascination with bullfighting has drawn comparisons with Hemingway.
On Thanksgiving, Buffy encounters the restless and vengeful spirit of a Native American, called Hus, whose people ( the aboriginal Chumash tribe ) were wiped out by white settlers.
At the beginning of the 19th century, in 1802, the School of Civil Engineering was founded at the initiative of Augustin de Bethencourt, an outstanding representative of the eloquent restless and inquiring spirit of the Spanish Enlightenment.
These poems are characteristic of the transition through which the German lyric was passing between 1840 and 1848 ; the old Romantic strain is still dominant, especially in his ballads, which are unquestionably his finest productions ; but, side by side with it, there is to be seen the influence of Platen, to whose warmest admirers Strachwitz belonged, as well as echoes of the restless political spirit of those eventful years.
Streeton notes that " The manner in which Surrey drove forward with their own brand of forceful cricket under Fender's inspiration and restless spirit was soon noticed by press and public.

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Coyotes and hunting wolves sounded like signaling Indian scouts, the whinny of a restless pony made one's skin crawl.
By the 9th century BCE the Assyrians made a habit of regularly deporting thousands of restless subjects to other lands.
He was uncertain whether to become a full-time poet ; by his own account, " the alternatives battled in my mind and made my life restless ".
In common with many recovering addicts, she is restless and anxious and suffers from insomnia, not made any easier by her husband and children's loud snoring.
Among the first to break free of religious meaning were Leonardo da Vinci, who created watercolor studies of fruit ( around 1495 ) as part of his restless examination of nature, and Albrecht Dürer who also made precise drawings of flora and fauna.
At the same time, the legislature tried to prevent slaves from being freed, as the representatives thought that the very presence of free blacks in the colony made slaves restless.
The books were written as prayers to God, thus the title, based on the Psalms of David ; and it begins with " For Thou has made us for thyself and our hearts are restless till they rest in Thee ".
Although not a very prolific scorer, Vryzas ' tenacious work ethic, his restless battles with the opposing defenders, his talent to create chances and open spaces for his attacking partners, in addition to his aerial ability and passing skills made him a valuable member of all the Clubs he played for, as well as the Greek National Team with which he won the European Championship in 2004.
Gunnhildr also put a spell on Egill, which made him feel restless and depressed until they met again.
He once wrote, and stands by, the following sentence: ‘ There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world .’ Yet he also believes, passionately, that business ― with its restless energy, imagination, and creativity ― will one day get us out of the mess it has made.
The restless spirits of Victor S. Plagata and Consolador Faldas made possible the realization of the great dream of Bingawan to become an independent Municipality.
Some unnamed calling made her restless.
von Blumenthal came from the Potsdam Tradition, his father had been a tutor to the Hohenzollerns, but in the opinion of F. W. Heinz, the former editor of the Stahlhelm, he had from the beginning viewed the German nation ’ s pact with Hitler as a misfortune, an opinion which grew ever stronger and made him increasingly restless as the years passed.
: You have made us, O Lord, for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
A number of the shareholders now became restless and two attempts were made to oust Proudfoot from his post of managing director.

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Where their sharp edges seemed restless as sea waves thrusting themselves upward in angry motion, Papa-san sat glacier-like, his smooth solidity, his very immobility defying all the turmoil about him.
To him life was a restless boredom that began with the rising sun and ended only with sleep.
His restless and turbulent nature marked him out for a military career ; and having collected a small band of soldiers, he assisted Emperor Charles V in his war with France in 1543.
Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.
When their film careers both began to founder at the end of the silent era Fairbanks ' restless nature prompted him to overseas travel ( something which Pickford did not enjoy ).
Sergeant James Allen ( Paul Muni ) returns to civilian life after World War I but his war experience makes him restless.
The poem establishes a contrast between the tranquility of nature and the ever restless impulses to which the poet's desires subject him, while the images and epithets accumulate almost chaotically, communicating a sense of his inner turmoil.
The second time Demetrius was captured when he tried to escape, Mithradates humiliated him by giving him a golden set of dice, thus hinting that Demetrius II was a restless child who needed toys.
He led a life of restless wandering, which took him to North Africa, Egypt ( in 1109, maybe in the company of Yehuda Halevi ), the Land of Israel, Italy ( Rome in 1140-1143, Lucca, Mantua, Verona ), Southern France ( Rodez, Narbonne, Béziers ), Northern France ( Dreux ), England ( London, and Oxford in 1158 ), and back again to Narbonne in 1161, until his death on January 23 or 28, 1167, the exact location unknown: maybe at Calahorra at the border of Navarre and Aragon, or maybe in Rome or in the Holy Land.
After long imprisonment in his own house, the restless Bonner, bishop of London, caused him to be committed to Newgate, there to be lodged among thieves and murderers.
He became restless, and it was deemed advisable to place him under the constant care of a nurse, Despite the precautions, Sir Barry caught cold through exposure, and congestion of the left lung set in.
Most of Fabian's early films were comedies and cast him as a restless teenager with a penchant for singing.
The irresolution and divergence of interests usual in allied armies found in him a restless opponent.
Fraser has always " owned " the restless, wandering Maritimer as a fictional character, but this complex, exasperating ' split personality character Quann ' and the believable world ( s ) created for him is a real coup.
All twisted, screwed, wiredrawn ; with such a restless sensitiveness ; the uttermost inability to let Nature have fair play with him!
The book begins with Poliphilo, who has spent a restless night because his beloved, < nowiki > Polia </ nowiki > ( literally " Many Things "), shunned him.
On the second day of Sinbad's tale-telling — but the 549th night of Scheherazade's, for she has been breaking her tale each morning in order to arouse the interest of the homicidal king, and make him spare her life for one more night — Sinbad the sailor tells how he grew restless of his life of leisure, and set to sea again, " possessed with the thought of traveling about the world of men and seeing their cities and islands.
Billali tells Holly that he needs to go and report the white men's arrival to She, but in his absence, some of the Amahagger become restless and seize Mahomed, intending to eat him as part of a ritual " hotpot ".
In the original serialisation of She, the cannibal Amahagger grow restless and hungry and place a large heated pot over the head of Mahomed, enacting the hotpotting ritual before eating him.
The effects of drug withdrawal were clearly getting the better of him, as he got increasingly restless, moaned and screamed in pain, and at times fell into memory lapses, failing to recognize at first some of his visitors, including his son Arkadiy.

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