"Astir" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of that next morning all of them were early astir. After breakfast they went in search of mounts, having secured some hints from the proprietor of ...
— The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields • Lieut. Howard Payson
... to Eleusis, and see, for ourselves, this great festival. Suppose it to be the 15th of September, B.C. 411, Anno Mundi 3593 (though we would not make oath to that). It is a fine morning at Athens, and every one is astir, for it is the day of assembling together at Eleusis. Then, for company, we shall have Plato, now eighteen years old, Sophocles, an old man of eighty-four, Euripides, at sixty-nine, and Aristophanes, at forty-five. Socrates, who has his peculiar notions about things, is not ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859 • Various
... the households are astir; the maid strolls back from the market, swinging her right arm and with the left clasping the basket of provisions to her side; the air grows thick with the smell and smoke of kitchens. It again becomes clear to our Lane ...
— The Fugitive • Rabindranath Tagore
... far away. She looked upward through high pine-tops where stars shone; and saw no sign of dawn. But the watcher by the fire beyond was astir, now, in the imminence of dawn, and evidently meant to warm ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers
... first hint of dawn, Fox-Foot was astir. Before he left the tent, however, he cautiously placed his sack under Larry's blanket, and within the turn of that gentleman's elbow. Once more good luck attended his efforts with rod and line, and he got a dozen trout in almost as many minutes. Larry's nose ...
— The Shagganappi • E. Pauline Johnson
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