I am quite uneasy about your dear brother, not having heard from him since he went to Oxford; and am fearful of some misunderstanding.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

At the present writing, 1897, Susan, Daniel, Mary and Merritt still survive, aged seventy-seven, seventy-three, seventy and sixty-three, all remarkably vigorous in mind and body; a family of few words, quiet, undemonstrative and yet knit together with bonds of steel, loyal to each other in every thought and each ready to make any sacrifice for the others.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

“Well, how wet and cold you must be, such a wild night as it is! Come in—your sisters are quite uneasy about you, and I believe there are bad folks about.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

My dear Wright , I am very greatly obliged to you for letting me see these opals, quite unexampled, as you rightly say, from that locality—but from that locality I never buy—my kind is the opal formed in pores and cavities, throughout the mass of that compact brown jasper—this, which is merely a superficial crust of jelly on the surface of a nasty brown sandstone, I do not myself value in the least.
— from Chats in the Book-Room by Horace N. Pym

"We hear of so many disagreeable occurrences, that I can assure you we have felt quite uneasy about you.
— from Boscobel; or, the royal oak: A tale of the year 1651 by William Harrison Ainsworth

He arose quickly and advancing to the two men, said quietly, urbanely and yet with an air of firmness, "Gentlemen, the law prescribes that this coach shall be used exclusively by Negro passengers and we must ask that you do not make our first-class apartment a drinking room for the whites."
— from The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

I ought to have been more careful, for the churches swarm with pickpockets, and the police are quite useless, as you saw.”
— from Donna Teresa by Frances Mary Peard

Dickinson was most anxious to get rid of these unwelcome attendants, and did all he could think of to persuade them to return to the house; but though quite unsuspicious as yet, they were not to be persuaded; they preferred rather to march alongside the other party, keeping up a constant fire of such jests and witticisms as sailors are wont to indulge in.
— from The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific by Harry Collingwood

Quite unknown as yet to Rome, the Mongolian tribes from northeastern Asia, the Huns and their kin, walled back and driven out from China by the Tsi and Han dynasties, were drifting and pressing westward, mixing with the {v1-509} Parthians, the Scythians, the Teutons and the like, or driving them before them.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I have been quite uneasy about you," she exclaimed, effusively.
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

There's lots of things I'll never quite understand about you, I expect.
— from The Last Straw by Harold Titus

'Now, Milly, you must not be crying; if you choose you [pg 214] may be just as the same as any other lady—and you shall; and you will be very much admired, I can tell you, if only you will take the trouble to quite unlearn all your odd words and ways, and dress yourself like other people; and I will take care of that if you let me; and I think you are very clever, Milly; and I know you are very pretty.'
— from Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

In the final vote that is taken, after three other delegates have spoken, a resolution is adopted calling for the appointment of a standing committee of three to continue the investigation of the Trust question until another year.
— from The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin A Political Novel of the Twentieth Century by Francis Alexandre Adams