Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. Gustave Flaubert
Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot on it, the black spot Mr. Summers had made the night before with the heavy pencil in the coal company office. Bill Hutchinson held it up, and there was a stir in the crowd. Shirley Jackson
Will sensed a stir in Jim's house; Jim, too, with his fine dark antennae, must have felt the waters part high over town to let a Leviathan pass. Ray Bradbury
... I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them... Barbara Kingsolver
I think in all the bedlam, it got forgotten. We were on the move all the time traveling around South Africa. People were saying, 'Your call of that goal has created quite a stir in America.' Yeah? Ian Darke