"astir" is a completely valid word in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is active or moving, similar to the words "awake" or "active". Example: After a long winter's nap, the garden was finally astir with birds chirping and flowers blooming.
Third, the deaths in a house of prayer come at a time when Jerusalem is already astir over the status of holy sites.
Markets yawned.The financial press, however, was astir.
An empty tumbler The songs come at us first; and then the rhymed In the night wind astir At home, at noon, I am located by three where Blossoms in the late Framing my windows on the outside of the building are: Night beside me, I turn from her toward day, Now, at the turn of the year, this coil of clay We of the NorthNthe soundless, beating part/Of the recumbent Clear, early mornings as I stride.
The image of Re seated on the cow of heaven, besides illustrating a non-speculative type of casual explanation which satisfies the mythopoeic mind, illustrates a tendency of the ancients which...-"From Before Philosophy," by Frankfort, Frankfort, Wilson, and Jacobsen See how "Re seated on the cow of heaven" Sets the whole lump astir!
During the next decade and a half, that style became more dramatic, with dominant reds and blacks, broader handling, and jostling forms like possibly living things astir in shadows.
But the Johnson trio establishes its own momentum, largely by the particularity of its components: Mr. Knuffke's pinpoint accuracy and mellow, centered tone; Mr. Ravitz's way of urging his cymbals and toms astir; and Mr. Johnson's grounded but unreserved presence at the center of it all.
Helen Keller considered deafness to be "a much worse misfortune" than blindness because "it means the loss of the most vital stimulus — the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir and keeps us in the intellectual company of man".
The Gulf state has also shown interest in purchasing the famous beachfront Astir Palace hotel, once a stomping ground for celebrities outside the capital.
But for many more of the delegates from Uefa's 55 members gathered to elect their next president at the Astir Palace Beach Resort in Athens, the surprise address from Michel Platini will be warmly welcomed.
The Astir Palace resort, a complex of three luxury hotels nestled in acres of pine trees on the coast about 15 miles south of the Athens, was booked at the time by the Games' top Olympics sponsors, including McDonald's, Coke and John Hancock.
