Unsetting

"When my wife was a child, she and her siblings would go to the beach, watch the sun set, and then run up the hill really rapidly, 'unsetting' the sun so they then could watch the sun set again," Alley wrote in an e-mail to LiveScience. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the version I've heard (there is more than one) girls walked around a table backwards, (setting or unsetting it one piece at a time as they went) without saying a word. ❋ Lori Devoti (2009)

The vine thickened as it grew, strong roots visibly churning their way outward beneath the ground, some erupting in the canal proper, some unsetting the underbrush lining the edge of the forest that traced the shoreline. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It might be just as much of a long shot as unsetting Goode! ❋ Unknown (2006)

It was unsetting and terrifying to sit among people whom may receive news that could very well change their lives forever. ❋ Cameroon Kate (2007)

Pilots were supposed to keep the plane as level and steady as possible on the bomb run, but as a classified Air Force report noted, excitable pilots often took violent evasive action under fire, unsetting the sensitive gyroscopes on the Norden bombsights. ❋ Donald L. Miller (2006)

ROBERTA ADAMS, SISTER OF MISSING LESLIE ADAMS: Well, it was -- it ` s unsetting because, you know, I feel like, you know, now things are becoming uncovered. ❋ Unknown (2005)

'Mid the crimson strife of battle, shone my life's unsetting star! ❋ Alf Burnett (N/A)

Through all the hours of my imprisonment I had learnt to look forward through the darkness of my nearer future to the day of my liberation as to a bright unsetting star. ❋ A Merchant - Anonymous (N/A)

His own, unfading, unsetting, unperishing brightness and bliss and love. ❋ Mary W. Tileston (N/A)

Yonder, I say, for on clear days I have seen the dim outline of the hills beyond the river; and sometimes in the night I have caught the glow of an unsetting sun. ❋ Robert E. Knowles (N/A)

Where the cold constellation of the heaven gleams ever with unsetting stars. shines out from the midst of banal flattery of the emperor with astonishing splendour. ❋ Harold Edgeworth Butler (1914)

When I melted down the gold and worked at the unsetting of those jewels, your Holiness ordered the Cavalierino to give me a modest reward for my labours, of which I received nothing, but on the contrary he rather paid me with abuse. ❋ Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 (1910)

It is a shield for the inhabitants against the fervors of an unsetting sun. ❋ Unknown (1890)

Mercury, we should expect an interchange of atmospheric currents between the light and dark sides of the planet, the heated air rising under the influence of the unsetting sun in one hemisphere, and being replaced by an indraught of cold air from the other. ❋ Unknown (1890)

The atmosphere immediately behind the range of hills last mentioned was thick with fleecy vapour, now so thin that the distant table-land could be dimly seen through it as through a veil, and anon so dense that it assumed a decided cloud-like shape upon which the unsetting sun shone with dazzling brilliancy. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

1. "Sorry, i'm [just feeling] mad [unset] today." 2. "Those [waves] today were [Unset]!" 3. "Did you go to the Unset show last night?" ❋ Frank C. Riley (2005)