Perturbed

Examples

• The succeeding half-hour's conversation was not of a nature to calm his perturbed spirit. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• No doubt the day on which he was perturbed was the day when he had seen of their release in the newspapers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Welland's brow remained clouded, and it was evident that his perturbed imagination had fastened at once on this last remark. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She seemed truly perturbed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But in truth his views were perturbed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• His spirit was perturbed to aching. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Not that I had taken note of any particular objects in my perturbed state of mind, but judging from the general character of the streets. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He looked gloomy and perturbed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I walked up and down my room hastily and perturbed, while my imagination conjured up a thousand images to torment and sting me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I'm very sorry to hear of this, Miss March, he said, in the kind, quiet tone which sounded very pleasantly to her perturbed spirit. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Moore answered him with a weighty calm, that offered a strange contrast to the boy's perturbed enthusiasm. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He was somewhat perturbed, and his manner of informing Thomasin that he was going on a journey was in itself sufficient to rouse her suspicions. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Her mind seemed to be far more perturbed about her daughter than about the heathen rogues and their conspiracy. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

Editor: Miles