Disordered

Examples

• For among ourselves, too, there have been two sorts of Politicians or Statesmen, whose eyesight has become disordered in two different ways. Plato. The Republic.
• The post-boys, who had succeeded in cutting the traces, were standing, disfigured with mud and disordered by hard riding, by the horses' heads. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The basket packed in silence, they brought her bonnet to her, and smoothed her disordered hair, and put it on. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• All this has disordered her liver, reiterated Doctor Bree, who has written a book on people's livers. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Rather the su rface of the globe was a shell resting on a fluid of very great specific gravity, and was thus capable of b eing broken and disordered by violent movement. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Thus the surface of the globe would be a shell, capable of being broken or disordered by the violent movements of the fluid on which it rested. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• What was scarcely less astonishing to me, was, that his affairs were in a most disordered state. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• His disordered dress showed that he had been hastily aroused from sleep. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The scout-master arrived after a brief delay, during which John traversed the apartment with, unequal and disordered steps. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• So this raid of an intolerable egotist across the disordered beginnings of a new time should have closed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That silent unavoidable challenge is in all our minds like dawn breaking slowly, shining between the shutters of a disordered room. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As if his memory were impaired, or his faculties disordered, the prisoner made an effort to rally his attention. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• You are not afraid that I am in any fever, or that my head is much disordered by the accident of last night? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It was strong and well fortified, a point never neglected by these knights, and which the disordered state of England rendered peculiarly necessary. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Liver pads are recommended for all diseases arising from a disordered liver. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• What a disordered state you are in! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• A residence of eight or nine years in the abode of wealth and plenty had a little disordered her powers of comparing and judging. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• She should always send for Perry, if the child appeared in the slightest degree disordered, were it only for a moment. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Later he learned to locate the cause within himself, and constructed the theory that the fluids of the body had become disordered. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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