Disturbed

Examples

• The first person who disturbed me by coming into the empty room was Penelope. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A voice in the background said that the doctor might be back at any minute--and that nothing, upstairs, was to be disturbed. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I hope I have not disturbed you. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Her coming disturbed me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Has Mr. Tulkinghorn been disturbed? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Frequent tuning is necessary, because the fine adjustments are easily disturbed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Whereupon he began again to think that my brain was disturbed, of which he gave me a hint, and advised me to go to bed in a cabin he had provided. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Nobody had disturbed her, no faint rustling of the silk dress had been audible, either in the ante-room or in the passage. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• So disturbed was I that I determined to see a little more of the new inmates of the cottage. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• This imperative hint disturbed George a good deal. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Now much disturbed, and dazzled with conflicting gleams of hope and dread, I looked at her for some explanation. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Mr. Edison was a little disturbed, but insisted that there was a mistake somewhere. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I would therefore take the liberty of suggesting that in our friendly intercourse--which I trust will never be disturbed! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She did not want to be disturbed into taking thought. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Nobody does except those who are disturbed in the head, Robert Jordan said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I could see plainly that the new light I had thrown on the subject had greatly surprised and disturbed him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• When Mr. Soames returned and called for you, you were very much disturbed? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The doctor was a thin quiet little man who seemed disturbed by the war. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• For a moment he looked disturbed--I might have foreseen this, he said, what strife will now ensue! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But of all the shadows in Chesney Wold, the shadow in the long drawing-room upon my Lady's picture is the first to come, the last to be disturbed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I was not let in again to see her, no more was the housemaid, for the reason that she was not to be disturbed by strangers. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Put the other way around, a response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The wild look of anguish and utter despair that the woman cast on him might have disturbed one less practised; but he was used to it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Twemlow, much disturbed, and with his hand fluttering about his forehead, replied: 'Quite true. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Towards midnight the teasing, monotonous bark of the house-dog disturbed the quietude of their vigil. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They could hear Clym moving in the other room, as if disturbed by the knocking, and he uttered the word Mother. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They were more disturbed, more unequal, than she had often seen them. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• If now a weight of 1 pound is suspended from the bar at some point, say 12, the balance is disturbed, and the bar swings about the point _F_ as a center. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Not a plough had ever disturbed a grain of that stubborn soil. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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