Disturbing

Examples

• To the party worker the petty and the honest issue are equally disturbing. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• To overcome these three disturbing factors a very ingenious form of balance has been devised. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the passion of their good intentions they have not hesitated to conceal facts, suppress thought, crush disturbing initiatives and apparently detrimental desires. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I was not expected till to-morrow; but I had my keys, and, if Herbert were gone to bed, could get to bed myself without disturbing him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I then came home and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my _whistle_, but disturbing all the family. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I went in without disturbing any one, by the help of my key. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We had only to lift the framework gently at the head and foot, and to transport our patient where we pleased, without disturbing herself or her bed. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But what is the use of disturbing her night's rest? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A recognition of what an incubus it is should make us hospitable to all those devices which aim at making politics responsive by disturbing the alignments of habit. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Compasses are sometimes carried on masts in iron vessels as a means of removing them from the disturbing influence of the iron of the hull. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We owe you many apologies, ma'am,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'for disturbing your domestic arrangements at so short a notice. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Without disturbing anybody, Samuel and I got a couple of guns, and went all round the house and through the shrubbery. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In creative moments men always draw upon some secret spring of certainty, some fundamental well into which no disturbing glimmers penetrate. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This was an inverse problem; the perturbation being given, it was required to find the position, mass, and orbit of the disturbing planet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Jane, Jane, said he, stopping before me, you are quite pale with your vigils: don't you curse me for disturbing your rest? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I half-sent his head through the ceiling, by Gad, and he wouldn't cry for fear of disturbing his mother. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Gould was pounding the Western Union on the Stock Exchange, disturbing its railroad contracts, and, being advised by his lawyers that this patent was of great value, bought it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The sight of his composure had a disturbing effect on Lily; but to be disturbed was in her case to make a more brilliant effort at self-possession. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Am I disturbing you? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He had submitted to rigorous examination the data in reference to the disturbing influence of Jupiter and of Saturn on the orbit of Uranus. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• She has the art of disturbing my happiness and unsettling my opinions. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The months passed (more than I had bargained for), and no occasion presented itself for disturbing that mark in the book. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There was no fear of disturbing him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The intellect is a pure light; the emotions are a disturbing heat. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It seemed calculated to suggest ideas she had no intention to suggest--ideas delusive and disturbing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I leave it to your judgment whether it was possible for the thief to have come up here without disturbing us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• She looked downward too, disturbing the pattern with the point of her sunshade while she struggled for expression. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The quietest commonplace answer met the strange, the dead-disturbing, the Witch-of-Endor query of the hunchback. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Dorothea's faith supplied all that Mr. Casaubon's words seemed to leave unsaid: what believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It is impossible to conceive of an object being set into sudden and continued motion without disturbing the air immediately surrounding it. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

Editor: Paula