Perhaps you recollect the narrow escape the yacht had on the Meloria sands?" His eyes met mine, and I saw by his drawn face and narrow brows that my words were causing him the utmost consternation.

He set out as a rider or traveller for a wholesale house, in which capacity he tells of many hair-breadth escapes that befell him,one especially, how he rode a mad horse into the town of Devizes; how horse and rider arrived in a foam, to the utter consternation of the expostulating hostlers, inn-keepers, etc.

Then, in sudden consternation as Milo caught his elbow, he whirled and offered voluble thanks.

The Peruvians, astonished at the suddenness of an attack which they did not expect, and dismayed with the destructive effects of the fire-arms, fled with universal consternation on every side.

The mother looked at Mathieu in evident consternation.

They were in a dreadful consternation, and after we fired again among the amazed wretches, I made directly towards the poor victim who was lying upon the beach.

His animal had just returned riderless, and considerable consternation prevailed.

Mr. Tredgold, after standing it for some time, created a little consternation by inquiring whether he had got a smut on his nose.

The carpenter and his wife eyed each other in indignant consternation.

And to Mr. Jinks' profound consternation he raised his voice, and said, laughing: "Tell me, Miss Sallianna, if my friend Jinks has not been courting you?" "Oh, sir!" cried Miss Sallianna, in a flutter.

" Mr. Higgs, gripping the edge of the table with both hands, gazed at this new Michael in speechless consternation.

He gazed at the bare-faced creature that confronted him in the glass after the operation in open-eyed consternation, and Messrs. Kidd and Brown's politeness easily gave way before their astonishment.

The boys and the councilors applauded wildly, but the Alleyites, too surprised and taken back to be appreciative, merely looked at each other in mute consternation.

They then regarded each other with blank consternation.

they exclaimed in gentle consternation.

Esther broke off with a start of genuine consternation.

So when, unexpectedly, Hallam rode into the court, dismounted, and sent word that he was awaiting Ailsa in Dr. West's office, she looked up at Celia in guilty consternation.

e received with a sort of incredulous consternation, to think that I could have performed them.

More than a hundred persons who had died at different epochs re-entered the bodies they had occupied when on earth, made their appearance in different parts of Jerusalem, and filled the inhabitants with inexpressible consternation.

There was the rough Hubert Price, who made mild consternation in the drawing-room, and there was the sophisticated Hubert Price, who cajoled the drawing-room; there was the sincere and the insincere, and the Price that suffered and the Price that didn't.

Ralph struck an attitude of mock consternation.

As they approached the shore of Rhode-Island, a noise like the running of horses was heard, which threw a momentary consternation over the minds of the whole party; but, in strict conformity to the orders issued, not a word was spoken by any one.

There appeared to be no alteration in the usual routine of the royal family, and there was no outward sign of the mortal consternation that was shaking them to the centre of their souls.

The combatants Thus paused, in mutual consternation lost.

But she was wrong, and when, a moment later, the servant came to announce Mr. Berkley, Ailsa regarded her sister-in-law in pink consternation.