In some ways he had been the most inwardly perturbed of her last night's sitters, and she, the medium, had been well aware of it.

" Vantine seemed deeply perturbed.

When the exhibition was concluded and the room again lightened, Le Drieux's face was visibly perturbed and anxious, while his attorneys sat glum and disconcerted.

It was not I who spoke, but a new being, excessively perturbed into a consciousness of new powers.

I shall have full control of my money?" "Absolute control, my dear young lady," he rejoined, feeling strangely perturbed at this absence of emotion.

" CHAPTER XXV AN INTERLUDE Master Hymn-of-Praise Busy was vastly perturbed.

Almost immediately after, the waving streamers of laminaria were extraordinarily perturbed, parted for a moment, and three of these beasts became darkly visible, struggling for what was probably some fragment of the drowned man.

"' We exchanged a look, each of us deliciously perturbed, and then he ran off with the book.

" We faced about and walked homewards in unbroken silencetoo perturbed to fall into our usual custom of chewing bush-leaves as we went.

She wanted only the simplest things, prepared in the simplest way, but the tone of her instructions vexed and perturbed Mrs. Rockett sorely.

That its authorities should have been so violently perturbed by a proposal to teach SHAKSPEARE histrionically, or by the spectacle of boys enjoying modern poetry, surely supposes conditions almost incredibly archaic.

[Sidenote: Odes ii, 13, 35] Claudius was a trifle perturbed (it was a little white bitch he used to keep for a pet) when he spied this black shag-haired hound, not at all the kind of thing you could wish to meet in the dark.

The Bobby who had just come down the street was distinctly perturbed, came hurrying, now and then turned to the left when he met folk, glanced sidewise here and there, was altogether anxious and ill at ease.

"Well," he said, scratching his head, with an exceedingly perturbed expression, "this here's a queer kind o' business!

For a man with so expressionless a countenance, he was looking considerably perturbed.