42 collocations for unsettle

The Nihilist propaganda had in the early days of that mistaken mission reached him and unsettled his discontented mind.

I dreaded lest the continued pressure of misfortune had, at length, fairly unsettled the reason of my friend.

Jeffrey, while protesting his appreciation of the literary merits of the work, lamented its tendency to unsettle faith.

So completely was she accustomed to regard Robert and Maud as brother and sister, that even all which had passed produced no effect in unsettling her opinions, or in giving her thoughts a new direction.

It was foreseen that if negroes from the Southern States were employed, the high wages rates might unsettle the American cotton labor market: so it was decided to recruit from British colonies, and it is not too much to say that, so far as the Canal is hand-made, it is mainly the work of British labor.

The result of these wrong notions is the present settlement and this unjust settlement will unsettle the world.

" I listened to this recital with astonishment; and doubted at first, whether the Brahmin's late severe attack had not had the effect of unsettling his brain: but on looking in his face, the calm self-possession and intelligence which it exhibited, dispelled the momentary impression.

The protection of a mask, in all that does not tend to unsettle the peace of the city, is sacred.

If intromission be not criminal, till it exceeds a certain point, and that point be unsettled, and, consequently, different in different minds, the right of intromission, and the right of the creditor arising from it, are all jura vaga, and, by consequence, are jura incognita; and the result can be no other than a misera servitus, an uncertainty concerning the event of action, a servile dependance on private opinion.

Then there came into his mind as vivid as if they were still unsettled his own horrible doubts after he had committed himself by giving it to his own son.

[Footnote I: Canoa is Haytian, and is like enough to Kayak, Esquimaux, to Caïque, Turkish and to Kahn, German, to unsettle an etymologist with a theory of origin.]

Such proceedings are eminently calculated to unsettle the foundations of the Government, to disturb the harmonious action of its different departments, and to break down the checks and balances by which the wisdom of its framers sought to insure its stability and usefulness.

It was so bitter to unsettle their hope and confidence.

She thought that reading about war might have unsettled her ideals.

Gerard Douw began to fear, naturally enough, that terror or ill-treatment, had unsettled the poor girl's intellect, and he half suspected, by the suddenness of her appearance, the unseasonableness of the hour, and above all, from the wildness and terror of her manner, that she had made her escape from some place of confinement for lunatics, and was in imminent fear of pursuit.

Men are fond of change; half the time, for a reason no better than that it is change; and, not unfrequently, they permit this wayward feeling to unsettle interests that are of the last importance to them, and which find no small part of their virtue in their permanency.

Politics would unsettle our men.

In that rough country it would be extremely difficult to stop small bands of enterprising troops getting through a line and creating diversions which, while of small military consequence, would have been troublesome, and might have had the effect of unsettling the natives.

The part of New Jersey in which Betts was born, had many persons of this religious persuasion, and he was not only born, but, in one sense, educated in their midst; though the early age at which he went to sea had very much unsettled his practice, much the most material part of the tenets of these good persons.

It seemed to be equally his object, or the tendency of his Discourses, to unsettle every principle of reason or of common sense, and to leave his audience at the mercy of the dictum of a lawyer, the nod of a minister, or the shout of a mob.

But the adoption of this standard leaves unsettled the problem of orthography, punctuation, etc.

The new era of industry had completely unsettled the old relationships and awakened a spirit of restlessness.

The truth is that the sight of the girl had unsettled his resolutions a little.

Though she understood the feelings which controlled one educated so very differently from those to whom he owed his birth, her habits of thought were opposed to the indulgence of any reflections that could unsettle the reverence of the child for its parent.

All his care was given to picking out the easiest way, and avoiding jutting rocks and sharp turns which might unsettle the rider.

42 collocations for  unsettle