635 examples of disconcerting in sentences

No one knew what the French West India fleet would do; and there was a very disconcerting chance that it might run north and slip into the St Lawrence, ahead of Saunders, in the same way as the French reinforcements had just slipped in ahead of Durell.

Both these extremities rested on the rail of the porch, while McNutt smoked a corncob pipe and stared at his approaching visitors with his disconcerting, protruding eyes.

He got up as we approached, and stared at us with a curious derisive intentness of glance, slightly disconcerting.

After luncheon, Angela asked to see the ranch-house, and almost as soon as we were out of hearing, she said with disconcerting abruptness "Does your ranch pay?"

"Your Highness speaks with a bluntness disconcerting," he said, deprecatingly.

Observing which, the Corn-chandler feeling it incumbent upon him now or never, to vindicate himself as a man of property, and substance, and not to be put down, thrust his hands deep into his pockets, spread his legs wide apart, and stared at Bellew in a way that most people had found highly disconcerting, before now.

The effect of Carg's eyes was distinctly disconcerting.

After the S. George and the bronze David, the two most memorable things are the adorable bronze Amorino in its quaint little trousersor perhaps not Amorino at all, since it is trampling on a snake, which such little sprites did not doand the coloured terra-cotta bust called Niccolò da Uzzano, so like life as to be after a while disconcerting.

challenged Hannah Straight Tree, disconcerting her companion with the piercing gaze habitual to her race.

In spite of Disraeli's praise of Free Trade during the General Election, a right-about surprising and disconcerting to his colleagues, the returns left the strength of parties much as they had been before.

The ex-banker from Davenport also spoke of the Italians, and with a rather disconcerting vigor, considering that they were recent allies.

" Angela daintily ceased to be a fellow-being, in a disconcerting way she had when she chose, and became a high personage.

(All this is very disconcerting to poor Collings.

The motionlessness of the train was so absolute as to be disconcerting; also a scandal.

I understand that it is a terrible and a disconcerting experience, and one calculated to play havoc with the stoutest of nerves.

He looked at her with disconcerting steadiness.

Most things she understands at once, but this must have baffled her: for to see one looking fixedly at a thing, and not know what one is looking at it for, must be very disconcerting.

Very disconcerting, that black cross!

It was done with disconcerting rapidity.

In the gloom a pale man stood rather like a ghost, almost as disconcerting as a ghost, watching.

Quite likely the sight of Gadabout, fluttering her flags down there in Eppes Creek, made those wise old gander leaders veer in a way somewhat disconcerting to their faithful followers.

"This was so disconcerting that the inventor decided to change bookkeepers, but he never 'counted his chickens before they were hatched.'

* DISCONCERTING NEWS FOR THE KAISER.

The only thing about it that isn't beautiful to me is the fact that life can't live except by taking lifethat there is no right to live; and that, I admit, is disconcerting.

It was very funny and very disconcerting.

635 examples of  disconcerting  in sentences