For the stars are disconcertingly unconcerned when you have climbed to them, and so altogether unimpressed by your achievement that it is the nature of all china people to slink home again, precisely as your Rachel didand as Mrs. Charteris will assure you.

His eyes, touched with humor and yet disconcertingly intent on information, were fixed steadily on hers.

He gazed at her for a moment fiercely from under his black brows; then suddenly and disconcertingly he seized her by the wrists.

As Hilda gazed at the formation of the words, she could see the unhappy Sarah Gailey writing them, and the letter was like a bit of Sarah Gailey's self, magically and disconcertingly projected into the spacious, laughing home of the Orgreaves, and into the mysterious new happiness that was forming around Hilda.

She was disconcertingly personal.

In consequence he often appeared disconcertingly abrupt in decision.

Nagel, in Mysterier, is shown as a fool, an eccentric intolerable in ordinary society, though he is disconcertingly human, paradoxically sane.

She sat waiting, her eyes disconcertingly fixed upon the other woman's flushed face.

she appealed rather disconcertingly.

She turned quickly and saw a stranger standing on the threshold regarding her with a rather disconcertingly intent gaze.

Iron rails and ties blocked the exits and the small cannon disconcertingly thrust their nozzles down upon one out of the windows.

A slight hill, a ploughed field, the streets of a town, create riotous, rolling, invisible streams and cataracts of air that catch the airman unawares, make him drop disconcertingly, try his nerves.

The worker is beginning now to strike for unprecedented endsagainst the system, against the fundamental conditions of labour, to strike for no defined ends at all, perplexingly and disconcertingly.

This distrust is not, perhaps, the proximate cause of the strikes that now follow each other so disconcertingly, but it embitters their spirit, it prevents their settlement, and leads to their renewal.

Dave was sincerely startled when his son one day skillfully restored tone to the thing after it had disconcertingly rebelled.

He regarded Lewisham critically and disconcertingly over gilt glasses.

Never was Paris so disconcertingly odd.

It is true that Mama Joy recovered disconcertingly that afternoon, and became once more ubiquitous, but Billy felt that nothing could cheat him of his joy, and remained cheerful under difficulties.

Some were gaping, others foolishly grinning as if their last sensation had been agreeableas indeed it had beenwhile others stared disconcertingly.

Though Macgregor was acquainted with all the guests, she insisted upon solemnly introducing him, along with his betrothed to each individual with the formula: 'This is Private Robi'son an' his intended.' While Macgregor grinned miserably, Christina, the stranger, smiled sweetly, if a little disconcertingly.