But a certain haziness grew in his mind as to who was who, and at times the disquieting thought skidded through his murky brain that he might be in the enemy's camp for all he knew.

The way he wagged his head and declared he knew what was what, you bet, was very disquieting, and the horrible fear haunted them that they were perchance cherishing a serpent in their bosom.

Lastly, we may consider that it is a grievous perverting of the design of speech, that excellent faculty, which so much distinguisheth us from, so highly advanceth us above other creatures, to use it to the defaming and disquieting of our neighbour.

So what little news has arrived about the Turkish treaty, is uniformly disquieting.

The knocking at the door was disquieting but he faced it without a tremor.

Since that brief wireless message on the first day out, there had been nothing disquieting in the daily bulletins of news, and he had been able to appreciate to the full the soothing sense of detachment, the friendliness of his fellow voyagers, immeasurably above all the daily association with Elizabeth.

For the child's father continued to expressif possible, more decidedlyhis disquieting convictions.

Nevertheless, the plain, and to Sofia disquieting, truth was: it wasn't.

This was evident to Billy, also, and the prospect was most disquieting.

Should I not call the attention of the stationmaster to this disquieting case?

You must take care of the stray dogs, hungry brutes with long hair and disquieting fangs, of a breed reminding one of the dogs of the Caucasus, and these animalsaccording to Boulangier the engineerhave eaten a Russian general.

The minute they were beyond sight she sighed, and, turning about, resumed her seat by the table in the centre of the sitting-room, where, as the lamplight fell upon her pale face, she strove to drive away the disquieting thoughts that would not leave her.

Well, can we see the wonders of the place, Mr. Conolly; or do we disturb you?" "Not at all," replied Conolly, turning to one of the models, and beginning his showman's lecture with disquieting promptitude.

" She took up the magazine he had left on the seat beside her and sought to put away the disquieting thoughts.

At any rate, we know for certain that British submarines have made their way into the Baltic, a "sea change" extremely disquieting to the Germans, who, for the rest, have suffered in a naval scrap in the Gulf of Riga with the Russians.

I shall say you have received disquieting information; I will not say how.

Moreover, a new generation had come to the front; Scott's series of verse-romances was closed; Byron was in mid-career; there were young men of extraordinary and somewhat disquieting talentShelley, Keats, and Leigh Huntall of whom were supposed to be, although characters of a very reprehensible and even alarming class, yet distinctly respectful in their attitude towards Mr. Wordsworth.

Even as he spoke of the disquieting progress of affairs, even as he predicted the yet more serious turn they were to take, his countenance expressed a boundless, if somewhat vaguely defined, belief and happiness in the future.

Suddenly she began to think of home, not with any sense of security, but as something unpleasant, dark, disquieting.... CHAPTER XII Toward six o'clock one afternoon in late February Ned Stillman, making his way from the business district at California and Montgomery Streets toward his club, suddenly remembered a forgotten luncheon engagement for that day with Lily Condor.

Now, when you consider this, it is the most serious fact of the whole incidentfar more disquieting in reality than the fact of the speech itself, especially when we remember that Lord Roberts did but adopt and adapt the arguments already used with more sensationalism and less courtesy by Mr. Winston Churchill himself.

It is disquieting to reflect that we have devoted so much paper (this is the third shilling's worth) to telling what a real biographer would almost certainly have summed up in a few pages.

Doomed to what I then considered a living death, I thought of epilepsy, I dreamed epilepsy, until thousands of times during the six years that this disquieting idea persisted, my over-wrought imagination seemed to drag me to the very verge of an attack.

She took the cough mixture for a week, by which time other symptoms, extremely disquieting to an ease-loving man, had manifested themselves.

This is the second disquieting fact which any careful student has to face.

Quite often, Des Esseintes had meditated on that disquieting problemto write a novel concentrated in a few phrases which should contain the essence of hundreds of pages always employed to establish the setting, to sketch the characters, and to pile up observations and minute details.