Now, at intervals, he uttered a cry, a deep bass danger-note, singularly unnerving.

But in flight, with fear as a garment that can not be laid aside, the somber forms of the forest are more terrible than an army with banners, as a haunted house is a more unnerving dread than burglars or any form of night marauders.

But, after she had left him he determined to avoid this second meeting, not so much because he feared its unnerving himself, but because he felt that the second parting must be too terrible for her.

I cannot say whether any of you have ever had the feeling, but if you have, you will know just how disgustingly unnerving it is.

It dropped with deadly effect upon the sorest spot of all, completely unnerving him.

" There is something terribly winning and unnerving to the blackest resolution, when the severity of the strong dissolves for a brief moment into tenderness.

Thou youthful, war-begotten, battle-nurtured brood, Lewd and lascivious thou, seducers and seduced, Unnerving both, the soldier's and the burgher's strength!

" "Thank you," she whispered in reply, with a faint smile; "I will try; but it is all so horribly unnerving.

For many years the operation was known simply as 'nerving' or 'unnerving,' and it was not until 1823, at the suggestion of Dr. George Pearson, that Percival introduced the word neurotomy to signify the operation with which we are now about to deal.

On further examination, two unnerving scars were found.

Unnerving would no doubt remove the symptom (lameness) of the disease, but an unnerved horse is not of much good for army purposes.

'She worked nearly two years after unnerving, and developed the usual thickening at the coronet.

"My friend is here to grow stronger, and this heat is quite unnerving her.

Well, if grief Be gain, mine's doublefleeing thus the snare Of yon luxurious and unnerving down, And widowed from mine Eden.

These efforts for peace would, if they attained their goal, not merely lead to general degeneration, as happens everywhere in Nature where the struggle for existence is eliminated, but they have a direct damaging and unnerving effect.

There was an unnerving quality in the trance-like stillness; and the mystery of it pricked him to forebodings.

But at length they were fighting their way up the choked East Cañon, starting fierce gray wolves from their lairs in the rocks and hearing at every rod of their hard-fought way the swift and unnerving song of the coiled rattlesnake.

It was strange, almost unnerving, to behold his own teachings naked of their pulpit rhetoric; to find his long-cherished ideals materialised by literal-minded, practiced men.

Also he was beginning to suspect that she did not like him, and it was a disagreeable, unnerving suspicion in his present mood.

Yet, try as she would, she could not banish from her mind and from her memory the unnerving experience.

The whole day had been exciting and unnerving.

The regiment sickened as it looked; here and there a young zouave turned deathly pale, reeled out of the ranks, leaned against a tree, nauseated, only to lurch forward again at the summons of the provost guard; here and there a soldier disengaged his white turban from his fez and dropped it to form a sort of Havelock; for the vertical sun was turning the men dizzy, and the sights they saw were rapidly unnerving them.

The various happenings have been profoundly unnerving and he feels that it is no longer safe to stay in Gokula.

The preparations for the funeral were so frightful, and all the thoughts it brought so unnerving, that I was almost ill.

So I shall have to let you take it for granted that the Little Woman's presence and help was more unnerving than a wildcat on Casey's back.