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  • To my consternation, I found that I couldn't.   (source)
    consternation = dismay (unhappiness and worry)
  • To my consternation, however, he was not there.   (source)
  • The tent, illumined by a candle, glowed warmly in the midst of the white plain; and when he, as a matter of course, entered it, both Perrault and Francois bombarded him with curses and cooking utensils, till he recovered from his consternation and fled ignominiously into the outer cold.   (source)
    consternation = worry and confusion
  • In the others, as well as I could make out (standing back at a distance and hearing a strange tongue), the news was received with more of consternation than surprise.   (source)
    consternation = dismay (unhappiness and worry)
  • This phase filled the old lady's heart with consternation.   (source)
    consternation = unhappiness and worry
  • "They know each other well, indeed," replied Hester, with a mien of calmness, though in the utmost consternation.   (source)
    consternation = dismay (unhappiness and worry)
  • But, besides, I could not bring myself to disclose a secret which would fill my hearer with consternation and make fear and unnatural horror the inmates of his breast.   (source)
    consternation = unhappiness and worry
  • He then handed her in, Maria followed, and the door was on the point of being closed, when he suddenly reminded them, with some consternation, that they had hitherto forgotten to leave any message for the ladies at Rosings.   (source)
    consternation = dismay (unhappiness and worry)
  • The seamstress looked at the Count with one eye expressing consternation and the other disbelief.†   (source)
  • I was wondering what further surprise these animals held in store for me when I noticed with consternation that the ones from the pond closest to me had surrounded my tree and were climbing up the trunk.†   (source)
  • Then he turned to Ron, ready to exchange the exasperated looks they sometimes shared when Hermione elaborated on far-fetched schemes like SPEW To Harrys consternation, however, Ron did not look exasperated.†   (source)
  • Then, trying to cover his consternation, he said, "As if you could possibly know —"†   (source)
  • They were received with surprise and consternation, for it had been assumed that under the circumstances Williams would not be giving any party at all this year.†   (source)
  • Now, though, the hallmark of my new life was consternation at even this ancient bit of change.†   (source)
  • The baby turns his head with an expression of extreme consternation and yawns.†   (source)
  • A chorus of consternation greeted the news.†   (source)
  • But, to my consternation, she was gone.†   (source)
  • It takes her a minute to place the three, given their current condition, but already she wears a look of consternation.†   (source)
  • He couldn't help it, and it was worth it for that one moment of consternation.†   (source)
  • She faked a look of consternation.†   (source)
  • The means of his search is sufficiently creepy that it frightens his presexual sisters and causes consternation among the adults, who feel that he's too big for a rocking horse.†   (source)
  • I brought him his cup of coffee, thick with sugar, and watched him look around in mock consternation.†   (source)
  • She stood looking at him, at the darkening, bloody sheets with vague consternation , her face was the face of a woman who hears on her radio that an earthquake has killed ten thousand people in Pakistan or Turkey.†   (source)
  • To his consternation, but not to his surprise, she begins to cry.†   (source)
  • To his consternation, he ran into a power that would not allow him to get closer, as if some magnetic force increased in direct opposition to his effort, deflecting him back into the room.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza realized with horror that they were just in front of Fermina Daza's villa, and he pleaded with the driver, not thinking that his consternation might betray him.†   (source)
  • You have no idea how much consternation this restraint created in the Royal Creche.†   (source)
  • It wasn't until I pulled the truck in and got out that I realized the consternation might not be entirely about my safety this time.†   (source)
  • This caused the naked man some consternation.†   (source)
  • There was consternation in the room.†   (source)
  • Trianna has been with the Varden for nigh on six years, and in that time she has demonstrated her mastery of sorcery exactly once, and that after much coaxing on Ajihad's part and much consternation and preparation on Trianna's.†   (source)
  • The telephone call spawned a great deal of internal consternation during the next several days.†   (source)
  • My response caused consternation among those young men and suddenly their faces disappeared from the window.†   (source)
  • August stares in consternation, and Marlena simply stares.†   (source)
  • IN FACT, MAYOR Swaney was not alone among politicians around the country in his consternation over the "soccer problem."†   (source)
  • "All right," she said, all her consternation of the last week falling away.†   (source)
  • Then, in sudden consternation as Milo caught his elbow, he whirled and offered voluble thanks.†   (source)
  • Scott frowned in consternation.†   (source)
  • Reporters singled out the officers, blocking their paths to the consternation of marines trying to keep control of things.†   (source)
  • "We all gonna have to swim," he said, to Jasper's consternation.†   (source)
  • "Not yet," she said, and when she saw his consternation she explained that farm kids drove early—they had to.†   (source)
  • Screams and barking cries of consternation came from the television set.†   (source)
  • The vampire shook his head in consternation, but his face was still serene.†   (source)
  • Milo sniffed in consternation twice, like a shaggy brown hare.†   (source)
  • Nothing caused more consternation in the upstairs chamber than the monthly arrival of one of the wives' bleeding.†   (source)
  • Ghosh's consternation made it even funnier, and the safety pin that held the top of her blouse together flew into the air and landed in his plate.†   (source)
  • I frowned fiercely at him, hating the look of consternation on Dr. Martinez's face.†   (source)
  • This was considered for a moment and was the cause of great consternation.†   (source)
  • No one here could see my continuing consternation at that startlement moments ago.†   (source)
  • The audience leaps to its feet in consternation.†   (source)
  • THE SHOCK OF DISCOVERY threw the British into "utmost consternation."†   (source)
  • Consternation was apparent on the man's embarrassed face.†   (source)
  • Figuerola stopped short in consternation.†   (source)
  • My parents looked at each other in consternation.†   (source)
  • Better than his compliments was the consternation on the faces of her barons as they watched her dipping her eyes at him and looking up from under her lashes, just the way she had seen her youngest attendants flirting with their lovers.†   (source)
  • But this-she thought in consternation-was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve.†   (source)
  • The members of the court further complicated my life by selecting me as its vice chairman, a singularly indecipherable act that caused me a great deal of consternation, since I did not even understand my election to that cold jury whose specialty was the killing off of a boy's college career.†   (source)
  • My familiarity draws the consternation of a few farmers' wives, who must wonder what business a well-brought-up girl could have with an Indian.†   (source)
  • Several weeks later he wrote again in consternation that his faithful body servant had run away to the Yankees.†   (source)
  • He was fifty-four, old enough to die without causing too much consternation.†   (source)
  • There is great fear and consternation.†   (source)
  • I was so startled that I forgot about the gas mask, with its elephantine snout and goggle eyes; and when I tried to greet these strangers my voice, filtered through two inches of charcoal and a foot of rubber pipe, had the muffled and lugubrious quality of wind blowing through a tomb — an effect which filled the Eskimos with consternation.†   (source)
  • To his surprise and mild consternation, for he was not a sentimental man, he discovered that this farewell was beginning to affect him.†   (source)
  • I think it must have been pure consternation that prevented my following her into the water.†   (source)
  • He looks up, consternation on his features.†   (source)
  • The picture hung in a heavy gold frame, and to the consternation of all children its eyes followed a child about the room.†   (source)
  • He caught his own reflection in the windshield, a face vague with consternation, and thought of his wife's glass eyes.†   (source)
  • Of all the Celestial party, Krishna the Tireless does cause the greatest consternation among the staff.†   (source)
  • She stared at him in consternation.†   (source)
  • [Everybody looks at him in consternation.†   (source)
  • Not yet had they expressed consternation at mealtime, or a moment's doubt about the course of the ship.†   (source)
  • (Consternation) T'sung: You can't be serious, Powell.†   (source)
  • Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me?   (source)
    consternation = worry and confusion
  • To me, a doctor's preparations for work of any kind are stimulating and bracing, but the effect of these things on both Arthur and Quincey was to cause them a sort of consternation.   (source)
    consternation = dismay (unhappiness and worry)
  • Their expressions of consternation and disappointment made Harry feel ashamed.†   (source)
  • Back in Tante Jans's rooms, we considered this news in consternation.†   (source)
  • Consternation shows on the soldiers' faces as they reverse the wheels a bit.†   (source)
  • Jane stared at Carlisle in consternation.†   (source)
  • There was confusion, commands shouted futilely, orders swallowed in consternation.†   (source)
  • The Boston Gazette reported Virginia in a state of "utmost consternation."†   (source)
  • Murmurs of delight and consternation alike arose from the gallery and the back of the hall.†   (source)
  • One of the stores had vanished, to his consternation.†   (source)
  • I turned away from her, my fist rising in a consternation for which I couldn't find words.†   (source)
  • Havermeyer's stolid, dull face furrowed with consternation.†   (source)
  • Ronnie frowned in consternation, and Megan laughed.†   (source)
  • To my consternation, she started to cry.†   (source)
  • Father's brows knit together in consternation.†   (source)
  • For several weeks Jose Arcadio Buendia let himself be overcome by consternation.†   (source)
  • It doesn't make sense," Don Apolinar Moscote said with consternation.†   (source)
  • Things like that which gave Ursula such consternation, were commonplace in those days.†   (source)
  • His men looked at one another in consternation.†   (source)
  • She stared at him in mock consternation.†   (source)
  • Consternation rose around the table, led by Mama's cry.†   (source)
  • "You're kidding," I said, feeling a touch of real consternation.†   (source)
  • " He noticed a look of consternation on Adam's face.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Mooreland's consternation about Joe Goodman arose from the fact that she had lived her entire life within the reassuring confines of what was known as Old Savannah.†   (source)
  • "Urn, no, not really," I said, taking a step backwards and looking around in my consternation; even though I was hungry, I felt in no position to insist on anything.†   (source)
  • He glanced at his wife in consternation, with the eyes of a drowning man looking for support, but her eyes were ice.†   (source)
  • In the darkness, the mutterings of a moment before rose in volume and shifted in tone, expressing some combination of surprise and consternation.†   (source)
  • People sprang to their feet, snatching up glasses and plates, scrambling for the stairs, while the cat clawed halfway up the curtain in consternation.†   (source)
  • When the Count had passed through Petrovskoye in 1918 on his hurried return from Paris, he had come upon a gathering of peasants milling in mute consternation before the monastery's walls.†   (source)
  • He asked himself in despair where Fermina Daza could be without him, what she could be thinking, what she would do, in the years of life remaining to her, with the burden of consternation he had left in her hands.†   (source)
  • Edward only nodded when I explained what I wanted, but I thought I saw a flicker of consternation in his eyes, and I knew he was no happier about the idea of me on a motorcycle than Charlie was.†   (source)
  • Wrenching my pants leg loose—more laughter —I turned away and, to recover from my consternation, ducked into the next bar I saw—black awning with some red on it—and said to the bartender: "Does Katrina work here?"†   (source)
  • "No, no," he said—hauling the bag to the curb — "it's all right, my friend, I got it," and I realized, in consternation, that he thought I was trying to stop him taking the bag outside because I didn't have money to tip.†   (source)
  • Reaching out, he traced the diamond-shaped hole on the left side of her snout, where the object of her consternation had so recently been ensconced.†   (source)
  • Sure enough, every so often, out of the corner of her eye, Reyna would spot glowing white spirits in Roman clothes flitting among the ruins, frowning at the statue in consternation.†   (source)
  • Ursula wept in consternation.†   (source)
  • Of course one is able to understand the consternation, the raised voices, the angry letters and arguments at scientific convocations.†   (source)
  • Consternation.†   (source)
  • Eddis and Eugenides, the ministers and aides, both Eddisian and Attolian, were left looking at one another in surprise and consternation.†   (source)
  • She yanked him off balance and tossed him several blocks down the Calle San Jose, to the general consternation of several dozen more cats.†   (source)
  • People were shouting, many waving their arms, clutching papers in their fists, anger and consternation in their voices.†   (source)
  • She also managed to get pregnant, and to the great consternation of the island women, who were convinced their menfolk were the most desirable on earth—which accounted for so much intermarrying among them—Pilate refused to marry the man, who was eager to take her for his wife.†   (source)
  • What consternation it would cause!†   (source)
  • Nodding, Orik said, "Aye, I can think of at least one three-legged piece of information that would cause us some consternation if it were to be trumpeted throughout the land, eh?†   (source)
  • He trembled from the effort, and his trembling and the look on his face caused great consternation in Pea Eye, who had never known the Captain to be at a loss for words.†   (source)
  • But there was consternation among some spectators because they had been unable to hear de Wet's sentence.†   (source)
  • There was consternation darkening every expression, and Captain Black yawned deliciously, rubbed the last lethargy from his eyes and laughed gloatingly each time he told someone else to eat his liver.†   (source)
  • He picked up Mahtob and, to my consternation, placed his filthy lips on her cheek and kissed my sleeping child.†   (source)
  • Colonel Roque Carnicero, who was his chief of staff then, gave him the telegram with a look of consternation, but he read it with unforeseen joy.†   (source)
  • One day Amaranta's basket began to move by itself and made a complete turn about the room, to the consternation of Auerliano, who hurried to stop it.†   (source)
  • That night at dinner Aureliano Triste told the family about the episode and Ursula wept with consternation.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, when Ursula realized that she had not had enough time to consolidate the vocation of Jose Arcadio, she let herself be disturbed by consternation.†   (source)
  • Meme would never forget that night when she arrived home chewing licorice lozenges, and without noticing their consternation, sat down at the table where Fernanda and Amaranta were eating dinner without saying a word to each other.†   (source)
  • She stared at him in consternation.†   (source)
  • There was a look of consternation in them, of incredulity and something more—what was it?†   (source)
  • The last order caused consternation, and I much doubted whether it would ever put in an appearance.†   (source)
  • Francon's face assumed a look of consternation.†   (source)
  • His hand went to his holster and he turned; he caught a look of consternation on a boy's face.†   (source)
  • Lancelot looked at him in consternation.†   (source)
  • "It is too far away," she said in consternation.†   (source)
  • Alarm was added to consternation at the change in Melanie's face.†   (source)
  • Motionless, unbreathing, there comes upon him a consternation which is about to be actual horror.†   (source)
  • Her heart was filled with consternation and amazement.†   (source)
  • "But, Sister," said Carreen, her sweet childish face blank with consternation.†   (source)
  • There was consternation in the ranks of the Scallawags, the Carpetbaggers and the Republicans.†   (source)
  • He hung back in consternation.†   (source)
  • The Perichole walked home in consternation and sat for a long time gazing into her eyes in the mirror, her palms pressed against her cheeks.†   (source)
  • In a few months, to their innocent amazement and consternation, Katie found out that she was pregnant.†   (source)
  • You must picture the consternation of our little town, hitherto so tranquil, and now, out of the blue, shaken to its core, like a quite healthy man who all of a sudden feels his temperature shoot up and the blood seething like wildfire in his veins.†   (source)
  • At first I thought she was overcome by laughter; then, as I opened the door to her, I saw with consternation that she was in tears.†   (source)
  • "No woman?" he asked in consternation.†   (source)
  • That is, Byron had examined with a kind of musing and respectful consternation the books which lined the study walls: books of religion and history and science of whose very existence Byron had never heard.†   (source)
  • I didn't know a ship of this size could pitch like this," she said, and her eyes were full of consternation and resentment, like those of a woman who, at the end of her time, at length realizes that however luxurious the nursing home, and however well paid the doctor, her labor is inevitable; and the lift and fall of the ship came regularly as the pains of childbirth.†   (source)
  • And then he saw her looking suddenly past him, her mouth opened in consternation; she jumped up, dashed across the room, and crawled on her hands and knees to reach a lavender envelope lying under a desk.†   (source)
  • But in those days when the plague seemed to be retreating, slinking back to the obscure lair from which it had stealthily emerged, at least one person in the town viewed this retreat with consternation, if Tarrou's notes are to be trusted; and that man was Cottard.†   (source)
  • "Well, and but why do they seize my neighbor, who is as innocent as I who have never heard of this new war?" asked Wang Lung in great consternation.†   (source)
  • But the room was filled with flight and abrupt consternation, as though people had fled it recently and suddenly and in fear.†   (source)
  • Wang Lung went back to the middle room in great consternation for he knew very well that now his uncle would never be driven forth again, now that he knew Wang Lung had wherewith to feed him.†   (source)
  • Anyway, they had just set fire to tons of food and clothing and tobacco and liquors, taking nothing though there had not been issued any order against looting, and they turn now, with all that for background, backdrop: the consternation, the conflagration; the sky itself must have been on fire.†   (source)
  • Ah, the fair land!" he cried out suddenly and fell to weeping so that the children were frightened and the old man, looking at his son in consternation, twisted his face this way and that under his sparse beard, as a child's face twists when he sees his mother weep.†   (source)
  • A cold qualm of guilt assailed Scarlett at the thought of Ellen's consternation, should she ever learn of her daughter's scandalous conduct.†   (source)
  • They told Byron of the consternation, the more than outrage, when they learned that he had bought the little house on the back street where he now lives and has lived ever since; and the elders held another meeting because they said that they had given him the money to go away on, and when he spent it for something else he had accepted the money under false pretences.†   (source)
  • And the eldest son pretended he must go to prepare and he took his father's hand and the two of them rushed into the inner court and the eldest son barred the door, and then the two, father and son, stared at each other in consternation, and neither knew what to do.†   (source)
  • She wrote Colonel Carlton and to her consternation received a reply praising Rhett's services in no uncertain terms.†   (source)
  • At this question, Peter's jaw suddenly dropped and guilt and consternation swept over his wrinkled black face.†   (source)
  • Scarlett grinned a little grimly thinking of the consternation such an idea would bring to those who knew her.†   (source)
  • At that, Scarlett gave her the longpromised slap, hitting her so hard it knocked her screaming to the bed and caused great consternation throughout the house.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Merriwether, who had never kissed her husband until after the wedding ceremony, could scarcely believe her eyes when she caught Maybelle kissing the little Zouave, Rene Picard, and her consternation was even greater when Maybelle refused to be ashamed.†   (source)
  • The town was even more alive than she realized, for there were new barrooms by the dozens; prostitutes, following the army, swarmed the town and bawdy houses were blossoming with women to the consternation of the church people.†   (source)
  • "Anne!" exclaimed Marilla in consternation.†   (source)
  • Standing there with the bright cold weapon in his hand, he looked at it in consternation.†   (source)
  • There were consternation and bewilderment in his expression, but very little fear.†   (source)
  • He gave one yelp of consternation, and then her punishing jaws closed upon him.†   (source)
  • I'll console you a little now, after your consternation.†   (source)
  • In consternation Tess jumped down, and discovered the dreadful truth.†   (source)
  • But rumours flew in whispers, filling the hearts with consternation and horrible doubts.†   (source)
  • The corps de ballet was flung into consternation.†   (source)
  • But Frau Ziemssen's eyes registered great consternation.†   (source)
  • Dr. Fleming informed the masters just before dinner, and his manner showed his consternation.†   (source)
  • "Dear me! is it as bad as that?" he asked, in mock consternation.†   (source)
  • Shefford felt both amusement and consternation.†   (source)
  • IX I waited and waited, and the days, as they elapsed, took something from my consternation.†   (source)
  • The sailors looked at me in consternation.†   (source)
  • [In consternation, drops the slippers on the floor.†   (source)
  • The Englishman stood there and watched them in amused consternation.†   (source)
  • We looked at each other in consternation.†   (source)
  • His face expressed profound consternation.†   (source)
  • There was consternation on Carlotta's face and consternation on the faces of all the audience.†   (source)
  • Her expression of fright changed to consternation.†   (source)
  • He felt that, saw it, and consternation routed his already weakened control.†   (source)
  • BILL [starting up from the trough in consternation] It's a lie: I never said so.†   (source)
  • [Turning to the FATHER in consternation.†   (source)
  • Roy gazed at her in admiring consternation, but Carmichael never looked at her at all.†   (source)
  • To Milly's consternation they halted their horses almost directly under her.†   (source)
  • When St. Clare breathed his last, terror and consternation took hold of all his household.†   (source)
  • The company looked at each other in consternation.†   (source)
  • Over the way, in front of the cross, however, there were surprise and consternation.†   (source)
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