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  • She didn't look much like Helen of Troy: despite all the work she'd done in advance, she was flustered, and in a foul temper; she was sweating, and her hair was coming down.†   (source)
  • I'm still so flustered from Peter's sudden appearance that I can't think.†   (source)
  • I was eating in front of the TV when she walked in, still wearing pajamas, flustered.†   (source)
  • She was flustered and must have thought I was a manager.†   (source)
  • "I'm not certain," admitted the lieutenant, a little flustered.†   (source)
  • Her flustered explanation to Father was, "Whoever heard of a lion eating a cotton sari?†   (source)
  • Teabing presented the flustered guards a far easier solution—an embossed card identifying him as Knight of the Realm.†   (source)
  • His questions left Laila flustered.†   (source)
  • I called up to make sure the marquee was suitable for Will's wheelchair, and Alicia sounded so flustered when she realized we weren't actually declining the invitation that it dawned on me that her embossed correspondence really had been for appearance's sake.†   (source)
  • Kevin was flustered.†   (source)
  • And the ever-efficient Mrs. Loski seemed flustered, almost hyper.†   (source)
  • " "But I'll get all flustered with those girls over here trying to teach me.†   (source)
  • She was all flustered because a few Marthas didn't like her outfit.†   (source)
  • She seemed flustered.†   (source)
  • It flustered him uncontrollably.†   (source)
  • They looked flustered as they talked among themselves.†   (source)
  • She was genuinely flustered, speechless.†   (source)
  • Rachel looked tired and flustered, and even Mercy seemed unusually quiet.†   (source)
  • "What I meant was," he says, flustered.†   (source)
  • She was glad to have routine tasks for her hands and routine questions for her mouth—something to focus on so she wouldn't get flustered and lose control of her brain's net connection again.†   (source)
  • I try not to shudder under his touch, but it's taking every ounce of my willpower not to appear completely flustered right now.†   (source)
  • "Please," I said, hands flustering, afraid to touch him.†   (source)
  • I try to smile back, but I'm so flustered that I frown at him instead.†   (source)
  • A concerned and flustered Conrad rushed into the house to greet me.†   (source)
  • Kate was watching me, which made me more flustered when I couldn't figure out which was the fuel line.†   (source)
  • She seems a little flustered, but then shrugs it off and describes why there are rings around Saturn, and how they're made mostly of ice particles and dust.†   (source)
  • But she flustered and all the children and Odessa and Jack all standing round the porch watching her.†   (source)
  • At Leigh Anne's urging he had gone to see his mother—and the next thing Leigh Anne knew she was getting a call from a clearly flustered Big Tony, and the only words she could understand were "truck" and "dead" and that Michael was in the custody of the Memphis police.†   (source)
  • "Only because you flustered me!" she shot back, reaching to stir her coffee.†   (source)
  • Gina, who had read the message, was visibly flustered.†   (source)
  • His father paused now, said something to Mr. Grey that Adam was too flustered to hear—his heart beating loudly in his body—and crossed the cellar.†   (source)
  • Mr. Wallace, he's so flustered he just digs in his money drawer and gives Judd change for a twenty, and afterward I thought what did Andrew Jackson have to do with it?†   (source)
  • Mrs. Turner, the principal's wife and also his secretary, was clearly flustered and leapt from her chair when we arrived.†   (source)
  • The guy gets really flustered.†   (source)
  • She looked off for a moment, not blank but just pleased, a little flustered, taking a moment to gather her thoughts.†   (source)
  • The police got flustered and had to promise to return all the mug shots to the parents and remove any statements of wrongdoing from the students' records.†   (source)
  • The next day Denise decided to confront her mother directly about the medication she was or was not taking, hoping to trick Babette into a confession, an admission or some minimal kind of flustered response.†   (source)
  • Jace said, looking flustered.†   (source)
  • He sounded flustered.†   (source)
  • "Well, turn it on and check, honey," my mother says, flustered.†   (source)
  • He was eager to go fluster, probably sensing my own impatience, and that would have been fine if I'd only needed to go a mile or three.†   (source)
  • I couldn't figure out why he was acting so flustered.†   (source)
  • He said he just wanted to make sure everything was in order, but he said it in a fluster.†   (source)
  • I was so flustered I left without the Kabuki magazines and shamisen strings Mameha had given me.†   (source)
  • She looked flustered, and that was a rare little treat.†   (source)
  • Momma was flustered.†   (source)
  • Out in the hall, Jordan was no better, a flustered ball of energy, scarf, and spectacles.†   (source)
  • Sophia made her way in that direction, and when she reached for Marcia's arm, her roommate turned, looking almost flustered.†   (source)
  • I was so flustered I did everything wrong, and soon they got away.†   (source)
  • He was doing this for the sole purpose of antagonizing me, and that only flustered me more.†   (source)
  • The sight amused Eragon; he had never known Roran to get so flustered, nor to be so short-tempered.†   (source)
  • It's nice to see you get flustered every once in a while."†   (source)
  • The "Jones Theory" was much repeated-especially to the Joneses, a dignified and sensible family, who refused to be flustered.†   (source)
  • He got a kick out of flustering her, which, truthfully, wasn't really all that hard.†   (source)
  • "Hey, Ma," I say, more flustered than I should be.†   (source)
  • Mr. Senn appeared flustered, and glanced over at the colonel, who was head of the prison.†   (source)
  • ' Flustered, flushed, he swore he didn't care, pouted and pleaded and cajoled.†   (source)
  • "But not because of how he looks," I said, flustered.†   (source)
  • She was almost flustered for a second there.†   (source)
  • "Oh," she said, flustered, pleased, though she didn't like the long hours on the road.†   (source)
  • But I was so flustered by the lights in my eyes and the sea of faces in the packed auditorium that I stumbled over my lines and said, "The baby doll is born!" instead of "the baby Jesus."†   (source)
  • I wasn't expecting him to mention the text, and it flusters me that I can't tell what he's thinking.†   (source)
  • The song cut off abruptly, replaced by the DJ's flustered voice.†   (source)
  • The nurse was flustered.†   (source)
  • His parents, Carol and Lou, had come up to see me once before, but they had gotten stuck behind a highway accident for hours, and had arrived fifteen minutes before visiting hours were over, with Larry overheated and them flustered.†   (source)
  • It was not often that he saw Alex flustered.†   (source)
  • He seemed flustered, and he seldom was flustered.†   (source)
  • The reporter, flustered, stammered out something about the rarity of successful comebacks.†   (source)
  • He looked sort of flustered and mad.†   (source)
  • Flustered, she said, "So you decided to wait and scare me to death?"†   (source)
  • "Is it possible she died after 1948?" the man asked, visibly flustered.†   (source)
  • He was flustered as he always was.†   (source)
  • His touch had left me ridiculously flustered and I tried to regain my facade of good sense.†   (source)
  • Libby was as happy as a mad sandbag but Mum was all flustered.†   (source)
  • She is too often impatient and flustered, her fingers jerking her round wire-rimmed glasses up her short nose.†   (source)
  • And the boy, flustered, answered quickly.†   (source)
  • Milo grew flustered.†   (source)
  • I had been waiting for this since the first time Madame Wang came to my house to see my feet, yet I was totally flustered, agitated, and confused.†   (source)
  • Aunt Del was flustered.†   (source)
  • The latter offers a menacing deadeye stare, copied, immaculately from the gang leaders he admires, and Cedric breaks it off, looking away, flustered.†   (source)
  • Though her words were full of concern for me, I saw that she was flustered and anxious to get me out of the way.†   (source)
  • I feel myself growing flustered.†   (source)
  • When she stuttered her thanks, he turned beet red; he was more flustered than she by this unexpected intimacy.†   (source)
  • "Oh, right, of course," she says, her face falling as she rushes to stand up, almost toppling her cello in her fluster.†   (source)
  • Flustered, he offered a sappy thanks to the jury for their "wonderful service" and concluded with a plea for faithful considerations, free from emotion and guilt.†   (source)
  • The next batter bunted, and suddenly flustered, I threw away the ball.†   (source)
  • "Er…what?" said Daphne, flustered.†   (source)
  • The flustered hostess tapped her cheeks with her hands.†   (source)
  • "Why, sir!" cried the assistant manager, genuinely flustered.†   (source)
  • Mary met us at the door, flustered with anxiety and, it seemed, embarrassment.†   (source)
  • Gilly's presence always flustered him and gave rise to …. well, risings.†   (source)
  • "But what do you want me to do, Mr. Pruitt?" a woman asked, sounding flustered.†   (source)
  • "Hello again," said Hannah, sounding very flustered.†   (source)
  • The funniest part about it is that the next reporter was too flustered to get his question out.†   (source)
  • -- too flustered to look for the sign that said "Uptown," whatever "Uptown" meant, he went to the nearest platform and boarded the first train that stopped.†   (source)
  • But the leader isn't flustered.†   (source)
  • HONEY (Flustered) Well, yes.†   (source)
  • It's not easy for a pretty lady with her chin in the air to look flustered, but Miss Love did.†   (source)
  • She looked a little flustered, like she didn't know what to do with me, but all she said was, "How'll we bring him back?"†   (source)
  • I said, grinning up at his broad flustered face.†   (source)
  • He was so flustered he couldn't even work the simple latch.†   (source)
  • Such a life takes a toll," she says, seeming flustered.†   (source)
  • Dad came by while I was working (and I know I looked all flustered) but he just winked and gave me a thumbs-up sign.†   (source)
  • She took five or ten minutes to make each move, and was easily flustered.†   (source)
  • She was cross with herself for sounding so flustered.†   (source)
  • Pleased, even, to see me so flustered.†   (source)
  • I automatically take his hand, but instead of shaking it, I just stare at him, momentarily flustered.†   (source)
  • What he wants, he tells the flustered desk clerk, is a simple bedroom with an adjacent sitting room.†   (source)
  • The smaller man appeared absolutely flustered and outraged, though Drizzt could see that fear of the huge barbarian king would temper his response.†   (source)
  • Lee said accusingly that he had heard that Longstreet had been in the front line again and that he had promised not to do that, and Longstreet, flustered by too many people staring at him, too many strangers, said, well, he'd just come by for orders.†   (source)
  • Sally Jean looked flustered.†   (source)
  • This sort of thing was gold but having a heavily armed soldier seemingly losing it was a hit flustering.†   (source)
  • Florence was flustered.†   (source)
  • Flustered and bashful, he was obviously smitten by her, but had made no advances other than to suggest awkwardly each day that she remain for a few moments after class so that he might read her what he called some "representative American verse."†   (source)
  • She was so flustered at hearing my voice that she hung up in confusion before we exchanged more than ten words.†   (source)
  • Clumly looked flustered--head tipped down, eyes like little beads.†   (source)
  • He was flustered by a number of things-because of his wife's illness, the impending search, and his profound reverence for medical science and its representatives.†   (source)
  • BERENGER: [a little flustered] Oh yes, you must believe me.†   (source)
  • RICH (Flustered) My work is mostly secretarial.†   (source)
  • It was one of the few times I had ever seen Dad flustered.†   (source)
  • But I'm not looking to buy it," says Simon, flustered.†   (source)
  • "Watch your tongue, you scoundrel!" shouted a farmer, catching sight of Kit's flustered face.†   (source)
  • He went on looking at her and after a moment she looked away, impatient and a little flustered.†   (source)
  • It was barely contained by a flustered row of security guards.†   (source)
  • Hermione came hurrying into the room looking flustered, just as Harry was putting on his trainers.†   (source)
  • Hermione looked pleasurably flustered but this time Krum had not come to compliment her.†   (source)
  • Connor looks flustered and cornered for a moment before he comes to his senses and says, "Yeah.†   (source)
  • She led us to the car and got in without even looking at the flustered guy who'd rented it.†   (source)
  • Nobody says anything to me and I'm too flustered to hear what the teacher says.†   (source)
  • I should have— I was so flustered that I knocked over a stool as I approached Chairman Jin.†   (source)
  • His voice was affectionate but also flustered, like that of a child who had no idea what to do.†   (source)
  • I don't get as flustered as I did on that first day.†   (source)
  • Oh — oh, right,' said Ron, very flustered.†   (source)
  • Now she was wet and flustered and, she realized, more travel weary than she'd expected.†   (source)
  • But I was so flustered that nothing came out the way it should have.†   (source)
  • She pushed a sweaty lock of hair back from her forehead, equal parts flustered and bemused.†   (source)
  • "The Green Grace says that I must take a Ghiscari king," she said, flustered.†   (source)
  • Miro, flustered, turned away and then beckoned her to follow him.†   (source)
  • "Don't let Annie's whip fool you," said Panov to_ the flustered girl.†   (source)
  • A bit flustered by his absent use of the endearment, she turned back to the race.†   (source)
  • She saw me, and I got all flustered, and I kept walking.†   (source)
  • Amused, he skimmed a hand through her hair, kissed her again to fluster her.†   (source)
  • Frank felt so flustered that he thought his boots might melt through the ice.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure why I'm analyzing the reason why I'm analyzing—I'm flustered.†   (source)
  • Their teacher now looked completely flustered.†   (source)
  • Brienne glanced down at herself, flustered.†   (source)
  • According to the receptionist, she was quite awkward, even flustered.†   (source)
  • Looking confused and flustered, which she was, Mama said weakly, "He seems to be ailin'.†   (source)
  • Flustered, Max zipped his backpack and started to get up from the table.†   (source)
  • He lifted her off her feet, flustering her.†   (source)
  • "Yes," the boy nodded, and appeared flustered.†   (source)
  • Behind the balding man hovers Ginny Thibodaux, looking flustered.†   (source)
  • You're mistaking me for someone else," said Maria, her emotions suddenly flustered.†   (source)
  • Yes, sir," the kid said, clearly flustered to be under Coyne's regard.†   (source)
  • I muttered, feeling both flustered and annoyed at once.†   (source)
  • Scarlett?" a woman's voice came from inside the screen door, sounding tired and flustered.†   (source)
  • You sound agitated …. flustered …. aroused.†   (source)
  • 'Sorry, sorry,' she said, flustered, reaching for the baby.†   (source)
  • "No!" she said quickly, fanning her face in that cute way she did when she was flustered.†   (source)
  • "I know a man who does the work," Boyle continued, flustered when the silence dragged out.†   (source)
  • "Oh, that," she said, flustered as a high school freshman meeting the varsity quarterback.†   (source)
  • He looked at her until she was baffled and flustered again.†   (source)
  • My mother, always nervous, was flustered too.†   (source)
  • This flusters her so she drops the water pitcher on her foot.†   (source)
  • Merrett was too flustered to count them, but there seemed to be a dozen at the least, maybe a score.†   (source)
  • "I have not ruled on that last objection," Gauldin snapped at me, flustered.†   (source)
  • Cullivan's softly emphatic answer pleased and rather flustered Perry.†   (source)
  • "Who indeed?" retorted Jensin Brent, now a bit of fluster showing through his calm facade.†   (source)
  • She gave him a hug, which seemed to fluster him, but Piper couldn't help liking Frank.†   (source)
  • I have to look away, flustered by how handsome the grin makes him.†   (source)
  • Regis looked about, flustered and unable to even answer the spokesman's accusations.†   (source)
  • Momentarily flustered, she allowed her hand to stay in his.†   (source)
  • Frank got flustered, cleared his throat, and shuffled off, running into the doorjamb on the way out.†   (source)
  • She looked a little flustered, as if trying to decide what to say and how to say it.†   (source)
  • (Flustered:) I'm not a man of words, I guess you know.†   (source)
  • They all looked up, and he was flustered.†   (source)
  • Bouncing towards Mrs. Weasley on high-heeled boots, he kissed her twice on each cheek, leaving her flustered.†   (source)
  • Nor I you, I said, and I smiled; but was somewhat flustered because of the dealer in farm implements, who was still hanging onto my arm.†   (source)
  • She seemed horribly flustered.†   (source)
  • "Quick, quick, through the barrier," said Mrs. Weasley, who seemed a little flustered by this austere efficiency.†   (source)
  • Langdon looked flustered.†   (source)
  • "Oh …. yes … all right," said Hermione, looking slightly flustered, and following Krum through the crowd and out of sight.†   (source)
  • He was all flustered.†   (source)
  • Vittoria felt flustered.†   (source)
  • It had not escaped his notice that, despite Fudge's assurances at their first meeting, they were now seeing rather a lot of each other, nor that Fudge was becoming more flustered with each visit.†   (source)
  • Yawning and stretching, I looked down at the pond that had been the source of such fire and fluster the previous night.†   (source)
  • Uncomfortably, he rubbed an eye and sat back suddenly, with the fluster of a man who's spilled a drink on the table.†   (source)
  • The way he's looking at me coupled with the Texas heat is suddenly causing my vision to blur, so I inhale a deep breath, wanting to appear anything but exhausted and flustered right now.†   (source)
  • I was surprised to feel flustered at the mention of the Chairman, for I'd been thinking of him on and off throughout the afternoon.†   (source)
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