Both Uses of
commotion
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- The assemblage—belonging to that class of society which casts its thoughts into the form of feeling, and its feelings into the form of commotion—set to work with a remarkable confusion of purpose.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- Boldwood thought her beautiful, but wondered whether he was right in his thought, for it seemed impossible that this romance in the flesh, if so sweet as he imagined, could have been going on long without creating a commotion of delight among men, and provoking more inquiry than Bathsheba had done, even though that was not a little.†
Chpt 16-18
Definition:
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(commotion) a disturbance -- typically noisy