Both Uses of
commotion
in
The House of Mirth
- His seat faced toward the door, and she guessed that he had been perturbed by the approach of an acquaintance; a fact confirmed by the turning of heads and general sense of commotion which her own entrance into a railway-carriage was apt to produce.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- They proved to be few and unimportant, but among them he found, with a strange commotion of the heart, the note he had written her the day after the Brys' entertainment.†
Chpt 2.14
Definition:
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(commotion) a disturbance -- typically noisy