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perturb as in:  she was perturbed

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  • "I am afraid of emotions," Mack admitted, a bit perturbed that she seemed to make light of it.   (source)
    perturbed = disturbed or made uneasy
  • Magic Eye again is taking over the interview. The general raises a perturbed eyebrow After all this is his breezy office, his top floor, his pretty prisoner.   (source)
    perturbed = disturbed (done in such a manner as to show that he is disturbed)
  • Patel did not seem perturbed.   (source)
    perturbed = disturbed or made uneasy
  • ...but most of the company backed away, even more perturbed than before.   (source)
  • I was glad for Zach (although at the same time slightly perturbed that Beanie was bearing her troubles alone).   (source)
    perturbed = disturbed
  • Then Rachel came through again, very perturbed. "She won't see me."   (source)
    perturbed = disturbed or made uneasy
  • Estevan didn't seem perturbed, and I realized he must hear this kind of thing every day of his life.   (source)
    perturbed = disturbed
  • Ampleforth marched clumsily out between the guards, his face vaguely perturbed, but uncomprehending.   (source)
  • Tom was evidently perturbed at Daisy's running around alone, for on the following Saturday night he came with her to Gatsby's party.   (source)
  • ...senses her feelings, dimly, with perturbation.   (source)
    perturbation = uneasiness
  • Here the lawyer interrupted me, looking greatly perturbed.   (source)
    perturbed = disturbed
  • Matthew was smoking—a sure sign of perturbation of mind.   (source)
    perturbation = disturbance of mind
  • Before I left him I remembered what Jonathan put in his diary of the Professor's perturbation at reading something in an evening paper at the station at Exeter, so, seeing that Dr. Seward keeps his newspapers, I borrowed the files of 'The Westminster Gazette' and 'The Pall Mall Gazette' and took them to my room.   (source)
    perturbation = uneasiness
  • But Mr. Hooper appeared not to notice the perturbation of his people.   (source)
    perturbation = anxiety (uneasiness)
  • I walked up and down my room hastily and perturbed, while my imagination conjured up a thousand images to torment and sting me.   (source)
    perturbed = disturbed or uneasy
  • It made him feel better, though he felt perturbed, too, worried that this kiss was wrong.†   (source)
  • Hardly seemed perturbed at all, considering he'd just seen all his mates go to their reward.†   (source)
  • Mortified, I began to stammer—swearing was seriously against the rules at the Barbours' house—but Mr. Barbour didn't seem greatly perturbed.†   (source)
  • It has made me uneasy,acknowledged Saphira, which surprised him because she rarely seemed perturbed.†   (source)
  • As the light began to fade, the architects lit the library's gas jets, which hissed like mildly perturbed cats.†   (source)
  • Luma paced silently on her side of the field and occasionally glanced over at the opposite sideline with a perturbed look on her face.†   (source)
  • They lay on their backs for a long time, he more and more perturbed as his intoxication left him, and she peaceful, almost without will, but praying to God that she would not laugh like a fool, as she always did when she overindulged in anisette.†   (source)
  • It soon became clear, however, that these local people were perturbed by my presence, feeling something of a need to show hospitality.†   (source)
  • He seemed a little perturbed by my presence here in town.†   (source)
  • "It's not," replied Janice, shaking her head and a little perturbed as she watched Adam strut up to his dad to receive his diploma.†   (source)
  • He's striding across the lawn toward us, a perturbed look on his face.†   (source)
  • However, one detail perturbed him: suppose autopsies revealed the presence of arsenic?†   (source)
  • And that included bad manicures, botched haircuts, and even one woman who was near perturbed about a seaweed body wrap that turned her the color of key lime pie.†   (source)
  • And although he was just the least bit perturbed, since he had never actually killed a woman before with his bare hands, there was a first time for everything.†   (source)
  • Of course she could not baldly question him in such a matter; and the simple explanation of a little note of thanks with a returned book, or the leaf which reported impressions from its reading tucked in between the pages occurred to her perturbed mind.†   (source)
  • face hadn't seemed perturbed, but knowing him, Simon had no doubt he could kill several people in a single morning and go out for waffles afterward.†   (source)
  • I tell myself that firmly as I come the rest of the way down the stairs......and find that Mrs. de Villiers has sunk onto one of the velvet couches in the foyer and is looking perturbed.†   (source)
  • The door flung open, revealing a rather perturbed-l ooking Principal Snelgrove.†   (source)
  • When he first arrived, he was perturbed by having to preach in the corridor, which he found inimical to the contemplation of God.†   (source)
  • "You seemed pleased at this parting," Wulfgar answered, a bit perturbed though the sparkle in his eyes at the sight of the girl belied his anger.†   (source)
  • I was perturbed because Tayo's condition didn't promise much comedy.†   (source)
  • She didn't seem all that perturbed.†   (source)
  • Here was a band of wolves surrounded by numbers of deer; but although each species was obviously fully aware of the presence of the other, neither seemed perturbed, or even greatly interested.†   (source)
  • "You can put it that way," said Karellen-and now his voice held a clear yet inexplicable note of sadness that left Stormgren strangely perturbed.†   (source)
  • Peter was by no means perturbed.†   (source)
  • My spirit is perturbed.†   (source)
  • He was about fifteen years old and looked faintly perturbed about being pulled out of class for a project so ephemeral and disorganized.†   (source)
  • But he had received a strong emotional shock, and his perturbation required a violent and immediate outlet.   (source)
    perturbation = anxiety (uneasiness)
  • She had changed her position; and, with her eyes fixed intently on one of the windows, was listening to her uncle in the utmost perturbation and dismay.   (source)
  • The cousin who was travelling towards them could hardly have less than visited their agitated spirits—one all happiness, the other all varying and indescribable perturbation.   (source)
    perturbation = disturbance of mind
  • "Goodbye," Eragon forced out, perturbed, and hurried down the road.†   (source)
  • Reeve, to his credit, did not look perturbed, though clearly he wasn't pleased.†   (source)
  • Kind of testy, aren't you?" the driver observed, not particularly perturbed.†   (source)
  • "Goodbye," Eragon forced out, perturbed, and hurried down the road.†   (source)
  • A look of anguish perturbed Garven's otherwise distant gaze.†   (source)
  • So when the Count appeared with the Machine, Westley was not particularly perturbed.†   (source)
  • I could see that, but Renny Banerjee is a fellow who never appears too perturbed.†   (source)
  • Turtle was the only one of us who didn't seem perturbed by the landscape.†   (source)
  • He appreciated that, and did not seem greatly perturbed.†   (source)
  • I was abruptly perturbed — and considerably puzzled, too.†   (source)
  • But the bush boy seemed in no way perturbed; his appraisal went methodically on.†   (source)
  • Luna did not seem perturbed by Ron's rudeness; on the contrary, she simply watched him for a while as though he were a mildly interesting television programme.†   (source)
  • He was perturbed.†   (source)
  • She seemed neither perturbed by Umbridge's sudden attack, nor relieved by her release; she was still clutching her robe up to her oddly blank eyes and staring straight ahead of her.†   (source)
  • Bagman looked slightly perturbed.†   (source)
  • My father seemed a little perturbed.†   (source)
  • You seem very perturbed.†   (source)
  • "Why, Pap," she said kindly, looking across at the old man's perturbed, sweating face, "you surely ain't like these foolish folks round here in Cottonville that think the hospital was started up to get dead bodies for the student doctors to cut to pieces.†   (source)
  • I was uneasy at those times, quite thoroughly concerned, but never gravely ill-feeling, never infected to the marrow as I assumed a real father would or should be, lying there in bed inconsolably perturbed, unable to think, to read, even to drink calmly from a glass.†   (source)
  • You seem perturbed, Glaedr added.†   (source)
  • I was greatly perturbed.†   (source)
  • Other four exchange bewildered and perturbed glances†   (source)
  • Helen came back into the house with an angry perturbed face.†   (source)
  • The physician was evidently more perturbed than he cared to admit.†   (source)
  • To tell the truth, he was rather perturbed; did the doctor think it meant anything serious?†   (source)
  • Yet even Mallinson, after the strain of all the arguing, was experiencing a reaction; he was still perturbed, but more willing to look at the brighter side of things.†   (source)
  • Yet they were still not sensational enough to prevent our townsfolk, perturbed though they were, from persisting in the idea that what was happening was a sort of accident, disagreeable enough, but certainly of a temporary order.†   (source)
  • And it perturbs you not?†   (source)
  • It was not perturbed by the thinker, nor tortured by the Steppenwolf, nor dwarfed by the poet, the visionary or the moralist.†   (source)
  • Winded, stertorous, perturbed, he reached the top and brightest landing, and with heaving paunch, eyed the Mizzuzahs, some still bright, some painted over, above the several doors.†   (source)
  • Mammy was greatly perturbed that Ellen's daughter should display such traits and frequently adjured her to "ack lak a lil lady.†   (source)
  • She felt considerably perturbed, especially at Kells's sharp inquiry for Jim Cleve.†   (source)
  • The young women present stared in astonishment, if they were not equally perturbed.†   (source)
  • And the more Venters dwelt on this possibility the more perturbed he grew.†   (source)
  • "This is the chief thing: be not perturbed," said the Pagan moralist.†   (source)
  • The letter perturbed, because she was not sure what it meant.†   (source)
  • He achieved a wry smile while his gray-blue eyes were by now perturbed by puzzled inquiry.†   (source)
  • Raoul went home, greatly perturbed at all that he had heard.†   (source)
  • Pavlicheff's son!" cried the prince, much perturbed.†   (source)
  • Polly began to grow a little strange in her manner and the young man was evidently perturbed.†   (source)
  • The singers were not perturbed by this rival, they lived beyond competition.†   (source)
  • The prince's condition during those days was strange and perturbed.†   (source)
  • Though she betrayed it by no outward sign, I felt, somehow, that she was greatly perturbed.†   (source)
  • One night, the instant their hands met Joan knew that Jim was greatly excited or perturbed.†   (source)
  • He sat down to consider, listening to the silence of the forest and perturbed by it.†   (source)
  • He pointed to a chair opposite him, at a small table, and I sat down, feeling greatly perturbed.†   (source)
  • It perturbed Stewart, for he searched for softer ground.†   (source)
  • He seemed greatly perturbed, unable to reply to me.†   (source)
  • Now that he was in the midst of a talk they became more than ever anxious and perturbed.†   (source)
  • What has it to do with me?" inquired Madeline, somewhat perturbed.†   (source)
  • His own mind is in a very perturbed state, and it is best he should not see you till you are calmer.†   (source)
  • He was greatly perturbed, and now I shall have to upset him more than ever.... Never mind!†   (source)
  • Alyosha was much perturbed when he heard of the proposed visit.†   (source)
  • Mihailov was greatly perturbed, but he could say nothing in defense of his own idea.†   (source)
  • The faces of those who were not conferring together were pale and perturbed.†   (source)
  • She now sank down into a chair, wild and perturbed by all these new and fevering sequences.†   (source)
  • Madeline did not combat it, because she saw it tended to a less perturbed condition of mind among her guests.†   (source)
  • "I—I confess I hardly do understand," she hesitated, a perturbed but not frightened expression in her eyes.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features.†   (source)
  • They were sitting on the bank of a stream, where the lip of turf hung over a hollow bank of yellow earth, and he was hacking away with a stick, as he did when he was perturbed and cruel.†   (source)
  • His soul was fattening and congealing into a gross grease, plunging ever deeper in its dull fear into a sombre threatening dusk while the body that was his stood, listless and dishonoured, gazing out of darkened eyes, helpless, perturbed, and human for a bovine god to stare upon.†   (source)
  • He was perturbed and undecided.†   (source)
  • A passionate gratitude to the Mormon overcame Shefford; and the unreasonableness of it, the nature of it, perturbed him greatly.†   (source)
  • Gently, on tip-toe, she crossed the landing and, like Blue Beard's wife, trembling half with excitement and wonder, she paused a moment on the threshold, strangely perturbed and irresolute.†   (source)
  • The lieutenant is a respectable fellow, but his is a simple temperament, not prone to spiritual dangers—the sort that never perturbs a teacher.†   (source)
  • Mr. Welland's brow remained clouded, and it was evident that his perturbed imagination had fastened at once on this last remark.†   (source)
  • Nor did he like it when the man-animals arose and went on with their march; for a tiny man-animal took the other end of the stick and led Kiche captive behind him, and behind Kiche followed White Fang, greatly perturbed and worried by this new adventure he had entered upon.†   (source)
  • After a few moments, that were to him, in his perturbed state, like endless hours of pain, he felt a hand laid on his shoulder.†   (source)
  • All this Mrs. Archer felt, and her son knew she felt; but he knew also that she had been perturbed by the premature announcement of his engagement, or rather by its cause; and it was for that reason—because on the whole he was a tender and indulgent master—that he had stayed at home that evening.†   (source)
  • Paul was perturbed.†   (source)
  • Riggs looked perturbed.†   (source)
  • Then the arrival of a Piute with news that excited Withers and greatly perturbed Lake convinced Shefford that something was wrong.†   (source)
  • The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor.†   (source)
  • But he was perturbed.†   (source)
  • He was much perturbed.†   (source)
  • Stillwell appeared greatly perturbed.†   (source)
  • The fever which consumed her rendered her nights uneasy; and in her perturbed state of half-slumber, she spoke of sounds, and of motions, in and about the chamber of the turret, which I concluded had no origin save in the distemper of her fancy, or perhaps in the phantasmagoric influences of the chamber itself.†   (source)
  • "I'm very sorry to hear of this, Miss March," he said, in the kind, quiet tone which sounded very pleasantly to her perturbed spirit.†   (source)
  • Often, of an evening, when he sat at the window, his desk and papers before him, he would cease reading or writing, rest his chin on his hand, and deliver himself up to I know not what course of thought; but that it was perturbed and exciting might be seen in the frequent flash and changeful dilation of his eye.†   (source)
  • The count was more perturbed than ever by the condition of his affairs, which called for some decisive action.†   (source)
  • At six o'clock, Raffles, having had only fitful perturbed snatches of sleep, from which he waked with fresh restlessness and perpetual cries that he was sinking away, Bulstrode began to administer the opium according to Lydgate's directions.†   (source)
  • It may be said that it is the vehemence of their desires which makes the Americans so methodical; it perturbs their minds, but it disciplines their lives.†   (source)
  • More than that, he saw from her tone that she was not even perturbed at that, but as it were said straight out to him: "Yes, it's shut up, and so it must be, and will be in future."†   (source)
  • He was somewhat perturbed, and his manner of informing Thomasin that he was going on a journey was in itself sufficient to rouse her suspicions.†   (source)
  • In this perturbed state of mind, with thoughts that could rest on nothing, she walked on; but it would not do; in half a minute the letter was unfolded again, and collecting herself as well as she could, she again began the mortifying perusal of all that related to Wickham, and commanded herself so far as to examine the meaning of every sentence.†   (source)
  • Not that I had taken note of any particular objects in my perturbed state of mind, but judging from the general character of the streets.†   (source)
  • M. and Madame de Villefort bowed and left the room, giving orders that Valentine should be summoned to her grandfather's presence, and feeling sure that she would have much to do to restore calmness to the perturbed spirit of the invalid.†   (source)
  • His memories of the olden time and of the immediate present floated there pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and perturbed pool.†   (source)
  • Then, when the first burst of unsatisfied anger was gone by, came the recollection of that quiet time before the pleasure which had ended in to-day's misery had perturbed the clearness and simplicity of her life.†   (source)
  • I thought all was going well, when a perturbed looking stranger visited me, inquiring whether I was the person who had recently occupied rooms at No.†   (source)
  • He mused a little, and seemed somewhat perturbed; but presently his face cleared, and he said: "After all, you must admit that the pipe is a very pretty thing, with the little people under the trees all cut so clean and sweet;—too elaborate for a pipe, perhaps, but—well, it is very pretty."†   (source)
  • Still, that misdemeanour must be committed; and poor Silas, after peering all round the hedgerows, traversed the grass, beginning with perturbed vision to see Eppie behind every group of red sorrel, and to see her moving always farther off as he approached.†   (source)
  • Dobbin begged Chopper to report progress to him at the hotel where he was stopping, and walked off moodily westwards, greatly perturbed as to the past and the future.†   (source)
  • Lebeziatnikov looked perturbed.†   (source)
  • But in truth his views were perturbed.†   (source)
  • The frank honest face, to tell the truth, at this moment bore any expression but one of openness and honesty: it was, on the contrary, much perturbed and puzzled in look.†   (source)
  • His spirit was perturbed to aching.†   (source)
  • In democratic ages enjoyments are more intense than in the ages of aristocracy, and especially the number of those who partake in them is larger: but, on the other hand, it must be admitted that man's hopes and his desires are oftener blasted, the soul is more stricken and perturbed, and care itself more keen.†   (source)
  • Talking wearied her, faces troubled her, pain claimed her for its own, and her tranquil spirit was sorrowfully perturbed by the ills that vexed her feeble flesh.†   (source)
  • Alexey Alexandrovitch was, however, so perturbed that he did not immediately comprehend all the good sense of adultery by mutual consent, and his eyes expressed this uncertainty; but the lawyer promptly came to his assistance.†   (source)
  • One evening in March, Rosamond in her cherry-colored dress with swansdown trimming about the throat sat at the tea-table; Lydgate, lately come in tired from his outdoor work, was seated sideways on an easy-chair by the fire with one leg over the elbow, his brow looking a little troubled as his eyes rambled over the columns of the "Pioneer," while Rosamond, having noticed that he was perturbed, avoided looking at him, and inwardly thanked heaven that she herself had not a moody disposition.†   (source)
  • ; and in fact showed those signs of disquietude, and practised those desperate attempts at amusement, which men are accustomed to employ when very anxious, and expectant, and perturbed in mind.†   (source)
  • The question that had perturbed Pierre on the Mozhaysk hill and all that day now seemed to him quite clear and completely solved.†   (source)
  • The little girls hailed Amy and her treasures with delight, which cordial reception somewhat soothed her perturbed spirit, and she fell to work, determined to succeed florally, if she could not artistically.†   (source)
  • Bathsheba's perturbed meditations by the roadside had ultimately evolved a conclusion that there were only two remedies for the present desperate state of affairs.†   (source)
  • She, seeing herself surrounded by such brilliant and polite young men, beamed with satisfaction, try as she might to hide it, and perturbed as she evidently was each time her husband moved in his sleep behind her.†   (source)
  • This delicate-looking man, himself nervously perturbed, found the needed stimulus in his strenuous circumstances, and through that difficult night and morning, while he had the air of an animated corpse returned to movement without warmth, holding the mastery by its chill impassibility his mind was intensely at work thinking of what he had to guard against and what would win him security.†   (source)
  • After a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing the prince was lying on the sofa, looked at him, noticed his perturbed face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he had entered.†   (source)
  • And probably still more perturbed by the fact that he had uttered this obvious falsehood, and that Balashev still stood silently before him in the same attitude of submission to fate, Napoleon abruptly turned round, drew close to Balashev's face, and, gesticulating rapidly and energetically with his white hands, almost shouted: "Know that if you stir up Prussia against me, I'll wipe it off the map of Europe!" he declared, his face pale and distorted by anger, and he struck one of his small hands energetically with the other.†   (source)
  • Greatly perturbed, Lord Zeus who masses cloud said: "Here is trouble.†   (source)
  • [Barbara turns away sadly and stands near her mother, listening perturbedly]†   (source)
  • Nor, as directed toward Billy Budd, did it partake of that streak of apprehensive jealousy that marred Saul's visage perturbedly brooding on the comely young David.†   (source)
  • "Well now, that is a shame," agreed Hannah, unperturbed.   (source)
    unperturbed = undisturbed
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unperturbed means not and reverses the meaning of perturbed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • ABIGAIL, unperturbed, continuing to the "bird": Oh, Mary, this is a black art to change your shape.   (source)
  • Unperturbed, the customer sprinkled some Reichsmark bills on the counter.   (source)
    unperturbed = not disturbed or made uneasy
  • His guardian was unperturbed.   (source)
  • The pencil woman seemed unperturbed.   (source)
  • His expression is unforgettable: not anger or rage. There is no fury in it. Only pleasure, unperturbed. Then a part of me understands, even as I begin to argue against it, that my humiliation was the cause of that pleasure. It was not an accident or side effect. It was the objective.   (source)
    unperturbed = undisturbed
  • Laura was unperturbed.   (source)
    unperturbed = not disturbed or made uneasy
  • When Don Quixote heard this his amazement was redoubled and his perturbation grew greater than ever,   (source)
    perturbation = disturbance of mind
  • Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!   (source)
    perturbed = disturbed (unhappy)
  • One must also accept the happy events of life unperturbed, they thought.†   (source)
  • You needed my help,she continued, unperturbed.†   (source)
  • I looked over at Rafa but my brother seemed unperturbed.†   (source)
  • At least, he was trying to project an image of a languishing, unperturbed kind of dwarf.†   (source)
  • Only Emmett seemed unperturbed; the rest stared at Carlisle's face with anxious eyes.†   (source)
  • Armansky sat there, stunned and angry, and she went on unperturbed.†   (source)
  • I toweled up the floor and stole a glance in Jenny's direction; she appeared unperturbed.†   (source)
  • Sarayu seemed unperturbed by his lack of understanding.†   (source)
  • Unperturbed by the interruption, Lifaen continued: "As you say, Ilirea was one of our cities.†   (source)
  • Jenny snapped her fingers under his nose, unperturbed by the teasing.†   (source)
  • 'Yes, but I think we ought to vote on it properly,' said Hermione, unperturbed.†   (source)
  • Jamie went on with his story, unperturbed by the interruption.†   (source)
  • Brom continued, unperturbed, "You have a good husband; take care of him.†   (source)
  • Unperturbed by the fury in her voice, Hunter glanced up.†   (source)
  • How the woman managed to look cool and unperturbed in her sweltering blues, Eve didn't want to know.†   (source)
  • The Buffalo Heifer was unperturbed by his wigglings.†   (source)
  • Ira accepted them in his name, smiling, graceful as ever, unperturbed.†   (source)
  • Arnott mentioned nonplussed, meaning confused, but now used by some Americans to mean unperturbed.†   (source)
  • She relaxed and made excuses for the delay and went on waiting, unperturbed.†   (source)
  • 'Good riddance to bad rubbish,' was Aarfy's unperturbed response.†   (source)
  • "If you're planning to cuss I'll ask you to do it outside," the clerk said, unperturbed.†   (source)
  • Unperturbed, leaning easily against the wall, Hunter stared back at her.†   (source)
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  • The planet, Neptune, was discovered after its existence was predicted by perturbations in Uranus' orbit.
    perturbations = secondary influences on a system that cause it to deviate slightly
  • We will study the evolution of perturbations over time to find out if the configuration is stable.
  • If the perturbations are small, the procedure should work.
  • Under the influence of their mutually perturbing gravitational attraction, their movements are unpredictable—the three-body problem.   (source)
    perturbing = causing secondary influences
  • Then you looked for perturbations that might indicate other planets.   (source)
    perturbations = deviations caused by secondary influences
  • She had no gift for small perturbations, mean-spirited resentments, concealed envies, works of charity, faded endearments, ordinary friendly politeness, or day-to-day acts of kindness.†   (source)
  • Thou wilt die soon and thou are not yet simple nor free from perturbations, nor without suspicion of being hurt by external things, nor kindly disposed towards all; nor dost thou yet place wisdom only in acting justly.†   (source)
  • Tiny perturbations can be endlessly amplified.   (source)
    perturbations = secondary influences
  • Then the lava cooled and turned into rings around the planets, but because of perturbations from the planets, the rings were unstable.   (source)
  • Adding the correction factor for perturbation from space-time curvature to the classical equations would yield the right mathematical model.   (source)
    perturbation = secondary influence
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  • Also, there were comings and goings, and the erstwhile placid atmosphere of the cabin was vexed with strange perturbations and unrest.†   (source)
  • The Major thought he recognized the piano, though, with the picture over it, as it used to be in former days, and his perturbations were renewed.†   (source)
  • That having left all, he leave himself, and go wholly out of himself, and retain nothing of self-love....I have often said unto thee, and now again I say the same, Forsake thyself, resign thyself, and thou shalt enjoy much inward peace....Then shall all vain imaginations, evil perturbations, and superfluous cares fly away; then shall immoderate fear leave thee, and inordinate love shall die.†   (source)
  • He had that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of sentiment, the tyrannies of art, and always a certain contempt for social conventions, that seduces or exasperates them.†   (source)
  • Europe has endured, in the course of the last half-century, many revolutions and counter-revolutions which have agitated it in opposite directions: but all these perturbations resemble each other in one respect—they have all shaken or destroyed the secondary powers of government.†   (source)
  • I see well enough that the nations of this age are turbulent, but I do not clearly perceive that they are liberal; and I fear lest, at the close of those perturbations which rock the base of thrones, the domination of sovereigns may prove more powerful than it ever was before.†   (source)
  • from study and perturbation of the brain   (source)
    perturbation = disturbance (of the mind)
  • A great perturbation in nature,—to receive at once the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of watching—   (source)
    perturbation = deviation (from the natural course of things)
  • What qualifying considerations allayed his perturbations?†   (source)
  • brush if intentionally allowed to remain from shave to shave in its agglutinated lather: a softer skin if unexpectedly encountering female acquaintances in remote places at incustomary hours: quiet reflections upon the course of the day: a cleaner sensation when awaking after a fresher sleep since matutinal noises, premonitions and perturbations, a clattered milkcan, a postman's double knock, a paper read, reread while lathering, relathering the same spot, a shock, a shoot, with thought of aught he sought though fraught with nought might cause a faster rate of shaving and a nick on which incision plaster with precision cut and humected and applied adhered: which was to be done.†   (source)
  • All space, all time,
    (The stars, the terrible perturbations of the suns,
    Swelling, collapsing, ending, serving their longer, shorter use,)
    Fill'd with eidolons only.†   (source)
  • same as life,)
    You that, sometimes known, oftener unknown, really shape and mould
    the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space,
    You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal'd but ever alert,
    You past and present purposes tenaciously pursued, may-be
    unconscious of yourselves,
    Unswerv'd by all the passing errors, perturbations of the surface;
    You vital, universal, deathless germs, beneath all creeds, arts,
    statutes, literatures,
    Here build your homes for good, establish here, these areas entire,
    lands of the Western shore,
    We pledge, we dedicate to you.†   (source)
  • lung-sponges, the stomach-sac, the bowels sweet and clean,
    The brain in its folds inside the skull-frame,
    Sympathies, heart-valves, palate-valves, sexuality, maternity,
    Womanhood, and all that is a woman, and the man that comes from woman,
    The womb, the teats, nipples, breast-milk, tears, laughter, weeping,
    love-looks, love-perturbations and risings,
    The voice, articulation, language, whispering, shouting aloud,
    Food, drink, pulse, digestion, sweat, sleep, walking, swimming,
    Poise on the hips, leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving and tightening,
    The continual changes of the flex of the mouth, and around the eyes,
    The skin, the sunburnt shade, freckles, hair,
    Th†   (source)
  • (Thou canst not with thy dumbness me deceive,
    I know before the fitting man all Nature yields,
    Though answering not in words, the skies, trees, hear his voice—and
    thou O sun,
    As for thy throes, thy perturbations, sudden breaks and shafts of
    flame gigantic,
    I understand them, I know those flames, those perturbations well.)†   (source)
  • Richard, thy wife, that wretched Anne thy wife, That never slept a quiet hour with thee, Now fills thy sleep with perturbations: To-morrow in the battle think on me, And fall thy edgeless sword: despair and die!†   (source)
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