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  • She had been so flustered when they were rousted that morning, it was hard enough to keep track of herself, much less anyone else.†   (source)
  • "I apologi —" Jonas began, and then stopped, flustered, remembering there were to be no apologies.†   (source)
  • Beatrice looked flustered.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • But in a flustered moment, not wanting to commit to a full-on proper date, I may have suggested he and I go on a double date with you and Davis.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • His questions left Laila flustered.†   (source)
  • Teabing presented the flustered guards a far easier solution—an embossed card identifying him as Knight of the Realm.†   (source)
  • And I was so flustered that I would probably just have run home if he hadn't started struggling with the trash, trying to shove the contents down.†   (source)
  • Gina, who had read the message, was visibly flustered.†   (source)
  • She seemed flustered.†   (source)
  • Kevin was flustered.†   (source)
  • He got a kick out of flustering her, which, truthfully, wasn't really all that hard.†   (source)
  • But I'll get all flustered with those girls over here trying to teach me.†   (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)
  • It flustered him uncontrollably.†   (source)
  • She was genuinely flustered, speechless.†   (source)
  • Kate was watching me, which made me more flustered when I couldn't figure out which was the fuel line.†   (source)
  • She was all flustered because a few Marthas didn't like her outfit.†   (source)
  • Rachel looked tired and flustered, and even Mercy seemed unusually quiet.†   (source)
  • They looked flustered as they talked among themselves.†   (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)
  • "Please," I said, hands flustering, afraid to touch him.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He said he just wanted to make sure everything was in order, but he said it in a fluster.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 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)
  • But she flustered and all the children and Odessa and Jack all standing round the porch watching her.†   (source)
  • Aunt Del was flustered.†   (source)
  • A concerned and flustered Conrad rushed into the house to greet me.†   (source)
  • And the boy, flustered, answered quickly.†   (source)
  • Jace said, looking flustered.†   (source)
  • She's the only teenager I know who has a betrothed, and it's cute how flustered she gets when she talks about Amir Fadlan.†   (source)
  • I was too flustered.†   (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)
  • It was not often that he saw Alex flustered.†   (source)
  • "Only because you flustered me!" she shot back, reaching to stir her coffee.†   (source)
  • The guy gets really flustered.†   (source)
  • He looked sort of flustered and mad.†   (source)
  • I try to smile back, but I'm so flustered that I frown at him instead.†   (source)
  • The boy started, flustered, then bowed.†   (source)
  • The funniest part about it is that the next reporter was too flustered to get his question out.†   (source)
  • "Well, turn it on and check, honey," my mother says, flustered.†   (source)
  • He was doing this for the sole purpose of antagonizing me, and that only flustered me more.†   (source)
  • Out in the hall, Jordan was no better, a flustered ball of energy, scarf, and spectacles.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Turner, the principal's wife and also his secretary, was clearly flustered and leapt from her chair when we arrived.†   (source)
  • "Oh," she said, flustered, pleased, though she didn't like the long hours on the road.†   (source)
  • The song cut off abruptly, replaced by the DJ's flustered voice.†   (source)
  • "Oh, right, of course," she says, her face falling as she rushes to stand up, almost toppling her cello in her fluster.†   (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)
  • I wasn't expecting him to mention the text, and it flusters me that I can't tell what he's thinking.†   (source)
  • It's nice to see you get flustered every once in a while.†   (source)
  • ' Flustered, flushed, he swore he didn't care, pouted and pleaded and cajoled.†   (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)
  • She is too often impatient and flustered, her fingers jerking her round wire-rimmed glasses up her short nose.†   (source)
  • His touch had left me ridiculously flustered and I tried to regain my facade of good sense.†   (source)
  • "Hey, Ma," I say, more flustered than I should be.†   (source)
  • When she stuttered her thanks, he turned beet red; he was more flustered than she by this unexpected intimacy.†   (source)
  • "But not because of how he looks," I said, flustered.†   (source)
  • I feel myself growing flustered.†   (source)
  • The "Jones Theory" was much repeated-especially to the Joneses, a dignified and sensible family, who refused to be flustered.†   (source)
  • I was so flustered I did everything wrong, and soon they got away.†   (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)
  • He seemed flustered, and he seldom was flustered.†   (source)
  • She nodded, feeling a bit flustered.†   (source)
  • She was almost flustered for a second there.†   (source)
  • "What I meant was," he says, flustered.†   (source)
  • Momma was 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)
  • Milo grew flustered.†   (source)
  • She looked flustered, and that was a rare little treat.†   (source)
  • I automatically take his hand, but instead of shaking it, I just stare at him, momentarily flustered.†   (source)
  • "Is it possible she died after 1948?" the man asked, visibly flustered.†   (source)
  • "Hello again," said Hannah, sounding very flustered.†   (source)
  • "Er...what?" said Daphne, flustered.†   (source)
  • Flustered, Theon laced himself back up.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But the leader isn't flustered.†   (source)
  • He was flustered as he always was.†   (source)
  • Mary met us at the door, flustered with anxiety and, it seemed, embarrassment.†   (source)
  • The flustered hostess tapped her cheeks with her hands.†   (source)
  • The nurse was 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)
  • It's not easy for a pretty lady with her chin in the air to look flustered, but Miss Love did.†   (source)
  • "Don't let Annie's whip fool you," said Panov to_ the flustered girl.†   (source)
  • Such a life takes a toll," she says, seeming flustered.†   (source)
  • Mr. Senn appeared flustered, and glanced over at the colonel, who was head of the prison.†   (source)
  • "But what do you want me to do, Mr. Pruitt?" a woman asked, sounding flustered.†   (source)
  • He was so flustered he couldn't even work the simple latch.†   (source)
  • The next batter bunted, and suddenly flustered, I threw away the ball.†   (source)
  • The reporter, flustered, stammered out something about the rarity of successful comebacks.†   (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)
  • She took five or ten minutes to make each move, and was easily 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)
  • Libby was as happy as a mad sandbag but Mum was all flustered.†   (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)
  • Flustered, she said, "So you decided to wait and scare me to death?"†   (source)
  • HONEY (Flustered) Well, yes.†   (source)
  • Pleased, even, to see me so flustered.†   (source)
  • What he wants, he tells the flustered desk clerk, is a simple bedroom with an adjacent sitting room.†   (source)
  • Sally Jean looked flustered.†   (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)
  • This sort of thing was gold but having a heavily armed soldier seemingly losing it was a hit flustering.†   (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)
  • She was cross with herself for sounding so flustered.†   (source)
  • I said, grinning up at his broad flustered face.†   (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)
  • Clumly looked flustered—head tipped down, eyes like little beads.†   (source)
  • Florence was flustered.†   (source)
  • RICH (Flustered) My work is mostly secretarial.†   (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)
  • "What message?" said poor Mr. Baggins all in a fluster.   (source)
    fluster = nervous or confused condition
  • It was not the correct thing to say, but they have begun to arrive had flustered him badly.   (source)
    flustered = made nervous or confused
  • But he could not remember anything better at the moment, he was so flustered by the egg-question.   (source)
    flustered = nervous or confused
  • "Hear, hear!" said Bilbo, and accidentally said it aloud.
    "Hear what?" they all said turning suddenly towards him, and he was so flustered that he answered "Hear what I have got to say!"   (source)
  • I couldn't figure out why he was acting so flustered.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure why I'm analyzing the reason why I'm analyzing—I'm flustered.†   (source)
  • 'Sorry, sorry,' she said, flustered, reaching for the baby.†   (source)
  • And the ever-efficient Mrs. Loski seemed flustered, almost hyper.†   (source)
  • Hermione looked pleasurably flustered but this time Krum had not come to compliment her.†   (source)
  • "Yes," the boy nodded, and appeared flustered.†   (source)
  • It was barely contained by a flustered row of security guards.†   (source)
  • He went on looking at her and after a moment she looked away, impatient and a little flustered.†   (source)
  • "Watch your tongue, you scoundrel!" shouted a farmer, catching sight of Kit's flustered face.†   (source)
  • I should have— I was so flustered that I knocked over a stool as I approached Chairman Jin.†   (source)
  • But I'm not looking to buy it," says Simon, flustered.†   (source)
  • Oh — oh, right,' said Ron, very flustered.†   (source)
  • I was so flustered I left without the Kabuki magazines and shamisen strings Mameha had given me.†   (source)
  • You sound agitated ...flustered ...aroused.†   (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 was eating in front of the TV when she walked in, still wearing pajamas, flustered.†   (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)
  • According to the receptionist, she was quite awkward, even flustered.†   (source)
  • Amused, he skimmed a hand through her hair, kissed her again to fluster her.†   (source)
  • "The Green Grace says that I must take a Ghiscari king," she said, flustered.†   (source)
  • She saw me, and I got all flustered, and I kept walking.†   (source)
  • She pushed a sweaty lock of hair back from her forehead, equal parts flustered and bemused.†   (source)
  • The sight amused Eragon; he had never known Roran to get so flustered, nor to be so short-tempered.†   (source)
  • Brienne glanced down at herself, flustered.†   (source)
  • But I was so flustered that nothing came out the way it should have.†   (source)
  • A bit flustered by his absent use of the endearment, she turned back to the race.†   (source)
  • Now she was wet and flustered and, she realized, more travel weary than she'd expected.†   (source)
  • Miro, flustered, turned away and then beckoned her to follow him.†   (source)
  • Frank felt so flustered that he thought his boots might melt through the ice.†   (source)
  • Gilly's presence always flustered him and gave rise to ...well, risings.†   (source)
  • "Why, sir!" cried the assistant manager, genuinely flustered.†   (source)
  • Their teacher now looked completely flustered.†   (source)
  • He lifted her off her feet, flustering her.†   (source)
  • "Oh, that," she said, flustered as a high school freshman meeting the varsity quarterback.†   (source)
  • This flusters her so she drops the water pitcher on her foot.†   (source)
  • Yes, sir," the kid said, clearly flustered to be under Coyne's regard.†   (source)
  • It was one of the few times I had ever seen Dad flustered.†   (source)
  • You're mistaking me for someone else," said Maria, her emotions suddenly flustered.†   (source)
  • Flustered, Max zipped his backpack and started to get up from the table.†   (source)
  • I muttered, feeling both flustered and annoyed at once.†   (source)
  • Behind the balding man hovers Ginny Thibodaux, looking flustered.†   (source)
  • "I know a man who does the work," Boyle continued, flustered when the silence dragged out.†   (source)
  • Looking confused and flustered, which she was, Mama said weakly, "He seems to be ailin'.†   (source)
  • "No!" she said quickly, fanning her face in that cute way she did when she was flustered.†   (source)
  • Cullivan's softly emphatic answer pleased and rather flustered Perry.†   (source)
  • Scarlett?" a woman's voice came from inside the screen door, sounding tired and flustered.†   (source)
  • "Who indeed?" retorted Jensin Brent, now a bit of fluster showing through his calm facade.†   (source)
  • He looked at her until she was baffled and flustered again.†   (source)
  • My mother, always nervous, was flustered too.†   (source)
  • Merrett was too flustered to count them, but there seemed to be a dozen at the least, maybe a score.†   (source)
  • She gave him a hug, which seemed to fluster him, but Piper couldn't help liking Frank.†   (source)
  • She looked a little flustered, as if trying to decide what to say and how to say it.†   (source)
  • I have to look away, flustered by how handsome the grin makes him.†   (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)
  • Regis looked about, flustered and unable to even answer the spokesman's accusations.†   (source)
  • (Flustered:) I'm not a man of words, I guess you know†   (source)
  • "I have not ruled on that last objection," Gauldin snapped at me, flustered.†   (source)
  • They all looked up, and he was flustered.†   (source)
  • "Oh ....yes ...all right," said Hermione, looking slightly flustered, and following Krum through the crowd and out of sight.†   (source)
  • "Quick, quick, through the barrier," said Mrs. Weasley, who seemed a little flustered by this austere efficiency.†   (source)
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