All 11 Uses of
commotion
in
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- "Yes'm, she kept her eyes onwhat's that thing makes all the commotion?†
Story 1.1 *
- When I heard all that commotion-boy!†
Story 1.5
- The husband and wife now lay perfectly still in the dark room, with Jason's hoarse, slow breathing, like the commotion of some clumsy nodding old bear trying to climb a tree, heard by nobody at all.†
Story 1.7
- Looks like you would 'a' heard the commotion.†
Story 1.8
- All night the frogs had sung out in the swamp, like a commotion in the room, and he had not stirred, though she lay wide awake and saying "Shh, frogs!" for feat he would mind them.†
Story 2.24
- They didn't give her a chance to begin her own commotion, only lifted away her hoe that she stretched out and leaned it on the big vines.†
Story 3.28
- The Negroes were making a glorious commotion, all of them came up now, and then Exum escaped them all and ran waving away to the woods, dainty as a loosened rabbit.†
Story 3.29
- Miss Theo and Miss Myra, keeping their backs turned to whatever shape or ghost Commotion would take when it came-as long as it was still in the yard, mounting the steps, crossing the porch, or even, with a smell of animal sudden as the smell of snake, planting itself in the front hall-they still had to see it if it came in the parlor, the white horse.†
Story 4.34
- Branches were being jogged with the rush and commotion of birds.†
Story 4.36
- Little bit of commotion here today, but I would rather you didn't tell Uncle Felix anything about it," said Sister Anne.†
Story 4.38
- Got him put back out of all the commotion," she said, leading the way.†
Story 4.38
Definition:
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(commotion) a disturbance -- typically noisy