Use commotion in a sentence
Sentences starting with commotion
- Commotion is perceived on the tavern porch,--Mr. Sherman, the proprietor, bustling out, Jake Wheeler beside him; a chorus of "How be you, Jethros? [9]
Sentences ending with commotion
- The whole house was in a state of alarm and commotion. [2]
- From the twenty-eighth till the thirty-first all Moscow was in a bustle and commotion. [2]
- And so, in the midst of this quiet inland town, where a mere accident had placed Mr. Bernard Langdon, there was a concentration of explosive materials which might at any time change its Arcadian and academic repose into a scene of dangerous commotion. [6]
- From the third room came sounds of laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and general commotion. [2]
- They proceed to resolve "that these safeguards of the rights of the citizen against the pretensions of arbitrary power were intended more especially for his protection in times of civil commotion. [7]
- The house was in commotion. [4]
More example sentences with the word commotion in them
- Meanwhile shouts and whistles were still heard; nay, when Tarautas came out on the arena in the highly decorated armor of a Roman legate, at the head of a troop of heavily armed men, and again greeted the emperor, the commotion began afresh. [10]
- I managed, somehow, when the commotion had subsided, to regain my poise, and ended by uttering the conviction that the common sense of the community would repudiate the Citizens Union and all it stood for.... [9]
- Out-doors was terrible to those who looked out of windows, and heard the raging wind, and saw the commotion in all the high tree-tops and the writhing of the low evergreens, and could not summon resolution to go forth and breast and conquer the bluster. [4]
- The Judge, holding tightly to Stephen, pushed his way fiercely to the stand, vowing over and over that the commotion was a secession trick to spoil the furniture and stampede the sale. [9]
- The next day there was commotion and excitement at Fort Luke. [11]
- The bell of the meeting-house began to toll as the Orangeman whose death had caused such commotion was carried to the waiting carriage where he would ride alone. [11]
- As they approached the house, Prince Andrew with a smile drew Pierre's attention to a commotion going on at the back porch. [2]
- But it was something she must struggle against, and she had force and pride and training enough now to maintain her usual tranquillity, in spite of a certain inward commotion which seemed to reach her breathing and her pulse by some strange, inexplicable mechanism. [6]
- Porphyrius pelted the prefect with questions which Constantine was very ready to answer, till they were interrupted by some commotion in the garden. [10]
- Is it no matter for commotion and distress that the Head of the State is gone; that I am vanished away and lost? [5]
- We sat silently looking out over the dreary stretch of roofs and down into a dingy court of Bernard's Inn below, when suddenly there arose a commotion on the stairs, as of a man mounting hastily. [9]
- The galleries were in commotion in an instant, the reporters swarmed to their places. [5]
- For half an hour there was a commotion downstairs, and shoutings, and rushing footsteps, and then there was quiet again. [5]
- When the commotion had somewhat subsided, the body of surgeons held a consultation, and after a good deal of debate decided that with proper care and nursing there was reason to believe that I would survive my injuries. [5]
- It made a great commotion, for this was the first time the village paper had ever contained a picture. [5]
- There was a great commotion, and many ran to Bigot's carriage, reached in to touch his hand, and called down blessings on him. [11]
- I did not find these favorable to landscape views, and just as I was turning my horse back again I caught sight of a commotion some distance to my right. [9]
- At last, one day, I heard commotion at my dungeon door; it opened, and Gabord entered and closed it after him. [11]
- There was great commotion, but Tarboe whispered in the curb's ear, and he blushing, announced that it was the bursting of a barrel. [11]
- There is a commotion in the vast crowd yonder, the eagerly watched gates swing wide, and a well-mounted company of cavalry dashes down the turf, in uniforms of light blue and gold. [4]
- There was a commotion about the place. [5]
- The commotion had brought Mr. Trevor to the spot. [9]
- It was in apparently happy circumstances, for they could see no commotion about the homestead; they saw men with muskets, evidently keeping guard--yet too openly keeping guard, and so some said to each other. [11]
- Richard Swiveller took an easy observation of the family over Mr Quilp's head, and Quilp himself, with his hands in his pockets, smiled in an exquisite enjoyment of the commotion he occasioned. [12]
- Suddenly there was a commotion in the canoes that still remained near the Wilderness. [11]
- At this moment a commotion arose within the room, and a high, tremulous, but singularly fierce and compelling voice was heard crying out:--"Get out! [9]
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