Use disturbed in a sentence
Sentences starting with disturbed
- Disturbed in mind, and scarcely able to set one sore foot before the other, he dragged himself forward. [10]
Sentences ending with disturbed
- The grassy slopes were as green and smooth and desolate of life as if they had never been disturbed. [5]
- But the Major was not disturbed. [5]
- Indeed, the heat was most oppressive, but we had become to some extent inured to it on the boat, and we were both in such sound health that our slumbers were not disturbed. [9]
- There were ten, twenty, sometimes even thirty of them on their feet at a time, storming at the prisoner minute after minute, but Joan was not disturbed. [5]
- The Irishman's face turned a slight shade paler, but he did not tremble or appear disturbed. [11]
- On the journey the guard is polite and watchful--won't allow anybody to get into your compartment--tells them you are just recovering from the small-pox and do not like to be disturbed. [5]
- When Jameson learned that near Krugersdorp he would find 800 Boers waiting to dispute his passage, he was not in the least disturbed. [5]
- Ruth, saying that she hoped the father wouldn't mind, began to put in order the front room, which the incidents of the night had somewhat disturbed. [4]
- But the smooth sea again suddenly becomes disturbed. [2]
- But Joan was not disturbed. [5]
Short sentences using disturbed
- That disturbed Jim--and me too. [5]
- Then Tom was disturbed. [5]
- Joan was not disturbed. [5]
- Fridolin was not disturbed. [5]
- I was disturbed, disquieted. [5]
- Well, he sha'n't be disturbed. [8]
- She must not be disturbed. [11]
More example sentences with the word disturbed in them
- I have disturbed you in grave studies no doubt; what is the book you are rolling up, fair Zoe? [10]
- Then he fain would have prayed, but fearful mental anguish disturbed his devotion. [10]
- He surrounded her with precautions, that Nature might have every opportunity of cunningly shifting the weights from the scale of death to the scale of life, as she will often do if not rudely disturbed or interfered with. [6]
- The secular judge who should have delivered judgment and pronounced sentence was himself so disturbed that he forgot his duty, and Joan went to her death unsentenced--thus completing with an illegality what had begun illegally and had so continued to the end. [5]
- The solitary lamp, which was fixed on a high stand near his chair, shed a scanty light, which, however, sufficed to show him his trusted friend Pentaur, who had disturbed Nebsecht in his prohibited occupations. [10]
- The terror with which this spectacle had disturbed her sleep could not be banished during the morning. [10]
- The rail fences were somewhat disturbed, and the cinders of extinguished fires showed the use to which they had been applied. [6]
- One sweltering afternoon--it was the first day of July, 1830--he was at work over a set of tangled account books in his workroom, which looked westward over a stretch of vacant lots, when a conversation outside disturbed him. [5]
- The merchant's honor was saved; still his conscientious soul was disturbed by a doubt that he could not away with. [10]
- His daughter's presence was probably due to that of the guests quartered in his home, especially Cordula, whom, since she disturbed the peace of his quiet household night after night, he regarded as the personification of restlessness and reckless freedom. [10]
- The large room was perfectly still, but the peace that surrounded her was often disturbed by strange noises and tones, that rose from the dining-hall directly under her chamber. [10]
- His disturbed brain was like some dark wood through which flew songless birds with wings of night; through which sped the furtive dwellers of the grass and the earth-covert. [11]
- After a long wakefulness, I dozed away into that disturbed vestibule of sleep where the world's happenings mingle with the visions of unconsciousness. [11]
- He had been very little in Newport that summer, the disturbed state of business confining him to the city. [4]
- Under the roof vast knots of bats had packed themselves together, thousands in a bunch; the lights disturbed the creatures and they came flocking down by hundreds, squeaking and darting furiously at the candles. [5]
- The appointed day ushered in undisturbed by any clouds; nothing disturbed Ambulinia's soft beauty. [5]
- She gave herself up to a sweet and simple sense of pride in the deed she had done for him, disturbed but slightly by the chances of discovery, and the remembrance of the match that showed her face at Archangel's Rise. [11]
- What disturbed the Unitarian Church in this very city two years ago? [7]
- And when he turned away she followed him with a look that might have disturbed his serenity, if he had not at the moment had a little square letter in his breast pocket, dated at Philadelphia, and signed "Ruth. [5]
- After that I took another road, several miles longer, for the sight of Miss Thorn with him seriously disturbed my peace of mind. [9]
- He then went to rest, as usual intoxicated, and fell into a disturbed sleep, in which he dreamed that Bartja was seated on the throne of Persia, and that the crown of his head touched the heavens. [10]
- That despatch failed to reach Mr. Corwin, by reason of the disturbed condition of Mexico, until a very recent date, Mr. Corwin being without instructions, or thus practically left without instructions, to negotiate further with Mexico. [7]
- Gabord had come to me three times, and seeing how sound asleep I was had not disturbed me, but had brought bread and water--my prescribed diet. [11]
- Pfuel, always inclined to be irritably sarcastic, was particularly disturbed that day, evidently by the fact that they had dared to inspect and criticize his camp in his absence. [2]
- The Fire-Tender, not to be disturbed by this sort of chaff, keeps on writing his wife's name. [4]
- It brought him to a melancholy standstill, disturbed at last by Gongi touching him on the arm and pointing towards the post-office. [11]
- Reporters had been there, Republican Headquarters had telephoned to know if I were ill. Leaving word that I was not to be disturbed under any circumstances, I went to my room, and spent most of the night in distracted thought. [9]
- Only now and then the thought of the sacrifice which the vehement Philip must make for his younger brother, and of the danger which still threatened Alexander, disturbed the cheerful contentment of her soul, rich as it was in glad hopes. [10]
- Sir William read them with a disturbed look, and turned them over and over. [11]
- Houzeau thinks that their imaginations are disturbed by the vague outlines of the surrounding objects, and conjure up before them fantastic images: if this be so, their feelings may almost be called superstitious. [1]
- The deer have their established runways, as I said; and, when they are disturbed in their retreat, they are certain to attempt to escape by following one which invariably leads to some lake or stream. [4]
- The fire in the smithy was extinguished, no hammer fell on the anvil; for the wounded man lay in a burning fever; every loud noise disturbed him. [10]
- She came into the sick-room swiftly and noiselessly, put the nun through a strict cross-examination with the fretful sharpness of a person disturbed in her night's rest. [10]
- He said to the people in a clear but less steady voice, for I could see that the woman had disturbed him, "Go pray to be forgiven for your insolence and folly. [11]
- Sonya, Dolokhov, and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree Natasha. [2]
- The fact that the name Vindex signified an avenger disturbed him greatly, and he could no more get it out of his mind than the image of the "Niobe" with her ominous dark eyes. [10]
- In the retrospect, the elements in him that had disturbed her were less disquieting, his intellectual fascination was enhanced: and in that very emancipation from cant and convention, characteristic of the Order to which he belonged, had lain much of his charm. [9]
- The occurrence disturbed the captain and made him very uneasy. [10]
- The ringing of the alarm-bell in the tower also disturbed the night's rest of the ladies in the Van der Werff household. [10]
- He sincerely hopes that your views and your action may so accord with his as to assure all faithful citizens who have been disturbed in their rights of a certain and speedy restoration to them, under the Constitution and the laws. [7]
- Do you see, that my peace here is not disturbed by idle gossip. [10]
- He noted, involuntarily, that in her agitation the white tulle at her bosom had been disturbed into pretty disarray, and that there was neither brooch nor necklace at her breast or throat. [11]
- The other matter that disturbed him was the dire inflation that had begun in his stomach. [5]
- The subjects of that antipathy could not tell what it was which disturbed their nervous system. [6]
- The comfort of tears was denied him, but his grief gripped him at the heart, clouded his brain and made hint so irritably sensitive that an unfamiliar voice, though even at a distance, disturbed him and made him angry. [10]
- And when the tale was told he said that succour should come to them from the south by the hand of the Scarlet Hunter, that the nation sleeping there should no more be disturbed by their moaning. [11]
- Pierre disturbed the symmetry by moving a chair for himself, and Berg and Vera immediately began their evening party, interrupting each other in their efforts to entertain their guest. [2]
- And while her suspicion of Hannah's anxiety troubled her, on the occasions when she thought of it, Lise's attitude disturbed her even more. [9]
- Her dreams were suddenly disturbed by a loud noise, and she clapped her hands directly to warn the lovers and call Sappho, as she perceived by the stars that the dawn was not far off. [10]
- Then I am still more disturbed by any affectations. [4]
- Bartja's fall on stepping ashore had disturbed her, and she had with her own eyes seen an owl fly from the left side close by his head. [10]
- Silken coverlets were spread over their weary, beautiful limbs, and a troop of eunuchs took good care that the dreamy repose of the entire body should not be disturbed by quarrelsome or petulant individuals. [10]
- Gorgias and the sons of her uncle Arius had disturbed her a short time. [10]
- This is disturbed sometimes for a little while: a mob assembles to protest against something; it gets noisy --noisier--still noisier--finally too noisy; then the persuasive soldiery comes charging down upon it, and in a few minutes all is quiet again, and there is no mob. [5]
- Above Pierre's head some pigeons, disturbed by the movement he had made in sitting up, fluttered under the dark roof of the penthouse. [2]
- They could suffer solitude, inactivity, and the horrors of a silence that no sound ever disturbed, but they could not bear the thought of being utterly forgotten by the world. [5]
- As he did so, a snake, disturbed in its travel past him, suddenly raised itself in anger. [11]
- When evening came she went to rest early, but troubled dreams disturbed her sleep. [10]
- She felt that she must be alone, and if she went to her room she was likely to be disturbed by Susan or Mrs. Joshua--or indeed Mrs. Holt herself. [9]
- She felt a sharp pang and grew disturbed and uneasy at once. [5]
- The French, he says, have been celebrated chiefly for the skill of their chefs and their vaudeville actors, while in the disturbed 'speculum mundi' Americans have appeared as a collection of money grabbers whose philosophy is the dollar. [9]
- When Lady Dargan saw the ribbon, which Gaston in his hurry had not disturbed, tied exactly as she had tied it, a weird feeling came to her, and she felt choking. [11]
- Murmuring in a sarcastic, rather than a joyous tone: "Don Juan has dared much," he gave a sign, without opening the letter, to continue the Mass, remaining on his knees as if nothing had disturbed the sacred rite. [10]
- Pierre looked at Rostopchin with naive astonishment, not understanding why he should be disturbed by the bad composition of the Note. [2]
- No stranger had rested under his roof, and everything that disturbed his seclusion was repugnant to him. [10]
- The physician, however, requested him to remain away from the sufferer, who would be disturbed by the sight of a strange face. [10]
- The yearning and renunciation, the reproaches and doubts which disturbed his life, until recently so easy, had disgusted him with it. [10]
- And since he regarded Philostratus as the incarnation of goodness--though he had lost faith in that--his threat of leaving disturbed him greatly. [10]
- Through stretches of reed-beds and wastes of osiers they passed, and again by a path through the jungle where the briar-vines caught at them like eager fingers, and a tiger crossed their track, disturbed in his night's rest. [11]
- Daphne and Myrtilus received the announcement with pleasure; but Hermon, who only the day before had spoken of the old couple with great affection, seemed disturbed by the arrival of the unexpected guests. [10]
- If he has read the roll to the end it will spare me the trouble of explaining to him what I purpose to charge him with; if you disturbed him too soon I shall have to be more explicit in my accusation. [10]
- The report, which reached them in the afternoon, of the proceedings in the square by the Prefect's house, disturbed Medius greatly, and he set off at once for the scene of action. [10]
- But a shudder ran through Ulrich's frame when he heard it, and this woman, whose questioning glance had always disturbed him, now inspired him with a mysterious dread, which he could not control. [10]
- I was rather proud of having evolved this argument; it fortified my own peace of mind, which had been disturbed by Tom's attitude. [9]
- He is to practise virtue only because it brings him pleasure; for who could remain virtuous without being wise, noble, and just?--and whoever is all these cannot have his peace of mind disturbed, and must be really happy in the exact meaning of the master. [10]
- Two beautiful English pointers and a slender hound were moving about and sometimes disturbed the repose of the two Wachtersbach badger dogs, who were trained to keep side by side everywhere--in the room as well as in hunting. [10]
- The old woman's pet sprang out of her lap, but neither his mistress nor the cat let themselves be disturbed by the noise, and slept on. [10]
- The butter was perhaps good enough, and was quiet and well behaved; but it had more bouquet than was necessary, though nobody commented upon that fact or seemed in any way disturbed by it. [5]
- It disturbed the peaceful simplicity of the village, and it was likely to cloud her pleasure in Philip's visit. [4]
- Her face was pale, and her eye had a curious disturbed look, as though they had seen frightening things. [11]
- Darwin had kicked over the bucket, and that was all there was to it.... After we had left the club both Conybear and Laurens admitted they were somewhat disturbed, declaring that Ralph had gone too far. [9]
- I knew at once that no trifle had disturbed him. [9]
- The mob pressed on, their enjoyment nothing disturbed by this episode. [5]
- A similar attempt on the part of the Pennsylvania Quakers merely disturbed the operations of nature, but did not save the drab bonnets from the annual wetting. [4]
- She disturbed the old man so that he said he could most wish there hadn't ever been no snakes created. [5]
- The bachelors and old maids whether in regret, or not caring to be disturbed by the bustle, quietly moved aside and lay down at some distance from the rest. [1]
- The very spirit of peace is here, and it is not disturbed by the sweet sound of bells echoed in the passes. [4]
- And a lady of New York (a city whose dialect the novelists are beginning to satirize) was much disturbed by the flatness of speech prevailing in Chicago, and thought something should be done in the public schools to correct the pronunciation of English. [4]
- The slow awaking of morning life scarcely disturbed its tranquillity. [4]
- He was full of interest in everything that went on around him, but his serenity was indestructible; nothing disturbed him, nothing excited him. [5]
- The transplanted Church of England is rich and prosperous and fashionable enough not to be disturbed by Emerson's flashes of light that have not come through its stained windows. [6]
- If any recollections of a cool, white farmhouse amongst barren New England hills disturbed his thoughts, this is not recorded. [9]
- There were gleams of a beautiful nature shining through some ill-defined medium which disturbed and made them flicker and waver, as distant images do when seen through the rippling upward currents of heated air. [6]
- His mind is not much disturbed by objects, but he can fix a half-hour's contemplation on a good fat cow. [4]
- The horses were not moving, and no sound disturbed the deathly silence of the canyon. [13]
- Mr. Hughes did not like to be disturbed, but he proved himself to be a man who could wake up suddenly, shake his head, and transact business,--a sort of Napoleon, in fact. [4]
- An earthquake could not have disturbed her outer, matter-of-fact calmness. [9]
- Thinking people are not going to be scared out of explaining or at least trying to explain things by the shrieks of persons whose beliefs are disturbed thereby. [6]
- His mind was not disturbed by trifles. [4]
- So, you must not disturb the man who robs you of house and land, and tries to murder you, lest he should be disturbed and not sleep o' nights. [11]
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