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    1. David, in some measure familiarized to the scene, led the way with a steadiness that no slight obstacle was likely to disconcert, into this very building


    2. But the fact that Sergey Ivanovitch and the princess seemed anxious to get rid of him did not in the least disconcert Stepan Arkadyevitch


    3. How could she face her parents, get back her box, and disconcert the whole scheme for the rehabilitation of her family on such sentimental grounds?


    4. "I've decided openness is better between us," Porfiry Petrovitch went on, turning his head away and dropping his eyes, as though unwilling to disconcert his former victim and as though disdaining his former wiles


    5. Why not?" I put my question quickly and somewhat sternly, on purpose to disconcert him


    6. In Natasha Prince Andrew was conscious of a strange world completely alien to him and brimful of joys unknown to him, a different world, that in the Otradnoe avenue and at the window that moonlight night had already begun to disconcert him


    7. In his clear glance, in his firm tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something calculated to disconcert death


    8. Facts, however, are awkward things to disconcert, and they are obstinate


    9. His praises of the nobility, and his words : " Je mourrai geniilhommc,'" did not disconcert me in the least; I understood what sort of gentilhomme he was ; he was a man ready to abandon ever3d;hing, and to become the champion of political rights for all, and the leading Russian thought of a universal harmony of ideas


    10. Once let them begin to shout, however, and nothing on earth should disconcert them

    11. It seemed as though nothing could disconcert him; in every circumstance and in every sort of society he remained the same


    12. In Natásha Prince Andrew was conscious of a strange world completely alien to him and brimful of joys unknown to him, a different world, that in the Otrádnoe avenue and at the window that moonlight night had already begun to disconcert him


    13. But it occurred to him that she might have been willing to let the mare trot lightly along the road just ahead of the blacks, where Betty’s nearness might least disconcert Tim and Tom, and where she might now and then exchange a word with their driver over her shoulder—even that cool shoulder of hers


    1. ’ I said, disconcerted and angrier than ever as a result


    2. Jed is disconcerted but tries to soldier on


    3. Disconcerted by this


    4. It amuses me that he appears disconcerted by her comment – obviously not at all sure what has been said!


    5. this devil wasn’t disconcerted by all the attention his


    6. extremely disconcerted with this news


    7. and felt even more disconcerted


    8. He would stand and watch in perplexed and disconcerted silence


    9. If it had not been for the cool dampness on his skin as he moved through it, Carius would have been content to decide it was all a creation of his overly weary and disconcerted mind


    10. “I guess that means it can hear us now?” murmured Mark, looking disconcerted

    11. The priest started his incantations again with redoubled vigour, but a woman espied me watching, and the whole assembly were greatly disconcerted at the intrusion of a stranger, and a white man to boot


    12. But they were disconcerted by the steady American advance, and redoubled their volleys as the thin blue line crossed the valley and commenced to climb the steep ascent


    13. Elizabeth was obviously disconcerted by his statement, and he interpreted her reaction to be due to her being surprised by his sudden change of subject


    14. Hermann made no attempt to start a conversation, seemingly disconcerted by the tension that he sensed had arisen between the man and woman seated beside him


    15. “I don’t understand,” said Ethan with a strange, quietly disconcerted voice


    16. Michelle had begun looking a little disconcerted when Charles mentioned Jews being the Chosen People


    17. David presses his thumb into his palm and massages his hand, clearly disconcerted by all the interruptions


    18. The thought disconcerted her


    19. disconcerted when she stepped on that scale and saw


    20. Disconcerted, he asked, "Don't you need them?"

    21. Luke was disconcerted, but maintained courtesy as he left allowing the ragged old


    22. Bewildered, disconcerted and swaying for the impact, I stood up under the furious looks of the upset faces that approached me with an aggressive attitude


    23. esteem was as unsatisfactory and disconcerted like his


    24. Mary especially was disconcerted by this unusually peculiar behavior of her first-born son


    25. As the thought made her disconcerted, she probed her mind to find the truth


    26. It was some time before the twenty-four could settle down to the serious consideration of their problems, they were so disconcerted by the absence of the Master


    27. 2 The apostles were a bit disconcerted by the open manner of Jesus' assent to many of the Greek's propositions, but Jesus afterward privately said to them: "My children, marvel not that I was tolerant of the Greek's philosophy


    28. They were also somewhat frightened and disconcerted by the unexpected boldness and assertive determination exhibited by the Pharisees who had come down from Jerusalem


    29. As they exchanged greetings, the crowd came up, and Jesus asked, "What were you disputing about as we drew near?" But before the disconcerted and humiliated apostles could reply to the Master's question, the anxious father of the afflicted lad stepped forward and, kneeling at Jesus' feet, said: "Master, I have a son, an only child, who is possessed by an evil spirit


    30. Scores of men and women went to Bethany to look upon Lazarus and talk with him, and the alarmed and disconcerted Pharisees hastily called a meeting of the Sanhedrin that they might determine what should be done about these new developments

    31. He was also disconcerted because these men were foreign gentiles


    32. This disconcerted the staff and they conferred with the head of the detail who sent a message to the King


    33. 2 When the twelve heard this, having already been robbed of much of their self-assertiveness and self-confidence by the parable of the feet washing and the Master's subsequent discourse, they began to look at one another while in disconcerted tones they hesitatingly inquired, "Is it I?" And when they had all so inquired, Jesus said: "While it is necessary that I go to the Father, it was not required that one of you should become a traitor to fulfill the Father's will


    34. Jesus stood there, looking down benignly upon these perjurers, and his very countenance disconcerted the lying witnesses


    35. They were, of course, disconcerted by the increasing spread of rumors that Jesus had risen from the dead, but they depended upon the bribed guards effectively to counteract all such reports by their reiteration of the story that a band of his followers had removed the body


    36. Disconcerted, Midge lit a cigarette


    37. This thought disconcerted Fred Chickweed


    38. Disconcerted him quite a bit


    39. '" There was a disconcerted tone in Sam’s voice


    40. Sharlow seemed a little disconcerted about the fact that he was talking to his cat

    41. Garcia shook his hand, but was still disconcerted


    42. Hunter frowned, not overly disconcerted, witches seemed to enjoy whispering directly into the mind as a means of terrorising victims and witch-hunters alike


    43. She marched closer to Guinevere, not the least bit disconcerted


    44. The child frowned, disconcerted


    45. Totally disconcerted by the thought that she might be a virgin, Joel was momentarily flummoxed about how to confront her about it


    46. He was puzzled at the thoughtful, disconcerted look on Aazuria’s face


    47. The Lindebergs were much disconcerted by these quick methods, they who like to move slowly, think slowly, and sit hours over each meal; and they had not said half they wanted to say and he had not eaten half he was intended to eat before he was gone


    48. Also he disconcerted them,--indeed it was more than that, he upset them utterly, by not looking like what they had made up their minds he would look like


    49. Disconcerted, I impetuously hazarded Brandy as the answer, when it should have been Whisky; but really I think it was wonderful to have got even so near the right answer as Brandy


    50. "But we do know what to talk about next," he said, disconcerted by her perspicacity









































    1. I go in and shake hands with the man standing behind the desk while at the same time I am uncomfortably aware that he is scanning what I am wearing, leaving me with the disconcerting impression that he knows what colour my knickers are


    2. It was a totally disconcerting feature of whatever this game was


    3. The most disconcerting thing was still the horizon


    4. That, in itself, is disconcerting


    5. edge to the question that Sandini found disconcerting


    6. The brawny women’s presence was a little disconcerting, but was tolerated by all present as the queen’s safety came first


    7. Jim found this setup slight disconcerting


    8. Imbrahim found more than a little disconcerting


    9. She found it a little disconcerting


    10. Hilderich grinned and the effect on Amonas was for the first time totally disconcerting, perhaps even chillingly terrifying

    11. His light mood was rare and, in view of his own distressed state, extremely disconcerting


    12. More disconcerting was the realization, as he turned all that he knew over in his mind, that he had to admit that he had very limited knowledge about Elizabeth’s role with whatever organization it was that Quarles represented


    13. Even now, he had the disconcerting habit of snipping at his nose with a pair of scissors, without apparently noticing the blood


    14. This last bit was a bit disconcerting to them and they talked among themselves for a while about it


    15. All in all, he presented a somewhat disconcerting appearance, but Mark had faced him before in a dream, and many times at that


    16. His grandfather, a lean sixty year-old with cheekbones you could slit your wrists on, spoke excellent English although his smile was a trifle disconcerting – exposing a full set of stainless steel dentures


    17. While fugitives had been routinely and amicably exchanged between the countries for many years, there was one recent case that was somewhat disconcerting


    18. endless aisles and confusion of colours was disconcerting me


    19. ” Resa sighed sullenly, but she closed her mouth, though she still hadn’t stopped glaring at Tristan, a fact that he found exceedingly disconcerting


    20. It was, again, most disconcerting

    21. 7 The father of the bridegroom had provided plenty of wine for all the guests bidden to the marriage feast, but how was he to know that the marriage of his son was to become an event so closely associated with the expected manifestation of Jesus as the Messianic deliverer? He was delighted to have the honor of numbering the celebrated Galilean among his guests, but before the wedding supper was over, the servants brought him the disconcerting news that the wine was running short


    22. They were all beginning to realize that disconcerting and crushing events were impending


    23. ” During lunch, commenting with General Monca-da about that disconcerting proliferation, she expressed the desire for Colonel Aureliano Buendía to come back someday and gather all of his sons together in the house


    24. After all, what good would they do in the event of another attack like the one a month before? Instead, it was a bit disconcerting, but it would have been even worse had these armed men in uniform been from another country


    25. It struck Feltus as odd that these strangers, in a sense considering they had never personally met prior to this trip, who were evidently not fond of each other should managed to assemble in such a strong and commanding fashion that appeared to give the impression of impenetrability and astute readiness; furthermore, it was quite disconcerting that Elizabeth, in whom he had placed his confidence by enlisting her aid, should apparently be the ringleader of this menacing squadron that was obviously prepared for battle, but Feltus attempted to maintain his assertions that this was nothing more than mere coincidence, the suspects all having met in the lobby where they quickly questioned the meaning of the event prior to entering the dining room together so as not to delay the beginning of the affair


    26. He found it disconcerting that he couldn’t place


    27. He found it slightly odd and disconcerting that anyone would be here given the recent developments, unless that individual had some involvement with the events that had transpired over the last twenty-four hours


    28. They had news that was disconcerting to Wolf


    29. The tissue looked filthy with flesh, which was disconcerting


    30. It was slightly disconcerting to see how dubious he looked when I said this

    31. It was rather disconcerting


    32. A calming and a disconcerting experience it was


    33. She found it all morally contradictory and disconcerting


    34. The sight of the Bengal chief minister in the kitchen, her crumpled sari tied in a no-nonsense knot, sweat pouring from her brow, rushing between steaming pots of Bengali delicacies was, I must confess, more than a little disconcerting


    35. The pull was thrilling, but disconcerting


    36. terribly disconcerting task with the students given to his care


    37. was a disconcerting gap in his continuity that he simply could not access


    38. Sophie smiled at his goading reply, which was a rather disconcerting reaction


    39. I’ll admit it must be more than a bit disconcerting to be strolling down Fifth Avenue, along the Champs Elysee or San Antonio’s lovely River Walk and suddenly find oneself picked up in an enormous clutch of tree-sized fingers, to be peered at and poked, even undressed and sniffed at! Moms and dads seeing their favorite child appropriated as a plaything for some Big One parents’ kid, must go through the seven levels of hell


    40. have been the most disconcerting part of it, that and his solemnity

    41. The pool itself had been re-tiled to resemble a summer clouded sky, which Byron had found to be quite disconcerting when he first dove in, it felt to him like diving upside down and falling to the sky


    42. It’s even more disconcerting than it should be since he’s changed his appearance to be more Conan the Barbarian-esque


    43. The words were just that, words to break the intensity and disconcerting silence


    44. It was disconcerting have


    45. Papa was delighted, I must say, to have had at last, as he told me with disconcerting warmth, at last after all these months an intelligent conversation, but with his delight the success of your visit ends, for when I heard of it I was not delighted at all


    46. She was altogether most disconcerting


    47. The whole scene was more than a little disconcerting


    48. To be strenuous, to hold intense views on questions that seem to you to burn, and to be treated as an airy nothing, a charming nothing perhaps, but still a nothing, must be, on the whole, disconcerting


    49. I do not know that I should call it more than disconcerting


    50. Bullivant's having produced an exclamation; and this to the Bishop, after years of not having heard her more than murmur, was almost as disconcerting as if, flinging self-restraint to the winds, she had suddenly produced fresh offspring






































    1. It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, the classic and splendid hotels of the Rue de Varennes a couple of paces away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue SaintDominique rumbled luxuriously, in vain, in the vicinity, in vain did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great crimped plants, with large leaves of pale green cloth, lizards, beetles, uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World


    2. That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul


    3. But how excusable he feels it even while holding out against it! How he venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a pain at the heart


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