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    1. He said it was because he didn’t want to disturb me now that I needed my sleep


    2. I watch him and keep my mouth shut, not wanting to disturb him


    3. I can’t hear what she is saying at the other end, but I would be willing to bet it is something along the lines of not wanting to disturb him


    4. She could hear that Sarah and Saya were in the kitchen, talking quietly, probably so as not to disturb her


    5. I have a suspicion that there may well be no-one to disturb at this end of the house, but you never know and Stephen deserves his sleep


    6. I sat in silence, afraid to disturb a single atom of this still and heavy atmosphere


    7. The fact that they turned to face it didn't disturb it in the least


    8. Carefully, I eased into my space hoping not to disturb either of them


    9. My knees almost touching the seat in front, I tried to make myself as narrow as possible so as not to disturb either of them


    10. Jake did not disturb her as he began to see Elizabeth’s future and knew she was learning what would be required of her

    11. “Sorry to disturb you, love, but I think I’ve broken the Moulinex, do you think you could have a look for me?”


    12. Jo and Alastair are in conversation with Peter again so we don’t disturb them, just waving as we pass them


    13. “Sorry to disturb you, love, but I think I’ve broken the


    14. "Fuck", is all that he says, repeating the word again and again, whispering it so as not to disturb the boys and girls beneath his feet


    15. Windows without shutters disturb his peace of mind


    16. Behind her the sound of normality, the sound of alcoholic conversation, continues as if nothing has happened to disturb the awful equilibrium of the evening


    17. Vastly relieved, she quickly and quietly slipped into the room, put her damp towel to hang over the back of a chair and turned out the light before sliding under the covers careful not to disturb him


    18. “Sorry to disturb you,” Jorma said to them and tugged Ava away


    19. Titania brought the materials out and set them across the counter, careful to not disturb Harry's book


    20. The first night I was there I remember running a hot bath and revelling in the fact that no-one was going to disturb me

    21. Softly she walked to the edge of the dell, silently so not to disturb any unwitting visitors


    22. ” He shifted his sleeping daughter to his other arm careful not to disturb her


    23. “I’m sorry I didn’t mean to disturb your conversation


    24. But, with the celebration of the Midnight Sun the night before and this afternoon's unexpected activity Alec wanted nothing more than to crawl into the corner of an unknown dive, eat his meal in peace and be confident that no one would dare burst in to disturb him


    25. Under the vigorous administration of the Tudors, who governed England during the latter part of the fifteenth, and through the whole of the sixteenth century, no baron was powerful enough to dare to disturb the public security


    26. disturb the silence was the splashing of the boat and the


    27. related subjects, which have threatened to disturb the peace of


    28. The beauty of the country, besides, the pleasure of a country life, the tranquillity of mind which it promises, and, wherever the injustice of human laws does not disturb it, the independency which it really affords, have charms that, more or less, attract everybody; and as to cultivate the ground was the original destination of man, so, in every stage of his existence, he seems to retain a predilection for this primitive employment


    29. A regular government was established in the country as well as in the city, nobody having sufficient power to disturb its operations in the one, any more than in the other


    30. When they saw his face they let him by without greeting him, knowing better than to disturb an angry man

    31. You continue to care about what happens, but you do not allow events and ongoing circumstances to disturb your happiness, peace, and equanimity


    32. As you learn to develop one-pointedness, you will find that your negative thoughts have less power to disturb or distract you, and that you can maintain an overall state of calm and happiness


    33. You continue to care about what happens, but you do not allow it to disturb your happiness, peace, and equanimity


    34. The man did not speak, perhaps not wanting to disturb her – as she would certainly have been if she could share in this madness


    35. sovereign renders unnecessary that troublesome jealousy, which, in some modern republics, seems to watch over the minutest actions, and to be at all times ready to disturb the peace of every citizen


    36. I started to close the curtains so Jesus would not disturb them if he again awoke


    37. But that zeal must be altogether innocent, where the society is divided into two or three hundred, or, perhaps, into as many thousand small sects, of which no one could be considerable enough to disturb the public tranquillity


    38. same time he didn't want to disturb that mask


    39. Helen will be back later on she has gone to visit her parents but she will definitely return and she told me not to disturb you as you needed your rest as well


    40. I slid down to the bottom of the hole again and saw Ted and the Major talking quietly I didn’t want to disturb them and so I crawled up to the backside of the crater and looked back towards our own trenches

    41. “I’m sorry to disturb you, but there’s something I need to discuss with you,” Raven said defiantly, his eyes boring into the warden’s


    42. He had promised not to disturb his chief medic during such important work


    43. I told her that I was going to finish watching the movie since we had separate beds it wasn‘t‘ like I would disturb her when I went to bed


    44. “You folks enjoy your visit here with us! Please try not to disturb the peacefulness of this place for others


    45. They might disturb the other residents


    46. She stood still, unwilling to disturb the unusual scene before her


    47. Truman hated to disturb them


    48. She preferred not to disturb the Baron when he retreated into his room


    49. Colling tore a piece of paper from his notebook and wrote a “Do Not Disturb” sign that he closed in the door to their room so that it was over the doorknob


    50. A folded piece of paper was tucked above Colling’s “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door to their room













































    1. John just shakes his head slowly, clearly disturbed with things


    2. ‘What did they give as their reason, Liz?’ I asked, disturbed by her obvious edginess


    3. He had left Talshi a note in case she came over, but that was not disturbed when he got back for Nightday


    4. "She would have disturbed the specimen a lot more and given us even more invalid readings


    5. They were childhood sweethearts and had an ‘understanding’ by the time they were in the mid-teens – she told me stories of some of her friends who lost their men or, got them back seriously disabled and mentally disturbed by the events they had experienced


    6. ’ When King Herod heard this, he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him


    7. ‘Sorry I disturbed you


    8. He’s sitting on the edge of his bunk, Gottestones in hand … for a moment I wonder if I have disturbed his devotions but a second searching glance shows me clearly that he’s just sitting there


    9. A gentle drone disturbed my sleep growing louder by the second and I hadn't a clue what it was until I stretched and felt something moving on the bed


    10. 'Really?' I said, disturbed at such indifference to my favourite subject

    11. While not a common thing for her to do, she had, of late, started to encourage her husband to spend the odd evening in the lounge bar of the Red Lion, especially on a Thursday when his inevitable armchair snoring disturbed a particularly good night on the box


    12. The only sound that disturbed the otherwise quiet house was that of Mrs Roach using the electric carving knife to dismember the remains of the beef joint ready for the making of soup later in the week


    13. The booze and the nicotine worked wonders on her disturbed state of mind


    14. If no one from any other universe disturbed her, she could be totally convinced she was in the heaven she believed in while she was really in a processing node back in the League


    15. Then late into the small hours of another disturbed night Kirk


    16. What was all that about? Is there a skeleton in the cupboard that they don’t want disturbed?


    17. and an edge that quite disturbed her


    18. The only sound that disturbed the otherwise


    19. wonders on her disturbed state of mind


    20. Won't be disturbed in here

    21. kHaidol was not in the least disturbed by that, neither did Ava seem to be


    22. Some hundred yards or so from the barracks, but out of sight of the building beside a large rock, she came across an area of ground which had obviously been disturbed recently


    23. the knowledge that he would not be disturbed


    24. Bewildered and a little disturbed, he stepped back into the empty great room, then went to check the other bedrooms; he looked in the kitchen, on the decks, no one


    25. " She knows that Jock turned it off because he didn't want to be disturbed with the trivialities of domesticity


    26. There was a big wax-paper nest of small flying fish up between the windows that certainly hadn’t been disturbed since the last coat of paint was applied, probably about the time Tdeshi O


    27. They stopped at the site of the disturbed ground where the bodies had been buried before moving on towards the coast


    28. Delurna was disturbed by the fact that Kemberra had lied about the name, but the rules required that he take him off the shortening list of prime suspects, though it bothered him


    29. He had been more careful about that, ever since he suspected that their bags had been disturbed when they were parked in Eleknane Canal


    30. even more disturbed to be treated with such consideration,

    31. We were most disturbed at the initial discovery of its inception


    32. He was disturbed to see that the Knight was


    33. Naturally, this has left him with a rather disturbed mind, but never mind that for now


    34. to have been disturbed at such an hour, although it was


    35. ' He was disturbed to see that she had


    36. There is a story in the Bible that disturbed me till I understood it


    37. But still, sleep eluded him; in truth, it wasn't Gypsum's presence that disturbed him


    38. Genet was disturbed to find that the evil voices had begun


    39. "Who is this person? What does he want? Dear me, Staples, how often have I said that I am not to be disturbed in my study?"


    40. pleased to be disturbed at such a late hour

    41. Bernadette, disturbed by this slight on a respected Church


    42. effort to smile, but was disturbed by the shiver of pleasure


    43. The Destroyer does not wish to be disturbed at this time


    44. It was late evening when I woke, thankfully not disturbed by any of the children then I heard the car come up the drive and as I dressed I saw Robin alight and run up the stairs, so I quickly donned my shoes and as fast as I was able then marched down that blasted staircase to the screams of excited children and Dulcie hugging her two sons


    45. were visited by the local apothecary, Jean was disturbed


    46. It saves the labour of guarding the cattle, which feed better, too, when they are not liable to be disturbed by their keeper or his dog


    47. What disturbed him most about the girl was the possibility that when she looked on him she saw a hero


    48. He knew that Ammon had placed a guard outside his tent so that he would not be disturbed


    49. back at the bed to ensure that he hadn’t disturbed its


    50. Only one familiar with Glokeen anatomy would be able to see that Ome was disturbed, worried














































    1. He needed to find Sammy the Shark/Gino Ngata first and the only living connection he had right now were the surviving victims of last night's attack which Melinda had described to him in disturbing detail


    2. It is peaceful with no sound of cars and only the crunch of our walking boots disturbing the peace of the countryside


    3. They had slept with nothing over them in the 'sleep' of noon, he could sit up and stretch without disturbing her


    4. It was nearly Noonsleep, that sleep in broad daylight, when he looked at the instruments in his room again and saw other disturbing news from the direction of the Al-Harron


    5. That was almost as hard to comprehend as electric ghosts and she was afraid she would find something just as disturbing if she pursued it


    6. The walkers turned east, following the path, disturbing sheep and scattering a bevy of rabbits


    7. "That would imply no energy-based third party is disturbing them," Warren said


    8. "I hope I'm not disturbing you," she said


    9. What she found there was very disturbing


    10. “I just don’t know and not knowing is very disturbing for me

    11. One painting was quite disturbing


    12. “I was, it was disturbing wasn’t it? It is so powerful I thought about saving it, I was tempted to even claim it, but in the end I left it with Yorthops


    13. The fact that it had been only a week since she first saw him was a little disturbing


    14. His report was disturbing news


    15. disturbing her husband from his reverie


    16. The next thing I know Father Ed grabs me by the hair, starts shaking me violently, yelling at me what the hell was I doing disturbing his formation? I still hate that son of a bitch and I'll hate him the rest of my life; I'll hate him but forgive him because I'm a good Christian and he's not


    17. As it turned out, it was one of the more disturbing


    18. admission almost more disturbing than his heresy


    19. He dreaded her arrival, found her to be a strange and disturbing creature, not to mention the fact that she had incredible power and Alec knew first-hand how great of a danger that made her


    20. "You must have been that frog under the willow that kept disturbing the fish, I didn't catch a thing, it kept burping and croaking every time a mackerel came near my apple

    21. The more they talked about it, the more disturbing


    22. He was polite about disturbing her but serious


    23. disturbing dreams behind and his mood began to lift


    24. been irritated by this disturbing light, a passengers in trains so


    25. “Our esteemed king had a very disturbing dream the other night, from which he awoke fearful and drenched in sweat


    26. The tenants having in this manner become independent, and the retainers being dismissed, the great proprietors were no longer capable of interrupting the regular execution of justice, or of disturbing the peace of the country


    27. unending time? Is this not a most disturbing concept which


    28. This dream also represents areas in your life which are bothering you, disturbing you, and hurting you in some emotional way


    29. She found this both disturbing and endearing


    30. Maro slammed both hands down upon the map table, disturbing the parchment

    31. The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit of a remedy : but the mean rapacity, the monopolizing spirit, of merchants and manufacturers, who neither are, nor ought to be, the rulers of mankind, though it cannot, perhaps, be corrected, may very easily be prevented from disturbing the tranquillity of anybody but themselves


    32. They placed the refreshments on one of the tables and left without disturbing them


    33. Carius closed his eyes and sighed deeply, honestly trying to understand how his dearest friend had arrived at such disturbing conclusions


    34. “And this was worthy of disturbing me for what reason precisely?”


    35. The disabled boy had, somehow, prompted the courage to think about the disturbing dreams


    36. Zorandi was certain now, his colleague had been ordered not to reveal what would be a disturbing truth


    37. And now that very enthusiasm could even get him killed; the idea that someone so important to science was about to have all of his most disturbing experiences, however improbable they may be, put into the public domain


    38. They stared at him with a calmness on their faces that was disturbing to the normally aggressive patriot


    39. A group of men with loaded camels left by the gate, disturbing the sand as they turned west, another group turned north, while another was ready for departure


    40. “What’s all the noise about you can’t go about shouting in here there are other wounded souls who don’t need disturbing by you

    41. side of the ion implantation machine, after half a dozen sorcerer's apprentices had bumped into his ankles, disturbing him so much he was barely


    42. since his arrival in ‘her house’ where he was disturbing her routine


    43. Since that time the only dark visitations in his sleep were his own disturbing nightmares


    44. ‘Mr president, I have some disturbing news,’ he said, concealing his nervousness in a voice that once served him well as a news anchor


    45. Terese had salvaged the desk from piles of furniture and other gilded items that were gathered for a bonfire, one of the more disturbing practices emerging from revolution


    46. Torin’s lack of detail about where they planned to move was also disturbing


    47. He was resting on one elbow, watching her in a disturbing way


    48. Some of the few images received were disturbing


    49. The lower-ranking man paled, obviously not enthused about disturbing Hollowcrest


    50. Perhaps it was the potential of what it could do to the mind, the very perception of reality, which was its most disturbing aspect














































    1. Prayer should not be performed in a manner that it disturbs others


    2. A sudden movement in the bushes the other side of the lake disturbs it and, with long sweeping strokes of its wings, it takes off and flies over the pines at the end of the lake


    3. that music disturbs the neighbours”


    4. The one who disturbs the quiet of his


    5. disturbs me a lot is that they slam the doors


    6. The only thing that disturbs my sleep in this house is that creature of yours


    7. “Who disturbs me?” I asked


    8. Here nothing disturbs them; they have a chance to take


    9. has been put to rest and disturbs no longer the inner space


    10. For a moment, neither of us disturbs the silence

    11. There is something about Simon which disturbs him deeply and he is unable to keep reason at the forefront of his dealings with him


    12. Once, the boy disturbs a nest of small lizards and they scurry away into ferns and nettles, the white markings on their backs pulsating in fear


    13. ‘The idea of a priest commanding that sort of power and being left loose in the city disturbs me


    14. disturbs the auguries of hope, but also cuts the


    15. of their importance, heading your list with that which disturbs you most


    16. A presence that disturbs me with the joy


    17. Overfishing disturbs the natural relationship between predator


    18. There are presently three timelines, each developing in parallel but also independently from each other, except if some ill planned action through time disturbs them


    19. it disturbs the pain


    20. If an emotion strengthens our inner peace and seeks the good of others, it is positive, or constructive; if it shatters our serenity, disturbs our mind, and is intended to harm others, it is negative

    21. feeling disturbs us we should stop and count up to ten


    22. “More likely it disturbs their socially constructed view of themselves as fierce


    23. "Now, I don't have all the answers, but I think I can clear up part of what disturbs


    24. For example, you say: “The door has been knocked” because knocking it shakes spirit and disturbs it


    25. That isn’t what disturbs me


    26. It is an interesting exciting journey with good scenes, dazzling whiteness and excellent artistic paintings created by the Almighty God, and nothing disturbs that except the severe cold


    27. Nothing disturbs the greenwood more than human presence


    28. Renal failure in women too disturbs the sexual functioning and the desire to have sex


    29. I ask that if the truth of what you hear today disturbs your mind and heart,


    30. After that I suggested they should do this on the terrace, where it is so much cooler than anywhere else in the afternoon; so now, reassured that it in no way disturbs me--Mrs

    31. An unfortunate event occurs that disturbs our hunting preparations


    32. And our egos send a constant stream of ‘thought-chatter’ through our minds, a chaos of memories, daydreams, worries and fears which disturbs our being and creates a constant state of anxiety


    33. They appear legitimate and believable, but there is something that disturbs my soul and steals my peace as I read them


    34. “In fact, that’s what disturbs me the most


    35. I understand the thought process behind the question, but it always disturbs me


    36. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half-an-hour elapsed and still I was alone


    37. From a hilltop you can see a fish leap in almost any part; for not a pickerel or shiner picks an insect from this smooth surface but it manifestly disturbs the equilibrium of the whole lake


    38. "That he should live to be an instrument of mischief disturbs me; in other respects, this hour, when I momentarily expect my release, is the only happy one which I have enjoyed for several years


    39. “I confess this disturbs me a good deal


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    Synonyms for "disturb"

    disturb interrupt touch agitate commove raise up shake up stir up vex trouble upset molest perplex perturb rattle shake confuse displace disorder distort ruffle interfere

    "disturb" definitions

    move deeply


    change the arrangement or position of


    tamper with


    destroy the peace or tranquility of


    damage as if by shaking or jarring