"Perturbed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you have made it all remarkable clear," said the doctor. "No doubt the day on which he was perturbed was the day when he had seen of their release ...
— Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
... that the colonel looked very perturbed; indeed his face, which was usually ruddy and hopeful, ...
— "The Pomp of Yesterday" • Joseph Hocking
... were his tones no one listened, for just then a lad who had been hiding behind the throng stepped out before us, showing a face so white and a manner so perturbed that we all saw that he had something to say of importance in ...
— The Old Stone House and Other Stories • Anna Katharine Green
... down to breakfast in a somewhat perturbed state of mind. Here we found the assembled company in a state of great excitement. Mr Horncastle, who occupied a bed in the next dormitory to that where Jack and I slept, had missed his collar-stud, which he described as "red coral," and complaining ...
— My Friend Smith - A Story of School and City Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... fascinations by which with spells and witchcraft the shadowy nature of man binds him down to look for ever into this dim abyss. The earth, whom with sublimity so awful the poet apostrophized after Waterloo, as 'perturbed' and restless exceedingly, whom with a harp so melodious and beseeching he adjured to rest—and again to rest from instincts of war so deep, haunting the very rivers with blood, and slumbering not through three-and-twenty years of woe—is again unsealed from slumber by the mere reaction ...
— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols) • Thomas De Quincey
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