For a moment the man looks at him in unbelief, then there is a little noise and commotion about the sleepers, and he cries: "My God!
Towards the close of their meal there is a slight commotion outside, and the man taking the money at the door as the wayfarers pass out, deserts his post.
I have had strange intelligence to-night; if true, there will be a dangerous commotion in less than an hour hence.
As the two ascended the narrow staircase, there was a great commotion in the square below, therefore, Sir John turned the key and hastened down again.
His strained ear caught the sound of a commotionon the floor above.
The sound of the commotion within had reached the street, and had brought two of the night-watchmen hurrying to the scene.
Through all this commotion Jessie Bain slept on, little realizing the tragic events that were transpiring around her.
We kept steaming away till we lost sight of land with the loss of daylight, and yet the sea was in less commotion than it frequently exhibits in Newport Harbor.
Tresham remained in London during the commotion consequent upon the discovery of the plot.
London was all in commotionas the day dawned: the streets were thronged with spectators, all eagerly inquiring what had taken place during the night.
That drunkard in the depravity of his heart thought, if I was offended now, what then would be his treatment the next day, and what a commotion I should raise.
A slight commotion here took place at the far end of the cathedral, and there entered a man of distinguished presence whom Zabern immediately recognized as the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs.
For the moment we were forgetting the strife and tribulations of the past seven months, and in our anxiety to do honour to her Majesty there was muchcommotion in the town.
There was instant commotion in the fort, everybody exclaiming at once that the stadt was ablaze.
She, poor girl, was wholly ignorant of the commotion she was causing in the little town.
It is believed to proceed, principally, from the fear of a popular commotion here.
On hearing the commotion one of the old man's sons, the elder, rose from table to go and look at the scuffle.
Where was the storm that slumbered till the host Of blood-stained Pharaoh left their trembling coast; Then bade the deep in wildcommotion flow, And heaved an ocean on their march below?
He found the bishop, in the commotionof his departure for England on a mission, irritable and full of complaints.
All his life he grudged himself leisure to rest and collect himself, to see how unimportant after all was the commotion round about him, if only he went his own way courageously.
What is it, that great commotion about matters of spirit and of faith?
Figs 14 and 15 are drawings of skulls of voles of known age.
These words were scarcely spoken, when his attention was arrested by an unusual commotion at the further end of the saloon, accompanied by cries, the trampling of feet, and a few oaths, which sounded strangely in that gaudy scene.
There was also another circumstance which caused commotion and disorder in all commercial dealing in Japan.
In the meantime the internal commotion of Japan accelerated to a very acute degree.
Noises of turmoil and commotion came from the doorway.
There was a commotion in the ranks and Zerahemnah moved out from among them and advanced toward Moroni.
He reached the new mole just as the slight commotion of relieving the guard was heard.
From the batteries below him he could hear the faint commotion of relieving the guard, and the mellow notes of a single bugle floated up.
There was the commotion of a playful struggle, then the resounding smack of a kiss--and then a woman's voice.
They had come alongside an enormous shed; and, though she could not see, she was sure from the noise and commotion that the rich passengers were getting off.
Thereupon the beadle of the place, finding the commotion too great, purchased a pear and handed it to the priest.
At length they got her away, and then a messenger was despatched to the inn, already in a state of great commotion over the three travellers, who had been found dead in their beds.
Five of the prisoners had been released by their companion before one of the guards, half-turning, noticed a commotion within the pens, and at a second glance saw with amazement what was happening.
They turned sharply round on hearing a commotion from the inner room, where the guzzling Uhlans had heard, through their own noise, the shout from the farmyard.
The quantity of vapor which composed this column, and its prodigious velocity, produced such intense commotion that it agitated Ashley River to its depths and left the channel bare.
The resultant commotion is usually extensive, the storm centre traveling across the country; but occasionally the effects are perceptible only for a short distance, the storm centre either breaking up or ascending to the upper atmosphere.
The sea wave set in motion travelled southward, and it is supposed to have occasioned the unusual commotion of the water in the West Indies.
The unusual commotion stirred up the bituminous sediment of the sea bottom, and at Barbadoes the waves were in consequence black as ink.
It does not appear that any especial commotion was felt in Central America, though shocks in the latter regions are nearly always felt in Venezuela or Columbia.
On returning on deck we saw a great commotion on board the brig--all the sailors rushing aft, and hauling away at a rope overboard.
We hurried out, and remarked a curious commotion on the top of the mound we had thrown up.
