Time to go,' he returned, smiling, but she caught the discomposure in his tone and look at once, and her wifely heart rose against the squire.
But as he helped her down from the cab, and they stood in the hall together, he noticed the pale discomposure of her looks.
And "suiting the action to the word," he seized and shook the unfortunate Seer, to the manifest discomposure of his bones, who loudly and lamentably cried out for assistance.
He was followed by his companions, to the extreme discomposure of the lady within, as well as the lady without.
Soon a new pulpit was erected in the palace; and, during Lent, a series of sermons was preached there by Popish divines, to the great discomposure of zealous churchmen.
This was safe practice, be the cause of her occasional discomposure what it might.
He could not have expected to meet her here; and his discomposure was obvious.
He ate it with such look of appetite, It cheered us with a sense of freedom his From any discomposure of the mind.
The disfiguration of my nose, the pain I have undergone, with the discomposure of brain which it produced, I could bear as a philosopher; but the disappointment of the ladies, my glory will not permit me to overlook.
Time to go,' he returned, smiling, but she caught the discomposure in his tone and look at once, and her wifely heart rose against the Squire.
There was not a trace of discomposure on the countenance of Dr.
Dick hailed these signs of discomposure with delight, and encouraged by the impression his sarcastic references to Mr. Higgins as an honest tradesman had produced he was quick to take advantage of it.
Violet looked from him to his father's face, and there saw so much discomposure that her wretchedness was complete, enhanced as it was by a sense of wickedness in not being able to be happy and grateful.
His discomposureflashed in his eyes for but an instant, and was gone.
Big Sam looked away from me with something of shame and discomposure in his face.
The phlegmatic Nelson had shown his discomposure for but a moment, so we were again upon a footing of close confidence.
The cigar that he held between his teeth gave evidence of his discomposure of mind, for it was unlighted, and one end of it had been reduced to the semblance of a cud.
Here Allworthy concluded his sermon, to which Blifil had listened with the profoundest attention, though it cost him some pains to prevent now and then a small discomposure of his muscles.
At his return upstairs, a long dialogue past between him and Mrs Honour, while she was adjusting herself after the discomposure she had undergone.
At times, he looked round, over his shoulder, to see if Selina evinced any discomposure at his quitting her--but he perceived no signs of it.
He recognised, not without a certain consciousness of magnanimity in doing so, that there had been some reason for her quick withdrawal from his studio or at any rate for her extreme discomposure there.
Her discomposure was a clear pain to herself; she had had a shock of extreme violence, and Nick saw that as Miriam showed no symptom of offering to give up her sitting her stay would be of the briefest.
Lady Blandish smiled, but the baronet's discomposure was not to be concealed.
My mistress was standing alone on the hearth-rug, with an appearance of great discomposure in her face and manner.
His face was pale, his eyes red, and there was an air of discomposure about his whole person.
English knight, enduring without apparentdiscomposure all the terrors which his antagonist had summoned into his aspect.
This must have been owing to her recollection of the audacious stranger in the neighbouring turret at the Fleur de Lys; but did that discomposure express displeasure?
There was no discomposure in the schoolmaster's dress, and as little in his face or manner.
His hat was in his hand, and his body was obsequiously bent, but there was no discomposure in his lifeless voice and manner.
