But the effect of my question quite disconcerted me.
I spoke firmly, but his reply had rather disconcerted me.
His looks of affectionate solicitude disconcerted what she had intended to say, and she waited, with downcast eyes, for him to begin.
The gaiety disconcerted him, and he seemed to try to be silent, or to reply in the same tone, but he could not help returning to the subject.
The misfortunes of that day disheartened and disconcerted Etheldred.
Blanche; whereupon he fell into a fit of laughter, which disconcerted her, because she could not understand him, and made Ethel take an aversion to him on the spot.
The suddenness of my attack disconcerted the three footpads, and when Duncan recovered sufficiently to lend a hand, one of them took to his heels and disappeared up the alley.
The tone of my voice disconcerted the man, for he paused as if not knowing what to say next.
And so Albert found himself looking into two large eyes the persistency of whose gaze disconcerted him.
The place was full; and the tobacco-smoke, chatter and calls of the waiters disconcerted the two boys.
Lydia was so disconcerted by this attack that she had to pause awhile before replying.
It is probable, however, that the steady advance of our men towards them flurried and disconcerted them; and that they thought more of firing quickly, than of taking a correct aim.
The rapid course of events, however, had entirely disconcerted the Russian plans.
The Bedawîn, disconcerted by the rapidity of this movement, offered no serious resistance.
Khâtusaru, disconcerted by this sudden reinforcement of the enemy, beat a retreat, and nightfall suspended the struggle.
The group stood disconcerted in the hall for several minutes, the door open and the low winter sun shining upon them.
Mr. Phipps was amused by her disconcerted air; already she was beyond the circle where plain speaking is the rule and false politeness the exception.
Emotion of a nature to which I was an utter stranger was meddling with my breath and pulses, now checking, now speeding both so that I stood with mind disconcerted in a silly sort of daze.
Lanette," said he, disconcertedbut laughing, "do you mean in hell or at the Iroquois stake?
The man, on his part, was seeking to read the boy's inscrutable character, but the fixity of Philip's gaze at his denuded crown disconcerted him again.
The clerk wasdisconcerted by Philip's steady gaze.
His uncanny trick of thought reading disconcerted the manager greatly.
He wasn't very powerful with the pen, and he knew it; but another matter disconcerted him.
This remark came close home to the old fence, and disconcerted him for a minute.
Taking advantage of the disconcerted state of the foe, Jack and his friends were enabled again to join their Arab allies, and the retreat of the whole party towards the shore began in good earnest.
This unexpected turn of affairs evidently disconcerted them.
Mrs. Danvers was greatly surprised anddisconcerted by the decision with which Mr. Fullarton rejected her suggestion, that he should aid and abet in thwarting Keene's supposed designs.
A hundred sarcasms would not have disconcerted the pastor so completely as his honest, hearty laugh.
His manner and the sudden address disconcerted Mrs. Danvers so completely as to incapacitate her from reply: she suffered "judgment to go by default;" and left Royston under the impression that she had never read the Book of Job.
A sally which made the guests laugh, but somewhat disconcerted the very proper director of souls.
And he proceeded to discuss the matter with a bluntness which disconcerted the Englishman.
Clementina did all she could to win her, but she made no way in the girl's affections; and under Aurelia's modest smiles and blushes she fancied she could detect a vein of hostility which often disconcerted her.
He veiled his disconcerted rather empty blue eyes under defensively lowered lids.
Patiently through all these years he had strained forward like an animal pulling a loaded cart and, now the cart was being taken from him, he was disconcerted to find himself still straining forward pulling at nothingness.
Though eager to reach it, he paused at the edge of the chasm that separated him from it; the turmoil of the water in the gully and the raging of the surge in the great cave to which the gully led disconcerted and checked him.
The polecat was greatly disconcerted by the mobbing of the bird, and presently, unable to endure the insults longer, leapt at it where it fluttered just beyond his reach.
After two or three orders given by the leader in a low voice, and transmitted by Marche-a-Terre in the Breton dialect, the Chouans made good their retreat with a cleverness which disconcerted the Republicans and even the commandant.
He left Mademoiselle de Verneuil, and his place beside her was taken at once by Madame du Gua, whose smiling and treacherous face was in no way disconcerted by the young chief's bitter smile.
This answer contained a sarcasm, the hidden meaning of which was known to none but the lady herself, and any one but herself would have been disconcerted by it.
You have the memory of a king," replied he, disconcerted at his own awkwardness.
The bluntness of Lizzie's speech disconcerted him, and yet the simplicity of it reassured him.
The number of diners and the clatter of dishes and knives and the foreign look and the foreign language of the waiters disconcerted her and made her feel as if she were a stranger.
It is probable that the General's death has somewhat disconcerted them, and it is likely that they may wait to see how matters go and who is the person with whom they had best open negotiations.
Silence, intense and rather overwhelming, had hung about the forbidding place which allied to the abomination of desolation had disconcerted him, and made him turn to the guide for further reference.
Struck with terror at the sudden appearance of the army, and disconcerted by the absence of their chiefs, they had the time neither to deliberate nor to take their arms, and hesitated for a moment between flight and resistance.
Thus the Romans, disconcerted by this concurrence of unforeseen circumstances, and strangers to this kind of combat, did not carry to it their usual ardour and zeal.
They were, however, disconcerted at finding themselves intercepted by a mob, whose intentions were precisely the reverse of their own.
He rang his bell, and ordered the disconcerted intruder to be shown out.
One step of a simple girl haddisconcerted all his schemes.
Felgate was completely disconcerted by this speech, and gnashed his teeth to find himself made a fool of after all.
Mr Bickers took a seat, a little disconcertedby Railsford's determined good-humour.
Arthur was staking high, and would have been sadly disconcertedhad his kinsman taken him at his word.
Felgate looked a little disconcertedand shut up his book.
As he finished, Two Horns smiled at Elsie with a sly twinkle in his eyes which disconcerted her.
I guess I'm not fitted to be a pioneer artist," Parker confessed, and the hearty agreement he met with quite disconcerted him.
