When she had remained about an hour in the state of stupified horror so natural in her situation, she was disturbed by the opening of the jarring bolts of her place of confinement, and Ratcliffe showed himself.
One does not think of these things at such times, for they strike a jarring note.
It had been the one jarring note in the sweet melody of her love-story, this apprehension of Derek's regarding his mother.
ONCE THERE WAS TIME Let no tears fall If then they fell not.
Long Jack and Uncle Salters slipped the windlass brakes into their sockets, and began to heave up the anchor; the windlass jarring as the wet hempen cable strained on the barrel.
Then Manuel touched the jangling, jarring little machette to a queer tune, and sang something in Portuguese about "Nina, innocente!
From far down in the bowels of the ship the rattle of a stoker's shovel on the plates rings out in startling clamour, and rouses an instant desire to suppress the jarring note.
The 'gateships' of the boom defences rasp out jarring discords to warn mariners of their bobbling floats and nets.
Weighed down forward, we throw our stern high, and the mad propeller thrashes in air, jarring every bolt and rivet in her.
Industrial advisability must wait on the eventual convergence of jarring pecuniary interests and on the strategical moves of business men playing for position.
He laughed with a jarring offensiveness, as if, strangely enough, he was deliberately trying to incense, instead of to placate, the man of whose good will he stood so sorely in need.
Suddenly out of the darkness appeared two broad white streaks of dazzling light, the wail of a horn sounded in their ears, and another automobile passed them, to draw up, just beyond, with a quick grinding and jarring of brakes.
Thank you, Mr Elbraham," said Lord Henry, smiling, for in his then frame of mind the coarse manners of his companion were kept from jarring by the roses that metaphorically hedged him in.
It had not a harsh, jarring tone, but all was carefully modulated, and lent a charm to what he spoke.
Jarring the tree is not as practicable with the apple as it is with the plum.
This conciliatory temper and open mind has made Li Hung-chang the lubricator in many jarring conflicts; and it kept him, contrary to constitutional usage, for twenty-five years at the diplomatic outpost of the capital.
Profound researches into Chinese literature and philosophy tend to overshadow and induce a distaste for the jarringquestions of the day.
The jarring winds unable to control, He saw the southern and the northern pole: And eastward thrice, and westward thrice was whirled, And from the skies surveyed the nether world.
The next instant there came the dull thud of falling snow-crust, followed by the jarring thump of a heavy body.
At last, while half asleep, he worked on the upper tiers of cubes, there came a jarring rattle which brought him up standing.
She had meant to be up early, and she had slept later than usual; she was vexed and disappointed, and she had been worried by the jarring tempers of the last two days.
As we passed this dangerous place, the wind increased, and the motion of the little ship, with the continual jarring of the steam-engine, became exceedingly disagreeable.
This boat was very spacious, and furnished with beds, the machinery, however, made a great noise, and produced a jarring motion.
Not a jarring note"--and yet, who that has seen those forty Old Testament mosaic tableaux on the upper walls can help recalling his first start of amazement at their literalness.
Harmony is the keynote of every inch of the decorations; from pave to rooftree there is not one inconsistent or jarring note.
Nevertheless, Cefalu Cathedral fails to impress the beholder as do the other two in which there is not a jarring or inconsistent note from pave to rooftree.
There are mysterious moments in some men's lives when the faces of human beings are very agony to them, and when the sound of the human voice isjarring as discordant music.
This question was, as usual, the fruitful source ofjarring opinions.
The States could still, each for itself, regulate commerce, and the consequence was a perpetual jarring and hostility of commercial regulation.
