Her head dropt, her eye-lids nearly closed; blushing shame tingled in her cheeks, and apprehension and perturbation trembled in every limb.
But never before had he gone up to a strange house with such perturbation of spirit.
This true serenity is, of course, as far removed from a false isolation of spirit or a contemptuous indifference, as from constant perturbation about trifles and vulgar anxiety for self.
It is peace and greenness she loves—not the physical and psychical perturbation and demoralisation of towns.
Things were in abeyance,--political and social matters whirled giddily towards chaos and confusion; and the numerous hurried Cabinet Councils that were convened, boded some perturbation among the governing heads of the State.
The Marquis paced the room with long uneven strides,--his mind was greatly agitated, but he had no wish to show his perturbation too openly to one whom he considered as a mere tool in his service.
It was evidence of his perturbation and anxiety that he used such language which, however, in the emergency did not seem unwarranted even to the refined ear of Mrs. Maitland.
She too was in a strange state of perturbation on account of the dilemma in which she found herself involved.
Certainly I am willing; but I fear things have now got so far that there will be great difficulty in calming the general perturbation of mind.
Much perturbation and flutter, high expectation and renewed hopes, were occasioned at Puddingdale, by the receipt of those episcopal dispatches.
He went over to the corner of the smoking room, where the visitor who had caused so much perturbation was waiting for him.
Some of these suns are so far asunder that they can swing their Neptunes between them, with less perturbation than Uranus and Neptune have in ours.
Mrs Harrel, while Cecilia, staring, perceived in his face a look of perturbation that extremely alarmed her.
This unexpected reproof, and the yet more unexpected compliment that accompanied it, in both which more seemed meant than met the ear, encreased the perturbation into which Cecilia had already been thrown.
The perturbation of Cecilia upon reading this letter was unspeakable: Mr Monckton, she found, had been wholly unsuccessful, all her heroism had answered no purpose, and the transaction was as backward as before she had exerted it.
Cecilia read and re-read this letter, but with a perturbation of mind that made her little able to weigh its contents.
But," I said to myself, "shall the work given me to do fare ill because of the perturbation of my spirit?
At first he made some faint attempts at conversing upon indifferent topics; but all the time I could perceive an uneasiness and perturbation in his manner that surprised me.
I remained in a state of the greatest perturbation till he came back.
Whatsoever Penumbra or Perturbation should be made in the Circles by the cross Refraction of the second Prism, all that Penumbra or Perturbation would be conspicuous in the right Lines ae and gl which touch those Circles.
And therefore since there is no such Penumbra or Perturbationin those right Lines, there must be none in the Circles.
Illustration: "His perturbation attracted the attention of his hostess.
His perturbation attracted the attention of his hostess, and, looking round for the cause, she was just in time to see Ann disappearing into the larder with a cream jug.
Ainley's perturbation did not subside at this further information.
His manner betrayed perturbationas he replied in short, jerky sentences: "You amaze me!
The prelates in the midst of anger and perturbation were forced round to statesmanship.
To walk out on such a night, when the perturbation of storm is over and the heavens are free, is one of the greatest pleasures offered by this winter life.
When I laid my head upon my pillow that night in the Albergo del Pozzo at Crema, it was full of such thoughts; and when at last sleep came, it brought with it a dream begotten doubtless by the perturbation of my fancy.
Your last epistle, written in the perturbation of mind consequent upon being doomed to spend another winter at York Fort, reached me only a few days ago, and filled me with pleasant recollections of other days.
Meanwhile, Harry had reloaded and fired again; but owing to the perturbation of his young spirits, and the frantic efforts of the bear to escape, he missed.
Harry and her brother trembled when they looked at it and realised her danger; even Jacques's face showed some symptoms of perturbation for a moment as he glanced before him in indecision.
All through the winter, the perturbation of the little huckster's mind remained unallayed; but there came a day in early spring which set his questionings at rest.
But, joyous as the discovery was, the making of it had actually increased the perturbation of his mind.
Perturbation in its approach to God would indicate uncertainty of mind as to its reception; and this would mean a lack of trust in His promises.
