The new experiment presented itself with that city of Paris which he had seen shrouded as with ashes, so mysterious and so perturbing beneath the threat of inevitable justice.
But another portion of Ballard’s contentions relates to a causation through fear suppressions released by perturbing events.
And great was his amazement to learn that what was at the bottom of the mystery, was the atrociously wicked life which her mother had led, that was so perturbing her mind.
This was new to her, yet not so unlike other experiences as to seem strange or perturbing in any way.
It had too a strangely perturbing effect upon her; and she could not imagine why.
But most perturbing of all was the thought of Rosina.
Godwin had a perturbing vision of the five Miss Moxeys and of a dinner table, such as he was not used to sit at; he wished to decline, yet knew not how to do so with civility.
And each withdrew to brood over a perturbing secret.
The dividing line between the rings is therefore a narrow lane, 2,400 miles wide, from which the fragments have been swept clean away by the perturbing action of the satellites.
Perfection is attainable only by individual effort, through ascetic discipline, and is rather a state of painlessness than of happiness; if indeed it can be said to be a state of anything, save the negation of perturbing emotion.
Even more perturbing was the sudden recollection of the amused laughter that had greeted his barefooted approach to Doom through two or three inches of water, and at the open door he hung back dubious.
They, of course, employed the usual perturbing medicines which Montaigne says are the chief reliance of their craft.
Her sudden return, theperturbing sense of her nearness, had for the first time wrenched him away from the obsession of the past.
Inevitably he glanced at the perturbing envelope, open now and propped against the milk-jug, and as inevitably Paul answered his look.
Franklin, as he rose and saw his friend again, had a new impression of her and a rather perturbing one.
Althea could not have faced the perturbing fact that charm, to her, counted for more than goodness.
But the penetrating, perturbing quality of the voices of many of our Northern women has a great deal to answer for in the way of determining love and friendship.
Scrubbing, painting of blinds, and other perturbing processes did all they could to make it uncomfortable.
The moon is the more powerful of the two perturbing bodies, hence the main tides are due to the moon; and its chief action is to cause a pair of low waves or oceanic humps, of gigantic area, to travel round the earth once in a lunar day, i.
The perturbing effect of a body varies directly as its mass, and inversely as the cube of its distance.
The period was easily allowed to be not exact, because of perturbing planets.
He treated the water, rotating with the earth once a day, somewhat as if it were a satellite acted on by perturbing forces.
For a clear treatment of the tides as due to the perturbing forces of sun and moon, see a little book by Mr. T.
If the law of gravitation held exactly at so great a distance from the sun, there must be some perturbing force acting on it besides all those known ones which had been fully taken into account.
So the perturbing power of such a mass on distant bodies is imperceptible.
Clairaut, a most eminent mathematician and student of Newton, proceeded to calculate out more exactly the perturbing influence of Jupiter, near which it had passed.
The slight electric current required has no perturbing effect on the clock.
Compound lenses on the Dollond principle, repeating the structure of an eyeball, are used in all good telescopes, microscopes, and cameras, and are now executed in varieties of Jena glass which bring perturbing hues to the vanishing point.
Our own age ought to recognise itself in his art, at once so varied and so deep, so triumphant in its mannerisms, so full of a perturbing solicitude for the artificial and so free from the baseness of reality.
The real danger would be in the effects which the perturbing action of the larger planets might produce on the orbit of Mercury.
Half his pleasure was the sense of seeing Mirah's brother through her eyes, and securing her fervid joy from any perturbing impression.
If all the cold water of circumpolar regions had to journey over the surface to the equator, the perturbing effect of its flow on the climates of various lands would be far greater than it is at present.
Nor does the perturbingeffect of these jarring movements cease with the fractures which they set up and the new strains which are in turn developed by the motions which they induce.
This undermining of the confidence that a healthy community ought to feel in its institutions is a perturbing fact which it is the plain duty of all good Liberals to consider seriously.
Yet Rowland remembered his first impression of her; she was "dangerous," and she had measured in each direction the perturbing effect of her rupture.
Rowland had an odd feeling at last that she had begun to consider him very exemplary, and that she might make, later, some perturbing discovery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perturbing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
