Regaining his feet quickly with a nameless fearunnerving him, he stooped and groped under the shadowing tree, drawing back horror-stricken when his hand came in contact with the stiffened arm of a corpse.
There was nothing she could do save to keep the fire burning brightly, and this she did, breaking the monotony of the unnerving suspense from time to time by collecting dry wood to heap upon the blaze.
With these unnerving preliminaries fairly over, he went on doggedly, dragging the bodies one at a time to the river-brink.
Her reason told her that they were the eyes of the animal; that the unnerving apparition was probably a deer halted and momentarily fascinated by the sight of the fire.
The thunder of the near-by cataract deafened her, and the darkling shadows of the forest were thickly shot with unnerving suggestions.
The whole weird and unbelievable experience was making her distrust herself, and the storm was more and more unnerving her.
Yet, try as she would, she could not banish from her mind and from her memory the unnerving experience.
Also he was beginning to suspect that she did not like him, and it was a disagreeable, unnervingsuspicion in his present mood.
On further examination, two unnervingscars were found.
Unnerving would no doubt remove the symptom (lameness) of the disease, but an unnerved horse is not of much good for army purposes.
For he was physically outclassed, and he knew it, and there is no more unnerving knowledge can come to a man in such a supreme moment.
So violent and unnerving was the outburst that the social life of London was paralyzed for the hour.
Now, as then, reaction seemed to come with terrible force, unnerving the system and literally overmastering life.
It was a monstrous injustice that she should be condemned to this horrible, unnerving loneliness.
They were dark and beautifully shaped and made an almost unnerving contrast with her corn-coloured hair.
It was obvious that the young rest warden had never been in a similarlyunnerving situation before.
They've both had thoroughly unnerving experiences, and it would be advisable to awaken them gradually to avoid emotional shock.
To see the immutable pillar in every sunset and at every sunrise, surveying all the drudgery, the emblem of perpetual soullessness, must be an unnerving punishment.
It wasunnerving business, and the hideous moaning of the wind made it worse.
Both Billy and Edith had been hopefully positive that the ship they had seen was headed toward the island, and the bare prospect of an early rescue was enough to key excitement to the unnerving pitch.
I gave her the story as Van Dyck had given it to me, omitting--for no good reason that I could have offered--all mention of my own unnerving experiences on the island of the legend.
Then, with a wild, unnerving recollection of Genevieve, I rushed to the door.
They'll be imagining all manner of unnerving things.
I may be mistaken, but I have always felt that it must be extremely unnerving to face an operation when one is feeling perfectly fit and well.
There is something terriblyunnerving about the perpetual, twilight gloom of the great African forests, unpenetrated by the sun even at mid-day.
He even performed the unnerving ceremony of apologizing.
What I recall most vividly now is a single unnerving incident; unnerving, I say, though at the time it was quickly drowned in the flowing tide of joy.
Each head was furnished with a pair of quite circular blue eyes, which surveyed Mr. Stillbottle, with unwinking and unnerving ecstasy.
The Welwyns heaved little sighs of relief: Russell's was an unnerving presence.
I thought of doing that, at first," she began, postponing to a more convenient season the unnerving reflection that she was actually discussing the ways and means of it with him.
Griswold thrust the note into his pocket and made his preparations to go to town, still fighting down the furtive malevolence which was unnerving him; fighting also an unshakable premonition that his hour had come.
But when the strain was off she sank into her seat and closed her eyes to grapple with the unnerving discovery.
This unnerving phenomenon could be seen in the stages of his LSD trip.
Other recollections bubbled up from the murky depths, only to burst into vivid, unnerving images.
It charged home upon Pharaoh without a second's pause, and with an obscene chatter that was unnerving to any one, let alone so highly strung a bag of tricks as a cat.
From the dark ills of other skies, From scorn, or want's unnerving woes.
It's an honor to have you with us--but I must confess it's a little unnerving sitting next to the Protector's Herald.
Then it flashed upon him with a shock of unnerving fear that his air-pipe was foul, and for a moment he grappled sternly with his dismay.
He found them an intolerable weight as he moved toward the ladder and went down it, clinging tightly to the rungs, and then, as a green mist crept across the glasses, he was conscious of an unnerving fear.
There was an unnerving quality in the trance-like stillness; and the mystery of it pricked him to forebodings.
But at length they were fighting their way up the choked East Cañon, starting fierce gray wolves from their lairs in the rocks and hearing at every rod of their hard-fought way the swift and unnerving song of the coiled rattlesnake.
It was actually more unnerving than if he'd done nothing at all.
Morgy, before we continue this unnerving conversation, we've got to have a serious review of the matter of cash flow.
You're not breathing normally," he said after a moment of unnerving silence.
After my unnerving sequence with Sarah, thoughts of going to the office had zero appeal.
He saw that she was taken aback, and tried somewhat to curb the eager intensity that he felt was unnerving her.
Why does she call men back again and again to her manifold discomforts and unnerving disappointments, to her pests and glare, to her bully beef and unwashed Kaffirs?
The darkness was intense, the narrow passage draughty, and the column thrilled and quivered in an unnerving manner.
His eyes, frowning beneath wrinkled brows, seemed to ask if he were not the victim of some unnerving hallucination.
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