To be brief, the phenomena began on February 20 or 21, by the table voluntarily tipping up, and upsetting a candle, while Mrs. White only saved the wash tub by alacrity and address.
The boats were turned with their heads to the lake, as the canoes came dashing up, and the men who were not employed in rowing fired so steadily and truly that the redskins in several of the leading canoes fell, upsetting their boats.
Confound the young jackanapes, turning everything upside down, and upsetting us all with his mad-brain freaks.
So away they set at them, and indeed they did tumble the French down in good style, upsetting them in all directions; so that our English division had nothing to do but to look on.
Eliza called to him, but he did not answer; and the next moment he had fled, upsetting some article of furniture in his haste.
I haven't spoken much of the matter before for fear of upsetting you when you were still weak, but now that you are all right again we must come to some decision.
There's nothing like shock from an explosion forupsetting the memory.
That's the way people get hurt by the upsetting of coaches, by thrusting out their legs and arms in all directions, when they find they are going over, and thus get them broken.
I shouldn't think that a man that had been used to the sea, would be afraid of upsetting in a coach.
This illness had its wonted effect of producing melancholia and upsetting the whole nervous system.
Abstinence, on the other hand, has a very harmful effect on me, upsetting the whole nervous and physical system.
Don jumped up, upsetting his chair in his excitement.
But whether he climbed, at the same time moving forward, or not, the mail flyer could so adjust his next dive that it would sweep the helicopter's air with that deadly, upsetting propeller wash.
Sep rises and rushes off, upsetting chairs, treading on toes, bent only upon being the first to tell Warde that Harrow has won.
Speaking personally, the mere sight of him is very upsetting to me.
Dona Paula then murmured: "The child delights in upsetting me," and nearly burst into tears.
This kind of struggle can never take place in the human soul withoutupsetting it for some time.
To look on that trembling, frightened child, and to remember the errand on which she had been sent he found to be an upsetting thing.
Doctor Jim is steady enough, but such notions are very upsetting to John and Barbara!
A desire that was later to come near to upsetting the purpose of his life began to make itself felt.
Can some new phase of life arise suddenly upsettingall of our plans?
And it is upsetting to see the fishing-worms in the dirt, while the hop-toad stays out on the bed a good deal of the time; but we have to stand it and smile at it in our voices while talking to him, even if we have terror in our faces.
If I forget to breathe with both lungs at the same time he tells me I'm upsetting the equilibrium of the blessed thing.
A funeral's not in it for upsetting your nerves, and setting you on to grizzle, the same as a wedding.
Deed, I always did say a wedding was the mostupsetting thing in life!
Those books in there-- Courtney, you're not reading impure, upsetting books?
It was to save myself from doing something ridiculous--shouting out, or upsettingthe table, or running amuck.
He went down into the kitchen after Sabina, and he asked her what the devil she meant by upsetting one lamp over his dinner and another over his breakfast.
How could I possibly have been upsetting lamps in Doyle's hotel when I was sitting in your house talking to you?
I went for her straight, and expected to be told a story about somebody or other upsetting a lamp over all her pots and pans.
