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Her words came cold and collected, expressing, together with her calm manner, perfect self-possession "If you can give any good reason why I should not kill you, I will let you go." The man was carefully drawing backward toward the tree against which he had placed his rifle. She watched him, with a disconcerting smile. "You may as well stop now," she said, in those even, composed tones.
We encountered a patrol of five Albatross planes almost on our level. Talbott dived at once. I was behind him and picked a German who was spiraling either upward or downward, for a few seconds I was not sure which. It was upward. He was climbing to offer combat. This was disconcerting. It always is to a green pilot.
It is only when that shyness is prolonged beyond the appropriate years, when it leaves a well-grown and hard-featured man gasping and incoherent, jerky and ungracious, that it is a painful and disconcerting deformity. The only real shadow of early shyness is the quite disproportionate amount of unhappiness that conscious gaucherie brings with it.
The annoyance had begun exactly three months after his first tooth, such being the rule of the gods, and it had grown more and more disconcerting. No sooner did he accustom himself to a new phenomenon than it mysteriously ceased, and an old one took its place which he had utterly forgotten.
Nothing was to be read from her face no expression of pleasure, none of chagrin; but in her half-veiled eyes a certain brilliance was observable and her long, white fingers began softly to drum upon the table in time to the music. No explanation was demanded; in a clear, disconcerting flash, the situation was laid bare. Here was woman desiring the love of man; woman determined to reap her spoil.
A thin, black-eyed, sharp-visaged, middle-aged lady, dressed in black and wearing a knitted shawl perhaps the mother of the three young people he had just seen came half-way down the strip of red carpet on the stairs, inspected him, and went up again. It was all more disconcerting than he had expected.
They were a queer community; yet when they had stamped and jingled out to their horses again, the house felt hugely big and disconcerting. This may be reckoned the conscious beginning of his double life. It ran in odd channels that summer a riding school, for instance, near Hayes Common and a shooting ground near Wormwood Scrubs.
He only remembered dimly the revolving and spreading circles from the light of the lamp; persistent kisses; disconcerting contacts then a sudden sharp pain, from which one wanted both to die in enjoyment and to cry out in terror; and then with wonder he saw his pale shaking hands, which could not, somehow, button his clothes.
That some proportion of them do become beggars, thieves, paupers, sharpers, other things quite unfit for the ear of the young person a disconcerting consideration; such ears cannot be too carefully guarded.
Yet of the first settlers more than half refused to take the covenant, thus renouncing the privileges of the ideal commonwealth without obtaining relief from its burdens. A most disconcerting circumstance this at the beginning, and of ill omen for the future!