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It turned out that the Stock Corporation law of New York State specifically prohibited the bonded indebtedness of any corporation being more than the value of the capital stock. This discovery was not disconcerting; the obstacle could be easily overcome with some well-distributed generosity.
And Holmes stood there, with arms folded, and regarded the Countess in a very grim and determined manner, while I stood at one side, my mouth open, as usual. The Countess turned white, then red, then pulled out her handkerchief and began to weep, which was disconcerting to the relentless Holmes. "To think that I should be insulted so by a perfect stranger in my own home!"
They took no notice of the signals of lateness, the lights turned on, the stars outside growing bright in the surrounding blackness. Mr. Twist watched angrily. He had been driven into his office by the disconcerting and incomprehensible overtures of Mr. Wangelbecker, and had sat there watching in growing exasperation ever since.
It had a disconcerting way of changing from sharps to flats; trouble being caused by the singer failing to change also. Cecilia took her through it patiently, going over and over again the tricky passages, and devoutly wishing that Providence in supplying her stepmother with boundless energy, a tireless voice and an enormous stock of songs, had also equipped her with an ear for music.
In an instant the whole dreadful significance of the thing leaped into Sara's mind. Molly had bolted run away with Lester Kent! It was easy enough now, in the flashlight kindled by Brady's slow, inexorable summing up of detail, to see the drift of recent happenings, the meaning of each small, disconcerting fact that added a fresh link to the chain of probability.
"I was just theorizin' like. Now, if you got married, wot you know of raisin' kids? Guess you're that ignorant of the subject maybe you'd feed 'em hay?" Birdie laughed dutifully, but her retort was rather disconcerting. "You bin married how'd you feed 'em? I'm learning." "How'd I feed 'em?" Sandy eyed his tormentor severely. "That ain't the question. How'd you feed 'em?"
You're ready to seize every opportunity to make a grand success in business, the way the great men do, aren't you?" There was a very different light in Morrison's eyes than had flamed in them a few moments before. He stared at her appraisingly, wonderingly. His demanding survey of her was disconcerting, but his somberness was that of disappointment rather than of any distrust.
Diogenes we used to call him, and he did his best to deserve the name. His countenance was forbidding, except when lighted up by a smile, which was only upon rare occasions. He was intolerant of what he called "stuff and nonsense," and had a way of disconcerting people by grunting whenever anything like sentimentality or gush was uttered in his presence.
I showed a remarkable proficiency in dancing and could lift both my feet to the level of my eyebrows with disconcerting ease. Mrs. Wallace, the minister's wife, was shocked and said: "Look at Margot with her Frenchified airs!" I pondered often and long over this, the first remark about myself that I can ever remember. Some one said to me: "Does your hair curl naturally?"
I assure you," he added, smiling, "there was no self denial in my refusal." She gave him an appraising glance which he found at once enchanting and disconcerting. "You are one of those people, I think, who do not know their own value. If I were a man, and such men as Mr. Redbrook and Mr. That is what I meant. I have always thought of you as a man of force and a man of action.
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