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He could recall cases in literature... Yes, he had got so far as to envisage the possibility of overwhelming passion... Then all these speculations disconcertingly vanished, and Hilda presented herself to his mind as a girl intensely religious, who would shrink from no unconventionality in the pursuit of truth. He did not much care for this theory of Hilda, nor did it convince him.
His forehead sloped back towards the crown of his head, and bulged out in bumps over the eyes, like foreheads seen in the Lion-house at the Zoo. He had sherry-coloured eyes, disconcertingly inattentive at times. Old Jolyon's coachman, after driving June and Bosinney to the theatre, had remarked to the butler: "I dunno what to make of 'im. Looks to me for all the world like an 'alf-tame leopard."
I cried, with feeling enough; "and if that is diplomacy, I would rather make leather breeches than be given an embassy." She fixed her eyes upon me so disconcertingly that mine fell. "There was a time," she said, with a change of tone, "there was a time when a request of mine, and it were not granted outright, would have received some attention. This is my first experience at being ignored."
But the interior arrangement was disconcertingly simple. Lanyard saw no sign of waste space in which such a drawer might be secreted. Unless, to be sure, one of the pigeonholes had a false back.... He began a fresh examination, again emptying each pigeonhole and sounding its rear wall without result till there remained only that in which Blensop had placed the Arden jewels.
As in all Oriental countries, the contact between prince and beggar, vizier and serf is disconcertingly free and familiar, and one must see the highest court officials kissing the hem of the Sultan's robe, and hear authentic tales of slaves given by one merchant to another at the end of a convivial evening, to be reminded that nothing is as democratic in appearance as a society of which the whole structure hangs on the whim of one man.
'Why, Sir, 'twas this, said Mervyn, and stopped short, not knowing how far even this innocent confidence might compromise Irons. Dangerfield, his head slightly inclined, was disconcertingly silent and attentive. 'I I suspect, resumed Mervyn, 'I suspect, Sir, 'twas perjury, said Mervyn. 'Oh! perjury? I see in the matter of his testimony in that distressing prosecution. My Lord Dunoran hey?
I cried, with feeling enough; "and if that is diplomacy, I would rather make leather breeches than be given an embassy." She fixed her eyes upon me so disconcertingly that mine fell. "There was a time," she said, with a change of tone, "there was a time when a request of mine, and it were not granted outright, would have received some attention. This is my first experience at being ignored."
Bryce who had advertised for an assistant in an expedition to the Grampians. "That's me," said Bryce. "But I'm sorry to say that the position's filled." "Why are you sorry?" the voice asked disconcertingly. "Um!" said Mr. Bryce. "Aren't you after it?" "No chance," said the voice.
But over the land, and for thousands of feet up into the sky, the air is more irregular than a torrent among rocks; it is if only we could see it a waving, whirling, eddying, flamboyant confusion. A slight hill, a ploughed field, the streets of a town, create riotous, rolling, invisible streams and cataracts of air that catch the airman unawares, make him drop disconcertingly, try his nerves.
She sat waiting, her eyes disconcertingly fixed upon the other woman's flushed face. But that was because she could not bring herself to look away from it. "Before we spoke of you again, what do you think he'd been doing?" the school-teacher went on, almost fiercely. "Oh, I can hardly tell you, it's so sad!
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