Unsettle

Usage examples of disturb.

Most disturbing was the same appalling indifference to sanitation that Adams knew from Dr.

Being that it was his first foray into the South, Adams might have been disturbed by the sight of slaves at work.

He stared at Adelaide, with her fierce brown eyes, and her brunette curls, and that disturbing, angry, beautiful face.

The march of science, which had been stopped by the local fogs of Todos Santos some fifty years, had not disturbed the simple Aesculapius of the province with heterodox theories: he still purged and bled like Sangrado, and met the priest at the deathbed of his victims with a pious satisfaction that had no trace of skeptical contention.

The girl with the large eyes was named Alberta James, and she sat third in from the left Weigand, facing everybody - he hoped - who had been in the theatre when Carney Bolton was killed ticked off her name in his mind Slender girl with reddish - brown hair hanging almost to her shoulders, and big, disturbing eyes - that equalled Alberta James.

We have had to live hard in the rain of Amazonas Triste, and we have mental and physical powers which you had better not disturb.

He had no notion of being disturbed in his enjoyment by the sight of Hivites and Amorites, or whatever they might be, lapping champagne and shining in the heat.

She disturbed an emerald anole sunning itself on the flagstones, and it skittered away to blink at her from beneath a branch.

They are all taking Maladrone, an antimalarial drug that for most fosters disturbing and hallucinogenic dreams.

Yet I was disturbed when he spoke of a prodigy, for suddenly I remembered the birth of this Apis calf and my own fears.

Typically, a green priest would find such bleakness disturbing, but Arcas felt the desert calling to him.

Nevertheless, it was never the existence of atheists, any more than Arabs or Aristotelian pagans, that disturbed the extraordinary controversial composure of Thomas Aquinas.

I remembered at once that I had seen two in the library room of the Atheneum, which I had carefully refrained from disturbing.

Shortly after his arrest Castaing had said that the cats and dogs about the hotel had made such a noise on the night of May 30 that they had disturbed the rest of Auguste, who, in the early morning, had asked Castaing to get some poison to kill them.

What was most disturbing was how he felt when he awoke, it felt as if he had just relived those moments, but this time the emotions were not consistent with how he remembered them before the dream.