The water also appeared everywhere to be boiling; and it "became black, and exhaled a most disagreeable sulphureous smell." These latter circumstances were observed in the Bay of Valparaiso during the earthquake of 1822; they may, I think, be accounted for, by the
disturbance of the mud at the bottom of the sea containing organic matter in decay.
So now the apparently causeless movement of the herbage and the slow, undeviating approach of the line of
disturbance were distinctly disquieting.
You have broken your chair, and made a great
disturbance; that is an offense punishable by imprisonment in one of the lower dungeons.
When returning from the races Anna had informed him of her relations with Vronsky, and immediately afterwards had burst into tears, hiding her face in her hands, Alexey Alexandrovitch, for all the fury aroused in him against her, was aware at the same time of a rush of that emotional
disturbance always produced in him by tears.
There was no sign anywhere that there had been any
disturbance or displacement of anything during the night.
Margaret had expected the
disturbance, and was not irritated by it.
A shock to a mass of dynamite produces quite different effects from an equal shock to a mass of steel: in the one case there is a vast explosion, while in the other case there is hardly any noticeable
disturbance. Similarly, you may sometimes find on a mountain-side a large rock poised so delicately that a touch will set it crashing down into the valley, while the rocks all round are so firm that only a considerable force can dislodge them What is analogous in these two cases is the existence of a great store of energy in unstable equilibrium ready to burst into violent motion by the addition of a very slight
disturbance.
During the scene of tumult, Andrea had turned his smiling face towards the assembly; then, leaning with one hand on the oaken rail of the dock, in the most graceful attitude possible, he said: "Gentlemen, I assure you I had no idea of insulting the court, or of making a useless
disturbance in the presence of this honorable assembly.
"Come, come," said D'Artagnan to himself, not having lost one of the details we have related, "this is a very fair gathering -- circumspect, calm, accustomed to
disturbance, acquainted with blows!
He kept also the Orsini and Colonnesi factions within the bounds in which he found them; and although there was among them some mind to make
disturbance, nevertheless he held two things firm: the one, the greatness of the Church, with which he terrified them; and the other, not allowing them to have their own cardinals, who caused the disorders among them.
Quasimodo who did not hear, saw the naked swords, the torches, the irons of the pikes, all that cavalry, at the head of which he recognized Captain Phoebus; he beheld the confusion of the outcasts, the terror of some, the
disturbance among the bravest of them, and from this unexpected succor he recovered so much strength, that he hurled from the church the first assailants who were already climbing into the gallery.
The result had been perpetual
disturbance of mind provoked by self-torturing speculations on the subject of the murder.
