"Consternation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... against the wall and stood there, scowling like a devil. It was evident that my answer had been totally unexpected. I had never seen him under the influence of any overwhelming emotion, and I did not at the time understand the cause of his consternation. ...
— Jacqueline of Golden River • H. M. Egbert
... too, were in a strange consternation at this mistake of their general; and had the king, whose great misfortune was always to follow precipitant advices,—had the king, I say, pushed on his first design, which he had formed with very good reason, and for which he had been dodging with Essex eight or ten ...
— Memoirs of a Cavalier • Daniel Defoe
... they carried all but consternation to their opponents. As they were forced back from the doorway, however, more and more of the ...
— The High School Boys' Training Hike • H. Irving Hancock
... in at noon, there was Hen, from the Muleshoe, waiting for dinner before he rode back with the mail. Hen's jaw dropped when he saw Bud riding on a Little Lost hay-wagon, and his eyes bulged with what Bud believed was consternation. All through the meal Bud had caught Hen eyeing him miserably, and looking stealthily from him to the others. No one paid any attention, and for that Bud was rather thankful; he did not want the Little Lost fellows ...
— Cow-Country • B. M. Bower
... that the War Office were going to send us no more Japanese bombs spread so great a consternation at Anzac that I have followed up my first remonstrance with a ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton
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