"Disturb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... directly, in response to a sign from the commander of the guard, a young lieutenant came toward him with a file of his men following, halted, raised his hand, and gave the military salute, and then said in a low voice that he was sorry to have to disturb a stranger and a gentleman, but the place was sacred to royalty. Then this New Jersey phantom rose up and bowed and begged pardon, then with the officer beside him, the file of men marching behind him, and with every mark ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... brother!" it exclaimed. "Do I disturb you untimely at your studies?" Here our visitor entered the room and looked round critically. "'Tis even so," he declared. "Physiological chemistry and its practical applications appears to be the subject. A physico-chemical ...
— The Red Thumb Mark • R. Austin Freeman
... and a little ink, [hated art!—or rather, hateful the necessity for it!] as I was not permitted to go up to put them out of the way: but if they did, I must be contented. And I assured her, that, take what time they pleased, I would not go in to disturb them, but would be either in or near the garden, in this summer-house, or in the cedar one, or about my poultry-yard, or near the great cascade, till I was ordered to return to my prison. With like cunning I said, I supposed the unkind search ...
— Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson
... seem worthy of credit, but teach other doctrines, disturb thee. Stand firm and immoveable, as an anvil when it is ...
— The Forbidden Gospels and Epistles, Complete • Archbishop Wake
... The Reformation did not disturb Spain; it was crushed out within twenty years. The spirit of liberty that had been growing in England since Bosworth's Field, and that was manifesting itself in Germany and the Netherlands, and that had begun to quiver even in ...
— The Colored Regulars in the United States Army • T. G. Steward
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