As we proceeded, the narrow path became still more contracted, rendering it difficult for us to maintain our footing, until suddenly, as we reached an angle of the wall of rock where we had expected it to widen, we perceived to our
consternation that a yard or two further on it abruptly terminated at a place we could not possibly hope to pass.
The battle, they said, held two hours before they could guess which party would be beaten; but then that party which was nearest our people's habitation began to appear weakest, and after some time more some of them began to fly; and this put our men again into a great consternation, lest any one of those that fled should run into the grove before their dwelling for shelter, and thereby involuntarily discover the place; and that, by consequence, the pursuers would also do the like in search of them.
They had, indeed, an alarm given them one morning, which put them into a great consternation; for some of the Spaniards being out early one morning on the west side or end of the island (which was that end where I never went, for fear of being discovered), they were surprised with seeing about twenty canoes of Indians just coming on shore.
After unspeakable suffering, productive of the utmost
consternation, she is pronounced, by expresses from the bedroom, free from pain, though much exhausted, in which state of affairs Mr.
Filled with consternation and dismay, I followed these latter to where they suddenly disappeared a hundred yards from where the struggle had occurred.
When Juag saw me fondling the great beast he was filled with consternation, but I did not have much time to spare to Raja while my mind was filled with the grief of my new loss.
This phase of the many possibilities which he had realized might be contingent upon even the partial success of his work alone had escaped his consideration, so that the first wave of triumphant exultation with which he had viewed the finished result of this last experiment had been succeeded by overwhelming
consternation as he saw the thing which he had created gasp once or twice with the feeble spark of life with which he had endowed it, and expire--leaving upon his hands the corpse of what was, to all intent and purpose, a human being, albeit a most grotesque and misshapen thing.
"Out!" exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine
consternation in his voice as he laid down the vinegar cruet and looked at her through his glasses.
I waited and waited, and the days, as they elapsed, took something from my
consternation. A very few of them, in fact, passing, in constant sight of my pupils, without a fresh incident, sufficed to give to grievous fancies and even to odious memories a kind of brush of the sponge.
In the midst of this
consternation, Queequeg dropped deftly to his knees, and crawling under the path of the boom, whipped hold of a rope, secured one end to the bulwarks, and then flinging the other like a lasso, caught it round the boom as it swept over his head, and at the next jerk, the spar was that way trapped, and all was safe.
cried Daggoo, who amid the general
consternation first came to his senses.
But Roger Chevalier of the Universityof Virginia at Charlottesville, relating the first radio observations, caused more theoretical
consternation. The radio work, done at three Australian telescopes, at Fleurs, Molonglo and Parkes, shows 1987 A developing much faster than other supernovas, making changes in days that took others months or years.
It is not only the 52-year-old Scot's association with Blues which has been a source of
consternation - and even protest - but the perception he advocates a direct style.
He added: There was
consternation that someone collecting for a charity would do such a thing, and there was conjecture that the bags had been left there by an individual working for an unscrupulous company operating a scam."
