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They were no more disturbed by the presence of these man-eaters than soldiers in an armored fortress are troubled by ants running over the armor plate.
Fish fled here and there as their retreat was disturbed.
There the last sleep of the Nautilus's occupants, friends bound together in death as in life, would be disturbed by no monster of the deep!
Captain Nemo left the cave, and we climbed back up the bank of shellfish in the midst of these clear waters not yet disturbed by divers at work.
Only the propeller's vibrations disturbed the deep silence reigning on board.
The silence was further disturbed only by the pounding of my heart.
Even if he knew it by heart, a man in my disturbed, befuddled condition couldn't have quoted a syllable of his own country's history.
Its absence disturbed me.
Then, a few seconds later, the waters splashed astern of the Nautilus, disturbed by the fall of a heavy object.
Let us state that no untoward event disturbed this family meeting."
But now that he was indispensable to her life, she feared to lose anything of this, or even that it should be disturbed.
Often some night-animal, hedgehog or weasel, setting out on the hunt, disturbed the lovers, or sometimes they heard a ripe peach falling all alone from the espalier.
In order to find them at the bottom of the box, Rodolphe disturbed all the others, and mechanically began rummaging amidst this mass of papers and things, finding pell-mell bouquets, garters, a black mask, pins, and hair—hair!
She was not disturbed at his approach; on the contrary, she apologised for having neglected to tell him where they were staying.
His voice, feeble at first and quavering, grew sharp; it resounded in the night like the indistinct moan of a vague distress; and through the ringing of the bells, the murmur of the trees, and the rumbling of the empty vehicle, it had a far-off sound that disturbed Emma.
"You know, dearie, that mamma does not like to be disturbed."
So far from desiring to involve himself in a fresh display of hypocrisy, he needed time to see clearly into his own heart, and to give audience to the swarm of conflicting feelings that disturbed it.
Julien, whose judgment was not disturbed by any passion, soon found a way of letting Madame de Renal see how little he regarded himself as being on terms of friendship with her; he said nothing to her of the little expedition on which he was starting, bowed to her, and set off.
After an interval of prayer in the most profound silence, disturbed only by the distant sound of the bells of all the villages within a radius of ten leagues, the Bishop of Agde asked the King's permission to speak.
He had no fear of being disturbed by the abbe Chas, who was occupied in another part of the building.
Presently they heard a sound in the house; a consideration to which she had not given a thought now disturbed Madame de Renal.
This singular gaze flattered those who had little intelligence, but disturbed the rest.
Mathilde saw quite plainly that she had disturbed him, that he would have preferred to dream of what had been occupying his mind before her entry, rather than to talk to her.
Her brother's remark filled her with horror; it greatly disturbed her; but after sleeping on it, she interpreted it as the highest possible praise.
'I am very glad you are not going,' the Marquis said to him, when they had finished their business, '_I like to see you_.'Julien left the room; this speech disturbed him.
CHAPTER 2O The Japanese VaseHis heart does not at first realise the whole extent of his misery: he is more disturbed than moved.
His struggles were far more painful than in the morning, his spirit had had time to grow disturbed.
The idea of a confession to M. de La Mole disturbed him greatly.
His remorse occupied him a great deal and often called up before him the image of Madame de Renal, especially in the silence of the night, disturbed only, in this lofty dungeon, by the cry of the osprey!
He found a strange happiness when, left absolutely alone and without any fear of being disturbed, he could abandon himself entirely to the memory of the happy days which he had spent in the past at Verrieres or at Vergy.
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