"Unperturbed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... into the room. He was outwardly all that was bland and unperturbed, but there was a wary look in the eye that cocked itself at Jimmy, and he did not move far from the door. His fingers rested easily on the handle behind him. He did not think it probable that Jimmy could have heard of his visit to Mrs. Pett, but there had been ...
— Piccadilly Jim • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... cried the lover. "Ah, God of Love, I would die sooner! I feel, indeed, my Daemon at work. Let me sit upon this bench—my tablets, ha!" He sat. Finely disordered verse, rime sciolte, resulted; but Ippolita was so far unperturbed. ...
— Little Novels of Italy • Maurice Henry Hewlett
... unperturbed. His sister, even more than Jan Miller, was an incurable romantic. If the ghost turned out to be something other than the pitiful shade of Captain Costin, she would be bitterly disappointed, ...
— The Blue Ghost Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin
... Chang Tso-lin, Chang Hsun will certainly not do what Tsao Kun has not dared to do. But the rebels have secret agents in the Capital to circulate rumours to frighten the public and we hope that the President will remain calm and unperturbed, lest it will give an opportunity for the rebel agents to practise their ...
— The Fight For The Republic in China • Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale
... not reply. But she went on unperturbed. "Now, the human, or carnal, mind is the negative truth of the real mind, God. It is infinite mind's suppositional opposite. And it imitates the infinite mind, but in a very stupid, blundering ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... war. On the one side we have Pompey, proud and confident, but unprepared because he was so confident; and on the other, Csar, cool and unperturbed, relying not only on his army, but also upon the friends that his money and tact had made among the soldiers with him, no less than among those at Capua and elsewhere, upon which ...
— The Story of Rome From the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic • Arthur Gilman
... Unperturbed, her brother supported his conviction. "She'll have to marry him to get rid of him," he said. "Fancy the opportunities of worrying her the brute will have in those ...
— The Path of a Star • Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)
... a scroll from his breast pocket and unrolled the photograph of the forest and the ranchhouse with the two mountains in the distance. Wilkes considered it unperturbed. ...
— Trailin'! • Max Brand
... them unperturbed, having travelled from London by the midnight express after a sudden but undemonstrative parting with his wife. She was the daughter of a superior couple who had seen ...
— Typhoon • Joseph Conrad
... blooming; or through the dark, fir-shaded den where the wild burn dropped down to join the river; or out upon the high moor under the waning orange sunset. Every night there were luminous and restful talks beside the open fire in the library, when the words came clear and calm from the heart, unperturbed by the vain desire of saying brilliant things, which turns so much of our conversation into a combat of wits instead of an interchange of thoughts. Talk like this is possible only between two. The arrival of a third person sets the lists for a tournament, and offers the prize ...
— Little Rivers - A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness • Henry van Dyke
... you like when you're by your lonesome, old man; but you don't do it when I'm with you," said Mr. Hugh Podmore, smilingly unperturbed by ridicule. "It's the fellow who overlooks these very things that sometimes gets stung. It isn't at all likely, I'll admit, that the simple delivery of this money a distance of a few blocks requires all this 'fuss,' as you call ...
— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse
... to lynchin' me onct on Sucker Crick in Southern Oregon for tellin' the truth," Uncle Bill said reminiscently, unperturbed. ...
— The Man from the Bitter Roots • Caroline Lockhart
... lieutenant, unperturbed, peered out into the grayness. The boy felt an overwhelming admiration of a man who could dare to take a ship over the worst piece of coast in all the broad Atlantic, in a driving hurricane, with never a landmark or a light ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... financier, with unperturbed visage; "I have just completed a plan which will restore to your Majesty not only Amiens ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... under running laughter. Up vistaed hopes, I sped; And shot, precipitated Adown Titanic glooms of chasmed fears, From those strong Feet that followed, followed after. But with unhurrying chase, And unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, They beat—and a Voice beat More instant than the Feet - "All things betray thee, who ...
— Poems • Francis Thompson
... Bowman was unperturbed. "I told you about this flash stuff," he observed. "Nobody's forcing money on you. Get the bend out of you and give me a shave. That'll start you ...
— The Happy End • Joseph Hergesheimer
... law partner ever since he married my sister Helen. I had left him at the office just before lunch and he had seemed then as cheerful and unperturbed as usual. ...
— 32 Caliber • Donald McGibeny
... drawing other and finer lines which radiated like the sticks of an outspread fan from the north-east coast of Mallorca to the Spanish mainland; and he went on drawing them, unperturbed by Jose's refusal to assist in his map-making. Some of the lines—a few—ended at the Islands of the Columbretes, sixty ...
— The Summons • A.E.W. Mason
... demanded, as he ate on, seemingly unperturbed, though his cut hand made it rather awkward to handle his ...
— The Motor Girls on Waters Blue - Or The Strange Cruise of The Tartar • Margaret Penrose |
