Consternation

Consternation is afoot here in Toronto, as Mel Brooks 'The Producers is closing early.

Autumn For Hitler Jaime J. Weinman 2004

Said he was going to cable his consent, and as the 'Consternation' has sailed away, he would try to pick her up by wireless telegraphy, and secure the young man that way: suggests that I shall have a lot of new photographs taken, so that be can hand them out to the reporters when they call for particulars.

A Rock in the Baltic Barr, Robert, 1850-1912 1906

Oh, Dorothy, how can you sit there so placidly when the 'Consternation' has just faded from sight?

A Rock in the Baltic Barr, Robert, 1850-1912 1906

Cheers rang out from the crew of the "Consternation," and the band on board played "The Star-Spangled Banner."

A Rock in the Baltic Barr, Robert, 1850-1912 1906

Her gaze was fixed on the blue Bay, where rested the huge British warship "Consternation," surrounded by a section of the United States squadron seated like white swans in the water.

A Rock in the Baltic Barr, Robert, 1850-1912 1906

When the band on the "Consternation" ceased playing, all lights went out on the American squadron, and then on the flagship appeared from mast to mast a device with the Union Jack in the corner, a great red cross dividing the flag into three white squares.

A Rock in the Baltic Barr, Robert, 1850-1912 1906

'Consternation' herself arrived, or else have cabled for us to try the gun at Bar Harbor.

A Rock in the Baltic Barr, Robert, 1850-1912 1906

The huge "Consternation" lay moored with her broadside toward the town, all sign of festivity already removed from hull and rigging, and, to the scarcely slumber-satisfied eyes of the girls, something of the sadness of departure seemed to hang as a haze around the great ship.

A Rock in the Baltic Barr, Robert, 1850-1912 1906

"I think the ball on the 'Consternation' quite equals anything I have ever attended."

A Rock in the Baltic Barr, Robert, 1850-1912 1906

CHAPTER VI FROM SEA TO MOUNTAIN THREE days later the North Atlantic squadron of the British Navy sailed down the coast from Halifax, did not even pause at Bar Harbor, but sent a wireless telegram to the "Consternation," which pulled up anchor and joined the fleet outside, and so the war-ships departed for another port.

A Rock in the Baltic Barr, Robert, 1850-1912 1906