perturbation

• With backward looks of perturbation, they hastened As they approached their own lines there was some sarcasm exhibited on the part of a gaunt and bronzed regiment that lay resting in the shade of the trees. —  The Red Badge of Courage
• Some of them define it even more briefly, saying that a perturbation is a somewhat too vehement appetite; but by too vehement they mean an appetite that recedes further from the constancy of nature. —  Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth
• The definition of a perturbation, as Zeno, I think, has rightly determined it, is thus: That a perturbation is a commotion of the mind against nature, in opposition to right reason; or, more briefly, thus, that a perturbation is a somewhat too vehement appetite; and when he says somewhat too vehement, he means such as is at a greater distance from the constant course of nature. —  Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth
• "My Hamilton takes care of my money when he cannot take care of his own Hamilton retired in some perturbation, and the result of much thinking was that he spent an unconscionable time over his toilet on the evening of the dinner. —  The Conqueror
• Presently she returned in the utmost perturbation, and announced that Lady Juliana was in bed in a high fever, and Henry nowhere to be found. —  Marriage

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