"Consternation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... speech of denunciation to be presently delivered. He would rate them as a nobleman should: "Call themselves Englishmen, indeed, and insult a woman!" he would say; take the names and addresses perhaps, threaten to speak to the Lord of the Manor, promise to let them hear from him again, and so out with consternation in his wake. It really ought to ...
— The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll • H. G. Wells
... fashionable lady. Nuttie had heard strong opinions on the subject at Lord Kirkaldy's; but her father was quite elated at being in a position to countenance his old friends. Alice, in the midst of her sorrow, recollected this with consternation. ...
— Nuttie's Father • Charlotte M. Yonge
... the last song was finished. Lucien tried it over to a street-song of the day, to the consternation of Berenice and the priest, who thought ...
— A Distinguished Provincial at Paris • Honore de Balzac
... there was absolute silence. Then surprise, amazement and consternation rose in a babel of sound, but over all Lady Barbara's voice ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various
... girl tightly in all affection, and stroking the dark head with a tender touch, felt a sudden helplessness. This was not the Philippa she had expected to see. She had read her letter with the utmost surprise, not to say consternation, and, womanlike, had read into the simple communication a very great deal that had not been in it ...
— East of the Shadows • Mrs. Hubert Barclay
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