1 He tried to look cheerful, for he did not believe in upsetting ladies.
2 Legree and both the drivers, in a state of furious intoxication, were singing, whooping, upsetting chairs, and making all manner of ludicrous and horrid grimaces at each other.
3 Dante shoved her chair violently aside and left the table, upsetting her napkin-ring which rolled slowly along the carpet and came to rest against the foot of an easy-chair.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 4 Yes, here is the injury it received through the upsetting of a Gower Street omnibus in younger and happier days.
5 But he liked them; liked that mad driving at twelve miles an hour, liked upsetting a driver or running down a pedestrian, and flying at full gallop through the Moscow streets.
6 The crowd, crushing one another, upsetting carts, and shouting and squeezing desperately, had cleared off the bridge and the troops were now moving forward.
7 Peter sprang a couple of yards in the air, and then delivered a war-whoop and set off round and round the room, banging against furniture, upsetting flower-pots, and making general havoc.
8 After supper she undertook the German, and blundered through it, nearly upsetting her partner with her long skirt, and romping in a way that scandalized Laurie, who looked on and meditated a lecture.
9 That's what's so distorting and upsetting and utterly unfair.
10 He kept on his way at the same rate, heedless about upsetting those whom he met on the road.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER 11 If I think of it now, it will upset me.
12 Darling," she said, "don't you get upset.
13 Poor things, they'd certainly be upset.
14 He loved me but he was afraid to marry me because--for fear I'd upset his way of thinking and living.
15 Had it not been for the upset conditions due to the war and his own services to the Confederate government, Rhett Butler would never have been received in Atlanta.