ill at ease
And with him one can’t be
ill at ease
. Here he is,” she said to herself, seeing his powerful, shy figure, with his shining eyes fixed on her.
“They have been
ill at ease
since they were forced to accept so many human beings into their confidence.
“Ask for Lantern Yard, father–ask this gentleman with the tassels on his shoulders a-standing at the shop door; he isn’t in a hurry like the rest,” said Eppie, in some distress at her father’s bewilderment, and
ill at ease
, besides, amidst the noise, the movement, and the multitude of strange indifferent faces.
When last I saw him he was spruce enough, but he looked
ill at ease
: now, untidy and ill-kempt, he looked perfectly at home.
McGowan looked
ill at ease
and harassed–a condition opposed to his usual line of demeanour.
But he was
ill at ease
. He had changed back to Roxy’s dress, with the stoop of age added to he disguise, so that Wilson would not bother himself about a humble old women leaving a neighbor’s house by the back way in the early morning, in case he was still spying.
His mind was
ill at ease
. He had left Magdalen, under very critical circumstances, with no fit person to control her, and he was wholly ignorant of the progress of events in his absence at North Shingles.
Philip was
ill at ease
in his new surroundings, and the girls in the shop called him `sidey.’ One addressed him as Phil, and he did not answer because he had not the least idea that she was speaking to him; so she tossed her head, saying he was a `stuck-up thing,’ and next time with ironical emphasis called him Mister Carey.
Dorothy looked at the King when she heard this song and noticed that he seemed disturbed and
ill at ease
.
“The one role in life in which I fancied you
ill at ease
you seem to fill to perfection.”
It was the scholar, who,
ill at ease
, and greatly bored in his hiding-place, had succeeded in discovering there a stale crust and a triangle of mouldy cheese, and had set to devouring the whole without ceremony, by way of consolation and breakfast.
Equally
ill at ease
, they both took refuge in the commonplace phrases suggested by the occasion.
