Citations:consternation


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * It is not easy for any one who has not been in the like condition to describe or conceive the consternation of men in such circumstances.
 * It is scarcely possible to imagine the consternation I was now in, being driven from my beloved island (for so it appeared to me now to be) into the wide ocean, almost two leagues, and in the utmost despair of ever recovering it again.
 * They were, you may be sure, in a dreadful consternation: and all of them that were not hurt jumped upon their feet, but did not immediately know which way to run, or which way to look, for they knew not from whence their destruction came.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But, besides, I could not bring myself to disclose a secret which would fill my hearer with consternation and make fear and unnatural horror the inmates of his breast.