flusteration

I found Apia, and myself, in a strange state of flusteration; my own excitement was gloomy and (I may say) truculent; others appeared imbecile; some sullen.

Vailima Letters 2005

But as for Elderson — he seemed to Soames to be merely counterfeiting a certain flusteration.

The White Monkey 2004

At the end of three hours 'flusteration, heat, worry, and good hard work, he had accomplished the following results: A tent, very saggy, very askew, covered a four-sided area -- it was not a rectangle -- of very bumpy ground.

The Forest Stewart Edward White 1909

For he heard a flusteration 'mid the bastes av all creation --

Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 1900

He was more excited than I had ever before seen him, and between us we made such a flusteration in that otherwise quiet little hostelry as I imagine its inmates will never forget.

Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886

Suffice it to say that Florrie looked lovely, that Annesley -- after his first flusteration was over -- never looked more quiet, self-possessed, and handsome than he did that morning; and that everybody pronounced it to be "a sweetly pretty wedding;" and there you have all I can tell you about it.

Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886

The people on board her were evidently in a great flusteration, for they had started to take in all the studding-sails at once, and a pretty mess they were making of the job, most of the studding-sails having blown forward over the fore side of the booms.

The Log of a Privateersman Harry Collingwood 1886