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Later on, when Dan was already embarked on his solo, Trixie looked round again and, lo and behold, there was Mrs. Bünz after all, standing inside the archway and looking, Trixie said, terribly put-about.
Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956
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He would come up now and then where I sat fumbling sleepily at my belt, and put a hand on my head, a curious unmanly sort of thing I never knew my father do before, and I felt put-about at this petting, which would have been more like my sister if ever I had had the luck to have one.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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“He mentioned that Miss Orrincourt was quite put-about by the idea of using poison, and refused to have it at any price.
Final Curtain Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1935
Gammerstang commented on the word put-about
(adjective) - Distressed; annoyed. A woman would be put-about by the loss of her husband or by the breaking of her best tea-cups - though perhaps not equally so.
--Georgina Jackson's Shropshire Word-Book, 1879
January 14, 2018