59 adverbs to describe how to startled

"Ever seen anything like that before?" Howard had been considerably startled, but, of course, he concealed his amazed admiration behind a mask of cynicism.

He looked momentarily startled; then laughed across the table with a freedom that was wholly unaffected.

" Andy was terribly startled, almost appalled.

I had been considerably startled when the lights burnt first green and then red; but had been momentarily under the impression that the change was due to some influx of noxious gas into the room.

His eyes have a terribly startled expression in themhis hand trembles so that he can scarcely raise a cup of tea to his lips.

'When you left me, Henrich, in the midst of that fearful fray, I thought I heard you pronounce my name; and the sound startled me strangely.

Out of doors the whole country was beautiful, and attainable; within, I had continual resources in my usual work and in Jo's society: for she was one of those persons who never are uninteresting, never fatiguing; a certain salient charm pervaded her conversation, and a simplicity quite original startled you continually in her manner and ways.

Here a touch, breaking suddenly upon that intense concentration of mind and soul on a single thought, violently startled me, gentle as it was; and to my horror I saw that Eveena was kneeling with me by the couch.

He had chosen his words deliberately to startle her from her absorption in her son; but she looked so fragile, so white, so imploring, that his courage almost failed him.

For some moments Henshaw did not speak; indeed, it was probable that the unexpected success of his search for Edith Morristonfor such doubtless was his objecthad so disagreeably startled him, that he was unable to pull those sharp wits of his together at once.

The inspector was unpleasantly startled by Crewe's contention.

There was such a tremendous ring at the gate of the court that the old concierge, who opened it by pulling a wire in his little den somewhere in the rear, must have been dreadfully startled in his sleep.

The man had been, apparently, so absorbed in his work, when first the girl caught sight of him, that she had scarcely been startled.

II was merely startled.

He did not look up exactly at the instant of my entering, but when he did look up, when he saw me, he stared for an instant, and then sprang from his chair as though magically startled into activity.

He was startled back to himself by loud laughter nearby, and, looking up, he saw an old fellow in overalls with a handful of nails and a hammer.

But he was most obviously startled.

It startled Byrne oddly to see the animal stealing away, as if Barry himself had been leaving.

Out of doors the whole country was beautiful, and attainable; within, I had continual resources in my usual work and in Jo's society: for she was one of those persons who never are uninteresting, never fatiguing; a certain salient charm pervaded her conversation, and a simplicity quite original startled you continually in her manner and ways.

They had gone only half the way, however, when they were startled by a tremendous crash and explosion outside and stood still, their hearts in their mouths.

But at the same instant, a grating noise startled him, directly overhead, out of doors.

There were two instead of one: one from his aunt and uncle, the other from his sister; the black seal painfully startled him.

And a thrill of consummate satisfaction passed through him, for Red Perris had plainly been startled out of his calm.

We were pleasantly startled, however, by discovering an exuberance of more youthful life than we had thought possible in so old a tree; for the faces of two children laughed at us out of an opening in the trunk, which had become hollow with long decay.

The two earliest appreciations of Jane Austen (from Scott and Whately) offer an interludeactually in the same periodwhich positively startles us by the honesty of its attempt at fair criticism and the entire freedom from personality.

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