29 examples of he startles in sentences

He appeared to loom right out of the darkness and he startled her.

" The Indian turned, with the quickness of lightning, to Mrs. Willoughby, whom he startled with his energy, as he demanded "You remember dat, Mrs. cap'in!

Prince Henry And here the heart of the new-wedded wife, Coming from church with her beloved lord, He startles with the rattle of his drum.

Next, in a freak of ventriloquism, he startles you still more by bringing from the crocodile's mouth a sigh, so long drawn, so human, that you really shudder, and are ready to implore him to play no more tricks.

The unhappy youth then, bending down his head, Saw earth and ocean far beneath him spread: His colour changed, he startled at the sight, And his eyes darkened by too great a light.

how he startled my bloud! Buz.

At the end of 1864 he startled the world by issuing a Syllabus embracing the principal errors of our age.

In his wisdom he startles the spirits of expectation in his valour, he subjects the hearts of ambition in his virtue, he wins the love of the noblest, and in his bounty binds the service of the most sufficient.

If the first view of this creature, stalking in his rotatory isle, be a thing to shake the courage of the stoutest, on this nearer sight, he startles us with an admiring wonder.

"He startled me.

I think he startled her a bit.

He seemed afraid to breathe lest he startle away some hesitant hope.

To this class of bright Negroes belonged Thomas Fuller, a native African, who resided near Alexandria, Virginia, where he startled the students of his time by his unusual attainments in mathematics, despite the fact that he could neither read nor write.

Deliberately he startled her.

" "Yes," March said, so decisively that he startled her, "I know all about it up to there.

It may be seen that there was a background of gloomy thought in his mind, yet from time to time he startled the mustang to a harder pace by a ringing burst of song.

It was not until some weeks later that he startled the world by proclaiming that every ship that dared to cross a certain zone of the sea would be sunk without warning.

As they were leaving the pavement, he turned to look back again, and, uttering a cry of surprise and joy, he startled Charlie by clutching his arm.

She looked at him startled, half-scared, thinking that she had been right to fancy him out of his mind.

I remember, that, in the midst of his joy, he startled me by some light mention of his having spit blood, after catching cold,a thing which had happened before in Ireland.

When an hour later he and Dudley were walking home footsore, and rather dirty, but with little bundles of treasures from the cave in their grubby hands, he startled his cousin by saying "To-morrow we'll go and see Martha Cullen's husband.

He startled his dissembling and conspiring Secretary of War with the sudden questions, "Mr. Floyd, are you going to send recruits to Charleston to strengthen the forts?"

And so he startled his sister and shocked his mother, and made the house generally uncomfortable, by making, in season and out of season, severe remarks on the subject of land speculation, and particularly of land-sharks.

She looked at him startled.

Thus it was with Carlyle: he startled men by attacking not arguments but assumptions.

29 examples of  he startles  in sentences