"Aunt Beatrice Powerson is dead," Mrs. Bradley announced with a look more of shocked surprise than of grief.

Whirling thus upon the crowd, she shocked them to a pause, with her parted lips, her flare of delicate color.

"I oughtn't to have shocked him like that.

"Just when everything looked most favourable to their restored peace and happiness, I shocked Miss Carmel and, through her, this Zadok, into the belief that the whole agony was to be gone over again, in the rearrest and consequent trial of the man she still loves, in spite of all that has happened to separate them.

ALONZO asked why she called upon the dreadful man, and somewhat maliciously inquired if it was not for the express purpose of being shocked and horrified, thus affording a fine chance to moralize, and display the elevation of her own principles, and, in fact, help to fill out a good article; but MELISSA most vigorously denied the soft impeachment.

We entered at my invitationthe liquor called for was mine; the table was mineand I am shocked to hear such monstrous language used at it as Colonel Washington has just employed towards my esteemed guest, Captain Waring.

He was shocked to think that George Warrington's jealousy and revenge should have rankled in the young fellow so long; but the wrong had been the Colonel's, and he was bound to pay the forfeit.

She sent for Patricia early in the forenoon, and when the girl arrived she was almost shocked by the change in her aunt's appearance.

" With this she threw herself, sobbing, upon a sofa, and Louise and Beth, shocked to learn that after all their cousin had conspired against them, forebore any attempt to comfort her.

They were shocked by the radicalism of Mandeville, the Nietzsche of his day, who derided the generally accepted moralities as shallow delusions, and who by means of a clever fable supported a materialistic theory which implied that in the struggle for existence nothing but egotism could succeed: Fools only strive To make a great and honest hive.

Certainly, his opinions were peculiar, and his spirit bold and defying, to a degree that rather shocked and astonished the sober, severe, and exclusive men of Plymouth; but his sincere piety caused him to be respected, even by those who shrank from going such lengths as he did; and his engaging manners won the affection of all who were admitted to his intimacy.

Phinuit echoed, and made round, shocked eyes.

Virtuous old Britain professed to be shocked and horrified; he occupied himself with talking scandal about young Germany, when he should have been busy trying to supplant him.

We know what preceded this war: if Europe had any moral conscience left, it would have been shocked as it was never shocked before.

We know what preceded this war: if Europe had any moral conscience left, it would have been shocked as it was never shocked before.

cried Don Camillo, shocked at this exhibition of distress in one so stern by nature.

And my dreams of naiads and flower-fairies, and the blue-bells ringing God's praises, as they do in "The story without an End," for the gross reality of naughty charity children, with their pockets full of apples, bawling out Hebrew psalms of which they neither feel nor understand a word?' Argemone tried to look very much shocked at this piece of bombast.

See hereI don't want to be angry; I'll take back all I said: youwell, you surprised me, and shocked me, too, I'll admityou're a strange girl, and say things that you don't mean, and in a cold-blooded way that gives me fits.

We do not, nowadays, strike attitudes, or ejaculate and swear when we are startled or shocked; Stafford stood perfectly still, still as a piece of Stonehenge, and gazed with an expressionless countenance at Mr. Falconer.

Yes, and conquer it as I have done before; but"his voice sank, and he look round the room with a stealthy glance which shocked and startled Stafford"the ruin Ralph Falconer threatens me with means more than the loss of money.

'My son,' said Mrs Hardman calmly, 'was a little shocked at Catherine's altered appearance.

He was deeply shocked even when he? knew no more than that Luke had enlisted; but when, on visiting the cottage, the whole truth was explained to him by Lucy, he felt both grief and disappointment.

For the Imagination, being judge of what is represented, will, in reason, be less chocqued [shocked] with the appearance of two rooms in the same house, or two houses in the same city; than with two distant cities in the same country, or two remote countries in the same universe.

But there was no privacy about his return, and Miss Whalley was shocked afresh at the brazen heartlessness of it after his recent bereavement.

Secondly, she was a little shocked at the tremendous character of the triple matrimonial suggestion.