4761 examples of startle in sentences
"The car might startle my old friend," he pleaded.
"I'm not very bad scared," he said, advancing softly in line with his proposed patient, motioning the girl not to make herself known, or startle her uncle.
Some of these fables, to my shame be it spoken, might possibly be traced back to mine own veracious self; and if any passages of the present tale should startle the reader's faith, I must be content to bear the stigma of a fiction-monger.
It cannot but startle us to find doubts that we hastily look upon as peculiarly "modern," set forth in their full strength and wrestled with and overthrown by an unlettered recluse of the fourteenth century.
She made us sit in a row by the door, lest we should startle the canaries.
If he had, I think I might have been able to startle him somewhat," laughed Belle, who had a "temper" when it was necessary to have one.
He loved to strike, and even to startle.
There he saw a sight calculated to startle him.
But, in the progress of the discussion in both houses, some doctrines were uttered which are calculated to startle the friends of the Union.
You startle me.
The noise seemed to startle her, and she sank back into her chair and sat there white and motionless during the remainder of the session.
He drew near with a certain stealthiness, fearing to startle her.
He seemed afraid to breathe lest he startle away some hesitant hope.
Plenteous and sustained, therefore, as his wit is, it never fails to startle.
I used to arrange, on my way, well-turned sentences with which to please her, and by which I expected to startle her into some intimation of her feelings toward me.
A decision involving such momentous consequences, so well calculated to startle the public mind, so hostile to the established order of things, demands of us, as the official representatives of the American Society, a statement of the reasons which led to it.
The greater part of the people would startle were they told that The Times circulates probably under 7,000 a day on an average; the paper is seen, as one may say, in every pot-house in London, and all over the country; and yet this is all its number.
" "Miss McQuinch: did you ever see an unfortunate little child get a severe fall, and then, instead of a little kindly petting, catch a sound whacking from its nurse for daring to startle her and spoil its clothes?" "Well, what is the point of that?" "You remind me a little of the nurse.
We almost held our breath, lest the least noise, the accidental breaking of a twig, should startle the enemy.
It is not pretended, that any of the Doctor's errors here remarked upon, or elsewhere in this treatise, will startle any body; but, if errors exist, even in plausible guise, it may not be amiss, if I tell of them.
It would startle all concerned, Jaffier and Celestino Rey especially.
I think he meant me to startle you to your real empire" "Did he?"
But the gift didn't startle him.
" "I don't believe it," Gilbert said, with a quiet resolute air, which seemed quite to startle Mr. Whitelaw.
She does not startle the world with a combination of strange colours, nor entertain her friends with a peculiarity of style and make.