"Good-morning," I said; "can I have some coffee and something to eat upstairs?" He regarded me for a moment with a rather startled air, and then pulled himself together.

So near me, without my knowing it, had the little tradesman come that I was as startled as if the voice had spoken out of the air just above my head.

The mare, half startled, pricked up her ears and began to trot.

In 1770, French readers were startled by the appearance of Baron D’Holbach’s System of Nature, in which God’s existence and the immortality of the soul were denied and the world declared to be matter spontaneously moving.

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

"How I'm ever going to keep all my things on one-third of this shelf is more" she began, but her speech ended in a startled gasp, for the floor of the tent suddenly heaved up in the center, sending bottles, brushes and boxes tumbling in all directions.

They were startled by the sound of a clear, musical piping, coming apparently from the tangle of bushes behind them.

A footstep behind her startled her, and she turned to see Miss Judy coming toward her from the tent.

Gladys and Migwan were dripping their way back to Ponemah, one on either side of Bengal Virden, who was entertaining them with tales of former years at camp, when they were startled to see Miss Peckham standing on top of a high rock wildly waving them back.

As they strolled on beneath the shadows of the tall elms, the stillness of the night was broken only by the quick scurry of a rabbit into the tall bracken or the harsh cry of some night-bird startled by their approach.

Grrrrrrr THE CAT [To the startled NIGHT-BIRDS.]

THE SCREECH-OWL And the cross-roads where our screeches, Furrowing the startled air, Our demoniac yelling, hooting, Make the hardened unbeliever Cross himself and fall to prayer!

He was not merely surprised, he was startled.

"He said that?" cried the Prince in a startled voice.

It was thrown cautiously, but even so it startled Phillips almost into a cry.

" A startled exclamation broke from the subaltern.

I think he startled her a bit.

"H'm?" said the startled carpenter.

"Lost all her money!" said the startled Mr. Wiggett.

I'm sorry I startled you.'

"'I am sorry,' said I, as I reached across the table and gripped his hand, 'that I am such a fool; but it was only in the dark that you startled me.'

Of a sudden we were startled by a loud rap on the front door.

I called in a loud voice, It startled them.

Now I could hear some heavy animal bounding in the brush as if their running had startled him.

Even the captive, despite his ignorance of the French tongue, looked considerably startled.