368 examples of surprised by in sentences

At SchoolMy First Love ScrapeI Punish my Rival, and then Run AwayMy First Trip Across the PlainsSteve Gobel and I are Friends once moreDeath of my FatherI Start for Salt LakeOur Wagon Train Surprised by Indians, who Drive us off, and Capture our OutfitI Kill my First IndianOur Return to LeavenworthI am Interviewed by a Newspaper Reporter, who gives me a Good "Send-Off.

Miss "Limpy," blushing very red, was surprised by Rosa in a very motherly attitude by the patient's cot.

"Of course I do," he said heartily, a little surprised by the abruptness of the question and yet without hesitation.

If Mrs. Lee was surprised by their very sudden and somewhat unceremonious retreat, she need not have been, after she learned the cause of it.

One day as Rhoda sate and read under the shade of some closely-interwoven evergreens, in a lonely and sheltered part of the neglected pleasure-grounds, with her honest maid Willett in attendance, she was surprised by the sudden appearance of her father, who stood unexpectedly before her.

He was surprised by the natural manner in which his wish had suddenly been accomplished.

The day after the second appearance of the Señorita Campaneo, Mrs. Delano was surprised by another call from the Fitzgeralds.

I thought that its inside was wholly Norman, and was most agreeably surprised by finding the whole inside groined in every part with excellent late decorated or perpendicular work.

Neither dreaming to attack any, nor suspecting to be attacked, never yet was a people less prepared for a war of defence, or more surprised by the danger than my country was.

Derby, with the concurrence of the royalists in Manchester, undertook to surprise Lilburne in his quarters near that town, but was himself surprised by Lilburne, who marched on the same day[a] to observe the earl's motions.

Phillips heard his voice, as he began to speak, and was surprised by a masterful quiet ring in it.

The Royal Government was therefore painfully surprised by the assertions that citizens of Servia had participated in the preparations of the outrage in Sarajevo.

Not far from Tarraco, having despatched his cavalry in various directions, he drove to their ships, with great slaughter, and greater route, the soldiers belonging to the fleet and the mariners, while scattered and wandering through the fields (for it is usually the case that success produces negligence), but not daring to remain longer in that quarter, lest he should be surprised by Scipio, he withdrew to the other side of the Iberus.

They sat down for another hour to avoid the chance of their being surprised by any straggler.

At dusk, Woodworth was surprised by the arrival of two forlorn-looking individuals, whom he recognized as members of the Reed-Greenwood Relief, which had gone up the mountain late in February and was overdue.

I was much surprised by being told that five canoes were paddling off to the cutter, four of which only held each one native, but the fifth being rather larger contained two.

Evidently surprised by the laughter which followed, he whispered to his neighbour, "Have I said anything very funny?"

"I was surprised by the return of my long lost brother.

In that crude, ingenuous book The Professor, the hero, who is a good instance of how Charlotte Brontë confused rigidity of nature with manliness, surprised by an outbreak of passionate emotion on the part of his quiet and self-contained wife, and still more surprised by its sudden quiescence, asks her what has become of her emotion and where it is gone.

As the rolling of the Megara had prevented the possibility of forming a sentence, we sat down to write letters, and having despatched a few of the introductions to residents, with which my friends in England had supplied me, I was agreeably surprised by some visits which I had scarcely expected, as we found that we should be obliged to embark for Alexandria in the evening.

"Where is the American girl you stole from her friends!" John started, evidently surprised by Lolla's knowledge of what he had done, and said something, sharply, in the gypsy tongue, which Bessie, of course, could not understand.

" Bessie, surprised by the look of hate in Lolla's eyes, drew back in fear as Lolla produced a long, sharp knife from the folds of her dress, and flourished it for a moment.

He was so surprised by the look the other bent upon him that he involuntarily glanced across to a long mirror to see if there was anything wrong with his uniform.

The men from the Arato were very much surprised by what had happened.

" "Is that the under-nurse?" asked Jenny, rather surprised by her juvenility.

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