Which preposition to use with shocks
After a moment, with a shock of surprise, I made out a shining pair of bead-points gazing at me unblinkingly from the shadow under the bitts.
The chambermaid, white with shock at that cry, dropped her burden of towels in the open doorway and fled.
Of the former kind are violent exercise, and external heat applied to the surface generally, as by a heated atmosphere or the hot bath; of the latter, the direct application of heat to the head; falls or blows, occasioning a shock to the brain; stooping; intense thinking; intoxicating drinks, and other narcotic substances.
All the rest is a mad gallop, yells of the enemy and your own answer, a terrible shock in which you are almost dismounted, and then you find yourself face to face with a single opponent who, standing up in the stirrups, is about to split your head.
The king, shocked with this appearance of ingratitude in his favourite child, desired her to consider her words, and to mend her speech, lest it should mar her fortunes.
They were rarely strong enough to resist a shock from the enemy; and they much interfered with the working and firing of the guns.
"You take it coolly," said my father, with an upward glance, half-amused, not in the least shocked by my statement.
At our first shock on leaving the earth, my fears were at their height; but after about two hours, I had tolerably well regained my composure, to which the returning light of day greatly contributed.
" They were now entering the suburbs of Chester, and Doctor Danvers, pained and shocked beyond measure by this unlooked-for disclosure, and not knowing what remark or comfort to offer, relieved his temporary embarrassment by looking from the window, as though attracted by the flash of the lamps, among which the vehicle was now moving.
"The truth about the present fightingwell, it cannot be rendered in words significant enough to shock into understanding the people who are looking in the newspapers now for stories of heroism, 'brilliant bayonet charges,' and the rest of the inducements which sell stories of warfare, but tell us nothing about it.
He was one of those men of a prompt, decisive character, who magnetized other men, and who on certain extraordinary occasions send an electric shock through a multitude.
But after all, though it gave me a shock for a moment, what did that matter?
They charged home fiercely amongst their adversaries, but for all their amazement the Britons sustained the shock like men.
His congregation was accustomed to being astonished, and rather liked it, but never before had their minds received such a shock as when the preacher announced the subject of his discourse.
The Romans sustained the shock without concentrating themselves in a mass on the same point, "which," says Hirtius, "usually happens in cavalry engagements, and leads always to a dangerous confusion."
Even Number One, shocked out of his lounging pose, grasped the arms of his throne with convulsive hands.
Then there came a sudden, hideous shock against the panel of the door.
The civilised world has been shocked during the past months at the spectacle of the open adoption by a great Power of this philosophy of selfishness.
She was conscious that the revelation that her father had been killed by Mr. Holymead was a less shock than the revelation that her father had dishonoured the great friendship of his life by seducing his friend's wife.
In that moment, John Wingfield, Sr. had his own shock over the change in the room.
It lived all her life in her fine nerves, reinforced by shock after shock of terror and of anguish.
Mr. Skale flung it away, he felt the shock up the whole length of his arm to the shoulder.
It was proof of the rapidity with which the actual presence of war works indifference to sudden shocks among a people that this woman could discuss the incident quietly.
If ever a poor man stood shocked before a mystery, it was I now.
He did not come home that night, but he was stupefied with drink and the beginning of the fever, and it was provedperfectly provedthat he was fast asleep at a house at Backsworth when the robbery was committed, and he was as much shocked about it as any onemore, I am sure, than Herbert, who was so relieved on finding him clear of it, that he troubled himself very little about the things.