The clerk, startled at these evidences of sense and self-reliance in one he had been accustomed to see under the special protection of the very woman she was now confiding to his care, surveyed her eloquent features beaming with quiet resolve, and for a moment seemed at a loss how to take this change and control the strange situation.

"Pardon me, sirs," he said, rather startled at the interruption; "I regret that I am physically unable to receive you with more courtesy.

The echoes that dwell among those old forests, those hills and beautiful lakes, had never been startled from their slumbers by such sounds before, and right merrily they carried them from hill to hill, and through the old woods, and over the calm surface of that sleeping lake, and with a joyousness, too, that told how welcome they were among those wild and primeval things.

I was startled out of this strange spectatorship that had fallen upon me by the sudden rush of something which made my heart jump once more, a large black figure in the door-way waving its arms.

From that time forward Mary and her grandmother were on more confidential terms, and when, two days later, Fellside was startled into life by the unexpected arrival of Lord Maulevrier and Mr. Hammond, the dowager seemed almost as pleased as her granddaughter at the arrival of the young men.

Just then I was startled by hearing a horse whinnying further up the stream.

" The attendants were startled with this confession and entreaty, and ventured to remonstrate against so preposterous an attachment.

He objected to being startled in this manner.

Simson had been a little startled by the first sound.

That portrait leaning half-startled from the frame, was it his mother?

"But I was startled for a minute.

And as he sat thus, at once busy and absent, he was startled to his feet.

We greeted her gloomily, and she was as startled as ourselves at the news of the President's escape; at the same time I thought I detected an undercurrent of relief, not unnatural if we recollect her personal relations with the deposed ruler.

Then she glanced at her father, her eyes big and somewhat startled in expression.

A keen appetite is even stronger than sorrow, and when Sally Fortune awoke with that strong perfume in her nostrils, she sat straight up among the blankets, startled as the cavalry horse by the sound of the trumpet.

When Andy heard his cousin say this so gravely he seemed more startled than ever.

They were startled on reading the new poems in print at the manifest need of revision and correction before they could be given to the world.

And then, espying Lenore, he seemed startled out of his eagerness.

They were so startled on the instant that they sent a herald to him for terms, but, when he would not receive their entreaty, a fierce battle subsequently took place in which he was victorious and slew great numbers of the enemy.

Esther, reading in the sitting room, was startled beyond words by the scream which rang through the house.

He began to bestir himself, going to and fro with the candle, beleaguered by moving shadows, and startled to the soul by chance reflections.

"They tell you wrong then, sir," answered the young lady, a little startled with the suddenness and brusquerie of the remark, and yet prompt to do justice to all concerned.

The air, tempered by the faint flavor of salt in the water, filled the travelers with an intoxicating vigor, lent strength to their jaded forces, which, while tense with expectation, could not wholly resist the delicious aroma, the lovely outlines of primeval forest, the melody of strange birds, startled along the shore by the wheezy puffing of the ferry.

Her eyes shone in the lamplight as she turned them on menot startled like another child, but simply questioning.

" I laid down the paper, and drew a long, free breath; then rang a peal of merriment, startling under the circumstances.