I took the precaution to move you, before you fell by your own gravity, from what was lately the bottom, to that which is now so, and to keep you in this place until you were retained in it by the moon's attraction; for, though your fall would have been, at this point, like that of a feather, yet it would have given you some shock and alarm.

Were you tried as I am, your scepticism would receive a severe shock.

By and by he felt a shock; not a violent shock, but as if the boat had touched, and was pushing through, something soft.

Had I succeeded, you would have been acquainted, at least, with your mother's appearance, and need not have sustained this shock.

The doctors told them that if Deanie survived the shock and its violent reaction, she had a fair chance of recovery.

Were I not here to diehere at her Feet, I wou'd not stand the Shock of her Reproaches.

At first sight I got a fearsome shock, for I thought he was dead of suffocation.

Ere this took place, my excellent mother, unable to withstand the shocks she had received from my supposed death, my misfortunes, and my crime, died a martyr to maternal affection.

The British met the shock brilliantly, finally held their own, and the German drive was declared to have missed its end, at enormous sacrifice of life.

" Rudolph experienced his first shock of terror, like an icy blow on the scalp.

They were rarely strong enough to resist a shock from the enemy; and they much interfered with the working and firing of the guns.

By the time the injured officer had recovered the physical shock to his nerves and the moral effect of the disrespect to his person, his anxiety to verify what he had heard entirely occupied his mind; and he requested further experiments, not upon himself, which occupied some half-hour.

It has been already mentioned, that the health of Lady Pendennyss suffered a severe shock, in giving birth to a daughter.

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.

She could bear the shock if only she could know positively.

It is by this process that the Government avoids the shocks which startle Austria, France and Italy.

It would cause a shock to his many friends, and especially to those who knew what a close friendship had existed between the arrested man and the dead judge.

" With these words he held up the flashlight torch, and the twin black masks; and they produced an immediate shock upon the Chief of Police.

I had not noticed that a conductive wire was accidentally in contact with the apergion, while its end hung down towards the floor Of this I suppose Eveena had carelessly taken hold, and a part of the current passing through it had lessened the shock to the Regent at the expense of one which, though it could not possibly have injured her, had from its suddenness so shaken her nerves as to throw her into a momentary swoon.

By retaining the "Emperor" as the priestly head of the nation, pater patriae, according to Chinese ideas, he has left something to the Manchus and at the same time contrived that the republican form of government shall bring as slight a shock to "immemorial China" as can be imagined.

Men of Burke's temperament appreciated intuitively that there could be no peace between the rising civilization and the old, one of the two must destroy the other, and very few of them conceived it to be possible that the enfranchised French peasantry and the small bourgeoisie could endure the shock of all that, in their eyes, was intelligent, sacred, and martial in the world.

The student must call to mind the elements at war in Hamlet's soul, and generating discords in his behaviour: to those comes now the shock of Ophelia's death; the last tie that bound him to life is gonethe one glimmer of hope left him for this world!

" I didn't know then, but I found out afterward that when a tiger makes a leap out of a tree he rolls over when he hits ground and turns a sort of summersault, so as to break the shock.

At this rencontre Lanyard knew a momentary shock of doubt; perhaps he hadn't been so clever as he had thought himself in trailing Dupont all the way from Combe-Re-donde to Lyons.

Russia is so vast, so loose in structure, so undeveloped in those means of intercommunication such as roads, railways, newspapers, etc., which make England like a small village-community in comparison, that it takes the shock of a great war to draw the whole people together.