Adam looked down, startled to see his little brother's face looking worriedly up at him. |
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The Kickapoos quirted their ponies upslope from the creek bed, charging the horse herd and its startled guards. |
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At the police station, Officers Anderson and Patrick were both startled from private musings when the alarm bell rang. |
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They seemed startled by the realization they could actually craft iamb, anapest, anapest, and have it come out a poem. |
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There is an instant change from mild anger and heavy annoyance to startled astonishment and disbelief. |
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The door bell rang again and both girls were startled by the sudden ringing sound that seemed a hundred times louder then usual. |
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Many were killed because a rope might break or because a climber could be startled by the sudden appearance of a furious bird. |
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We were all startled by the transformation, as if a man had risen from the dead. |
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The pain startled him out of his thoughts, but a quick rub of the injury relieved the throbbing. |
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Some of the initial results of the 2001 Census certainly startled the mathematical boffins. |
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She looked startled by the question, and a hint of sadness pervaded the atmosphere around her. |
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She thrust the basket at him, and he was so startled that his knees sagged beneath the weight. |
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The stones at the bottom were covered in green and brown slime and a school of small fish swam past them, startled. |
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I saw one group of traders run off like a startled herd, while three police, like a pack of hunting dogs, scragged the least nimble. |
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A loud bang accompanied with boisterous laughter startled her out from her thoughts and she groaned to herself. |
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When the door had banged open so suddenly, she had been startled enough to let out a yelp loud enough for anyone in the house to hear. |
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She inched up the wall, startled by the scuffs she had never noticed and then the dirty, unpolished glass that held but spots of reflection. |
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I was certainly startled by the two people I saw masquerading as my parents. |
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It was only his second day of work, and the mage's stern, matriarchal demeanor somewhat startled him. |
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I started reading, flipping through the pages, startled at my own memory for the things we both wrote about. |
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Her mother looked up as if startled, then shook her head and returned her attention back to her mending. |
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The demanding bellow of a team of oxen, coupled with the shouts of their teamster startled them in to moving again. |
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The sight so startled him that he finally lost control, doing a painful bellyflop that threw up a cascade of water. |
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She had shouted so loud in his face that Troy jumped startled and lost his grip on the beaker. |
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He moved toward the couch, but she shrunk back like a startled cat at his advance. |
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She was startled and looked up to see that the man was dressed in all black with a hood on his face. |
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The sudden mood swing startled her, and Deanna quickly went back to her meal. |
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With a startled blink, Ana looked behind her to find none other then the orange pig-tailed little girl. |
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From behind blocky horn-rimmed glasses he blinked out at the world like a perpetually startled and slightly confused owl. |
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We who have had the scene before our eyes are as startled and as unbelieving yet as when we saw it. |
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At the same time the son was startled to discover unexpected and very specific links to the father. |
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The slo-mo frames, the two-handed shooting and even the perennially startled doves are all there. |
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I didn't see the old boomer 'roo who startled me on Bare Bluff earlier this week at dawn. |
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Charlie had almost dozed off into a restless sleep when Richie's voice startled him out of his slumberous state. |
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With both hands she shoved the blade back and side-kicked the startled man forcefully, crushing him against an unoffending door. |
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Several SUVs full of narco cops invaded his quiet suburban neighborhood, finding no drugs but only a startled household. |
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The narrowness of the track startled me, after being accustomed to the breadth of the trail. |
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A startled squeak came from the box the two of them were standing over as Golin seemed to awaken from an unrestful sleep. |
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A flock of birds, startled by the light, exploded upwards from the grass next to the hospital. |
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They were startled by the sound of a young woman in a bridal gown, sitting by the stream, crying softly. |
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Black and white magpie geese rise like a thousand startled handkerchiefs while elegant, long-legged brolgas pick among the giant water lilies. |
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The startled horse bucked again and let out a whinny as the rider held tight to the reigns and tugged back. |
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House prices might have leapt up like startled kangaroos, but the growth in the value of the art market is truly spectacular. |
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It startled the three spellbound students when Dan took a step backwards into their small closed circle. |
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She was startled back to the present when the car began its bumpy ascent up the brick drive to her grandmother's house. |
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I was startled by the severity and virulence with which he delivered the sentence at the end of the trial. |
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He walked slowly toward the door, peeped through an enlarged crack in the hinge side, and stepped back, startled. |
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Janet Alder, the sister of the late Christopher Alder who died in police custody, startled me with her northern accent at first. |
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A loud squawk startled her, and she looked up to find the gull hanging over the drop-off and glaring at her in what looked like exasperation. |
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Her people have beady round eyes and nubby, square teeth, and tend to look startled, with O-shaped mouths gaping wide. |
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Cleaning her fans before tucking them into her obi, Lori looked up startled to see Tari looking pale. |
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I stared at her in amazement, startled by the sudden change of expression in her voice. |
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The slow movement had just begun when the audience was startled by the slamming of the Assembly Hall door. |
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He found himself making his way along a rocky crest when a sudden rustling in the brush startled him. |
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James was startled by the sudden intrusion and quickly stood up by the foot of the bed. |
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He observed Michelle carefully for a moment and was startled to find that she seemed to be telling the truth. |
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I was very taken by the man who oinked like a startled piglet when he laughed, which was virtually non-stop. |
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Then both brothers startled as the engine room hatchway grated open, the metal protesting as it had to be forced. |
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I looked at my watch and was startled to see I had slept for twenty-four hours straight. |
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Three pairs of startled eyes focused on a heavyset, aging man wearing a patriotic baseball cap and white nylon sports jacket. |
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I spent the rest of the night looking like a startled rabbit contemplating an on-rushing truck with its lights on high beam. |
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The short, sharp crack of the out-settler's rifle startled the silence of the pine-forest. |
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Being overanxious to beat Jeremy, I took off after the first noise I heard, and startled a couple of field mice. |
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I sat up, startled, as if someone had come and swung a punch into my stomach. |
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Jinx was startled to note that the horizon of the infinite plane wobbled unsteadily for a moment. |
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My heart sometimes palpitates when I am startled or sometimes when I bend forward. |
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Then what sounded like tennis shoes swishing through shallow water startled me. |
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He jumped about a foot into the air, startled that a girl he had hurt so badly in the past could still have any feelings for him. |
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You were not startled to see a gigantic piece of toast used as a billboard hyping up a new show on The Discovery Channel. |
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He ripped off his shoes, shoving them in his belt, then pelted forward, knocking startled onlookers aside. |
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When the shout startled her she had been in a pensive mood, gazing from the living room onto the darkening scene outside. |
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Our visitor appeared startled at this information but on recovering his composure took his coffee cup and sat down at the table. |
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Suddenly startled, it flew away as the piercing sound of the bell rang out. |
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The Fiend has gone forth by night, and startled thousands in fear and wonder. |
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She aimed the loaded pistol at the officer who looked up with a startled expression. |
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For some reason that eluded him at the time, her last comment startled Jack, sending a red flag up almost instantaneously. |
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They heard confused shouts and the whinnying of startled horses behind them. |
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The plucky farmer is understood to have startled the thief who eventually broke free and made his escape to a waiting car. |
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Paige was startled out of his musings by a particularly hard poke to his back. |
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The results startled even the pollsters who conducted and analyzed the surveys. |
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The sound of a loud cough startled the two, and they looked up to see Jay standing in his parking space near them. |
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She hastens to bolster her position and take advantage of his startled acceptance. |
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She was startled as she heard the footsteps of two people clattering down the stairwell. |
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As Zach flipped to the last page, he was startled to see a note to Mr. Warren written in the neatest cursive Zach had ever seen. |
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The startled hogger awoke to the sparks of the fuzees and an horrific view of the rear of a train dead ahead and no way to stop in time. |
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When the earth-born giant Typhoeus suddenly appeared, it startled all the gods into taking on different forms to flee the area. |
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It was hilarious nightmare fodder on a grand scale, the kind of misguided kiddy show that startled more pre-adolescents than it satisfied. |
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At daybreak, Doune woke with a startled jolt of fear, looking around and telling himself it was only a dream. |
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Someone's presence next to their table startled him from gold-laden daydreams and back into reality. |
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People in the area were startled on another night when a group of ladies were seen chasing a gent with a Welsh accent down Main Street. |
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The woman was a bit startled by this proclamation, but she was equally intrigued by the derelict's intuition, since she was indeed single. |
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The startled barbarian grappled reflexively, neglecting the weapons that hung at his waist. |
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He staggered back, startled, and then brushing the curtain away, he stepped into the great room of the Captain's house. |
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But I was rather startled by how people have become sharply divided along political lines, and the positions that have been assumed. |
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They raced past startled dwarves and overturned carts filled to the brim with glittering diamonds as the rushed deeper into the mountain. |
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Devon responded, but gave a startled gasp as her hand accidentally found the exit wound on his shoulder blade. |
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Sometimes the readers do feel shocked and startled by the abrupt and terse nature of some of these poems, but the effect is rewarding. |
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Serena and I both pulled back, startled, and then watched in awe as they both started laughing. |
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Glancing at the water clock on the mantle, Donnan was startled by how late it was. |
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She was just about to start waxing poetic about it, when she was startled by Morgan appearing at her front door. |
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At one point, we rounded a blind corner and startled a gigantic grizzly sow and her cub as they crossed a shallow, rocky creek. |
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I paused in the act of buffing my expensively manicured toenails, startled. |
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There was a moment of awkward silence until a phone ringing made them all jump, then they laughed, embarrassed that they were so easily startled. |
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I sat down rather suddenly next to Ming, who, evidently startled, gave a little jump in surprise. |
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Flocks of magpie geese and whistling ducks, startled by the outboard, take to the air shattering the early morning silence with their calls. |
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He stated that the raw feeling of the emotions that brought him to tears is what startled him the most. |
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The startled crew around us, unaccustomed to hearing a sociopolitical argument in the disco at 1 A.M., looked on with mouths agape. |
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I believe I startled a great many innocent Canadians, some perhaps as far away as Vancouver, with my unrestrained whoop of delight. |
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Footsteps overhead startled her before she realized Daffyd must have gone upstairs by now. |
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Startled by a vehicle, Manny Babbitt ran for cover, and tore through the screen door of the first house he came to. |
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Last week as I was sitting down at my desk to write a long deferred article, I was startled to see an emerald-green praying mantis sitting on my writing pad. |
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He was the only foreign player in an otherwise all-British squad that evening and, emerging lankily from the tunnel, he looked less like a footballer than a startled foal. |
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A train was just pulling in and I lurched on board, collapsing onto a seat opposite a rather startled man who, bless him, dug into his pocket for a paper tissue. |
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The overloud ringing of the phone startled him out of his chair. |
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Should you on your journey be startled out of your reveries by marauding dogs snapping and barking at your heels, take note of these guidelines, they may be of help. |
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Lee shifts his feet, startled at the giddy look in Wesley's rheumy eyes. |
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But the tide is set to come in a little later this year, so Mr Cooper is expecting a few more startled passers-by when they have a paddle at about 11 am. |
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She could see in the pale moonlight that Mom was startled by her question. |
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Startled by the torchlight, their shallow caprine eyes gazed back in fear and incomprehension at the source. |
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Startled females may also lose the opportunity to mate with more intensely displaying, preferred males. |
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Rachael, startled about the sudden show of affection, hugged him back. |
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Louis looked startled and confused for a moment, but recovered and slapped me heartily on the shoulder. |
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The constant noise continually startled Gracie and Leah's work. |
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Not expecting a response, Sarah is startled when, as a dark wind blows, Jareth appears in a sparkling black robe, wielding magical glass spheres and offering an ultimatum. |
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The avid mushroom-pickers who encounter a strange figure prostrate on the ground, holding a pencil and manuscript paper in his hands, are startled. |
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Police report that he was so startled by being tracked down so quickly that he immediately confessed. |
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As the family hunted for anything personal that could be retrieved, they were startled when the phone began to ring. |
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Though Bates was startled by these changes, he was less alarmed by them than many naturalists are today. |
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I saw one group of traders run off like a startled herd, humping their bags of bags, while three police, like a pack of hunting dogs, scragged the least nimble. |
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I was slightly startled to find myself walking a few paces behind a Guardsman in full Number 1 dress uniform, busby standing proud, and polished brass spurs on his boots. |
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Ranft was startled to discover that he had pitched his tent in an ultrasonically noisy spot, where a bush cricket blasted away at high frequencies. |
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Before the startled girl could move, the witch made a pass with her hands and muttered a spell and the girl was instantly transformed into a bird. |
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Mr Barrett was dozing off but was startled awake by the loud bang. |
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The startled cousins suddenly stop as they see the woman in a white terrycloth bathrobe sitting at the bottom of the stairs on the fourth floor landing. |
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He was startled suddenly out of his deep thoughts by the clop of hooves. |
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Over the weekend, suleiman startled opponents by announcing his entry into the presidential race. |
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I was startled out of my dream state when a pair of mergansers flapped their way down along the creek's surface, turning skyward in front of me like training jets. |
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Once, she said, as she stood in shallow water in her high-necked, skirted, black bathing suit, a long-nosed garpike swam across her toes and startled her. |
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But one day, two years after his wedding, while lounging in a deckchair, shelling peanuts on an October afternoon, Sharma was startled by a premonition. |
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When I saw what he had been hiding, a startled gasp escaped my lips. |
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Startled by Theo's sudden arrival, the old lady emitted a little shriek and clutched her alligator skin handbag tightly to her chest. |
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I am startled by your wild eyed face darkened with the moko. |
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Jan grabs her braid and tugs it, ignoring her startled outcry. |
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The masked men attacking him turned to give me a startled look before they were blasted into the air by some invisible force that seemed to flow from inside of me. |
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When Syrian soldiers from the Interior Ministry roared up in a white Toyota van to abduct me, I was startled. |
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But, I was startled half to death when I pulled out a skimpy, red-white-and-blue two-piece spandex suit with a bikini-cut bottom and extra-low neck. |
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The Roman upper class was accustomed to easy divorce and remarriage, but this story startled even them. |
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He was startled to behold their beauty, and at once felt a rush of love for these creatures, blessing them as the only other living things in his damnable world. |
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I was startled when Cassie described almost smashing a vase over Brian's head because he was irritating her, but she successfully checked her violent reaction. |
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The jiggle of the doorknob startled him and he reached for his sword. |
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The grey cat is startled as Firemane flashes by, but only for an instant. |
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Then we turn into a driveway-width water-lane, drifting along under arching tupelos and willows in new leaf, startled only by the emphatic song of prothonotary warblers. |
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What really startled him was the rage he could feel radiating from her. |
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A catlike purple creature startled the gnome into standing up. |
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I jumped, startled by the sound of someone banging on the door. |
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A knock on the door startled Namura and she gave an involuntary jump. |
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Suddenly, a loud slam of the door made both of them sit up, startled. |
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A masculine voice inquired from somewhere to her left, effectively scaring the living daylights out of Sydney and drawing a startled yelp from her lips. |
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I was startled, and my head whipped toward the direction of the voice. |
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The loud slam of a locker door startled her out of her personal reverie. |
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Their bolo ties and navy blue blazers ripple, startled, in the breeze. |
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What startled Charles the most was the small golden crown the woman wore. |
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Less than a hundred days into his pontificate, the new Pope John XXIII startled most of the world by announcing his intention to convoke an ecumenical council. |
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Pro-family activists were startled by Mr. Axworthy's stridency. |
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Startled onlookers saw officers arm themselves and take up positions in front of the house. |
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My passing further disgruntled gloomy herons slouching along the bank, and startled grebes and coots fussing around in ever contracting pools of water. |
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He blinked a bit, obviously startled, then he recovered himself. |
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A rap on my door startled me from an attempt at some recuperative sleep. |
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The speed of the cat startled the dog and she woofed lunging forward. |
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It was already very late into the night and Rosalind was beginning to doze off in her chair by the window when a sudden knock at the door startled her out of sleep. |
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Purdy is in his mid 70s now, an impeccably polite, nearly dressed man, thin as a rake, with big startled eyes. |
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It came without warning, and she seemed to collapse on completely on the bed where she was sitting, with a lostness about her which startled me. |
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Ingels, and everyone else who drove the kart, were startled at its performance capabilities. |
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Unless startled or injured, most snakes prefer to avoid contact and will not attack humans. |
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Octopus clambered about from hole to hole and startled sweep blurred away as we passed. |
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Curious, unsymphonic sounds bellow from his startled stomach, from his neglected innards. He blushes. |
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Next to it was a talking wishing well, which startled every youngster who threw in a coin. |
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The fact that he is next but three in line for senior partnerdom never stops him looking startled. |
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Startled into silence, I watched as it cleaned my cousin in a basin and swaddled her in a cloth before handing her to my father, the Clan's head, waiting outside. |
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The horse shied away from the rider, which startled him so much he shied away from the horse. |
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I was too startled to observe much but the driver was definitely wearing a yellow fluorescent coat and a crash helmet. |
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But she has admitted to being startled when she bumped into a skinny-dipper tourist in one of the most remote parts of Skye. |
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Startled female bowerbirds often hop out of the bower away from the male. |
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Startled by the abrupt entrance of his daughter, he got up quickly. |
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At the scrag end of a dismal first period, he ripped a 20-yarder across the startled Mark Bosnich which hit the right-hand post. |
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London was startled by a crime of singular ferocity and rendered all the more notable by the high position of the victim. |
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As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note. |
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The house wore the startled doggy air of having been undeservedly rebuked. I knew the feeling. |
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This had led to horses, startled by a passing locomotive and coming off their dandy cart, being run down by the following train. |
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Assuredly a Dudley Sowerby would be immensely startled to find his bride a young woman more than babily aware of the existence of one particular form of naughtiness on earth. |
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The high voice in the night air startled me. Without thinking, I started to run. Then stopped. I spun around, my heart heaving against my chest. And saw a boy. About my age. |
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One evening I was sitting at dinner in a fashionable street in New York, close to Central Park, when I was startled by a distinctly burglarious noise at the window. |
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He, good man, could make but little of his solitary friend, and must many a time have been startled out of his canonicals by the strange, alien speeches which he heard. |
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Through congested streets she scurried, taking notice of neither mettlesome horses nor startled pedestrians, oblivious to the clattersome danger of iron hoofs and wheels. |
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Scientists found that people carrying copies of the Met158 version of the COMT gene were significantly more startled by the aversive shots than those carrying the Val158 type. |
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He had only to be startled into losing his balance, you might say, and he might take a grab at something, manage only a heavy fall, and go tumbling down, staircase and all. |
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Symptoms of hyperarousal may include anger, guilt or shame, self-destructive behaviour, such as drinking alcohol, sleep difficulties and getting startled easily. |
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Local lore claims that the custom began when two ladies of Hallaton were saved from a raging bull by a startled hare, distracting the bull from its charge. |
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I was startled by the whip of the rope when it finally snapped. |
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But Olympian Homer keeps them submerged in his sunless Netherdom, from which however, he lets them peep forth once in a while with a dreadful eye-shot at his startled reader. |
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Women dressed in Welsh costume are said to have startled the invaders. |
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He was startled with a piece of information which gave him such an exquisite pang of delight that he could hardly keep the usual quiet of his demeanor. |
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I turned, and lo! by my side there stood A being of strangest naturehood. Startled, I glanced him o'er and o'er, Wondering I noted him not before. |
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Startled shoppers called the police and animal welfare experts when they saw the Honduran milk snake slither into the back bumper of Gary Bunton's motor. |
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