Startled
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Lost in a heavy sleep of which they had no memory, they were quite
startled
to be back in their cabin.
How
startled
he must have felt, how frightened even, at seeing four huge, copper craniums leaning over him!
So all hail to Mr. de Lesseps!""Yes, all hail to that great French citizen," I replied, quite
startled
by how emphatically Captain Nemo had just spoken.
I asked, more and more
startled.
My companions were as
startled
as I was.
Fish rose in a body at our feet like birds
startled
in tall grass.
Suddenly Conseil's voice
startled
me awake.
But why should I have been
startled
by this reply?
Among the fish that the Nautilus
startled
on its way, I'll mention a one-meter lumpfish, blackish on top with orange on the belly and rare among its brethren in that it practices monogamy, a good-sized eelpout, a type of emerald moray whose flavor is excellent, wolffish with big eyes in a head somewhat resembling a canine's, viviparous blennies whose eggs hatch inside their bodies like those of snakes, bloated gobio (or black gudgeon) measuring two decimeters, grenadiers with long tails and gleaming with a silvery glow, speedy fish venturing far from their High Arctic seas.
No sooner has one entered the town than one is
startled
by the din of a noisy machine of terrifying aspect.
One of the profiles as she finished it
startled
and delighted her: it bore a striking resemblance to Julien.
The noble but slightly romantic spirit of this charming widow,
startled
and converted to the service of common prudence by an event at once singular, tragic and for her momentous, would have deigned to appreciate the quite genuine merit of the young Marquis.
Almost invariably I should have a majority, more than that, even for a verdict of guilty; you see, Mademoiselle, with what ease I can secure an acquittal ..."The abbe broke off suddenly, as though
startled
by the sound of his words; he was admitting things which are never uttered to the profane.
He stayed like that until he was
startled
out of it by the shout of the policeman who sat at the little table at the open window and, as K. now saw, was eating his breakfast.
Then he was so
startled
by a shout to him from the other room that he struck his teeth against the glass.
It was only the shout that
startled
him, this curt, abrupt, military shout, that he would not have expected from the policeman called Franz.
K. was especially startled, as for a moment he had been quite unable to think of anything other than the events of that morning and the girl for whom he was performing them.
He thought she would look up at him, but without changing her manner she said,"Forgive me, but it was the suddenness of the knocking that
startled
me so much, not so much what the consequences of the captain being here might be.
"I have nearly finished what I have to say," said K., and as there was no bell available he struck the desk with his fist in a way that
startled
the judge and his advisor and made them look up from each other.
asked K., politely, but the man was
startled
at being spoken to unexpectedly, which was all the more pitiful to see because the man clearly had some experience of the world and elsewhere would certainly have been able to show his superiority and would not have easily given up the advantage he had acquired.
"You damned ... ," in the first gurglings of his excitement his words could hardly be understood, K. was
startled
even though he had been expecting something of the sort and ran to his uncle with the intention, no doubt, of closing his mouth with both his hands.
He remained a long time sitting in this way, not knowing what it actually was that made him so anxious, only occasionally did he glance, slightly startled, over his shoulder at the door to the outer room where, mistakenly, he thought he'd heard some noise.
He was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he hurried back under the couch.
She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she was looking into various bottles, he
startled
her when she turned round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door shut with her foot.
Her father, of course, was
startled
out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him the sight of this and all its noise.
He was not even
startled
out of this state when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers and landed loudly on the floor.
The sudden noise behind Gregor so
startled
him that his little legs collapsed under him.
The
startled
woman half closed her door again in affright, as she saw, by the glare of a large wood fire, a mounted man so unexpectedly near its threshold; and an expression of terror mingled with her natural curiosity, as she required his pleasure.
"No!" roared the captain, in a voice that
startled
the disappointed sergeant.
Occasionally he would pay a visit to the wounded Englishman, who, being more hurt in the spirit than in the flesh, tolerated the interruptions with a very ill grace; and once, for an instant, he ventured to steal softly to the bed of his obstinate comrade, and was near succeeding in obtaining a touch of his pulse, when a terrible oath, sworn by the trooper in a dream,
startled
the prudent surgeon, and warned him of a trite saying in the corps, "that Captain Lawton always slept with one eye open."
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