Startled
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His look was changed to the face of Frances, who,
startled
by the earnestness of his expression, arose, and hastily inquired if he would have any assistance.
"No, no, no," cried the peddler, in a voice and with a manner that
startled
Dunwoodie.
He was about to turn, and retrace his path to his quarters, when he was
startled
by a voice, bidding him,-"Stand or die!"Dunwoodie turned in amazement, and beheld the figure of a man placed at a little distance above him on a shelving rock, with a musket leveled at himself.
Frances listened anxiously to the retreating footsteps of his horse, and, as they died upon her ear, she ventured from her place of secrecy, and advanced a short distance into the field, where,
startled
at the gloom, and appalled with the dreariness of the prospect, she paused to reflect on what she had undertaken.
While busied in stealing through the meadows towards the house, the noise of horse approaching
startled
her, and she felt how much more was to be apprehended from man, in some situations, than from solitude.
While busily occupied in the very indispensable operation of breaking their fast, our adventurers were
startled
with the sound of distant firearms.
My mother was - ""An angel!" interrupted the old man, in a voice that
startled
the young soldiers by its abruptness and energy.
He was
startled.
And it showed three white,
startled
faces, too.
Tom was impatient to go to the haunted house; Huck was measurably so, also--but suddenly said:"Lookyhere, Tom, do you know what day it is?"Tom mentally ran over the days of the week, and then quickly lifted his eyes with a
startled
look in them--"My!
"Your Becky?""Yes," with a
startled
look--"didn't she stay with you last night?"
He smiled a little too at the word, but I could see it
startled
him, and he could not hide the disorder it put him into.
I was a little
startled
at that, and told her, with an apparent concern in my face, that by the same rule he might find me out, and then I was undone.
This cry
startled
them all, and each dropped the contest at the point at which the voice reached him.
What voice is this that has reached my ears?
"Startled
at the voice the lady turned her head; and not seeing the speaker she stood up and attempted to enter the room; observing which the gentleman held her back, preventing her from moving a step.
This done, in profound silence they entered the room where he was asleep, taking his his rest after the past frays, and advancing to where he was sleeping tranquilly, not dreaming of anything of the kind happening, they seized him firmly and bound him fast hand and foot, so that, when he awoke startled, he was unable to move, and could only marvel and wonder at the strange figures he saw before him; upon which he at once gave way to the idea which his crazed fancy invariably conjured up before him, and took it into his head that all these shapes were phantoms of the enchanted castle, and that he himself was unquestionably enchanted as he could neither move nor help himself; precisely what the curate, the concoctor of the scheme, expected would happen.
While they were talking, fate so willed it that one of the company in a mummers' dress with a great number of bells, and armed with three blown ox-bladders at the end of a stick, joined them, and this merry-andrew approaching Don Quixote, began flourishing his stick and banging the ground with the bladders and cutting capers with great jingling of the bells, which untoward apparition so
startled
Rocinante that, in spite of Don Quixote's efforts to hold him in, taking the bit between his teeth he set off across the plain with greater speed than the bones of his anatomy ever gave any promise of.
Sancho at last fell asleep at the foot of a cork tree, while Don Quixote dozed at that of a sturdy oak; but a short time only had elapsed when a noise he heard behind him awoke him, and rising up startled, he listened and looked in the direction the noise came from, and perceived two men on horseback, one of whom, letting himself drop from the saddle, said to the other, "Dismount, my friend, and take the bridles off the horses, for, so far as I can see, this place will furnish grass for them, and the solitude and silence my love-sick thoughts need of."
Don Quixote took it, and without perceiving what was in it thrust it down in hot haste upon his head; but as the curds were pressed and squeezed the whey began to run all over his face and beard, whereat he was so
startled
that he cried out to Sancho:"Sancho, what's this?
Such was the din of the bells and the squalling of the cats, that though the duke and duchess were the contrivers of the joke they were
startled
by it, while Don Quixote stood paralysed with fear; and as luck would have it, two or three of the cats made their way in through the grating of his chamber, and flying from one side to the other, made it seem as if there was a legion of devils at large in it.
Yesterday was the first day of our coming here; we have a few of what they say are called field-tents pitched among the trees on the bank of an ample brook that fertilises all these meadows; last night we spread these nets in the trees here to snare the silly little birds that
startled
by the noise we make may fly into them.
The animal was
startled
by the noise, and the reins were on his back.
Long vistas of stately oaks and elm trees appeared on every side; large herds of deer were cropping the fresh grass; and occasionally a
startled
hare scoured along the ground, with the speed of the shadows thrown by the light clouds which swept across a sunny landscape like a passing breath of summer.
But I was startled, and drew back.
'Tom was naturally a headlong, careless sort of dog, and he had had five tumblers of hot punch into the bargain; so, although he was a little
startled
at first, he began to grow rather indignant when he saw the old gentleman winking and leering at him with such an impudent air.
It
startled
him at first, but thinking, on a moment's reflection, that it must be some young fellow in the next chamber, who had been dining out, he put his feet on the fender, and raised the poker to stir the fire.
Startled
by the sudden fear that the house might be on fire, he hastily threw the door wide open, and holding the candle above his head, stared eagerly before him, not quite certain whether what he saw was a sedan-chair or a fire-engine.
The alarm was no sooner given, than Mr. Winkle scrambled back over the wall, and Arabella ran into the house; the garden gate was shut, and the three adventurers were making the best of their way down the lane, when they were
startled
by the scientific gentleman unlocking his garden gate.
Next mornin' he gets up, has a fire lit, orders in three shillins' wurth o' crumpets, toasts 'em all, eats 'em all, and blows his brains out.''What did he do that for?' inquired Mr. Pickwick abruptly; for he was considerably
startled
by this tragical termination of the narrative.
As Mr. Winkle said these words, Mr. Pickwick felt, with some astonishment, that Sam's fingers were trembling at the gaiters, as if he were rather surprised or
startled.
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