startles

He makes no answer, but his expression startles me.

A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

The broadest bridge is the Alexandre III Bridge in Paris, at least it looks the broadest, while the narrowest bridge, without a shadow of doubt, is the bridge that was built by ants in the moon; if the phrase startles you remember it is only in a novel by Wells.

On Something Hilaire Belloc 1911

He makes no answer, but his expression startles me.

A Modern Utopia 1906

The minute lengthens into ten, and another call startles us.

The Mind and Its Education George Herbert Betts 1901

"Even his name startles one; I hardly know what to think of him.

Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time Wilkie Collins 1856

“If a name startles your Grace, you may call it vengeance — vengeance on the cabal of councillors, who have ever countermined you, in spite of your wit and your interest with the

Peveril of the Peak 1822

"If a name startles your Grace, you may call it vengeance -- vengeance on the cabal of councillors, who have ever countermined you, in spite of your wit and your interest with the King.

Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801

In the gloom and pain of my sleepless nights, I literally began to think it possible that a fiendish nature might supplant the human condition, and that the work before my eyes was merely an anticipation of those terrors, which to name startles the imagination and wrings the heart.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

Then rose a sound of dread, such as startles the sleeping encampments

Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

Then rose a sound of dread, such as startles the sleeping encampments630

Evangeline. A Tale of Acadie 1909