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He publishes his startler in the Spring 2009 Wilson Quarterly.

Western Europe demographic picture not so clear cut after all | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

Sonalysts Inc. of Waterford, Conn., used its sonar technology to create a system that diverts fish from swimming too near the James A. Fitzpatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County, N.Y. The "fish startler" is just one of the peaceable-kingdom products that have helped Sonalysts diversify.

The Plowshare Problem 2008

And then, like a giddy fool as I was, I needs must give them a startler — the whoop of an owl, done so exactly, as John Fry had taught me, and echoed by the roof so fearfully, that one of them dropped the tinder box; and the other caught up his gun and cocked it, at least as I judged by the sounds they made.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

His second was much more of a startler, and I only got it last week. '

The Innocence of Father Brown: The Invisible Man Gilbert Keith 1911

I said: "Mrs. Cutting, I am trying to think of a subject the discussion of which will come upon the world in the nature of a startler -- some subject upon which no previous human being has ever said a word -- some subject that will attract by its novelty, invigorate by its surprising freshness."

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 1893

"This is a startler," I said; "what are we going to do?"

Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891

This was a startler even to Cucullin; but he got up, however, and after pulling the middle finger of his right hand until it cracked three times, he went outside, and getting his arms about the house, turned it as she had wished.

Celtic Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

"All right," he said, "we'll go and give them a bit of a startler."

A Honeymoon in Space George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

He fired his "Artistic Joke" off, the shot went home, and the effect was a startler for many people and in many places.

The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various 1880

The grave old Turk then found his tongue, and the reply was such a startler, that the four travellers were knocked off their moral equilibrium.

Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series Bracebridge Hemyng 1871