Shocked

Examples

• Before I had time to feel shocked, at this, I was horror-struck by an entirely unexpected proceeding on the part of Mr. Godfrey. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I must indeed, I said; for when just now I repeated the offer of serving him for a deacon, he expressed himself shocked at my want of decency. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• How shocked had he been by her behaviour to Miss Bates! Jane Austen. Emma.
• His betrothed looked shocked at the metaphor, and George Dorset exclaimed with a sardonic growl: Poor devil! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I suppose French morality is not of that straight-laced description which is shocked at trifles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Really--really--as Mr. Chillip told my mother, he was almost shocked; speaking in a professional point of view alone, he was almost shocked. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But, on stroking her cheek in a caressing way soon after, he was almost shocked to find her face wet with tears. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Fanny seemed to herself never to have been shocked before. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I should be shocked anddisappointed if he didn't. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The news so shocked his mother that it brought on an apoplectic attack. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Forgive me, if I have unintentionally pained and shocked you, I replied. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I own that I was a little shocked at this view of the case. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Our modern idea, that any one in the state is a citizen, would have shocked the privileged democrats of Athens profoundly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He is just come, my dear Fanny, and is taken upstairs; and I am so shocked to see him, that I do not know what to do. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Their delicacy is not to be shocked, or hurt easily. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• You are not really shocked: for, with your superior mind, you cannot be either so dull or so conceited as to misunderstand my meaning. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Jane and I are both so shocked about the apples! Jane Austen. Emma.
• I was too much shocked to be able to pass myself off as insensible even to the undiscerning Sir John. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I was naturally shocked at it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I attempted to approach her--I was shocked and grieved, but, it is needless to say, not offended. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Gudrun was shocked by his appearance, and by the darkened, almost disintegrated eyes, that still were unconquered and firm. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The Bishopess of Ealing was shocked beyond expression; the Bishop went and wrote his name down in the visiting-book at Gaunt House that very day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Astonished and shocked at so unlover-like a speech, she was almost ready to cry out, Lord! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I really was very much afraid of showing him how much shocked I was at some parts of what he said. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Fanny was quite shocked. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• When Lydgate came in, she was almost shocked at the change in his face, which was strikingly perceptible to her who had not seen him for two months. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At this moment Moore would be both shocked and embarrassed if he saw either you or me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Daily conversation was shocked into some contact with realities--the newspapers actually printed facts about the situation of a working class population. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He's shocked at the way your father goes on in,' replied Mrs. Weller. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Laurie smiled but didn't seem shocked, and answered with a shrug. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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