Startling

Examples

• They have the strangest knack of startling you with unpleasant surprises. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was almost startling, heard for the first time. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Again there was a loud laugh, the most startling of which was the Baronet's, which rattled out like a clatter of falling stones. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And are your revelations startling? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Not very; it all depends upon what you call startling. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The words hardly reached him: he was aware only of her voice, and of the startling fact that not an echo of it had remained in his memory. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Thus easily do even the most startling novelties grow tame and spiritless to these sight-surfeited wanderers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He, too, had caught a fleeting backward glimpse of cruel yellow eyes and half open mouth within startling proximity of his person. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The expression was, for the instant, so precisely alike, that the minutest line seemed copied with startling accuracy! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Being a woman of a high courage, she soon got over the first startling effect of what I had to communicate. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• At last he said: 'So startling an announcement, so confidently made, and by such lips, is really disconcerting in the last degree. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Mr Boffin's speeches were detestable to me, shocking to me,' said Bella, startling that gentleman with another stamp of her little foot. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Was there anything in the voice of Mrs. Yeobright's son--for Clym it was--startling as a sound? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The experience with the little gas-engine was rather startling. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Startling events appeared to be too rare, in my career, to render a diary necessary. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was a startling likeness, and necessarily had a startling look. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I thought only of the words--the startling words--which had just fallen from his lips. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Many of them are supposed to have been used in the performance of some of the startling religious rites at the altars of the Greek priests. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Ezra Jennings laid aside his hat, and passed his hand wearily over his forehead, wearily through his startling white and black hair. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Many startling successes and a few unavoidable failures were the outcome of this long period of continuous work. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Only twenty dollars were left: the discovery was so startling that for a moment she fancied she must have been robbed. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Somewhere along this route we had a few startling exhibitions of Oriental simplicity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A most extraordinary and startling change passed over her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A startling Hi-hi! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Not if she marries again before the end of it, said Mrs. Cadwallader, who had some pleasure in startling her good friend the Dowager. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Surrounded no longer by heath, it was not startling to Mr. Yorke to see a hat rise, and to hear a voice speak behind the wall. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mr. Franklin came back from his walk as the Sergeant said those startling words. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The change had happened with startling suddenness--in one moment the creature lay lifeless under our hands. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The transition was startling. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is what makes gossips turn out in rain and storm to go and be the first to tell a startling bit of news. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Typed by Edmund