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• a horse that startles easily
• Why shrinks the soul / Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
• The supposition, at least, that angels do sometimes assume bodies need not startle us.
• Nothing could startle her, make her scold or make her cry. She did not complain, she did not rebel.
• The high voice in the night air startled me. Without thinking, I started to run. Then stopped. I spun around, my heart heaving against my chest. And saw a boy. About my age.
• As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
• The figure of a man heaving in sight amidst these wide solitudes, always causes a startle and thrill of expectation and doubt, similar to the feeling produced by the announcement of " a strange sail ahead" on shipboard, during a long voyage.
• The sudden noise startled me.