Quotes About Startled

Christ! Ye scairt the bowels out of me.

A terrified postman.

Not long ago, in an excruciatingly remote village in the Australian Outback, I was startled to see a bartender in a cowboy hat measuring out a classically proportioned French 75 - something he'd picked up on the Internet, he told me.

A sound startled him, and to his everlasting irritation, his body jerked. The nurse was standing at the foot of the bed. Did they all have to creep around? He was going to insist bells be sewn onto everyone's clothes so he was aware of them approaching.

Vaisey looked like a startled earwig.

Hypervigilant and fear of losing control. You live in a state of readiness for attack. You feel jumpy and are easily startled. You have attacks of sudden fear or panic. You fear losing control.

Like something from Tolstoy, isn't it? he remarked. Julian looked over his shoulder, and I was startled to see that there was real delight on his face.

Henry saw it, too. "Like something from Tolstoy, isn't it?" he remarked. Julian looked over his shoulder, and I was startled to see that there was real delight on his face. "Yes," he said. "Isn't it, though?

Once, over dinner, Henry was quite startled to learn from me that men had walked on the moon. "No," he said, putting down his fork. "It's true," chorused the rest, who had somehow managed to pick this up along the way. "I don't believe it." "I saw it," said Bunny. "It was on television." "How did they get there? When did this happen?").

Wasn't planning on going for a run today, but those cops came out of nowhere.

I wish I was like you! You know startled by direct sunlight.

It's a good thing I don't have a full human digestive system because I was so startled something would have popped out of it involuntarily.

They're coming this way, quickly!' 'I didn't really want to know that.

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

Jack turned, and it was just as well he was looking at me rather than at the audience for never, I swear, did such utter amazement fill a man's face. He gobbled like a turkey cock, his eyes almost started from his head, his jaw fell open and he stepped back as though he had been pricked.

Stali?my naprzeciwko siebie, zapatrzeni jak wtedy, gdy niespodziewanie spotyka si? jelenia - oboje zastygacie na chwil?, równie zaskoczeni, i to spojrzenie zdaje si? by? pojedynczym, jakby obie strony mia?y te same oczy.

The startled child gathered his thoughts. I'm not entirely sure what the circumstances are, he said, but as a general rule I try to keep things simple. If I'm clear about what I want, other people have an easier time making me happy. It sounds basic, but most of the time it works. "Duck." He spoke clearly, pointing to a wooden duck.

blinked in surprise

Yaz startled as he heard two muted shotgun blasts

Toark woke with a jolt from a sleep he'd never meant to have.

Ufthak nutted him, and Deffrow sat down rapidly, involuntarily, and in a state of some confusion.

Stupid deer," I said, embarrassed about being startled. "We need a ladder." "I think they're easier to shoot with a rifle." "I'm not talking about the deer," I said, hitting Milo on the back of his shoulder. "We need a ladder to look over the wall." "Or a catapult," Milo said seriously.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Car un homme nait croyant comme un lapin est ébloui par les phares