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Did he think she would exchange her grand old name for his obscure one--her magnificence for his poverty. There was no more time for thought; the dinner bell had sounded for the last time, and she must descend. She thrust the letter hastily into a drawer, and locked it, and then turned to her mirror. She was startled at the change. Surely that pale face, with its quivering lips and shadowed eyes could not be hers. What should she do to drive away the startled fear, the vague dread, the deadly pallor? The roses she wore were but a ghastly contrast. "I must bear it better," she said to herself.英文原著 · 《Dora Thorne》
THE very name of Arthur Wardlaw startled Helen, and made her realize how completely her thoughts had been occupied with another. But add to that the strange and bitter epigram! Or was it a mere fortuitous concourse of words? She was startled, amazed, confounded, puzzled. And, ere she could recover her composure, Hazel was back to his problem again; but no longer with the same energy. He said in a faint and sleepy voice: "'He maketh the winds His messengers, and flames of fire His ministers.' Ah! if I could do that! Well, why not?英文原著 · 《Foul Play》
"Your project startles me, Mr. Linton," said George Holland. "It startles me as greatly as the first revelation you made to me did. They may be mistaken--the doctors; I have known cases where the highest authorities were ludicrously in error. Let us hope that."英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
"Look hyeh, Rome Stetson"-the sound of his name from her lips almost startled him-"I'll hev ye understan' that I don't want to be bounden to you, nor none o' yer kin."英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
DAY was whitening on the Stetson shore. Across the river the air was still sharp with the chill of dawn, and the mists lay like flocks of sheep under shelter of rock and crag. A peculiar cry radiated from the Lewallen cabin with singular resonance on the crisp air-the mountain cry for straying cattle. A soft low came from a distant patch of laurel, and old Jasper's girl, Martha, folded. her hands like a conch at her mouth, and the shrill cry again startled the air.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
He was drawing himself over the ledge, and the low, stern voice startled him, as a knife might have done, thrust suddenly from the empty air at his breast. Rome rose upright against the cliff, with his resolute face against the stock of a Winchester.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
Prince Gustav today startled the international community when he gave his royal fortune to charity.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
s discovered by my neighbor Mrs Martha Huber who'd been startled by a strange popping sound Her curiosity aroused Mrs Huber tried to think of a reason for dropping in on me unannounced After some initial hesitation she decided to return the blender she had borrowed from me six months before It's my neighbor. I think she's been shot. There's blood everywhere. Yes you've got to send an ambulance. You've got to send one right now.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》