It was a great shock to me; I felt that there was a deadly pallor on my face.
The event was a great shock to her, and she knew that it would be a crushing blow to her husband.
The news came upon us without preparation--for she was ill only a few days--and was a great shock to us.
It was a great shock to us, for the weather was dismally cold, and it did not seem as if the little thing could get safely through the disease at so unfavorable a time of year.
He would sooner, if that was to be the way of it, come to her at the outset as the herald of something serious, and ask her to prepare herself for a great shock.
What she had heard was a great shock to her; really almost as great a shock as the crash at Sapps Court.
Still, it was a most elastic recovery from a great shock.
Colonel Clifford could not help saying, "My dear, you have had a great shock; and you have dreamt all this.
By-and-by I was told by somebody that birds could not be caught by putting salt on their tails; that I was being made a fool of, and this was a great shock to me, since I had been taught to believe that it was wicked to tell a lie.
How wonderful it seems to me that it did not come as a great shock.
It was then a great shock to hear a Nengone man call out from a sandal-wood vessel, lying in Dillon's Bay, that they had both been killed!
Do you think we could ever feel happy again--after a great blow, a great shock?
This has given you a great shock, I fear; but I had better go at once and see if I can do anything.
My poor boy's death has been a great shock to me, and shocks at my age are not easily thrown off.
These two telegrams were a great shock to the lonely and unhappy man to whom they were addressed.
He had never doubted Edith's love for him, and her words were a great shock.
He had been genuinely fond of West, and the latter's death was a great shock to him.
Mr. West's death was a great shock to us both, Mr. Hall.
The sudden taking-off of the colonel had proved a great shock both to the children and to Mrs. Ruthven, and for a long time the lady of the house had lain on a bed of sickness, in consequence.
My reception here has been a great shock to me," said the doctor bluntly.
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