But when they are startled by the firing of a gun, they ascend to a great height, fly around in a circle and hover for a short time, and then descend upon the loftiest trees, where they remain until the enemy has gone.
During the seven weeks of extreme atmospheric cold in which the last year ended and with which the present year opened, every one has been startled by the mortality that has prevailed among the enfeebled and aged population.
As they strolled on beneath the shadows of the tall elms, the stillness of the night was broken only by the quick scurry of a rabbit into the tall bracken or the harsh cry of some night-bird startled by their approach.
His sudden appearance had startled her, but only for a moment.
I startled her by my sudden presence; and, pointing out the dishonour of copying her father's papers, no matter for what purpose, I compelled her to return the documents to their place.
Beside it, startled at the sudden interruption, stood a man in evening-dress, with a small electric lamp in his clenched hand.
They startled me, for not until they fell upon my ears did I recall the stories told to me weeks before.
One day as Dan and Zeb were bringing in boards to sheathe the room on the inside, they were startled to see two Indians peering out at them from the shelter of the near-by woods.
They had gone but a short distance into the woods when they were startled by the report of a gun, and poor Zeb fell off his horse and lay like one dead in the road.
Here, in spite of his own dire predictions, he found a gaiety and contentment which fairly startled him.
One morning as Madeleine was playing near the water's edge, she was startled by the sound of firing.
Why did Sylvia look so dreamily happy, so startled at every call of the game, as if recalled from some pleasant idea?
As a proof of this, a sigh--almost a groan--startled the two women at this very moment.
Among the pieces of news, the rescue of the smack the night before furnished a large topic; and by-and-by Philip heard a name that startled him into attention.
She had not heard Sylvia's sweeping passage through the kitchen; but half an hour afterwards she was startled up by Kester's abrupt entry.
Bell was sitting up in the attitude of one startled out of slumber into intensity of listening; her hands on each of the chair-arms, as if just going to rise.
Occasionally she caught a little sleep in the afternoons, but she usually awoke startled and feverish.
At length his step was heard close to the door; and it startled them even in their state of expectation.
Sylvia, looking up, startled to find herself an object of notice.
What startled eyes Uplifted from the restless stream first met The full round glory of the moon!
The spear Now works its iron will, the startled sand Blinding the combatants together locked In the death-grip; while hill and vale and stream Glow with the flash and crash of arms.
One day, during a severe illness of her son, she left him to visit her patients, and on her return was startled with the news that the boy had died two hours before.
The startled girl quivered with anger at this announcement, and with timorous speed fled to her mother and repeated the tale, feeling as if some injury was threatened her, and some danger impended.
As he uttered the word he wasstartled to feel a light touch on his shoulder; turning quickly, his eye fell upon the messenger appointed by Caleb.
Men and brethren," he cried, and his voice rang out clear and sweet upon the startled air.
Just then the child opened her large blue eyes, and after looking about with a startled expression, asked, "Where ayah?
Young Miles was startled by his violent language, and felt the courage oozing out at his palms.
The imprecation, which was certainly as harsh as it was impious and senseless, might have startled many a mind from a purpose that was, to say the least of it, at variance with religion and the respect due to a father.
As he was turning round and searching, he suddenly perceived what startled him greatly--a newly-dug grave right before him.
Fin now gave a skirl that startled the giant, as coming from such a youngster as he was represented to be.
Amory was putting down the casts on a Benares tray when the ringing of this bell startled her.
And, as she had been thinking of Edgar Strong at the moment when the old lady's voice had startled her so, it was not beyond the bounds of possibility that her start had seemed remarkable.
Soft as it was, the rap was so unexpected that it startled Penny.
He called to the horse, and his own voice startled him.
Her startled half cry of alarm and surprise choked in her throat as she saw Rebecca spin halfway around from the impact of the lead and stagger giddily for several seconds.
This cry shrilled, almost yelled from the sidewalk upon which she was descending from her carriage so startled Miss Bonnicastle that she tripped and fell.
The review of my past life, especially the retrospect of the last two years, has at last quite startled me, and at the same time disgusted me.
Then, startled by his own unconscious thoughts, that seemed to speak so distinctly that all the morning could hear, he undressed and ran quickly down the sands.
Dawes looked swiftly with his dark, startled eyes beyond the sister at Paul.
She looked at him with startled grey eyes, and her face went pale.
Munden was startled into attention, and the full flow of gossip swept about him.
When the clamour had lasted long enough to be really alarming, knocks sounded at the door, which at length was thrown open, and the startled face of a domestic appeared.
But fate alone (which meant in this case the subtlest preponderance of one impulse over another) checked her on the point of a burst of passion which would have startled Lady Shale and Miss Hilda out of their cold-blooded complacency.
His voice startledher somewhat, and she hesitated.
I'm afraid she's worse,' said Christopherson, turning his haggard face to me with startled recognition.
The operator, apparently, was so startled he forgot to turn down the gain on the transmitter.
The huge creature startled me by answering the question himself.
Clifford glanced at his companion withstartled eyes.
As he vanished from the skylight, a clamor of startled voices came back through the opening, accompanied by a clatter of men falling down the stairs.
That unfortunate victim of the Mannings came punctually to eat of his roast goose, mindful that he was going to his doom, as we read in that famous murder case which startled everybody twenty years ago.
Before Tom could catch her so as to hold her, Lizzie darted off, like a startled fawn, towards the house, and the opportunity was lost.
He, of course, was alsostartled at the news that Susan had not been heard of.
All were startledat this unexpected appearance of pale death; even his enemy and Nemesis relented as she gazed on the lifeless mask of him whom she had so ruthlessly pursued, and drew back in horror at what she had done.
Mister Isaacs was at the moment engaged upon comparing the bankrupt lists, when a sudden exclamation from his partner Solomonson, who was opening the letters and glancing at their contents, startled him.
As it was, he was now working with a double object, and the success which he met with startled him, while it emboldened him to persevere in his design.
I was standing near the fireplace with the envelope still in my hand when, of a sudden, I was startled by a strange scuttling noise near my feet.
Even the faint light of the match I struck told me that both were dead, and so startled was I by this unexpected revelation that with scarcely a second glance round the weird place I hastened downstairs and left by the front door.
Over and over again had he proved himself a very brilliant pressman and had startled London by the "latest details" he had elicited where the police had failed.
Her look startled me, for it contained besides a world of grief and pity, something of self-reproach.
I passed them over to Boyd, asking his opinion, and as he sat at the writing flap reading them we were both suddenly startled by hearing a plaintive cry near us.
The cards with the strange devices which had been beneath the plates on the dining-table were handed round to the jury for their inspection, and then a statement which I made startled even the Coroner.
As Dorothy unclosed the chamber door, she wasstartled by a low, hoarse moaning, that seemed to proceed from the bed of the invalid.
When Dorothy opened the door, she was startledby her pale face and altered appearance.
Startled by this sudden action, she stepped back quickly, and stumbled right over into the "prince-trap.
Startled at the noise, the Giant clapped his hand to his ear with such force, that had not Ting-a-ling held on very tightly, he would have been shot up against the tympanum of this mighty man.
Not so, sweet one, your delicacy need not be startled thus.
