Article LXVI If a person who is shooting or hunting startles a child who happens to be in some high place, and the child falls and dies as a result thereof, he shall pay a small fine as blood money.
If a person startles a minor standing near the edge of a roof (flat roof) and the minor falls and dies on that account, he shall pay a heavy fine.
The first "call" by our Spanish companion almost startles by its lifelike verisimilitude.
Up a gloomy game-path he vanishes, and in a moment fierce musicstartles the silent woods.
As stars pale to the dawn the flight begins, the dark skies hurtle with the rush of passing clouds, and for two hours a steady fusillade startles the solitude.
She has profound and poetical conceptions of Beauty, and at times a felicity of expression in presenting the effects of nature and art upon her own mind, that strikes and startles by its novelty and power.
The conclusion of his thought causes Cyril an unaccountable pang, thatstartles even himself.
She has reached this highly satisfactory point in her argument when a body dropping from a tree near her, almost at her feet, startles her rudely from her meditations.
He is still regarding her with unmistakable admiration, when Miss Beauchamp's voice from the landing above startles them both, and makes them feel, though why they scarcely know, partners in guilt.
Mabel Steyne is dividing her attentions between him and Taffy, when a prolonged note from the hounds, and a quick cry of "gone away," startles her into silence.
He never startles for the sake of startling; neither does he mock.
Originally your ears] Read, "What fear is this, whichstartles in our ears?
How any object that unexpectedly brings back to us old scenes and associations startles the mind!
It startles and surprises the sense, but it soothes and tranquillises the spirit.
The Fight, and not much else: except a little Happening at the End which startlesme greatly.
A bumping noise from across the hall and the cry of a child startles us.
This state of things startles one, as all miscegenation does, and this particular European-Eskimo alliance is different from all others.
Again the falconer's shout startles his friend; again "The Princess" passes through the air like an arrow.
A series of felicitous crosses develops an improved strain of blood, and reaches its maximum perfection at last in the large uncombed youth who goes to college and startles the hereditary class-leaders by striding past them all.
The hyperbole employed startles and arouses the attention and drives the lesson home.
Their querulous echo startles us; we turn: What ravaged structure still looks o'er the sea?
It startles him to see a form under the shadow of its roof--a woman!
It is a new statement in evidence, which startles those listening to him.
Off trips the French demoiselle, and upstairs; almost instantly returning down them, Miss Wynn's maid along, with a report which startles the trio at the breakfast table.
When any thing, which comes before us, is very unlike what we commonly experience, we consider it on that account untrue; not because it really shocks our reason as improbable, but because it startles our imagination as strange.
Idle gallantry in a fiction, a dream, the passing pageant of an evening, startles us in the same way as the alarming indications of profligacy in a son or ward in real life should startle a parent or guardian.
All suavity and gentleness and delightful gaiety and perfect manners when everything goes right, she startles you by her outburst of petulance when the first cross comes.
For awhile she startles her next neighbor at dinner with speculations on molluscs, and questions as to the precise names of the twelve hundred new species of fish that Professor Agassiz has caught in the river Orinoco.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "startles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
