The dark smears and timber, startlingly black against the snow, remained silent, brooding and inviolate, as though the presence of man had never stirred their depths.
As it was, the whole impression was startlingly vivid and yet, after the first shock, singularly fascinating.
Step by step, stooping repeatedly over the flower-beds at the foot of the veranda, the startlingly materialized Chinaman passed off the scene in a very commonplace manner, by going up the steps and disappearing in the darkness of the doorway.
To Davidson, as to any of us, the idea of Heyst, the wandering drifting, unattached Heyst, having any belongings of the sort that can furnish a house was startlingly novel.
Above all, the venerated face of his dearly loved master rose startlingly vivid, waving to him with trembling hands, and his little travelling companion came running towards him, her dear arms outstretched in joyous greeting.
One or two young girls were startlingly handsome; they stood with heads thrown back, their hands on their hips, holding short white pipes between their flashing teeth.
Now that picture rose before him, startlingly and incredibly intact.
All the rich color that usually deepened and softened the charm of her beauty had been erased as if by a long illness; and against the new pallor of her skin her blue eyes, her black hair and eyebrows, seemed startlingly dark.
I hope so, but I fear, for all that followed wasstartlingly real, so real that now sitting here in the broad, full sunlight of the morning, I cannot in the least believe that it was all sleep.
It was startlingly like the image conveyed to me in Dr.
His success was startlingly rapid, and by the end of March he was master of all that district[318].
We expect to see "The heathen in his blindness bow down to wood and stone," but the facts that actually confront us are startlingly dissimilar.
It could not have been more than a minute that the blue lightning lingered there, yet to his excited spirit it was long enough to impress indelibly and startlingly every trace of that strange vision upon his heart.
Again, and yet again they bade God bless him; and startlingly and thrillingly was the united voice of that desperate, devoted band borne on the wings of night to the very furthest tents of their foes.
In bodily health not, perhaps, so much amiss, although he is greatly emaciated and startlingly pale.
They looked startlinglylarge and prominent; and at times seemed literally to blaze with an inward fire.
Glory's eyes with their deeps of color were startlingly vivid as they looked out of the pallid face upon which a little while ago John Spurrier had believed the white stamp of death to be fixed.
The smokestack trailed a flat line of hurrying smoke and the whistle screamed startlingly through the night.
He gave forth and that copiously, with taste, with discrimination, now and again with startlingly eloquent flights and witty sallies.
His face was dark and browned by the sun, but looked startlingly haggard, as if it were pale or even yellowish under the sunburn.
Perhaps in his tiny fisticuffs and startlingly fierce cries she divined the Doric, in embryo, as it were; perhaps when "little master" shrieked she thought of the columns of the Parthenon.
The jury looked startlingly commonplace, smug and sleepy, despite the variety of type almost inevitably presented by twelve human beings.
The action was startlingly impulsive in Beatrice, who was always so almost plaintive, so restrained, so dim.
The process wasstartlingly swift; yet its chief stages are not difficult to trace.
As with that other curious contemporary of hers with whom we deal in this chapter, the result was startlingly powerful in literature.
I enthusiastically exclaimed; "and startlingly like you in expression.
I did not doubt that she and the Duke had compared impressions concerning our family party, after the episode at Burgos, impressions startlingly confirmed now, and Carmona’s cordiality in such circumstances must have puzzled her.
It was so startlingly like an introduction that the cherubic brown man sprang up and bowed; and the girl, bending over the mazapan in her plate, let us see the very top coil on her crown of black hair.
The rich tints of the blankets were startlingly picturesque against the yellow gray of the adobe.
Startlingly near it looked to our eyes, accustomed to the restricted views and gloom of the forest.
The moon had risen as we emerged upon Yelm Prairie; Takhoma, bathed in cold, white, spectral light from summit to base, appearedstartlingly near and distinct.
Now his reply to his sister's query was startlingly fervid.
Two rifle shots, sharp and startlingly close, whipped through the quiet of that lazy afternoon, but they meant nothing to her.
Then startlingly into his stare, into his amazement, broke a great white glare through the opening of the cave.
Then very startlingly behind her a man's shadow darkened suddenly, and, sensing instantly that this newcomer also was interested in the view through the window, she drew aside courteously to give him his share of the pleasure.
Its complexion was devoid of colour, startlingly white; its eyes green and lurid, its expression hellish.
He had no particular plan of reform; or, when he had, it was startlingly petty and parochial compared with the deep, confused clamour of comradeship and insurrection that fills all his narrative.
Yet who can read that last line without feeling that Wilde is poised on the edge of a precipice of bathos; that the phrase comes very near to being quite startlingly silly.
Then it seemed to her startlingly inadequate even as an undergarment.
The light of a single unshaded electric bulb shone startlingly down to the bed, making plain the shadow of death even to an inexperienced eye.
It was astonishingly beautiful, and startlingly close for a church.
Off against the horizon Stark mountain loomed, veiled, with a purple haze, and around another curve Economy appeared, startlingly out of place with its smug red brick walks and its gingerbread porches and plastered tile bungalows.
