startling

• Not Mr. Booth nor Mr. Forrest could have expressed the rallying, startling, almost thrilling recognition of an instrument of death, better than this actual criminal, whose last winkful of daylight was blackened by the guillotine. —  Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
• The night experiences of such men must sometimes be startling, and even awful. —  Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands
• This is startling--"Power is never wasted; whatever power has been employed, produces excellence in proportion to its own dignity and exertion; and the faculty of perceiving this exertion, and approaching this dignity, is the faculty of perceiving excellence." —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
• A new revelation to all--startling, as pertinent to the case Go on, Spence! —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
• Coming from the quiet gloomy sea into this little nook of life and bustle the transition is very sudden and startling, and gives one enough to think about without desiring to go on shore this afternoon On the following morning, Mr. Day, apprised of my arrival, came on board the "Albatross," and our plans were laid. —  Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

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