What is character if it flees like a startled doe from a mild racket?
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Two arresting 1947 portraits of his wide-eyed first wife Kitty Garman introduce us to a startled young woman.
She had been sitting very still, like a startled doe, as if stillness might enable her to remain unscrutinized.
While a startled Paul Jacobs looked on, Shane, still in the clothes he wore at their meeting, jumped into the ring to wrestle.
Tate instinctively swung his left foot at the ball but only succeeded in diverting it past a startled Ma-Kalambay and inadvertently sending Orient into the fifth round.
Physically, it is impossible to wake up another human being from their slumbers without producing, at least momentarily, a startled state of confusion, fear, and sometimes, anger.
The grizzled Arab mercenaries, who'd fled the Hezbollah reoccupation with little more than the clothes on their backs, looked a tad startled in their new flip flops and red-blue board shorts.
The bus startled a herd of yaks who stampeded off the road like sheep as we approached.
The government was startled a few months ago when high-tech companies asked for permission to hire 2, 000 computer programmers from India.
An analogy from nature might be a flock of birds on the ground becoming startled and taking flight in a synchronized wave.
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The development left visitors startled and a bit shell shocked.
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On the day, when my Dad got around to opening it, he gave me a very brief, startled look, before regaining his composure, saying thanks, and moving on to the next present.
In the spring of 1997, Meyer Kahn, 58, chairman of South African Breweries, got a phone call that really startled him.
And every now and again, there was a squawk and a splash as a heron or egret rushed startled into the night.
One morning, I shuffled downstairs and was startled to see a snowplow clearing my driveway and the bent back of a woman shoveling my walk.
Readers and viewers who know Murdoch purely as a name or as one of those figures so wealthy, and granted such frictionless mobility by their wealth, that they never seem to be in the part of the world that you expect them to be were startled to see a senior gent, with sparse white hair and a clownish smile, descend upon London.
Kristopher Denard gets startled when he sees a pedestrian who isn't staring at him.
Might this not have worked better, and conjured more startled outrage, as a mock documentary on TV?
One particularly eye-catching move saw Holden meet Kevin Davies's flick with a sweetly-struck volley that startled Liverpool keeper Pepe Reina.
Chanderpaul's tempo remained unchanged until the 17th over when, as if startled into life with a cattle prod, he hit paceman Steve Harmison for a four and a six in the same over.
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We swept through an outbuilding, past startled deputies, and into a dusty yard full of rows of twenty-two-man canvas tents.
Some fans were startled by the partnership with a big-box retailer.
When they entered the room, he was startled to find men hunched over a table loaded with electronic equipment.
But, when startled out of her slumber by a call after midnight and asked for the pronunciation, she punted.
While she was holding a lead rope and hay bag, something startled him and he bolted, the inquest heard.
Shoppers of an earlier generation would be startled to learn that Britons bin a third of the food they buy, and Americans not much less.
The symptoms of the illness include a numbing of emotions, difficulty concentrating and exaggerated startled responses to events.
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