2. Verb. (third-person singular of startle) ¹
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Definition of Startles
1. startle [v] - See also: startle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Startles
Literary usage of Startles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Harrison to Harding: A Personal Narrative, Covering a Third of a by Arthur Wallace Dunn (1922)
"Bryan, Apparently Undecided, Expresses His Views—startles and Dismays a Group of
Southern Democrats—What Governor Johnson Would Do—Third Term Talk Revived—" ..."
2. A Dialogue on the Best Form of Government by George Cornewall Lewis (1863)
"social condition which it necessarily involves, and has taught us to regard it
as an obvious truth; but it startles the philanthropist, when he first ..."
3. The North Shore Watch, and Other Poems by George Edward Woodberry (1890)
"I feel the conqueror in my blood and race ; Last night Trafalgar awed me, and
to-day Gibraltar wakened; hark, thy evening gun startles the desert over ..."
4. The Library Magazine (1887)
"One boy writes, "I have been a mouse;" the statement startles; learned men talk
of metempsychosis, and less learned folk have heard of the transmigration of ..."
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