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Updated: May 5, 2025
Sometimes one swimming below the surface escapes his eye; and then a heavy bumping against the bows shakes the boat, and startles the equanimity of the less experienced passengers. The "snag" is most dreaded. That is a dead tree with heavy roots still adhering. These, from their weight, have settled upon the bottom, and the debris gathering around holds them firmly imbedded.
This alarm is a certain warning that some beast is stalking abroad which has disturbed it from its roost, but presciently it is again hushed. The loud hoarse bark of an elk now unexpectedly startles the ear; presently it is replied to by another, and once more the plover shrieks "Did he do it?" and a peacock waking on his roost gives one loud scream and sleeps again.
"It is not common argot," she said. "It has its subtleties. One continually finds somewhere an original idea sometimes even a bon mot, which startles one by its pointedness. As you say, however, it belongs only to the Americans and their remarkable country.
It courses in great currents beneath our feet, in the solid rocks of the earth, penetrating to the very interior of the globe, while it also rushes through our atmosphere in lurid flashes, and startles us with the crash and roar of heaven's artillery.
Sachs reads on, as little disturbed as by the buzzing of a fly on the pane. Only when he has finished, and closed his book, the unexpected clap of the covers so startles David that he stumbles to his knees Sachs looks around him, as if coming back from a dream. His eye is caught by the bright flowers and ribbons brought in by David.
So, if it is inexact to say that Stravinsky writes Jazz, it is true to say that his genius has been nourished by it. Also, he sounds a note of defiance, and sometimes, I think, does evince a will to insult. That he surprises and startles is clear; what is more, I believe he means to do it: but tricks of self-advertisement are, of course, beneath so genuine an artist.
It causes a man to wonder what obscure motive, probably hellish, prompted his wife to brush his clothes, though when he caught her at it she was doing it in apparent kindness. Instead of the truth making us free, its dread countenance, when we glimpse it, only startles us into a pallid mimicry of its sinister aspect.
Among the early friends of these people was Dick Trevette, whose tomb startles the tourist on the Columbia as he passes Mamaloose, or the Island of the Dead. He died in California, and his last request was that he might be buried in the Indian graveyard on the Columbia River, among a race whose hearts had always been true to him.
"Your honour," said Paddy, "if I see a man pulling you by the leg when you would be climbing the tree, may I hit him one lick?" "Aye," growled Jem Bottles, "and if I get a pistol against his head, he'll find out the difference between gunpowder and sand." "Stop," I cried. "You have the wrong idea entirely. This talk of carnage startles me and alarms me. Remember we are in London.
When one had believed that one absolutely understood another, how it startles the mind to discover that this is a mistake! A beautiful old man this had been pious, not very worldly-wise, but having a sweetness of nature, a sunny smile, and a native ease about him that would not have been possible without a quiet conscience.
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