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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
A fool's bolt is soon shot.
The Electric Monk's day was going tremendously well and he broke into an excited gallop. That is to say that, excitedly, he spurred his horse to a gallop and, unexcitedly, his horse broke into it.
Miserably disturbed!' that is not strong enough. He was haunted by the remembrance of the handsome young man, with whom she stood in an attitude of such familiar confidence; and the remembrance shot through him like an agony, till it made him clench his hands tight in order to subdue the pain.
When I kissed Brooks, it was like I'd been stun-gunned. But I was still conscious."
Debbie Mae's eyebrows had gone way up. "Awake but nobody home?"
"Well, maybe awake but somebody home with really, really bad judgment.
There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.
I shook up the world.
At this instant, Alessandro was electrified, as if lightning had struck the telephone wire or Saint Elmo's fire had filled the room, for part of the dream that he could not recall had come back to him with full force.
Shock and desire have my nerves tingling like I've been struck by horny lightning.
No spark, no boom.
Like any good novel, it lulled him into an almost tranquil state of awareness before it jolted him - it caught him completely by surprise.
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.
Suddenly, she heard a loud bang, a thump and a scream that caused her to jump from the bed. The hair on the back of her neck stood straight up and her body became one big goosebump.
I mean, electric shock? Isn't that a bit ... electric shock-y?
Another sharp pang stabbed him in the ribs and made him jolt with a grunt.
"Are you in pain?"
Alex smirked. 'I've been bludgeoned within an inch of me life, ye expecting me to jump up and dance a jig?
When something or someone moves you, truly moves you, a part of you wakes affected and afflicted by senses you had never previously experiences. A part of you that you never understood, or perhaps never even knew, suddenly sparks into existence.
Sparks fly, it's like electricity ...
It gave me a shock. A sudden shock of indescribable pain, like when you're a kid, and you're hit on the nose with a basketball on a cold morning, and you cannot believe how much it hurts, and your friends all laugh and you want your mother so bad.
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. [ ... ] You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head's in a whirl. And then you feel light as a feather, and before you know it, you're walking on air. And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop, and you completely lose your head!
The impact was so abrupt that those who were standing were suddenly hurled forward, staggering like drunkards while they tried to regain their balance.
A shock? You mean all that was just the precursor?
The slap heard around the world."
~~ John from Just...Breathe
You saw me bludgeoned by circumstance.
Lost, injured, hurt by chance.
I screamed to the heavens ... loudly screamed ...
Trying to change our nightmares into dreams ...
Marvellous blossomed, having quite forgotten what an exciting and necessary jolt being needed gave.
Kicks from Ed Hardy,
Nothing can shock me.
I couldn't move. Never been hit by anything that powerful.
Overwhelmed.
Lost.
Falling.
My chest heaved. I shook. I pulled Kabe hard against me, turned my face into his chest. My eyes burned, my chest seized and I bawled like a baby.
Zap,' I said. 'That's the technical term for it, is it? What do you call someone who's been zapped?'
'Mr. Crispy,' said Kumar.
The world turned and flung me.
It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off ... When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks.
Flung is too harsh a word for the rush of the world. Blown is more like it, but blown by a generous, unending breath.
The room pulsed with feeling,
I felt frighteningly unbridled.
God is shaking me.
He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial.
Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
charmed the words out of
His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.
They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.
Toark woke with a jolt from a sleep he'd never meant to have.
Feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had
come which must end in its undoing,
So now get up.'
Felled, dazed, silent, he has fallen; knocked full length on the cobbles of the yard. His head turns sideways; his eyes are turned toward the gate, as if someone might arrive to help him out. One blow, properly placed, could kill him now.
commotion and flurry.
Mom, my bed was shaking.
The shot heard round the world.
She gasped and jerked in her seat as a sudden hot, searing pain tore across the top of her right hipbone, the impact of the bullet throwing her off balance.
Aragon felt a shudder run through him at the sound, a strange cold thrill; and yet it was not fear or terror that he felt: rather it was like the sudden bite of a keen air, or the slap of a cold rain that wakes an uneasy sleeper.
came bounding towards her, startling
Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back!
Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers
and dreams and gaping,
I discover myself on the verge of the usual mistake.
I feel like the word shatter.
a creature of impulse.
Knocked the architecture right out of his legs.
She (Annabeth) put her hand on my spine, and my skin tingled. I (Percy) moved her fingers to the one spot that grounded me to my mortal life. A thousand volts of electricity seemed to arc through my body.
Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.
The world snapped open.
The world snapped shut.
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!
a kaleidoscopic, fragmented rush of images that exploded out of memory. They careened into her like an avalanche and swept her away,
The floor scooped me up where I stood, and I blinked as it hit me
There is a frozen moment after a really good shot to the face. A moment of shock, or paralysis where all you can do is blink.
Alex fainted-"
"I didn't faint," I grumbled, feeling my cheeks flush.
Aiden's lip curved up on one side. "Okay. She was suddenly not walking or talking anymore ...
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.
Shrapnel and a wave of sand struck the side like a bitch-slap from God Himself.
It hit me like a thunderbolt!
Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we've got.
A slap wouldn't have pulled me out of the trance any faster.
Bruised, beaten, shaken, weakened, tossed, thrown, lost, alone, heard, helped, healed, hope... it still works.
Spring sprang suddenly onto the land.
broke into a blaze of effulgence.
Heart was racing.
They say memory jolts awake with trauma's electricity.
His arm pulled her a little off balance, and paradoxically it steadied her at the same time. That was what Charles did to her heart, too. He knocked it off balance into what felt like the right position, a safe place that was still exciting, exhilarating, and terrifying.
As by an electric current that gives us a shock, I have been shaken by my loves, I have lived them, I have felt them: never have I succeeded in seeing or thinking them.
And suddenly, with a loud snap, he was free.
The detonation was deafening, the blast a bruised gout of flame that drove back the airborne sand and the wind carrying it, and flung the attackers and their mounts like a god's hand, backward onto the road and off the sides.
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.
When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.
The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.
jumped when the second gunshot fired. Fueled
I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
very acutely conscious
Terror collided violently with reason.
I love the cause that slew me
My memory stirred.
Have you ever had a shock in life? It takes great hope, faith and courage to bounce back.
When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.
Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.
My nerves did a jitter dance,
A sharp and familiar pang pierced his heart, rattled around his ribs, and then settled in his stomach like a rotting, dead weight. He took a swig of his Jack on the rocks, the burn not quite dulling the ache that had haunted him for two decades. God, he missed Anna. Enforcer's Redemption
His heartbeat seemed to be shaking him apart, like the impacts of a wrecking ball on an old building.
They stood by the open window of their hotel room with the rain sweeping into their faces. A bolt of lightning lit up the Grand Canal. Struck it out of the darkness in a searing eloquent flash. The expectation was that the night to come would be no less bracing, no less eloquent.
When that hit the fan ... it was like an earthquake.
I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock.
A moment had the power to either crush or illuminate.
...buzzing with the kind of commanding energy that felled trees and whistled teakettles..
When we were locked and loaded, he led the way and we jogged in silence.
Actually, I jogged in silence, my feet and movements soundless. Greg jogged like a large man who used to be a Marine.
Crunch.
Crash.
Smash.
Snap.
Crack.
Amateur.
One spark can change everything.
The force of his presence careened into Nora like a hundred-mile-an-hour wind. In response, she could do nothing but hold her ground and blink.
Guys, please, one life-changing shock at a time, I felt like saying.