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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud that they all ran back in a fright; and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt with the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground. However, they soon returned,
eternally scared
You seem ... unsettled." Was "unsettled" another word for horny enough to climb the walls? Because if so, then yes, I was most definitely unsettled.
Fear makes people speechless
I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game.
Feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had
come which must end in its undoing,
The sheer, ensorcelled panic of feeling moved.
doing with the puzzled
I flamed amazement
After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence.
She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had been expecting for some time and now she'd been proven right.
think the word you might be searching for," she finally said, "is stupefied. Or awed? Inspired?" She gave a shy little smile. "But vib. I'm not mad at you, Bartleby." My heart felt like a rubber ball bouncing down the stairs.
It's quite hard to faze me. I'm fairly un-shockable.
Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.
I felt frighteningly unbridled.
The surprise is that you continue to be surprised.
I wanted to call you, but I find myself feeling ... awkward when it comes to you."
"'Awkward' is the word du jour," I agreed. "So, I make you nervous?"
"Not quite nervous," he said. "Just unsettled."
I wriggled my eyebrows and inched a little closer to him. "Unsettled, that's even better.
The only appropriate state of mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of heart is joy.
I think I'm honored. Or speechless. Maybe something in between there.
She stared at him, horrified. And thrilled. And horrified at being thrilled.
The moved and the shaken.
I'm all amazed, befuddled, and beflustered!
Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.
When a breeze blew, petals rained down on my upturned face, and I stopped and gasped, stunned by the beauty and sadness.
threw me off guard." The chief's eyes crinkled
I was stunned to see that he looked stunned himself, which was an exorbitant display of emotion for Barrons.
discombobulated around
When you focus on details like this - close up, really clear, totally useless - you know you're in shock
I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.
I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
Guarded curiosity.
Curiouser and curiouser! Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).
I had a quiet freak-out.
discombobulation
I was in the midst of a medium-sized panic attack.
'I froze. Like an idiot I froze. He was staring right at me. ( ... ) He wore an innocent and mesmerizing smile directed right at me. I did my best to ignore it but having a gorgeously naked man staring at me like I was the only girl in the world was impossible to brush off.
I'm dumbfounded by me all the time. Wow! What a ... thrill ... and a joy
Every single day I'm shocked.
Shocked expressions, but Ashton looked incredibly angry.
I was surprised, therefore, when
I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before ... I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.
I'm shocked at being recognized.
Suddenly a scream froze her in her tracks. It
I turned round and Jeeves shied like a startled mustang.
The shock of the real.
I thought I'd learn a few new words, but the men were too shocked to even swear this time.
frightening? Vigdis A. panted
I'm stunned by the sight of him. No, floored. My knees actually feel weak, and I dig my heels down into the grass to try and keep upright.
cry so strange that it frightened him.
Then she laughed. It was almost a racking laugh. It shook her as the wind shakes a tree. I thought there was puzzlement in it, not exactly surprise, but as if a new idea had been added to something already known and it didn't fit. Then I thought that was too much to get out of a laugh.
Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.
I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.
Adam fluttered like a bewildered bee confused by too many flowers.
He wasn't much of a dancer, but he knew it, and the faces he pulled when he danced gave him a perpetually startled look-as if he were, at regular intervals, surprised to find himself dancing.
I was neither glad nor unhappy to see her, but maybe that's what shock does, because I was surprised, that I will say.
came bounding towards her, startling
Now if you are told that some piece of information will come as a shock to you, the chances are that you will really feel shocked, even if the information itself isn't of the slightest importance.
In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.
By her stare, this woman settled a solemn awe upon my heart, and I was frightened by the degree to which I felt humbled and by the intensity with which I felt loved, and I had to look away.
I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.
Nothing can shock me.
When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.
The man who ceases to be astonished is hollow, possessed of an extinguished heart.
Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.
When you stop being surprised, you've stopped living.
dazzled by the sheer essence of the whole,
I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me.
Heart thumped from
Always the tone of surprise.
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
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.
So much alarmed that she is quite alarming
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
Havoc on my emotions like this. Just when I thought I
I was helplessly captured; and hopelessly enraptured.
I think that it can be assumed that no adults are ever really 'shocked' - that being shocked is always a pose.
Abby's expression made me falter; she was afraid of what she'd just seen. She swallowed, and took a step back. Her fear only made me more angry, not at her, but because I was ashamed of myself.
A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience.
Almost always, it's the unexpected that delights us, that takes us by the throat and gives us a good shaking, leaving us gaping in wonder.
It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?
Put simply,she freaked me the hell out.
And then suddenly she was on her feet, her heart knocking in her chest, a sudden familiar but long-forgotten terror triggered- but by what?
We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.
It's okay. I'm a rhinoceros astronaut." She was silent a moment. "Oh, sparks. You're going delusional." "No, no. I mean, I'm surprising. I'll surprise him. What's the most surprising thing you can think of? Bet it's a rhinoceros astronaut.
Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.
I got shocked really bad at a show once. We do this big intro to a cover of the Smiths' "Panic on the Streets of London" and I got a huge shock and went, 'Ohhhh!' We had to stop the show for 15 minutes.
Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.
If you're not gratified, you should be," he told her as he tucked the letter back in the breast pocket of his jacket. "All the other members of my staff were running around like panicked rabbits without you."
"But not you, I am sure."
"I was too astonished to panic.
I was not happy. I was knee deep in freak out mode.
You know I have trouble with colloquialisms, so I resent your shocked reaction.
I don't really go into shock around celebrity.
caused everyone to lookCaused-- Adam Rigby
A day doesn't go by where I don't get surprised by something.
Evie-you-GAH! Lend shouted, and I looked up at him, surprised.
For an instant I was dumbfounded.
It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world ...
exasperating composure.
Everything is surprising, rightly seen.
A Brave Man in a Brave Country Surprised