And of all I saw and of all I praised, The most to praise and the best to see, Was the startling bell-tower Giotto raised: But why did it more than startle me?
How will she ever grant her Jules a bliss So startling as her real first infant kiss?
Would I were sure to win Some startling secret in their stead, a tincture Of force to flush old age with youth, or breed Gold, or imprison moonbeams till they change To opal shafts!
He glanced back at the gray-black creature that followed at the heels of his horse; and now, at twilight's graying, he saw that a significant and startlingchange had come over him.
As he freed her, her strong, slender arm swung out and up--with really startling force.
And good fairies had worked further magic: as she passed beneath the light at the door of the rude hotel there was revealed an unquestioned and rather startling facial beauty.
The stone of the precipices presented a marvellous array of color; and the spruce, almost black in the subdued light, stood in startling contrast.
A few hours previous, while I was lost in one of my occasional fits of melancholy moping, the voice of Phillip came to my ears with startling distinctness.
As startling as these predictions are, I very much fear, that the logic of events favor their fulfillment!
This skillful combination seemed to complete the startling illusion of this rare vision of loveliness, until one could almost hear the musical tinkle of falling water.
All this gay and brilliant color is overhung by a startling contrast, the most sombre and gloomy thing in nature, great Live-oaks heavily draped with gray Moss; the avenue of largest Oaks was planted two centuries ago.
In the garden's story, there are ever a few pictures which stand out with startling distinctness.
His two companions listened, as people in their situation would be apt to lend their faculties to discover the meaning of any doubtful noises, especially, when heard after so many and such startling warnings.
The criminal himself appeared to be in a state, in which the most sensitive and startling terror was singularly combined with total physical apathy.
An alarmed and startling howl was heard, and, at the next minute, he broke out of the thicket, and commenced circling the spot, in the same wild and unsteady manner as before.
Not that they show a spark of the indignation or the initiative which we find in the French Romantic author (George Sand, for instance); they merely amuse themselves with elaborating revolutionary, or at least startling fancies.
But, although the rupture of the better literature with reality first showed itself in a startling form in the writings of the Romanticists, we must not forget that the process had begun long before.
The startling summons brought the sleepers to their feet in a twinkling and when Peggy introduced the explanation of the night's mystery, there was a good deal of shame-faced laughter.
Peggy, whose original interest in Jerry had been intensified by the favorable impression he had made on Graham, hailed these signs of awakening with satisfaction, and laid plans to bring about still more startling changes.
But the missing eyes were not the only startling features of this remarkable picture.
Her complacency vanished with a startling discovery.
At the threshold of the cottage they were met by startling news, Dorothy hurrying out importantly to make the announcement.
When we recognise that fact, these discussions in Paul's Epistles flash up into startling vitality and interest.
How startling to come across that name, borne by this obscure Christian!
A startling criterion for a master's duty to the slave who was denied to have any rights at all.
It came back to him at intervals, seeming less new and startling every time.
I dare say it is," agreed the Tall Lady, looking as if she had been struck by a new and rather startling idea.
Mrs. Pottinger's sudden and business-like acquiescence in it, and her singular lapse from her genteel precision, were gratifying but startling to his ingenuousness.
Randolph had heard before of this startling brevity of San Francisco business detail, yet he lingered until the door closed on Mr. Dingwall.
She believed we always did; she retained suchstartling optimism.
It was not till years afterward that Yan found out this to be the night-song of the Oven-bird, but he was able to tell them at once the cause of the startling outcry that happened one evening an hour after sundown.
Many months were to pass before the mystery was to be solved, and then the revelation was to come in a startling manner in the course of an adventure amid the deep snows of winter.
The sky flames in startling reds and yellows blending into opals and turquoise, with the shadowy hills lying in a purple haze in the west.
No,' exclaimed he, with harsh andstartling emphasis.
I cried, electrified at this startling change in her demeanour.
This startling conduct had a singular effect upon him: first, he murmured, 'Bless you, darling!
Depositing the urn upon the table, she hastened back to the kitchen to report upon the startling events that were occurring in the breakfast-room.
At one point in the Scherzo, presumably at the startling entry of the tympani at the ritmo di tre battute, the listeners could scarcely restrain themselves, and it seemed as if a repetition then and there would be insisted upon.
There's some talk to-day of a startlingepisode at an hotel up the Rhone Valley.
In the course of an address delivered with much animation and filled with startling phrases, it became clear that "Jim" had been the immediate instrument of the conversion of Bendigo.
Here was a startling development, indeed, and I wondered what difference it would make in Thorndyke's hypothesis of the crime.
I struggled to concentrate my attention on the elder lady's conversation, but my thoughts continually reverted to the paper in my pocket, and the startling solution that it seemed to offer of the mystery of the poisoned cigar.
But as I turned the story of the crime over and over, there came to me presently an idea that set in motion a new and verystartling train of thought.
Suddenly they began to fire, for no apparent reason, which habit is apt to bestartling to a nervous traveller on his first journey.
The clock tower affords a fine view, though the time that it keeps is startling to the new-comer.
Her brilliant light silhouetted the grim and rocky ridge in startling clearness, though it was four thousand feet above us.
