Ekstrohm was not asleep.

It was not a new experience to Ekstrohm.

Ekstrohm picked up a lightweight no-back from the ship's library, a book by Bloch, the famous twentieth century expert on sex.

Ekstrohm smiled, and followed the captain through the airlock with only a glance at the lapel gauge on his coverall.

Ekstrohm lay in his bunk and listened to the sounds of the night on Yancey-6 138.

Ekstrohm asked.

`` I think they're dead '', Ekstrohm interjected quietly.

`` Ekstrohm, you and I will have a look '', Ryan said.

Ekstrohm nudged it with a boot.

Ekstrohm cleared his throat.

`` No, it isn't '', Ekstrohm said.

Ekstrohm suggested.

Ekstrohm lay in his bunk and thought, the camp is quiet.

Ekstrohm stood up.

Ekstrohm never slept.

Ekstrohm had to hide his secret.

Ekstrohm walked through the alien glass and looked up at the unfamiliar constellations, smelling the frozen sterility of the thin air.

Ekstrohm shouldered his way outside and scanned the veldt.

`` I'll be damned '', Ekstrohm said.

Ekstrohm demanded.

`` Listen, Ekstrohm, I want to give you the benefit of every doubt.

`` No '', Ekstrohm said, `` No, I didn't know that ''.

Ekstrohm scowled.

It would be literary license calculated to glamorize life to say that he, oh, dropped his napkin, so startled was he by Mary Jane's beauty.

And for the hundredth time that week, he was startled at her beauty.

He was even more startled when he heard what Kayabashi wanted.

Coming home from work, he was startled to see a police car parked in front of the apartment building.

The disclosure by Charles Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled observers and was viewed as the prelude to a quarrel between the six attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial.

I was thoroughly startled ''.

Buddy is furious, and Ben, startled by the parallel between present and past, tells Sally it was over long ago.

" He did not have much time for Kurtz: " One evening coming in with a candle I was startled to hear him say a little tremulously, ' I am lying here in the dark waiting for death.

We were somewhat startled at the remark, but still more at learning, a few days after, that Melville was really supposed to be deranged, and that his friends were taking measures to place him under treatment.

Following the explosion, Moon informed the startled manager, " That, dear boy, was noise.

During the Second Boer War, a Boer force attempting to sneak up on the Royal Canadian Dragoons was defeated after their movements startled the nearby springbok, thus alerting the Canadian sentries, which is why the Dragoons have the springbok as their cap badge and as their mascot.

The next day, when Harding was nominated on the tenth ballot, Mrs. Harding was so startled, she inadvertently stabbed Harry Daugherty in the side with her hatpins.

He would feign being startled by her laugh, and would pretend she was a stranger or a heckler, then come up with a response.

In this capacity he appeared on the Queen's behalf in the legates ' court, where he startled his hearers by the directness of his language and most of all by declaring that, like St John the Baptist, he was ready to die on behalf of the indissolubility of marriage.

< center > The Chapel Royal at the time of James VII. Legend relates that in 1127, while King David I was hunting in the forests to the east of Edinburgh during the Feast of the Cross, he was thrown from his horse after it had been startled by a hart.

According to variations of the story, the king was saved from being gored by the charging animal when it was startled either by the miraculous appearance of a holy cross descending from the skies, or by sunlight reflected from a crucifix which suddenly appeared between the hart's antlers while the king attempted to grasp them in self-defence.

She told the goddess that the baby was born ; this so startled her that she jumped up and unclasped her hands.

Chamberlain was startled but von Hatzfeldt assured him that von Bülow's motivation was to fend off opponents in the Reichstag.

The reaction of the startled director was said to be, " My wife is being raped and you write celesta music?

The language used during the movie startled the Chicago Police Commissioner and Mayor Richard J. Daley, and as a result Anatomy of a Murder was banned in that city.