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Many of the handrails by the bridges show deep marks worn by the towropes by which horses pulled canal barges until the 1950s, and it is still possible to see ramps on the canal bank designed to assist horses which fell in the canal after being startled by the noise of a train.
The young sentry, startled by the sound of horses, stands up and takes a shot at Jacob, killing him instantly.
In some cases, when feral horses are startled, they may damage infrastructure, including troughs, pipes, and fences.

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After almost hitting a startled motorist in the hotel's parking garage, Essex began to climb the stairs, only to find the fire doors locked on floor after floor.

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He ran on his plump sticks of legs, freezing now and again into the sudden startled attitudes which the camera had caught and held on the paling photographs, all carefully placed and glued and labeled, resting in the fat plush album in the bottom drawer of the escritoire.
Not really startled, but careful to appear so, Grosse sucked noisily on his pipe.
A second scene flashed before his mind, the interior of the garage at the new house and the young Bartlett girl turning startled to meet him, the dim dark and the sudden confusion and fear and then the brightness as Mae had clicked on the light.
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.
Ekstrohm was startled in the morning by a banging on the hatch of his bubble.
A handler's finger may involuntarily move for any of several reasons: the handler is startled, a lack of full attention on body movements, physiological reasons beyond conscious control such as a spasm, stumbling or falling, or the finger being pushed by something ( as when trying to holster a handgun with one's finger on the trigger ).
" This explanation would cover sightings of lake-monsters on land, during which the creature supposedly waddled into the loch upon being startled, in the manner of seals.
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.
They were quite startled in the morning when they had found out that their efforts were not in vain – Frossard had abandoned his position on the heights.
Although this defeat left the Kievan principality at the mercy of invaders, the Mongol forces retreated and did not reappear for thirteen years, during which time the princes of Rus ' went on quarreling and fighting as before, until they were startled by a new and much more formidable invading force.
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.
Early in the days of his official employment he startled his master's courtiers by the realism with which he painted still life, game and antlers on the walls of the country palaces at Coburg and Locha ; his pictures of deer and wild boar were considered striking, and the duke fostered his passion for this form of art by taking him out to the hunting field, where he sketched " his grace " running the stag, or Duke John sticking a boar.
One evening Mrs. Wetherell was startled by a noise at the well and looking out saw a big black bear down on his haunches trying to get a drink.
Either of these sentences means that the student was startled because the teacher was shouting, but the first places greater emphasis on the shouting by making it the subject of the sentence, while the second places greater emphasis on the teacher and is not using a gerund.
In the final scene, Inspector Sugg, last seen in Whose Body ?, is startled to find Wimsey, Parker, and Freddy Arbuthnot on the street after midnight, all drunk as lords.
At the other end of the Park, the soldiers on Clonliffe Road were startled first by the sound of the fusillade, then by the sight of panicked people fleeing the grounds.
In 1838 he wrote Letters on Egypt, Edom and the Holy Land in which he stated " Many I believe entertain the idea that an actual curse rests on the soil of Palestine, and may be startled therefore at the testimony I have borne to its actual richness.

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She could easily understand why the two men had been startled to find a strange girl in the back seat of their car ( she had figured that out ), but she couldn't understand their subsequent actions.
Armadillos ( mainly Dasypus ) make common roadkill due to their habit of jumping three to four feet vertically when startled, which puts them into collision with the underside of vehicles.
Early travelers in Asia sometimes describe a kind of military amok, in which soldiers facing apparently inevitable defeat suddenly burst into a frenzy of violence which so startled their enemies that it either delivered victory or at least ensured what the soldier in that culture considered an honourable death.
They are known for their alarm signal: when startled or frightened, a swimming beaver will rapidly dive while forcefully slapping the water with its broad tail, audible over great distances above and below water.
The Chians however closed their gates, startled at the calamity.
They will generally not attack humans unless startled or provoked, although females protecting their eggs can be aggressive.
In the days following the world's startled response, the Soviets started celebrating their " great accomplishment.
This also occurs with the three daughters of Minyas, who reject Dionysus and remain true to their household duties, becoming startled by invisible drums, flutes, cymbals, and seeing ivy hanging down from their looms.
It was Monhegan traders who taught English to Samoset, the sagamore who in 1621 startled the Pilgrims by boldly walking into their new village at Plymouth and saying: " Welcome, Englishmen.
Ripley and Coles resumed their advance along the edge of the woods, but were startled to see a line of redcoats ( the 2nd / 89th, on Morrison's left flank ) rise up out of concealment and open fire.
In support of his allegation, Bernard quotes Tertullian as writing against Praxeas: " The simple, indeed ( I will not call them unwise or unlearned ), who always constitute the majority of believers, are startled at the dispensation ( of the Three in One ), on the very ground that their very Rule of Faith withdraws them from the world's plurality of gods to the one only true God ; not understanding that, although He is the one only God, He must yet be believed in with His own economy.
With his speed and bounce, he brought glee to the Indian players as the Pakistani batsmen were startled with bouncers that struck their helmets on more than one occasion.
When frightened or startled, the whole herd starts leaping about to confuse their predator.
The trio are occasionally unable to complete their music as a result of something going on in the scene, such as when they are startled by a bear that is chasing Dora and Boots in one episode.
But Cropsey was best known for his lavish use of color and, as a first-generation member from the Hudson River School, painted autumn landscapes that startled viewers with their boldness and brilliance.
For example, Laysan Ducks are more likely to freeze their movement rather than flush or fly when startled — a strategy well suited for cryptic defense against Hawaii ’ s native flying predators, but ineffective against ground predators.
The government of Napoleon III of France was undoubtedly startled by the Prussian victory over Austria, and urgently sought to reform their army to face the conflict with Prussia which seemed inevitable and imminent.
After the successful operation, the family is startled to learn that Mateo had settled and paid for their astronomical hospital bill before he had died, upon the discovery that Mateo was in possession of a large trust fund he never spent.

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The startled animal let out a terrified squeal and thrashed around in the stall.
She raised a protesting hand with a startled air.
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.
Once inside the luxuriosly-upholstered landau, she drew the curtains and proceeded to give the startled youth the kind of physical examination usually reserved for army inductees.
He was even more startled when he heard what Kayabashi wanted.
from the early evening lights of them which had first startled Izaak to look at her in an uncousinly way, they had faded to a near-absence of color which had, possibly from her constant looking at the water, something of the light of the sea in them.
( We can imagine how they startled audiences of the 1870's.
Maybe one could be startled into forgetfulness.
Coming home from work, he was startled to see a police car parked in front of the apartment building.
A startled piping sound returned.
I was thoroughly startled ''.
The symptoms of anxiety include excessive and ongoing worry and tension, an unrealistic view of problems, restlessness or a feeling of being " edgy ", irritability, muscle tension, headaches, sweating, difficulty concentrating, nausea, the need to go to the bathroom frequently, tiredness, trouble falling or staying asleep, trembling, and being easily startled.
The use of a foreign company for the extraction of gold at the largest mine in the Western Hemisphere has startled and concerned many Dominican's who believe that this gold is Dominican gold and should be extracted by Dominican companies and not foreign.
Buddy is furious, and Ben, startled by the parallel between present and past, tells Sally it was over long ago.

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