Like the big bird, these smaller birds like to startle people.

But you like to startle people-tomake them talk about you!'

Sometimes I quite startle people with my psychic power.

It would startle people, frighten them a little, eh?

Hundreds of startled people had seen it at Madisonville, ninety miles away.

Even his name startled people by the outlandish sound of it.

The startled people of the Pacific coast looked at each other with anxious, uncertain eyes.

Then the startled people grasped the truth of the appalling situation and awoke from their dream.

The startled people lifted their heads.

Equally startled people saw the car screech to a stop in front of the home of the Secretary of War.

On several occasions he announced a policy which startled people and gave a new turn to the course of events.

This vision of the animal at such a time and place, in the midst of these startled people, was something frightful to witness.