Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Startle

Startles … like a blasphemy.
—Joseph Addison

Startled like shying steeds.
—Arabian Nights

Startle like a wound in the flesh.
—Confucius

Startled like a moon-caught ghost.
—John Davidson

Startle, like a call to arms.
—Grace King

Startles like a pistol shot at a wedding.
—Sydney Munden

Startled, as if some new-created thing
Enriched the earth, or Faery of the woods
Bounded before him.
—William Wordsworth