Startler

Word STARTLER
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He publishes his startler in the Spring 2009 Wilson Quarterly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sonalysts Inc. of Waterford, Conn., used its sonar technology to create a system that diverts fish from swimming too near the James A. Fitzpatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County, N.Y. The "fish startler" is just one of the peaceable-kingdom products that have helped Sonalysts diversify. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And then, like a giddy fool as I was, I needs must give them a startler — the whoop of an owl, done so exactly, as John Fry had taught me, and echoed by the roof so fearfully, that one of them dropped the tinder box; and the other caught up his gun and cocked it, at least as I judged by the sounds they made. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

His second was much more of a startler, and I only got it last week. ' ❋ Gilbert Keith (1911)

I said: "Mrs. Cutting, I am trying to think of a subject the discussion of which will come upon the world in the nature of a startler -- some subject upon which no previous human being has ever said a word -- some subject that will attract by its novelty, invigorate by its surprising freshness." ❋ Unknown (1893)

"This is a startler," I said; "what are we going to do?" ❋ Thomas William Lawson (1891)

This was a startler even to Cucullin; but he got up, however, and after pulling the middle finger of his right hand until it cracked three times, he went outside, and getting his arms about the house, turned it as she had wished. ❋ Joseph Jacobs (1885)

"All right," he said, "we'll go and give them a bit of a startler." ❋ George Chetwynd Griffith (1881)

He fired his "Artistic Joke" off, the shot went home, and the effect was a startler for many people and in many places. ❋ Various (1880)

The grave old Turk then found his tongue, and the reply was such a startler, that the four travellers were knocked off their moral equilibrium. ❋ Bracebridge Hemyng (1871)

"What we've got to do, gentlemen, is something that will give them such a startler that they'll have had enough of it; and it must be done without our getting a scratch." ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

"Well, come, I like that, sir," he said, with a laugh; "there have you got the little signal-gun loaded and primed, and the poker all red-hot and waiting, and i'stead o 'having it run to the gangway, set open ready to give 'em their startler, you says you don't know what to do?" ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

"Never mind," he muttered, "I shall have a startler directly, see if I don't," and he fished away, changing his bait, or replacing it as it was lost in consequence of the rapid motion of the steamer through the water; but all in vain; not a single fish came to his side, while on the other side Ensign Long was having tremendous luck. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

Lor 'a mussy! the way she used to shove the soap in my eyes and ears and work her fingers round in 'em, was a startler. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

"And suppose it goes off while you are lighting it, and gives you a startler, and sends us all to the bottom, how then?" ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

And then, like a giddy fool as I was, I needs must give them a startler -- the whoop of an owl, done so exactly, as John Fry had taught me, and echoed by the roof so fearfully, that one of them dropped the tinder-box, and the other caught up his gun and cocked it -- at least as I judged by the sounds they made. ❋ Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle (1864)

And then, like a giddy fool as I was, I needs must give them a startler -- the whoop of an owl, done so exactly, as John Fry had taught me, and echoed by the roof so fearfully, that one of them dropped the tinder box; and the other caught up his gun and cocked it, at least as ❋ Unknown (1862)

Drag Me To Hell is a startler, and yet one doesn't get irritated by the jump-ups.

His second was much more of a startler, and I only got it last week.” ❋ Unknown (2003)

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