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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Startle
 
  Startles … like a blasphemy.
            —Joseph Addison		  1
  Startled like shying steeds.
            —Arabian Nights		  2
  Startle like a wound in the flesh.
            —Confucius		  3
  Startled like a moon-caught ghost.
            —John Davidson		  4
  Startle, like a call to arms.
            —Grace King		  5
  Startles like a pistol shot at a wedding.
            —Sydney Munden		  6
Startled, as if some new-created thing
Enriched the earth, or Faery of the woods
Bounded before him.
            —William Wordsworth		  7
 
 
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