10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STARTLISH»
Discover the use of
startlish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
startlish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... combustible, edgy, skittish, startlish, volatile skittish adj I syn GIDDY 1, bird-
witted, dizzy, empty headed, flighty, frivolous, harebrained, light-headed,
rattlebrained, scatterbrained rel irresponsible, undependable, unreliable 2 syn
EXCITABLE, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
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Lewis Arundel; or, The railroad of life
Why, you are quite startlish to-night, Joe !" she resumed, looking up at him with a
forced smile; "did you think it was a ghost ? — but it's no wonder you're nervous ;
it's hard lines for you, poor fellow, sitting up at nights like this ! — " " There it is ...
Francis Edward Smedley, 1852
Tired with their unexpected task of having to tug at another and a stuck-fast
diligence, — made startlish with having to stand in the rain and chill night air, in
the open road, while the debates were going on as to the best method of
attaching ...
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A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends' Books: Or Books Written ...
... by Charles Clark, Giltspur Street, Smithfield, and Benshaw, Bookseller, 356,
Strand. Disorders of the foot of the Horse. . . . 4to. London, 1839. :\ On the Vices of
Horses. By B. C. 4to. 1839. 1£ Vices of Horses. On the shying and startlish horse.
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The outlines of the veterinary art; or, The principles of ...
This, however, would be greatly overbalanced by the imperfect vision of other
objects, and a horse, so operated on, would be sure to become very startlish. If,
nevertheless, any person should be disposed to try the effects, the operation of ...
Delabere Pritchett Blaine, 1816
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
nearly an hour, and when he's awake he .does nothing but walk up and down the
room, talking to hisself. Perhaps I'd better go up and tell him as you're come, sir,
for he's summut startlish at times." “ No, no; I'll be my own messenger," and, ...
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Dictionary of the English Language Exhibiting Orthography, ...
91. Start ful\,-tm, a. 21. (v. v.) H., start fulness\, Starting, -ïng, a. (v. v.) H.,starttnglyi*
,sÂ. 91. Startlei, st4rtl, в. 45. Sud. alarm or surprise, (v. v.) H., startlish% (apt to
start}, a. 90-1. Startle, vt. To impress with fear ; to excite with sud. alarm or appreh.
, ...
Arnold James Cooley, 1861
The nearest medical man was obliged to be called in — and he had to give
frightful doses of laudanum before Mr. D.'s nerves could be lulled into a startlish
sort of doze ; — and at waking, he was ordered to drink the strongest stimuluses ;
as ...
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'Who breaks-pays', by the author of 'Cousin Stella'.
Henrietta Camilla Jenkin. even she expressed her opinion by the proverb, "Miss
Tufton is one that will either make a spoon or spoil a horn." This startlish, high-
blooded, generous young mortal, quite unable to guide herself along the
highways ...
Henrietta Camilla Jenkin, 1861
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Prose by Victorian Women: An Anthology
One stage-coach was overturned, and two post-chaises ran away in
consequence of their uproarious doings; and a sturdy old-fashioned country
gentleman, who rode a particularly anti-musical, startlish, blood-horse, began to
talk of indicting ...
Andrea Broomfield, Sally Mitchell, 2013
