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Sentences ending with shock

But this Sunday wherein Lali received a shock. [11]
No, the change was in her, and the very vastness of that change came as a shock. [9]
So her question was a shock. [9]
This thought gave us a shock. [5]
The hand held to his breast felt how he was trembling from the shock. [11]
A mist seemed to come before her eyes; but she was schooled to self- command, and he did not see he had given her a shock. [11]
When Jasmine read the note Al'mah had sent her, a flush stole slowly over her face, and then faded, leaving a whiteness, behind which was the emanation, not of fear, but of agitation and of shock. [11]
The significance of the announcement failed at once to register in my brain, but I was aware of a shock. [9]
And the idea that she, too, might prefer the sanction of the law, the gilded cage as a popular song which once had taken his fancy illuminatingly expressed it--seemed utterly incongruous with the freedom and daring of her spirit, was a sobering shock. [9]
It was blasting that done it--the shock. [11]

Short sentences using shock

Does that shock you? [9]
The shock was very great. [5]
Think of the shock. [5]
There comes a shock! [5]
It will only shock her. [11]
Indeed you shock me! [11]
The suggestion was a shock. [4]
Shock! [5]

Sentences containing shock two or more times

An external shock was needed to overcome that shame, and this shock came in due time. [2]
As for Hodder, he was not only undergoing a certain shock through the sudden contact, at such a moment, with Alison's brother: there was an additional shock that this was Alison's brother and Eldon Parr's son. [9]
I had previously had but one sensation like the shock of that departure, and that was the gaspy shock that took my breath away the first time that I was discharged from the summit of a toboggan slide. [5]

More example sentences with the word shock in them

It was not without a little shock that King heard the good points, the style, the physical perfections, of Irene so fully commented on, and not without some alarm that he heard predicted for her a very successful career as a belle. [4]
But something occurred, while she was in this mood, that did not shock her maidenly self-consciousness, nor throw her into antagonism, but which did bring her face to face with a possible reality. [4]
If only Dolly were not ill again from the shock, I should be happy indeed. [9]
But here it was suddenly sent upon her by the shock of a rifle shot. [11]
The Governor's announcement was such a shock that he choked and coughed, the crumbs flying in all directions; and another pint of canary must be taken to flush his throat. [11]
And their appearance was something of a shock to her; they did not, somehow, "go with the house," and they dressed even more carelessly than Peter Erwin. [9]
The first shock was so great that Mrs. Abner Reed cried in the privacy of her chamber, and the Widow Crane confessed her disappointment to the confiding ear of her bosom friend, Mrs. Merrill. [9]
But the illusion was momentary, and my eyes speedily recovered from the shock of the bright flame and snowy drapery to see that the figure was a breathing one. [6]
No little shock was it to have man after man tell her that he dare not accept her kind offer. [13]
With her this was a dislike of any shock to the senses. [11]
She felt a violent shock, the pitcher flew out of her hand and was shattered into a thousand fragments, and she sank to the ground under the weight of a warm, rough, heavy mass. [10]
The explosion threw us all to the ground, and covered us with dirt and debris; it frightened us extremely, too, for the crash it made was deafening, and the violence of the shock made the ground tremble. [5]
It was not until I had walked the length of the block that I began to realize what a shock my presence there must have been to him, with his head full of the contrast between this visit and my former attitude. [9]
When she had turned down West Street and almost gained the canal, it was with a shock of surprise that she found herself confronted by a man in a long cape who held a rifle and barred her path. [9]
Mamma said I tried to shock him; but he shocked me. [4]
I must say, too, that your refusal is something of a shock after what I had been led to expect after the past few years. [9]
It is not too much to say that a little shock went through the neighborhood when it was known that Calvin was dead, so marked was his individuality; and his friends, one after another, came in to see him. [4]
But he called too late, for the neglected wife died from the shock of her prince's longing message to her, and when, by the same mail, John York knew that, he would not go back to England to the King. [11]
She listened eagerly to the blows of the battering-engine; each one sounded to her like a shock to the very structure of the universe. [10]
I don't want to shock you, and I know how terribly you and father must feel, but I can see now, somehow, that I had to go through this experience, terrible as it was, to find myself. [9]
It was delicious to see a newspaper again, yet I was conscious of a secret shock when my eye fell upon the first batch of display head-lines. [5]
Suddenly it occurred to her with a shock that she was doing exactly what she had despised Lise for doing, and leaving the mirror she hurried her toilet, put out the light, and got into bed. [9]
And it came to her suddenly, with all the shock of a great contrast, with what different eyes she had looked upon him five years before at Silverdale. [9]
So I had to go on; nor did I think that it ever would cause you aught but a shock to your vanity. [11]
She would have to face the full shock from Jean Jacques' own battery. [11]
The stupor was to be attributed to the fall of a beam on his head, and the shock, rather than to the wound. [10]
She drew back timidly from the pleasant shock of a new experience. [11]
Shall I not thy high domination share Over the shock of feeling? [11]
The house was thrilled as with an electric shock, and the people half rose as if to seek a glimpse of the person who had made that exchange. [5]
The enchantment of this Moorish paradise become part of our mental possessions, without the least shock to our common sense. [4]
Why should not this happen, when we know that a sudden mental shock may be the cause of insanity? [6]
The shock of their encounter was dreadful; their lances were shivered, and sent up splinters in the air. [4]
But whence did the wonderful music proceed--Was she--and a shock of alarm thrilled her at the thought--was she numbered with the dead? [10]
The effect of the violent shock she had experienced was to change the whole nature of Myrtle for the time. [6]
Gaston took up the thread: "Now I come to what will shock you even more, perhaps. [11]
In it lay the strength for the shock of the awakening--if awakening of memory there was to be. [11]
If she waked, the shock to herself would be great; if she waked and saw him, what disaster might not occur! [11]
Suppose that in the shock of discovery Jasmine should throw everything to the winds, and lose herself in arrant egotism once more! [11]
Before Fleda entered the room she knew what awaited her; a merciful intuition had blunted the shock to her senses. [11]
Clara would see the report in the German papers, and as she had been nursing her husband day and night for four months [2] and was worn out and feeble, the shock might be disastrous. [5]
In this paper the mechanism of the series of nervous derangements to which I have been subject since the fatal shock experienced in my infancy is explained in language not hard to understand. [6]
The character of the illness, and the natural exhaustion of her strength by suffering, lessened the shock of her death, though not the loss, to those who survived her. [6]
The shock of the explosion had been heard at Glencader, but nothing was thought of it, as there had been much blasting in the district for days. [11]
The frame of the building was a good deal jarred by the shock, but no danger was apprehended from the injury it had received. [6]
Perhaps but for the accident at Mount Desert he might have felt that his summer pleasure was needlessly interfered with, but the little shock of that was a real, if still temporary, moral turning-point for him. [4]
The shock of that revelation had come to him when he had seen the trotters, had been confirmed when the young man had stood before the portrait. [9]
It was a terrible shock to us who had vainly hoped to keep him a few years longer, but at least he was spared what he had dreaded with a great dread, a gradual failure of mental or bodily power. [6]
But I can tell you now--if you'll bear up under a shock? [13]
How had he sustained the shock? [9]
The strange malady--for such it is--has become a second nature, and may require as energetic a shock to displace it as it did to bring it into existence. [6]
If a sledge-hammer strikes you on the skull, though your skull is of such a hardness that it does not break, still the shock numbs activity for awhile, at any rate. [11]
He started forward, stopped, trembling with a shock of remembrance, and gave back again. [9]
He stood perfectly still; the shock was so sudden. [11]
Even the half-breeds standing by felt a light shock of unnatural excitement. [11]
I was truly sorry for Farrar, for I knew the man, the depth of his nature, and the scope of the shock. [9]
Her expression was somewhat peculiar, and, of course, was attributed to the shock her feelings had undergone on hearing of the crime attempted by her cousin and daily companion. [6]
There must be something vitally wrong with an instrument which failed to register the great earthquake shock of June the seventh! [9]
This brave young soldier of a dispossessed family wished to show no fear of pain, no lack of outward and physical courage in the approaching and final shock. [11]
Be you ever so set against me--and I do not think you are--you should not be so strong to resist the shock of feeling. [11]
I recall a small shock of surprise at this, for the way was used only in the early autumn to connect with some fields beyond the hill. [9]
Cautiously, and with sincere thanks for his confidence in her, she begged him once more to allow her to leave him, because she needed rest after such a shock to her mind. [10]
Colonel Clark went silently on his way to the gate; but Monsieur Vigo stopped, and Kaskaskia heard, with a shock, that this man of iron was to march against Vincennes. [9]
There were no signs of poison, they said, but the heart had had a shock of some kind. [11]
This time the sickening shock again visited her, it was, however, because a revealing flash of thought told her that it was not alone Lassiter who was thrillingly welcome, but also his fatal weapons. [13]
I experienced a shock, for I was sure it was Backus. [5]
After the first shock, an Oakland minister said: "Keep your seats! [5]
Even the fearful shock which their nerves had sustained was not sufficient to overcome their coolness and courage. [5]
But the first shock was no sooner over than he began to think what effect the news would have on Elsie. [6]
In order to shock them it is sufficient to inject a thought of the opposite kind into their dull minds. [5]
Suddenly an electric shock seemed to run through Natasha's whole being. [2]
He had a shock presently, however, for on the jailer announcing the executioner, who should be there before him but the Undertaker's Apprentice! [11]
It was the shock of the heavy Indian falling on Polly Ann and me as we cowered under the trunk, and even then there was an instant that we stood gazing at him as at a worm writhing in the clay. [9]
When the first shock of her futile appeal to Lassiter had passed, Jane took his cold, silent condemnation and abrupt departure not so much as a refusal to her entreaty as a hurt and stunned bitterness for her attempt at his betrayal. [13]
I felt a shock of disgust as I passed out. [9]
It was a shock even to those familiar with the Street. [4]
First of all she knew that the light in the outer office was burning dimly, and the discovery gave her a shock. [9]
They had never seen anyone so tall, for they were not great of stature, and his huge beard and wild shock of hair were a wonderful sight. [11]
The novelist cannot reverse the facts without such a shock to our experience as shall destroy for us the artistic value of his fiction, and bring upon his work the deserved reproach of indiscriminately "rewarding the good and punishing the bad. [4]
But Shon had received a shock. [11]
But presently they received a shock. [11]
Suddenly, abruptly, but quietly, without peroration of any sort, always with "a gentle shock of mild surprise" to the unprepared listener. [6]
It was a profound shock, and she staggered under the blow, but he was her own, the core of her heart, the blessing of her eyes, her all in all, she could deny him nothing, and she forgave him. [5]
She had been prepared for these things, and Wylie Street was a shock to her: in sending her there at this crisis in her life fate had perpetrated nothing less than a huge practical joke. [9]
She hastened to place a table near to Orlando, for the tray which Li Choo had brought, and, as she did so, remarked with a shock at the cherished china upon the tray. [11]
There was a pause which seemed never ending, a shock, and an instant s silence. [13]
She turned very pale at the first shock, but soon she could listen to him with composure, and presently quite recovered her usual demeanor. [10]
Shall she surprise, or shock, or only please? [4]
Praxilla was then only just born, and his wife died of the shock of such terrible news. [10]
The spectacle of one, ordinarily so statue-like, thus trembling, stirred, and overcome, gave me a strange shock. [14]
Sad cases they often are, in which, nothing but a surprise being intended, the shock has instantly arrested the movements on which life depends. [6]
The wasted face of the storekeeper, enhanced as it was by the beard, gave Mr. Merrill such a shock that he could not speak for a few moments--he who rarely lacked for cheering words on any occasion. [9]
If the effect of the nervous shock had stopped there, it would have been a misfortune for my cousin and myself, but hardly a calamity. [6]
With a shock of surprise he suddenly remembered that his inability to reach this class had been one of the causes of his despair! [9]
This first sight of my name thus opprobriously flung to the multitude gave me an unpleasant shock. [9]
Victoria knew sufficient of life and had visited hospitals enough to understand that mental causes were generally responsible for such breakdowns--Hilary had had a shock. [9]
As the volts of an electric shock quivering through a body are suddenly withdrawn, and the rigidity becomes a ghastly inertness, so Jasmine's hands, and all her body, seemed released. [11]
Its faint tinge of amber reminded him of the spring at Cottonwoods, and the thought gave him a little shock. [13]
It was something of a shock to her that she did not see him for quite a half hour after she arrived home, and that was half past ten o'clock. [11]
The lasting effect of a shock received by the sense of sight or that of hearing is conceivable enough. [6]
Another shock, but of a different kind, was in store for them. [9]

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