When you're scared, you stay as you are!
Lad, I think we've got what we need for this page. Why don't you go have a look around? And keep out of trouble, or that Madam Sidler will scare you silly." Oskar put a hand to the side of his mouth a...
(imp. & p. p.) of Startle
He laughed and it sounded startled and a bit rusty, as if he didn't do that very often.
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
She slammed down the phone. The sharp bang shattered my heart like a bottle hitting the sidewalk
