like startled wild donkeys

like startled wild donkeys

As if they were startled donkeys

as if they were startled asses

As though they were asses startled .

As if they were startled donkeys

as if they were startled asses

As though they were asses startled .

I am very sorry, he said to startled onlookers. I have come too late.

While the West accumulated debts, Asia had startled the world with its long economic boom.

I attended the committee s launch and was startled that the Climate Commission barely mentioned climate change.

To write about Mexico, she became so Mexican that the startled government of Mexico deported her.

It happened at midnight, that the man was startled and turned himself and behold, a woman lay at his feet.

It was evident straight away that she was perfectly sane and lucid and of good intelligence, but she'd been very startled and very bewildered, because she'd been seeing things.

But he startled markets recently by saying that the FOMC s expected path of stronger growth could lead to a slower pace of buying later this year and an end to the asset purchases by mid 2014.

Besides, for this to have happened now is a nice coincidence. Because not an hour ago, while we were on our walk, my dog was startled by a backfire and jumped straight up like a horse bucking.

French President Jacques Chirac unguardedly speculated that an Iran with one or two nuclear bombs might not pose a serious a threat, given the possibility of nuclear retaliation his musings so startled French officials that they quickly jumped in to correct the President s comments.

Likewise, the leader of Britain s Conservatives, David Cameron, startled more old fashioned supporters of his party by saying that people released from prison need, above all, love. When Prime Minister Tony Blair described the next election as a fistfight in which the flyweight Cameron would be carried out and the heavyweight Brown victorious after a short bout, he got much applause from his supporters in the House of Commons, but the remark went down badly with voters.