Was that what had startled her from such a deep sleep?

The sound of someone coming in startled the grin from her face.

Her eyes, startled from the word in the dictionary, came to his.

I was startled by the turn the talk had taken, especially from Ace.

And then she turned, a quick twist of her body, startled from thought.

Even now, in the night, she was sometimes startled from sleep by the sound of those words; that scream.

Someone opened a door behind us and pigeons startled from the steps.

He was startled from his thoughts by the door banging closed behind him.

A few weeks later, the writer was startled from his sleep by a voice: it sounded like a woman talking at a dinner party.

The abrupt statement startled the youth from his brown study.