The trooper, startled by this sudden apparition, swung the weapon.

The form of the sudden apparition was grotesque.

Several startled guards stepped backward, away from the sudden apparition, and snatched up their weapons.

The sudden apparition of our three tanks not twenty yards away paralyzed them.

The queen seemed numbed and struck speechless by the sudden apparition.

The intense effect produced by this sudden apparition is not at all to be wondered at when the various circumstances are taken into consideration.

Anything could have done it-a flashlight in the face, the sudden apparition of steps going down.

This sudden apparition had an extraordinary effect upon him.

The sudden apparition had been produced by her cactus plant in response to some tender loving care.

The sudden apparition of a supernatural being could not have startled them more completely.