Citations:upstartle

English citations of upstartle

• Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, translated by H. F. Cary, 1814

  And as a sleep is broken and dispers'd

  Through sharp encounter of the nimble light,

  With the eye's spirit running forth to meet

  The ray, from membrane on to the membrane urg'd;

  And the upstartled wight loathes that he sees;

• 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XX

  My eyelids sank in spite of wonder grown;

  A louder crash upstartled me in dread