Ramage, equally startled, signalled reassuringly to the American and looked at the man, his face unsmiling and questioning.

Somehow we forgot how loud it had been, how we paced and listened to busy signals or lay in our beds, startled equally by the sound of fighter jets and thunderstorms, or stayed up late into the night fixated on new words like "permanentize" and "upsetment" coined by flustered newscasters.

The young man, equally startled, lost his grip on the rein.

Hutch, equally startled, fell back into the lock.

Dallas and Lambert join him equally startled.

I, equally startled, sprang back like a cat with its tail afire.

He faced her, equally startled.

For a moment we both froze, equally startled.

Ken followed her gaze and turned, too, equally startled.