Shafer, who had been leaning over Emerson's high chair to entertain him, sat suddenly upright and began briskly combining plates and moving glasses, as if solving a puzzle.
"Murugan sat suddenly upright, the sweat pounding off his face, not sure whether he was still dreaming or awake.
Performer Valentijn Dhaenens offers an alternative vision where the theatre space in which we sit is suddenly voided of people.
In Vienna, he would hobble into a room and look for the nearest chair to sit down, suddenly looking his 71 years.
There's a scene where I sit up suddenly, as if woken from a dream, and David leaps on top of me, and I sat up and gave him a full Liverpool kiss in the face.
On the day after, Tom Glavine did not sit up suddenly in bed with a shocked look on his face and say, "Oh my goodness, what have I done?" But he acknowledged, "There's a little bit of shock among my friends and teammates because I don't think anyone thought I'd end up leaving here".
"It got so bad I would sit up suddenly at night and wonder if I was going to slip up and this whole thing would explode," said the secretive shopper, Katharine Farrington, 46, a freelance film writer living in Washington, who is now free of debt.
He sat up, suddenly alert.
He sits up suddenly and says that he's all right.
When the blind man sits up, suddenly, his hair-trigger instincts having flared to life, it's the first of many voltaic scares.
