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Sentences starting with astonishing

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business. [5]

Sentences ending with astonishing

In that country you might fall from a third story window three several times, and not mash either a soldier or a priest.--The scarcity of such people is astonishing. [5]
He walked up to that with an intrepidity and a recklessness that were astonishing. [5]
At the time that wages soared so high on the Missouri River, my chief, Mr. Bixby, went up there and learned more than a thousand miles of that stream with an ease and rapidity that were astonishing. [5]
He used to stand up in the Parliament and turn the English speeches into Hawaiian and the Hawaiian speeches into English with a readiness and a volubility that were astonishing. [5]
J. G. Woods says: "The distance to which the weet-weet or kangaroo-rat can be thrown is truly astonishing. [5]
I laid one of the plainest and simplest of legal questions before Orion once, and the helpless and hopeless mess he made of it was absolutely astonishing. [5]
The minds of most of the sailors broke down in the fourth week and went to temporary ruin, but physically the endurance exhibited was astonishing. [5]
The speech now lives only in the memory of a few old men, and the enthusiasm with which they cherish their recollection of it is absolutely astonishing. [7]
Well, now, that is just astonishing! [5]
How any man, in his right mind or out of it, could sit down and coldly try to persuade anybody to believe it, or listen patiently to it, or, indeed, do anything but scoff at it and deride it, is astonishing. [5]

Short sentences using astonishing

Verily, these things be astonishing! [5]
Why, it was astonishing. [6]
It's quite astonishing. [2]

More example sentences with the word astonishing in them

He had a wonderful vitality, an astonishing constitution. [5]
History is strewn with the wreck of popular delusions, but always in place of them have come realizations more astonishing than the wildest fancies of the dreamers. [4]
Our author wrote with great facility and rapidity when the inspiration was on him, and produced an astonishing amount of manuscript in a short period; but he often waited and fretted through barren weeks and months for the movement of his fitful genius. [4]
At times her will revealed itself in astonishing and unexpected flashes, as when once she announced that she was going to change Matthew's school. [9]
Poor Aunt Mary, who did not understand that a performance of "Pinafore" could give birth to the unfulfilled longings which result in the creation of high things, spoke to Uncle Tom a week later concerning an astonishing and apparently abnormal access of industry. [9]
The things for which her mother had striven she took for granted, and thought of them not at all, and she had by nature that simplicity and astonishing frankness of manner and speech which was once believed to be an exclusive privilege of duchesses. [9]
I know very well there is here no part of the Herbert whose hand I had shaken at the Commencement parting; but it is an astonishing reproduction of him,--a material likeness; and now for the spiritual. [4]
My first thought was, "Well, what an astonishing dream I've had! [5]
The astonishing thing was that neither of them for the moment paid any attention to the infuriated man beside them. [9]
We distressed ourselves very little about the astonishing echo the guide talked so much about. [5]
I am piling up manuscript in a really astonishing way. [5]
It was astonishing to see what one little creature like The Terror could accomplish in the course of a single season. [6]
It was astonishing to see what a little experience of miscellaneous practice had done for him. [6]
It is astonishing to see what a change for the better in her aspect a few weeks of brain-rest and heart's ease have wrought in her. [6]
It was astonishing to observe how suddenly the boat would spin around and turn tail the moment she emerged from the eddy and the current struck her nose. [5]
We stood ready to count the astonishing clatter of reverberations. [5]
And more than this, read nine of these cases, which he has published, as I have just done, and observe the absolute nullity of aconite, belladonna, and bryonia, against the symptoms over which they are pretended to exert such palpable, such obvious, such astonishing influences. [3]
Are we exaggerating this astonishing rise, development, and spread of the chrysanthemum? [4]
By authority of this astonishing By-law, she has only to say a person connected with that Church is secretly practicing hypnotism or mesmerism; whereupon, immediate excommunication, without a hearing, is his portion! [5]
The really astonishing thing about Jethro's foresight (known to few only) was that he perceived clearly that the time would come when the railroads and other aggregations of capital would exterminate the boss, or at least subserviate him. [9]
Moment by moment they skipped from one subject to another; yet in spite of this she always responded with an astonishing wisdom and memory. [5]
When he perused the extracts from the "Book of Arguments" which appeared (with astonishing unanimity, too! [9]
Well, all through the circus they done the most astonishing things; and all the time that clown carried on so it most killed the people. [5]
He alluded to the astonishing growth of Illinois, having grown within his memory to a population of a million and a half; to Iowa and the other young rising communities of the Northwest. [7]
Four days later Susan had a letter from her mother containing an astonishing discovery. [9]
By some astonishing subconscious process I had regained my manner, but the applause came to me as from a distance. [9]
There are more strange, astonishing and wonderful things to be seen in that country than anywhere else in the world. [10]
It was a strange sight, for the water was a vivid green, and the man wore garments of white and scarlet, and looked a part of some strange mosaic: as one has seen astonishing figures set in balls of solid glass. [11]
Truly, nothing is so astonishing as figures, if they once get started. [5]
His chief faculty seemed to be to give her the power to behold, with astonishing clearness, objects and truths which had lain before her eyes, and yet hidden. [9]
The Fire-Tender was saying that it is astonishing how much is telegraphed us from the East that is not half so interesting. [4]
He has been pursued, day by day and year by year, by a most phenomenal and astonishing luckiness. [5]
I do not pretend to account for this astonishing transformation in your opinions. [9]
She has a perfectly astonishing talent for putting words together in such a way as to make successful inquiry into their intention impossible. [5]
With this active opposition of those interested, and the astonishing indifference of the general public, it is easy to see why so little is done to relieve us of this intolerable burden. [4]
I consider it one of the most astonishing novels that ever was written. [5]
Whatever there was of romance and folklore in Uncle Tom's library Honora had extracted at an early age, and with astonishing ease had avoided that which was dry and uninteresting. [9]
It reminded me of Launcelot riding in Sir Kay's armor and astonishing complacent Knights who thought they had struck a soft thing. [5]
When you think of it, it is astonishing that this department should not be in the hands of the ablest men, accomplished scholars, philosophical observers, discriminating selectors of the news of the world that is worth thinking over and talking about. [4]
Suddenly I found myself begging her not to go; the more astonishing since, if at any time during the past winter this solution had presented itself to me as a possibility, I should eagerly have welcomed it! [9]
It was the most astonishing speech I ever heard--and I'm bound to say Tom Sawyer fell considerable in my estimation. [5]
He hailed the most astonishing people with an easy air of freedom, now releasing my arm, now Farrar's, to salute. [9]
It is the most astonishing disappearance I ever heard of. [5]
It is the most astonishing coincidence that ever --but wait. [5]
In a few moments, with astonishing rapidity, the whole herd got into motion. [13]
Lord Henniker, a member of the Royal Society, who is spoken of as a man of judgment and talents, condescended to patronize the astonishing discovery, and at different times bought three pairs of Tractors. [6]
His Lordship told many a capital yarn, and my own wit was afterwards said to be astonishing, though I can recall none of it to support the affirmation. [9]
There was a long line of booths, where images could be shot at with bird-guns; and when the shots were successful, the images went through astonishing revolutions. [4]
He had no less astonishing a proposition to make than this, which he enunciated with much mouthing of the honour and sense of duty of Mr. Grafton Carvel. [9]
How he enjoyed it all, and his self-consciousness added to his pleasure, as he swung along in his well-fitting city clothes, broad-shouldered and erect--it is astonishing how much a tailor can do for a man who responds to his efforts. [4]
Does it consist in astonishing the invited, in overwhelming him with a sense of your own wealth, or felicity, or family, or cleverness even; in trying to absorb him in your concerns, your successes, your possessions, in simply what interests you? [4]
Last night, when I was wet to the skin and listening to the shells--each singing its own song in the darkness--I was able to think with astonishing ease better than if I were sitting at a mahogany desk in a sound proof room! [9]
His is the humble task of following the fortunes of certain individuals, more or less conspicuous in this astonishing flowering of a democratic society, who have become dear to him by long acquaintance. [4]
It is astonishing how things'll come round your way if you keep on thinking and willing them so. [11]
Now you understand how the inquisitors were able to devise that long array of minutely prying questions; questions whose subtlety and ingenuity and penetration are astonishing until we come to remember Loyseleur's performance and recognize their source. [5]
It is astonishing how morbidly sensitive some vulgar beauties are to the slightest demonstration of this kind. [6]
It was astonishing how many New England clergymen, in the time of the petroleum excitement, took chances in oil. [5]
It was astonishing how long and how soundly he could sleep. [10]
We struck the home-trail now, and in a few hours were in that astonishing Chicago--a city where they are always rubbing the lamp, and fetching up the genii, and contriving and achieving new impossibilities. [5]
With astonishing suddenness he could raise insurmountable barriers; and people, not of his order, who occasionally presumed on his simplicity of life and habits, found themselves put distinctly ill at ease by a quiet, curious look in his eye. [11]
To Tom Canty, half buried in his silken cushions, these sounds and this spectacle were a wonder unspeakably sublime and astonishing. [5]
Many of the guests had never seen this celebrated product of human skill, and to all the two-story population of Rockland it was the last expression of the art of pleasing and astonishing the human palate. [6]
Neither man would give consent, and so that astonishing and most noble echo had to cease from its great powers; and since that day that magnificent property is tied up and unsalable. [5]
His adherents accounted for this by the astonishing magnitude of his ideas. [4]
The astonishing candidate for the Senate had sunk into his chair, his face relaxed into sadness save for the sparkle lurking in the eyes. [9]
There is nothing for me but to stand helpless and see other people reap the astonishing harvest. [5]
An ideal genie, for he could assume an astonishing fierceness at will. [9]
Don't laugh: I find astonishing likenesses between the perfectly human and the perfectly animal. [11]
The rector had felt something of this before, and it seemed to him astonishing that the revelation had not come to him sooner. [9]
These latter played euchre in the smoking room day and night, drank astonishing quantities of raw whisky without being in the least affected by it, and were the happiest people I think I ever saw. [5]
Poor William, greatly embarrassed by his sudden projection into the limelight, is helpless in the clutches of a lady-waitress who is demanding somewhat fiercely that he make an immediate choice from a list of dishes which she is shooting at him with astonishing rapidity. [9]
When he was down at Ilium he called himself the engineer of the works, and he used to spend hours smoking his pipe with the Dutch landlord on the hotel porch, and astonishing the idlers there with the stories of his railroad operations in Missouri. [5]
The masses, too, Democratic as well as Whig, were even nearer unanimous against it; but, as soon as the party necessity of supporting it became apparent, the way the Democrats began to see the wisdom and justice of it was perfectly astonishing. [7]
Not a mine could be named that had not experienced an astonishing advance in value within a short time. [5]
By an astonishing concession in the organization any person can gain admittance by paying the sum of fifty cents. [4]
Legislatures, politicians and capitalists receded into a dim background; and the gift I had possessed, in youth, of living in a realm of fancy showed astonishing signs of revival. [9]
It is within bounds to say that some of the results were astonishing. [5]
One night the boat struck a snag in the head of Kentucky Bend, and sank with astonishing suddenness; water already well above the cabin floor when the captain got aft. [5]
The tunnel will be some eight miles long, and will develop astonishing riches. [5]
Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather right straight off, and my troubles all gone. [5]
It was perfectly astonishing to hear men who, on other subjects, were of some judgment, utter their opinions upon this. [5]
It is an astonishing thing, when you come to consider it. [5]
But the most astonishing thing was that in spite of being in the best of health, he was suffering from the gravest illness in the world. [10]
Nor is it astonishing that she should not have understood the highly complex organism of the young lady we have chosen for our heroine, who was shaken, at the age of thirteen, by unfulfilled longings. [9]
It was an astonishing situation, and imposingly dramatic. [5]
He was an astonishing creature to fly around and do things. [5]
And after the astonishing conversation from which we had come, my admiration for the lady beside me was magnified to a veritable awe. [9]
It was an astonishing amount of ice to be compacted together in one mass. [5]
It is an astonishing abdication of individual preference. [4]
Yes, it was an astonishing thing to see the Mississippi rolling between unpeopled shores and straight over the spot where I used to see a good big self-complacent town twenty years ago. [5]
Public opinion attained an astonishing degree of freedom,--I never heard of any community that was altogether free of its tyranny. [4]
He showed, too, an accurate and astonishing knowledge of the lake which could hardly have been acquired in any other way than the long-shore trip he had described. [9]
Later, I grew accustomed to prowling about mysterious drifts and tunnels and astonishing and interesting myself with coming around corners expecting to find the hotel staring me in the face, and not finding it doing any thing of the kind. [5]
And what astonishing absurdities in the way of quotation from song and poem he perpetrated on the road, no man knows. [12]
But it is a much graver question why a man who has shrewdness and learning enough to go so far after his facts, should think it right to treat them with such astonishing negligence or such artful unfairness. [3]
He got astonishing "deductions" out of each and every one of these matters--each and every one of them. [5]

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