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Sentences starting with astonishment

Astonishment did not pause here. [9]
Astonishment robbed me of breath as he threw open the postern. [9]

Sentences ending with astonishment

His face flushed with sudden desire to laugh, then it paled in dumb astonishment. [11]
There were moments when she believed herself to hate Mr. Ditmar, when she treated him with an aloofness, an impersonality unsurpassed; moments when he paused in his dictation to stare at her in astonishment. [9]
The whole legislature was stricken speechless with dismay and astonishment. [5]
Just behind the unconscious Alonzo stood his mother, a picture of astonishment. [5]
After breakfast, when they went to the desk, the clerk stared at them in astonishment. [9]
He looked at the visitor in astonishment. [10]
The soldier listened speechless with astonishment. [10]
Behind the unconscious Rosannah stood "Aunt Susan," another picture of astonishment. [5]
As the Southern Rights politics of the Catherwood family were a matter of note in the city, Stephen did not attempt to conceal his astonishment. [9]
And in this position the old man, happening in course of time to look that way, at length chanced to see him: to his unbounded astonishment. [12]

Short sentences using astonishment

To my astonishment they halted. [9]
Faith watched him in astonishment. [11]
Adrian watched her in astonishment. [10]
Tom's astonishment was boundless! [5]

Sentences containing astonishment two or more times

Then, as she began to grasp the meaning of his harangue, astonishment was still dominant,--sheer astonishment. [9]

More example sentences with the word astonishment in them

It was not without astonishment that the rest of the Holt family beheld them returning together as the gongs were sounding for luncheon. [9]
We have seen with what astonishment the old Dutch scholar, Groen van Prinsterer, looked upon a man who had wrestled with authors like Bor and Van Meteren, who had grappled with the mightiest folios and toiled undiscouraged among half-illegible manuscript records. [6]
Mr. Fenton contrasts with astonishment the decrease in New Zealand with the increase in Ireland; countries not very dissimilar in climate, and where the inhabitants now follow nearly similar habits. [1]
They were stupefied with astonishment naturally. [5]
Nebsecht looked on with astonishment at this pretty play. [10]
His eye paused when in line with us, and we were seized with astonishment to behold him making in our direction. [9]
The Alexandrian populace were accustomed to see much that was strange in the busy streets of their crowded city; but this vehicle attracted every eye, and excited astonishment, admiration and mirth, wherever it appeared, and not unfrequently the bitterest ridicule. [10]
He eyed the well-scraped over-mantel askance and saw, with scarcely concealed astonishment, a fine, old, carved wooden seat carried out of doors to make room for an American rocking-chair. [11]
This surprising thing was tested and enjoyed by each scholar in turn, and great was the gladness and astonishment of all. [5]
The, public astonishment was so great and the public curiosity so intense, that when the justice of the peace opened his court, the place was packed with people and even the windows were full. [5]
And, indeed, it was not merely strange, but it filled her heart and mind with astonishment and terror. [10]
My own astonishment was as great. [9]
Each one came up, glanced at what had been done, and with horror, reproach, and astonishment pushed back again. [2]
When Shakespeare came up to London with his first poems in his pocket, the town was so great and full of marvels, and luxury, and entertainment, as to excite the astonishment of continental visitors. [4]
The high-priest looked up in astonishment, as the disturbance in the court of the temple broke in on his studies. [10]
The silence holding two men now held three, and a curious, cold astonishment possessed the two younger. [11]
The new President, too, seizes the early occasion of the Silliman letter to indorse and strongly construe that decision, and to express his astonishment that any different view had ever been entertained! [7]
And yet her tongue seemed tied, and it was only by the utmost effort of her will that she could bring herself to express her astonishment at his rapid return to health. [10]
They only surrender to us what they gave us for a consideration long, long ago; what they have not now asked for, struggled or cared for; what has been thrust upon them, not less to their astonishment than to ours. [7]
He declined both, to the lasting astonishment, yet personal joy, of the Cure and the Avocat; but, as time went on, not so much to the surprise of the Little Chemist and Medallion. [11]
At this moment, to the astonishment of all, there appeared at the back of the platform between Jowett and Halliday the lawyer, the man with a tragic history who had been as one buried for weeks past, who had vanished from their calculations. [11]
Nobody was able to stir or speak for a while, so paralyzing was the universal astonishment, so unbelievable the fact that the stake was actually standing there unoccupied and its prey gone. [5]
Pity led him to go to him and, to his astonishment, he recognized the runner and messenger of Kasana's father, with whom he had often talked. [10]
He kept looking to either side of the road for familiar faces, but only saw everywhere the unfamiliar faces of various military men of different branches of the service, who all looked with astonishment at his white hat and green tail coat. [2]
I cannot begin to depict the astonishment of this man when he reached the copse, and was led before our lean, square-shouldered commander. [9]
It was at this time that the wonderful counterpane began to grow, to the continual astonishment of Giuseppe, to whom it seemed a marvel of skill and patience, and who saw what love and sweet hope Fiammetta was knitting into it with her deft fingers. [4]
Nitetis gazed at these gates in astonishment, and then a joyful smile lighted up her face, as she looked up the long broad street so brightly and beautifully decorated to welcome her. [10]
Here, Pierre, tell them your opinion," said she, turning to the young man who, having come quite close, was gazing with astonishment at the angry face of the princess which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of Prince Vasili. [2]
But now, to their astonishment, the man was the aggressor. [11]
He paused on the levee to survey with concern and astonishment the flood of waters behind it, and then asked an officer the way to General Sherman's headquarters. [9]
He, too, stared, the laughter fading from his eyes, first astonishment, and then anger, growing in them, slowly, surely. [9]
As he turned the key in the lock, he surveyed me with some astonishment which was not diminished when he looked from me to my companion. [12]
To her astonishment the hitherto pliant Peter, who only existed in order to do her will, became transformed into a brusque masculine creature which she did not recognize. [9]
So when presently the gentleman himself appeared smiling at our door, which his servant had left open, we both of us rose up in astonishment and bowed very respectfully, and my face burned at the thought of the message I had sent him. [9]
And when from the fort they saw us coming across the fields they opened the gates in astonishment, and on hearing the news gave themselves over to the wildest rejoicing. [9]
When she found the entire fence whitewashed, and not only whitewashed but elaborately coated and recoated, and even a streak added to the ground, her astonishment was almost unspeakable. [5]
Of course, I supposed that such vessels came in unexpectedly, after indefinite years of absence,--suddenly as falling stones; and that the great guns roared in their astonishment and delight at the sight of the old war-ship splitting the bay with her cutwater. [6]
The sun had sunk half below the horizon and an evening frost was starring the puddles near the ferry, but Pierre and Andrew, to the astonishment of the footmen, coachmen, and ferrymen, still stood on the raft and talked. [2]
I went away stupefied with astonishment, and saying to myself, 'How strange it is! [5]
The old lady stood petrified with astonishment, peering over her glasses; Tom lay on the floor expiring with laughter. [5]
He could only stare in stupid astonishment, and wonder how a single individual could possess such incredible riches. [5]
He followed the sound without delay and, when he turned the corner of the building, stopped short in astonishment, exclaiming as a low cry rose close before him: "Good-evening, Gorgias! [10]
I thought this somewhat strange, but as the boat was a light one, I towed it in and hitched it to the wharf, when, to my great astonishment, there disembarked not Farrar, but Miss Trevor. [9]
She surprised him so often with her knowledge that he was ready to receive her without astonishment when she burst in upon him one allay with a cry of triumph, "Eureka! [6]
I showed no signs of astonishment at this remarkable likeness, treated him however, with immense civility, and begged him to pay me a visit. [10]
To my astonishment, she laughed a little. [9]
To my astonishment several got to their feet in front of me, huzzaing, and Comyn and Lord Ossory grasped my hands. [9]
Mr. Lyon hesitated, seeing again as in a vision the astonishment of his family. [4]
If ever we see better days I shall be astonished, and before I have got over my astonishment it will all be over. [10]
Now, on looking round, he perceived, to his astonishment, that the grey-haired man with the wooden leg, whom he had already noticed, though without recognizing him, had hidden his face in his hands and was weeping. [10]
Pierre looked at Rostopchin with naive astonishment, not understanding why he should be disturbed by the bad composition of the Note. [2]
Antigonus closed his report with the impudent whistle of the Greek athlete; he dwelt chiefly on his astonishment at Melissa's absence. [10]
To understand and remember them was impossible, and she gazed in astonishment at the old man who so clearly comprehended the confused tangle and drew from it so readily just what he needed for his purpose. [10]
You rattle on quite playfully, and with measureless extravagance, about how you wept at the tomb of Adam; and all in good time you find to your astonishment that no end of people took you at your word and believed you. [5]
What was the poor young man's astonishment to discover upon the printed page his own article. [5]
He was in particular partial to the poets, could quote at will from Gay and Thomson and Goldsmith and Gray, and even from Shakespeare, much to my own astonishment and humiliation. [9]
He looked me over in well-bred astonishment and replied: "Hang me, Crocker, if I can make you out. [9]
Marshal Canrobert looked on, dizzy with astonishment, admiration, and delight; and sent right off for Scoresby, and hugged him, and decorated him on the field in presence of all the armies! [5]
Mr. Carvel looked on in astonishment. [9]
To the astonishment of that little world, I lassoed Sir Lamorak de Galis, and after him Sir Galahad. [5]
The first sensation of our host was no doubt astonishment, but he was soon laughing over a vivid account of our adventures on the keel boat. [9]
To repeat one of my comparisons, it was as if an early fruit had ripened on a graft upon an old, steady-going tree, to the astonishment of all its later-maturing products. [6]
Honora was conscious of conflicting emotions: astonishment, resentment, and--most curiously--of relief that the little woman knew it. [9]
Murmuring, swearing oaths of astonishment, man after man on the firing line dropped his rifle at the word, and sullenly retreated. [9]
Bob's astonishment did not wear off at once. [9]
If Venters had not been indubitably certain that he had entered the right canyon his astonishment would not have been so great. [13]
The conditions which must precede the devout astonishment of the liberated youth when he first emerged into the light and the verdant world would certainly exist in me. [10]
I had surmised much as to the rank of life from which the captain had sprung, but my astonishment was great when I was told that John Paul was the son of a poor gardener. [9]
I looked about me with astonishment. [9]
She looked at me in astonishment. [9]
He stared at me for a moment with an astonishment to which I was wholly indifferent. [9]
He detected a look in his friend's face which excited his suspicion, and was about to slip a stiletto into him when Crioni saved himself by explaining that that look was only an expression of supreme and happy astonishment. [5]
He seized her little hand instead and held it between his own--much to the astonishment of his friends. [9]
Guida gave a little cry of astonishment. [11]
The surgeon, who knew the Carvel family, gave Virginia a look of astonishment. [9]
Adrian saw with joyful surprise that his master approached without a crutch the door through which he had come, and the faithful servant expressed his astonishment in terms as eager as his position permitted. [10]
She listened with joyful astonishment, and praised several passages which she thought beautiful. [10]
Hosea, in his joy and astonishment, held out his arms, but ere Ephraim could fall upon his breast, he again lost consciousness, and stalwart soldiers bore the senseless lad into the tent the quartermaster had already pitched on a dune by the sea. [10]
To his astonishment Joshua saw the huge shield, sword, or battle-axe of an Egyptian heavily-armed soldier in the hands of each of these sons of his people, but the shepherd's sling and the bag of round stones also hung from many girdles. [10]
I don't deny it, I was most putrified with astonishment when you give me that smack. [5]
As we came in view of the dock, a fine rain was setting in, and to my astonishment I beheld such a mass of people assembled as I had never seen, and scarce standing-room on the wharves. [9]
Astonishment, pleasure, beamed in her eyes. [11]
Horapollo sat listening in astonishment, shaking his head disapprovingly, while the physician muttered curses. [10]
I drew back in astonishment, for there, standing before them, were Gabord and another soldier. [11]
The steward stood in astonishment before the handsome, aristocratic youth, so haughty in his bearing, who had taken the place of the unassuming messenger. [10]
The emperor gazed in astonishment at the counselor, who till now had ever advised him to use moderation, and only yesterday had begged him to ascribe much to Alexandrian manners, which in Rome would have had to be treated with severity. [10]
She looked up in astonishment and saw the smiling face of her mother, who had come after her to ask how the bishop was, and who wished to take her share in soothing the pain of her darling. [10]
You can yourself imagine the effect this news has had on me, and your silence increases my astonishment. [2]
Pentaur started as if he had seen a ghost; but Nebsecht gave expression to his astonishment in a loud cry. [10]
To my astonishment I had been gone but four minutes; they had seemed twenty. [9]
The astonishment which I felt on first seeing a party of Fuegians on a wild and broken shore will never be forgotten by me, for the reflection at once rushed into my mind--such were our ancestors. [1]
And presently a huge miner, bearded, belted, spurred, and bristling with deadly weapons--just down from a long campaign in the mountains, evidently-barred the way, stopped the servant, and stood gazing, with a face all alive with gratification and astonishment. [5]
Irving's first desire, however, on his recovery from the state of astonishment into which these changes plunged him, was to make himself thoroughly acquainted with the entire country and its development. [4]
Tom he couldn't hold himself he was so worked up with gladness and astonishment to be in such a celebrated place, and he just dripped history from every pore, seemed to me. [5]
The painter seized his pad and pencil and with a few strokes, guided by inspiration, sketched the costume then and there and held it up to Jethro, who blinked at it in astonishment. [9]
For forty years his English has been to me a continual delight and astonishment. [5]
Kaschta came to himself, stretched his limbs, and stared in astonishment at the place in which he found himself. [10]
Abdullah murmured to himself as David passed--a murmur of admiration and astonishment. [11]
When she asked him, in much astonishment, "What to do there? [10]
The French followed him with astonishment in their eyes chiefly because Pierre, unlike all the other Russians who gazed at the French with fear and curiosity, paid no attention to them. [2]

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