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Sentences starting with marvellous

Marvellous to say, his own words failed him, and he had recourse to the poets: "Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light; But, oh, she dances such a way! [9]

Sentences ending with marvellous

She had a way with her, and her costumes were marvellous. [9]
Leaning on his long rifle, he paid no manner of attention to the angry voices near by,--which conduct to me was little short of the marvellous. [9]
I go about as in a dream--as in a realm of enchantment--where many things are rare and beautiful, and all things are strange and marvellous. [5]
This quickness of apprehension was marvellous. [6]
It is marvellous! [5]

Short sentences using marvellous

Is not this marvellous, Cambyses? [10]

More example sentences with the word marvellous in them

If I were you, I would begin with Demeter, whom you honoured by so marvellous a work. [10]
Edward the Sixth wondered if the spectacle of a king on his way to jail had ever encountered such marvellous indifference before. [5]
A single conversation with this marvellous woman had bound her forever. [10]
The new scene which would result from this change had been conjured before the Queen's mental vision with marvellous celerity, and she described it in brief, vivid language to the architect. [10]
The quiet longing which had mastered him was transformed into passionate yearning, but he restrained it by exerting all the strength of will peculiar to him, for a voice within cried out that he was too insignificant for this marvellous maiden. [10]
On Friday, I went to the Crystal Palace; it is a marvellous, stirring, bewildering sight--a mixture of a genii palace, and a mighty bazaar, but it is not much in my way; I liked the lecture better. [14]
Some insupportable coxcomb was boasting a marvellous run with the hounds nigh across Hertfordshire, and Miss Manners brought him up with a round turn and a half hitch by relating one of your exploits, Richard Carvel. [9]
When "Potter the ventriloquist," the predecessor of the well-remembered Signor Blitz, went round giving his entertainments, there was something unexplained, uncanny, almost awful, and beyond dispute marvellous, in his performances. [6]
He also wrote various sorts of hands, fearful and marvellous to the uninitiated, with which he was wont to decorate my monthly reports to my grandfather. [9]
Mr. Bernard's professional training had made him slow to accept marvellous stories and many forms of superstition. [6]
They had come to-day from many mysterious (and therefore delightful) places which Honora knew only by name, and some had driven the twenty-five odd miles from the bunting community of Banbury in coaches and even those new and marvellous importations--French automobiles. [9]
She listened sympathisingly to the servant's lamentation over the marvellous change which had taken place in Heinz since his horse was killed under him. [10]
It was marvellous to see the influence he exercised over this fierce spirit, and how calm--nay even cheerful--Cambyses became, when the Athenian was near. [10]
It was marvellous to see how this untutored man, by mere self-discipline and the chastening of his own spirit, had outgrown all meretricious arts, and found his own way to the grandeur and strength of absolute simplicity. [7]
But by that time they had accomplished another marvellous span in their journey, and were come to Washington itself. [9]
And while she thus spoke her great eyes had a marvellous clear and glorious light, and when I looked in her face wrapped in the veil of her mourning for her father, my spirit grew solemn, as though I were in church. [10]
He wondered if they would believe the marvellous tale he should tell when he got home, or if they would shake their heads, and say his overtaxed imagination had at last upset his reason. [5]
He had stood there dripping barely fifteen minutes when loud shouts and yells were heard on the road from Pelusium by which he had come, and upon the flooded dike appeared a body of men rushing forward with marvellous speed. [10]
We must leave them amongst the sunny ruins of Italy and Greece and southern France, on a marvellous journey that was personally conducted by Victoria. [9]
There was Wallstein, the fairest, ablest, and richest financier of them all, with a marvellous head for figures and invaluable and commanding at the council-board, by virtue of his clear brain and his power to co-ordinate all the elements of the most confusing financial problems. [11]
She put down the cup, placed another pillow behind my head with a marvellous deftness, and then began feeding me in dainty spoonfuls something which was surely nectar. [9]
The physician in the Arabian Nights made his patient play at ball with a bat, the hollow handle of which contained drugs of marvellous efficacy. [6]
We have seen that this massed array of peeresses is sown thick with diamonds, and we also see that it is a marvellous spectacle--but now we are about to be astonished in earnest. [5]
It was I that made the fame and fortune of that man that had that marvellous collection of weather on exhibition at the Centennial, that so astounded the foreigners. [5]
The latter could tell marvellous tales, and had his own peculiar opinions about everything between heaven and earth. [10]
And there was such a marvellous world spread out before me--such a glowing, beautiful, bewitching country. [5]
And they always succeed in finding something marvellous, to call out the exercise of their robust faith. [3]
He praised their strength and stature, described the way to their country as almost inaccessible to a large army, and had plenty of marvellous tales to tell. [10]
However marvellous her strength and fortitude, these could not last forever. [9]
The father and son had already heard of this marvellous piece of work, which had formed part of the plunder taken by the Arab conquerors of the Persian Empire at the sack of the "White Tower"--the royal palace of Madam, the capital of the Sassanidze. [10]
For an instant she lay palpitating against him, and as long as he lives he will remember the first exquisite touch of her firm but supple figure and the marvellous communion of her lips. [9]
Every flatboatman who returned to Kentucky was full of tales of the marvellous beauty of the quadroons and octoroons, stories which I had taken with a grain of salt; but they had not indeed been greatly overdrawn. [9]
With a marvellous quickness she had tied the napkin beneath my chin, not so much as looking at the knot. [9]
He went forward quickly at first, but after a few steps he paused before the marvellous and glorious picture that met his gaze. [10]
Of course many persons experienced at least temporary relief from the strong impression made upon their minds by this novel and marvellous method of treatment. [3]
The immortals again permit me, as in former days, to feast my eyes upon your marvellous beauty. [10]
Look how the painted walls and columns gleam in the light, and what marvellous figures the shadows of the obelisks and sphinxes throw on the smooth yellow pavement! [10]
During the ascent our eyes were bandaged, and when the handkerchief was removed a marvellous picture appeared before our astonished gaze. [10]
Let us feast our eyes now on the marvellous beauty before us. [10]
The most humble organism is something much higher than the inorganic dust under our feet; and no one with an unbiassed mind can study any living creature, however humble, without being struck with enthusiasm at its marvellous structure and properties. [1]
Of their effect on his younger listeners he says, "To some of us that long past experience remains the most marvellous and fruitful we have ever had. [6]
They just called on him instantaneously, while he was going to sit down, to introduce the stranger, and Sala, made one of those marvellous speeches which he was capable of making. [5]
Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man. [1]
It was full of the most bare-faced absurdities, yet people swallowed it all, and even Arago is said to have treated it seriously as a thing that could not well be true, for Mr. Herschel would have certainly notified him of these marvellous discoveries. [6]
His marvellous innocence of look and his peasant openness hid, I saw, great shrewdness and intelligence--an admirable man for Vaudreuil's purpose, as admirable for mine. [11]
In the mass of its incoherence it has a series of the most marvellous stories. [11]
But most marvellous of all was the instinct which told her of my chief sickening discomfort, --of the leathery, travelled smell of the carriage. [9]
The hoarseness was now barely perceptible in her speech, and Dr. Mathys, whom she visited in April, encouraged her, and told her of really marvellous cures wrought by the famous old springs. [10]
Some of the modern inventions we deem most marvellous have been fitted for ages to man and woman. [9]
Now, in my mature manhood, I desired to comprehend those marvellous gifts of mind, that matchless sagacity--" "Sagacity! [10]
What praise this marvellous work would have deserved if his own really merited such high encomiums! [10]
He had a marvellous way of cutting short an interview without giving offence. [9]
Barbara had heard marvellous tales of his learning, and it was really magnificent in compass and far more important than his keen but narrow mind. [10]
It was a marvellous mind that produced it. [5]
She had a marvellous intellect; she had a great heart, had a noble spirit, was absolutely pure in her character, her feeling, her language, her words, her everything--she was only eighteen years old. [5]
But Joy, that marvellous healer, kept it blooming with a little Eden bird nestling near, whose happy tongue was taught in after years to tell of the gift of the Simple King; who had redeemed, on demand, the promissory note for ever. [11]
Long ago the marvellous chalice had been exhibited to her among the temple treasures, and she was told that every one who induced another person to be reflected from its shining surface obtained the mastery over his will. [10]
It was a marvellous bit of botchwork, and yet there was a certain meaning in the production, compiled solely from Homeric verses. [10]
Spite of her marvellous beauty--Katterle knew that there was nothing false about it--she would probably end by joining the nuns in the convent. [10]
There was a marvellous arrangement in the walls with which Edith was never tired of playing, a circular plate covered with legends of every conceivable want, from a newspaper to a needle and thread and a Scotch whiskey highball. [9]
We were stark mad with excitement--drunk with happiness--smothered under mountains of prospective wealth--arrogantly compassionate toward the plodding millions who knew not our marvellous canyon--but our credit was not good at the grocer's. [5]
Her lithe figure lay passively against him, in marvellous, unbelievable surrender. [9]
Gentlemen strolling by--doctor, lawyer, officer, idler--paused and forgot the raw climate, for this marvellous voice in the unshapely body warmed them, and they pushed in among the fast-gathering crowd. [11]
Some of the king's own relations, are among the number, the aged Croesus, king of Lydia, too; we shall behold a marvellous splendor and magnificence! [10]
I discovered that it was a picture of his own hunt ball, and as a bit of color it was marvellous, the scarlet coats being very much in evidence. [9]
Would this absorbed isolation, this marvellous wild love of theirs, be the end of it all? [9]
Only that it is the Lord's doings, and marvellous in my eyes; and if our philosophical friend should find some little live creatures, or what seem to be live creatures, in any of his messes, I should say as much, and no more. [6]
It was somewhere in the neighborhood of Mono Lake that the marvellous Whiteman cement mine was supposed to lie. [5]
To see her in her marvellous severity was to strike him dumb. [9]
In those days I could not suspect that it would unfold into so marvellous a rose. [10]
Endres closed the heavy door of the house behind her with a strength and celerity marvellous in a man of his years. [10]
But the name he won that day as a marvellous military genius filled the world with his glory, and that glory will never fade while history books last. [5]
While doing so he again found that the figure which he recalled to his memory appeared before him with marvellous distinctness. [10]
He would fain have flung himself at the feet of this marvellous woman and, with his services, place his life at her disposal. [10]
No other explanation has ever been given of the marvellous fact that the embryos of a man, dog, seal, bat, reptile, etc., can at first hardly be distinguished from each other. [1]
They pressed his hand, praised him and said that he had just finished a marvellous work of art. [10]
The arm and hand with which she pointed now here, now there, again seemed to him fairly instinct with life; and he, who deemed perfection of form of so much value, found it difficult to avert his eyes from her marvellous symmetry. [10]
The morning was half gone when Shon McGann and Mary Callen stood beside their horses, ready to mount and go; for Mary had persisted that she could travel--joy makes such marvellous healing. [11]
Much as Barbara had heard in praise of the magnificent market-place in the lower city, with its marvellous Town Hall, it was always the upper portion of Brussels she beheld when she thought of the capital. [10]
The first prize had been awarded to you for your Aphrodite, radiant in marvellous beauty, and your brow had also been already crowned for your statue of Alexander, when Hermon stepped forward with his works. [10]
I saw the General look at both of us keenly, then his marvellous eyes flashed intelligence, and a grim smile played at his lips a moment. [11]
Yet she was forced to keep quiet, and pressed her lips tightly together as Althea seized the white sheet and with marvellous celerity wound it about her until it fell in exquisite folds like a long robe. [10]
The subject of finance lasted through the dinner, and the Vicomte proclaimed himself amazed with the evidences of wealth which confronted him on every side in this marvellous country. [9]
What a marvellous fight he has made with his material. [9]
Getting his single facts together with marvellous sagacity and long-breathed patience, he arranged them, classified them, described them, studied them in their relations, and before those around him were aware of it the collector was an accomplished naturalist. [6]
She was often demure, but behind that demureness was firmness: she was mistress of herself, and yet possessed a marvellous vitality. [9]
Neither of them could have given evidence on that marvellous instant when the current bridged the space between them. [9]
But she was bewildered and entranced by the marvellous swiftness, accuracy and ease with which each of the complex machines, fed by human hands, performed its function. [9]
When, presently, Ursula, believing that she had done somewhat marvellous, boldly turned upon Ann and besought her to sing--as though there had never been a breach between the twain--Ann refused, as not caring but yet firm in her mind. [10]
He was an authority on acting; he knew how to edit a newspaper; he picked out the really nice points in the sermons delivered by the missionaries in the saloon; he had some marvellous theories about navigation; and his trick with a salad was superb. [11]
She raised them, and discovered a bust made of colored wax, such a wonderfully-exact portrait of Nitetis, that an involuntary exclamation of surprise broke from her, and it was long before she could turn her eyes away from Theodorus' marvellous work. [10]
Most marvellous of all was the Magister. [10]
I have seen about 60 sunsets here; and a good 40 of them were clear and away beyond anything I had ever imagined before for dainty and exquisite and marvellous beauty and infinite change and variety. [5]
We had heard a world of talk about the marvellous beauty of Lake Tahoe, and finally curiosity drove us thither to see it. [5]
Lord, how marvellous a thing it is, the grip his memory doth take upon his quaint and crazy fancies! [5]
For instance, it's a marvellous thing to me how you've handled all the curiosities up there this week. [9]
He has made a marvellous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. [5]
It is undoubtedly a marvellous fact that she should possess this almost human degree of taste. [1]
Van Hout devoted a glass to the memory of the days of trouble, and the city's marvellous deliverance. [10]

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