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Sentences starting with surprising

Surprising for Mrs. Mayo. [9]

Sentences ending with surprising

In one so young, and so unused to the scenes in which she had lately moved, this sinking of the spirit was not surprising. [12]
The ease with which a cub can learn is surprising. [5]
The result was surprising. [5]
H. It is surprising. [5]
But that the same laws should largely prevail with allied animals is not surprising. [1]
As for Mr. Johnson, he had held the weapon of the most relentless of the 'Parcae' so long that his suddenly clipping the thread of a foreign minister's tenure of office in a fit of jealous anger is not at all surprising. [6]
The change that has come over our little party is surprising. [5]
On the other hand, Mr. Worthington displayed a knowledge of the falling-mill and splitting-machine and the process of tanneries in general that was surprising. [9]
That the rough and bluff captains of the American service should have regarded a man of Paul Jones's type with suspicion is not surprising. [9]
A static world and a static order are dissolving; and in England that order was so static as to make the present spectacle the more surprising. [9]

Short sentences using surprising

Virginia did a surprising thing. [9]
This was surprising. [5]

Sentences containing surprising two or more times

The recorded feat is certainly surprising just as it stands; but it is not surprising enough for Cooper. [5]

More example sentences with the word surprising in them

But we know you not," he cried, with a sudden and surprising vigor; "ha, we know you not! [9]
It often pairs with the common kind, yet intermediate gradations have never been seen; nor is this surprising, for variations which appear suddenly, are often, as I have elsewhere shewn (42. [1]
For a man with a good mind, Perry, you show a surprising inability to think things, out to a logical conclusion. [9]
But the valet, who had grown gray in Charles's service, had witnessed still more surprising things, and beheld the presence of royalty bestow strength for performances which even now seemed incomprehensible. [10]
This laughter, in which Hodder joined, seemed suddenly to put them on a new footing--a little surprising to both. [9]
Then, one morning when she was alone in the office with young Caldwell, who was absorbed in some reports, Ditmar entered unexpectedly and looked her full in the eyes, surprising her into answering his glance before she could turn away, hating herself and hating him. [9]
The day before we left Hannibal, a curious thing fell under my notice-- the surprising spread which longitudinal time undergoes there. [5]
This surprising thing was tested and enjoyed by each scholar in turn, and great was the gladness and astonishment of all. [5]
Then the vote was taken on the adoption of the report and it carried by a surprising majority. [5]
This move, too, was surprising enough, It argued even more assurance. [9]
Le charmant Hippolyte was surprising by his extraordinary resemblance to his beautiful sister, but yet more by the fact that in spite of this resemblance he was exceedingly ugly. [2]
Luigi's whole heart was in it, and even Angelo developed a surprising amount of interest-which was natural, because he was not merely representing Whigism, a matter of no consequence to him; but he was representing something immensely finer and greater--to wit, Reform. [5]
There was nothing very surprising, therefore, in his asking a question not very closely related to what had gone before. [6]
Afterward, when I tried to recall what he said, I laughed at his surprising ignorance of the question at issue, and wondered where my wits could have gone that I allowed myself to be dazzled and turned aside at every corner. [9]
Then they sat together, with a slate before them, and Tom gave Becky the pencil and held her hand in his, guiding it, and so created another surprising house. [5]
It was surprising to find in the desolate wilds of our country a man so thoroughly acquainted with everything useful to know in his line of life, and yet of such inferior rank and unpretentious bearing. [5]
For the first time in their intercourse, ideas had come between them, Eda having developed a surprising self-assertion when her new convictions were attacked, a dogged loyalty to a scheme of salvation that Janet found neither inspiring nor convincing. [9]
Such an event, though it might be surprising to many people, would not be incredible, nor without many parallel cases. [6]
In view of this firm and hopeful tone of his being he found it all the more surprising, as he reached the canal, to be seized by a trepidation strong enough to bring perspiration to his forehead. [9]
Do you still think the resemblance surprising, after having seen me for the second time? [10]
It was not, therefore, very surprising that the acute and forcible observations of a traveler they knew would be listened to should be received testily. [5]
On the whole, there were new, strange, and surprising things enough, to keep the sensation of "Fortune," alive in Ulrich's heart. [10]
He had followed the unusual and somewhat surprising career of the gentleman from Leith with some care, even to the extent of reading of Mr. Crewe's activities in the State Tribunes which had been sent him. [9]
It is not the real France, of course, yet it seemed none the less surprising that it should still exist. [9]
This bird, during the pairing-season, flies to "perhaps a thousand feet in height," and after zig-zagging about for a time descends to the earth in a curved line, with outspread tail and quivering pinions, and surprising velocity. [1]
Coming out onto the highroad the French fled with surprising energy and unheard-of rapidity toward the goal they had fixed on. [2]
The similarity of the emotions as produced in the mourners in these two instances is remarkably evidenced by the singular similarity of thought which they experienced, and the surprising coincidence of language used by them to give it expression. [5]
The fall of the drapery that covers the Muse's figure is perfectly thought out with reference to possibility--rich, broadly handled, and at the same time of surprising delicacy. [10]
The state of the count's affairs became quite obvious a month after his death, surprising everyone by the immense total of small debts the existence of which no one had suspected. [2]
He had anticipated that very day surprising him with the news that he had been promoted above men many years his seniors and of Egyptian lineage. [10]
Was it surprising that the Gazette should contain a poem with the doctor's well-known ear-marks upon it? [9]
It is not surprising, then, that they looked upon his departure as a sore affliction. [4]
Nor would he, surprising though it may seem, have changed places with the Chipperings. [9]
Some other pretty surprising things are going to happen, too. [5]
It is a surprising thing, but it is true. [5]
It was not surprising that young Tom Gaylord, when he came back from New York and heard of Austen's victory, should have rushed to his office and congratulated him in a rough but hearty fashion. [9]
It is not surprising that the people are proud of it, nor that they put their enthusiasm into eloquent words. [5]
It is not surprising that the acuteness of my suffering was of short duration, though I remember certain sharp twinges when the announcement of the engagement burst on the city. [9]
It was not surprising that she, with the spirit of dreams and romance deep in her, should be sympathetic, even carried away for the moment. [11]
And it is surprising that plays of such sustained moral greatness as Shakespeare's should have been welcome. [4]
Nor is it surprising that a slightly injurious character should have been thus acquired; for we know that this is the case with the plumes of certain birds, and with the horns of certain stags. [1]
She was always surprising him; but her solicitation concerning them was a balm, and he found all such instinctive acts refreshing. [9]
There is a surprising deliberation about the preparation of the sun for rising, as there is in the movements of the boatman. [4]
They will raise surprising crops of vegetables on a sand pile. [5]
This is a surprising circumstance, as these animals possess highly-developed sense-organs and have considerable mental powers, as will be admitted by every one who has watched their artful endeavours to escape from an enemy. [1]
And the Four, surprising as it may seem, made themselves generally useful about the camp in pitching the tents under Farrar's supervision. [9]
This was a surprising and delightful task for her lover. [10]
He had a surprising air of decision. [11]
This clergyman had suddenly accomplished the surprising feat of reviving the Church as a burning, vital factor in the life of the community! [9]
He had not spoken of these, save once or twice by implication, but with what may seem a surprising leniency she regarded them as consequences of a life lacking in content. [9]
And that she should seem to consider me a spectacle, and totally overlook her own merits in that respect, was another puzzling thing, and a display of magnanimity, too, that was surprising in one so young. [5]
Whenever he or she, by way of example, mentioned any well-known work of art, she imitated, as if involuntarily, its pose and action with surprising fidelity, frequently also in admirable caricature, whose effect was extremely comical. [10]
If I have seemed to love my subject, it is no surprising thing, for I loved the profession far better than any I have followed since, and I took a measureless pride in it. [5]
Your worthy president said that the school pictures, which have received the admiration of the world at the Paris Exposition, have been sent to Russia, and this was a compliment from that Government--which is very surprising to me. [5]
The more I reflect upon those days, the more surprising does it seem that I was not in love with her. [9]
Prince Andrew dimly realized that all this was trivial and that he had more important cares, but he continued to speak, surprising them by empty witticisms. [2]
His temper was quick, the prospect of opposition often made him overbearing, yet on occasions he listened with surprising patience to his subordinates when they ventured to differ from his opinions. [9]
He determined to play a bold and surprising game. [11]
In the first place you get rid of the noxious emanations which poison so many country localities with typhoid fever and dysentery, not wholly rid of them, of course, but to a surprising degree. [6]
But I noticed one quite conspicuous and surprising absence: the traditional brutal faces. [5]
A great deal of the reading done is mere contagion, one form or another of communicated grippe, and it is consoling and even surprising to know that if you escape the run of it for a season, you have lost nothing appreciable. [4]
The following instance of rivalry is more surprising as it relates to bullfinches, which usually pair for life. [1]
He even spoke of Garvin: adversity, worry, the heat, constant brooding over a happier past and an uncertain future--was it surprising that the poor man's mind had become unhinged? [9]
The chance remark of a sweetheart, "I hear that you are a coward," may water a seed that shall sprout and bloom and flourish, and ended in producing a surprising fruitage--in the fields of war. [5]
Anyhow, as we now know that monkeys have the habit of turning their hinder ends towards other monkeys, it ceases to be at all surprising that it should have been this part of their bodies which has been more or less decorated. [1]
So it was not surprising that he said some things which pleased the company, as in fact they did. [6]
This fact is not more surprising than that the fears of many animals should be directed against special enemies. [1]
This was surprising news; for in low water the river bank is very high there (fifty feet), and in my day an overflow had always been considered an impossibility. [5]
Now this surprising news caus'd her fall in 'a trance, Life as she were dead, no limbs she could advance, Then her dear brother came, her from the ground he took And she spake up and said, O my poor heart is broke. [5]
I enjoyed nothing more than these performances; and my mother, who witnessed several of them during one of her visits, afterwards said that it was surprising how well we had managed the affair and acted our parts. [10]
It is a more surprising fact that certain rodents utter musical sounds. [1]
He said a man never imagined what surprising things there were in the world till he had traveled. [5]
I recall her kind welcomes, the faint deepening of colour in her cheeks when she greeted me, and while I suspected that she looked up to me she had a surprising and tantalizing self-command. [9]
The wonder, with its constant, stately, and always surprising changes, lasted upwards of two hours, and we all stood on the top of the hill by my study till the final miracle was complete and the greatest day ended that we ever saw. [5]
He rather enjoyed it; and sometimes amused himself with surprising his simple-hearted landlady and her boarders with the unaccountable results of his sagacity. [6]
Nature has girded it on three sides with protecting walls which keep the wind from entering the valley, and to this, and the delicious, crystal-clear water which flows from the mountains into the pumps, its surprising healthfulness is doubtless due. [10]
Nor, surprising though it may seem, were these descendants of the people of the Renaissance in the least offended by their handiwork. [9]
If a man insisted on using a flying-machine before the principle was fully mastered and applied--if it could be mastered and applied--it must not be surprising if he was killed. [11]
Through the mists I could see a way, even if I failed to find Madras and arrange another surprising situation. [11]
It was surprising how many you could find ready made, if you were on the watch. [4]
She but half heard what was being said to her: she wished that the train would go, and at the same time she had a sudden, surprising, and fierce longing to stay. [9]
A nurse must have talked in her sleep, for within two days the forbidden gabblings were the property of the town; and they were of a surprising sort. [5]
The fort at Harrodstown was like an hundred others I have since seen, but sufficiently surprising to me then. [9]
More surprising things happened to him in Palestine than ever happened to any traveler here or elsewhere since Munchausen died. [5]
It is but half a year since you began to be spoken of and left us, and so it is surprising to see how many babies there are already in that region that are named for you. [5]
It was a great and surprising idea. [5]
And he's actually getting ready to write a life of his father, the General--that's the most surprising thing! [9]
Landois has recently found in certain Orthoptera rudimentary structures closely similar to the sound-producing organs in the Homoptera; and this is a surprising fact. [1]
So she sat for another space, and thought of what she had done--thought with a surprising calmness now which astonished her. [9]
It appears at first sight a surprising circumstance that some closely- allied species should regularly undergo a double annual moult, and others only a single one. [1]
That was a falsehood, but then I was not going to let any man eclipse me on surprising adventures, merely for the want of a little invention. [5]
I killed Brown every night for months; not in old, stale, commonplace ways, but in new and picturesque ones;--ways that were sometimes surprising for freshness of design and ghastliness of situation and environment. [5]
But what is even more surprising is the influence that these places have upon the people that frequent them, who appear to change their characters with their surroundings. [4]
The surprising and encouraging result of such association is the announcement that the new Labour Party is today publicly thrown open to all workers, both by hand and by brain, with the object of securing for these the full fruits of their industry. [9]
Strong and passionate effort of will, surprising to him, held back the poison from piercing his soul. [13]
Before the above-mentioned diversion begins, Mr. Sampson and his young German will display alternately on one, two, and three horses, various surprising and curious feats of famous horsemanship in like manner as at the Grand Jubilee at Stratford-upon-Avon. [9]
This is the distance by pedometer; the guide-book and the Imperial Ordinance maps make it only ten and a quarter--a surprising blunder, for these two authorities are usually singularly accurate in the matter of distances. [5]
He got the characters into the most extraordinary situations, put them through the most surprising performances, and made them talk the strangest talk! [5]
In its first campaign, in 1856, though it failed to elect its candidates; it received a surprising vote and carried many of the States. [7]
It will not be surprising to any one who knew the charm of his society in later life to be told that he became at once a favorite with the older man. [4]

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