" Nan led the way, and the two pyramids revolved before him with the rigidity of lay-figures, much to the good man's edification; for with his fatherly pleasure there was mingled much mild wonderment at the amplitude of array.

Little has transpired concerning the events of the back-journey, save that on passing the house of 'Squire Mellish, situate a stone bow's cast from the hamlet, Father Westwood , with a good-natured wonderment, exclaimed, "I cannot think what is gone of Mr. Mellish's rooks.

Emily turned round and looked at Julia in dreamy wonderment.

This is a beauty in "Gulliver's Travels," where the mind is kept in a placid state of little wonderments; but the "Ancient Marinere" undergoes such trials as overwhelm and bury all individuality or memory of what he was,like the state of a man in a bad dream, one terrible peculiarity of which is, that all consciousness of personality is gone.

'Tis true, some stagers of the wiser sort Made all these idle wonderments their sport: They said, their only danger was delay, And he, who heard what every fool could say, 500 Would never fix his thought, but trim his time away.

the death of leaping accents (p. 32)of the thick reckoning of a hoof (p. 33)of a pin-drop silence (p. 17)a readable look (p. 20)a half indifferent wonderment (p. 37)or of Boy-storied trees and passion-plighted spots,p. 38.

Its innocent wonderment nettled her the more, yet she had no notion why.

The gaze of man's insatiable wonderment must hereafter be turned upon the distant stars.

Even now his eyes followed Alan Massey as the latter came and went with an ever more insistent wonderment though he had not yet the force of will or body to voice that pursuing question as to why Alan Massey was here apparently taking charge of his own slow return to health and consciousness.

After gazing at him for some minutes, in mixed wonderment and fright, the halberdier ventured to draw near him.

Rafael stared in open-mouthed wonderment at the signatures of the old Verdi and of Boito.

Mothers and fathers are lifting their little children as high as they can, and until their arms are ready to break; little maids are pushing, whispering, and staring in great delight; contadini are gaping at it with a mute wonderment of admiration and devotion; and Englishmen are discussing loudly the value of the jewels, and wanting to know, by Jove, whether those in the crown can be real.

For the stagnant upper canals of this place are now mere miasmas of pestilence: and within two days I was rolling with fever in the Old Procurazie Palace, she standing in pale wonderment at my bed-side, sickness quite a novel thing to her: and, indeed, this was my first serious illness since my twentieth year or thereabouts, when I had over-worked my brain, and went a voyage to Constantinople.

"Come and have déjeuner?" The manner of both T'yonni and Choti, while hospitable, and their glances at my bags, showed a probable wonderment of my intentions.

But our poet, we believe, did not stop with these ambiguous indications of her birthplace and family; he had promised her to immortalize the triumph of his passion, and to leave to all posterity a monument of the "rare wonderment" of the lady's beauty.

Can you wonder, grandmother, recalling this, that I am unwilling to surrender the love that has been given me to-daythe true heart of a brave and good man!' Lady Maulevrier looked at her for some moments in scornful wonderment; looked at her with a slow, deliberate smile.

And this simple Englishwoman looked at this sensitive girl in sheer wonderment and alarm.

I'd say the devil couldn't do that!" He said nothing more, but went out to lead in the hobbled horses, leaving Aldous in half-stunned wonderment to finish the preparation of breakfast.

In nearly every one of these faces a sort of cow-like bewilderment expresses itselfnot grief, not even resentment, but merely a stupefied wonderment at the astounding fact that their town, rather than some other town, should be the town where the soldiers of other nations come to fight out their feud.

The letter was sent, and in less than a week an immense dispatch found its way to the village, which excited universal wonderment.

In utter wonderment the Emperor raised his head from the receiver.

His first feeling, passing in a flash, was one of vague wonderment that anybody should menace him in such a manner, and then he saw the lowering face of Garay.

As he examined it his genial face expressed a sort of childish wonderment.

An expression of whimsical wonderment and awe overspread his face as he drawled: "Gosh darn my buttons!

Or course, this strange whistling caused considerable wonderment on the Canada side until a shrewd operator recognized the long-and-short telegraph letters, and communication was at once establishedimportant messages being transmitted by steam whistlesa gigantic system of broadcasting.