43 Metaphors for wondering

These wonders have been a happiness to me.

That wonder is the effect of ignorance, has been often observed.

Wonder is a pause of reason, a sudden cessation of the mental progress, which lasts only while the understanding is fixed upon some single idea, and is at an end when it recovers force enough to divide the object into its parts, or mark the intermediate gradations from the first agent to the last consequence.

And the wonder became amazement when she opened her confidence.

A GREAT WONDER "The greatest wonder I ever saw was one time near Kinvara at a funeral, there came a car along the road and a lady on it having a plaid cloak, as was the fashion then, and a big hat, and she kept her head down and never looked at the funeral at all.

Wonders are ceas'd Sir, we must work by means.

" This delicate wonder is the Cydippe.

No wonder, for it was the first Rossetti that had ever been seen in Coalchester.

The first wonder about this incident in his life is the wonderful change which took place in his appearance then.

Many wonders he related concerning the dead, for example, with their rewards and punishments: but most wonderful of all was the great Spindle of Necessity which he saw reaching up into heaven with the planets revolving around it in whorls of graduated width and speed, yet all concentric and so timed that all complete the full circle punctually together.

No wonder, while such men have the teaching of the people, that it is necessary still in the nineteenth century, in a Protestant country, amid sane human beings, for such a man as Mr. Sumner to rebut, in sober earnest, the argument that the negro was the descendant of Canaan, doomed to eternal slavery by Noah's curse!" * *

'So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonder she is not by this time become a cinder,' ii. 227.

Men do not blossom forth as wits, humourists, masterly delineators of character, and skilful performers on a highly-strung and carefully-tuned sentimental instrument all at once, after entering their "forties;" and the only wonder is that a possessor of these powerssome of them of the kind which, as a rule, and in most men, seeks almost as irresistibly for exercise as even the poetic instinct itselfshould have been held so long unemployed.

Finally, the intelligence overran all France, that the wonder, in which they had not yet dared to believe, had become reality, and that Pope Pius VII. had crossed the boundaries of France, and was now approaching the capital.

But the wonder of all was the Atheling.

No wonder the sick-room and the lazaretto have so often been a refuge from the tossings of intellectual doubta place of repose for the worn and wounded spirit.

The latest wonder, and one worthy of intense interest, was a newly installed radio receiver.

Grafton, a chronicler but little read, being a stiff-necked John Bull, thought fit to say, that no wonder Joanna should be a virgin, since her "foule face" was a satisfactory solution of that particular merit.

Perhaps this wonder is a commonplace to you, only you are more reticent about it than Jay or I. But to me, even after twenty years' intimacy with what I can only describe as a supplementary life that I cannot describe, it still seems so very wonderful that I cannot believe I share it with every man and woman in the street.

"No wonder," was the parting taunt of Heraclius; "from the devil they came, and to the devil they will go.

It took twenty years of labor to revolve the mere discovery into the production of the aluminum bead in 1846, and yet with this first step, this new wonder remained a foetus undeveloped in the womb of the laboratory for years to come.

One wonders which of these heavily veiled figures on the Galata Bridge, clad in hideous ezars, is an Englishwoman or a Frenchwoman or a Jewess.

WELL When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes, Nor the rain make lamentation When the wind sighs; How will fare the world whose wonder Was the very proof of me?

And yet these wonders are but so much sea-water, inclosed in so slight a tissue that it withers in the sun, and leaves only a minute spot of dried-up gelatinous substance behind.

Wonder is no nine-day affair in Coombe.

43 Metaphors for  wondering