35 collocations for marvels

I marveled a little at their enthusiasm (there were many beside these), and they, in their turn, did not altogether conceal their amusement at the foibles of a man, still out of Bedlam, who walked and walked and walked, always with a field-glass protruding from his side pocket, which now and then he pulled out suddenly and leveled at nothing.

He had been born with a singular birth-mark upon his shoulder, which birth-mark had the appearance as of a golden star enstamped upon the skin; wherefore, because of this, the Queen would say: "Launcelot, by reason of that star upon thy shoulder I believe that thou shalt be the star of our house and that thou shalt shine with such remarkable glory that all the world shall behold thy lustre and shall marvel thereat for all time to come."

He marvelled afresh at the devotion that brought such a man to wear out his fine attainments, his scholarship, his energy, his wide and Catholic knowledge, in travelling winter after winter, hundreds of miles over the ice from one Indian village to another.

"Well, we'll see," said the marvelling Miss Nugent to herself as she went slowly upstairs.

Bradbury know that I'm here?" marvelled the amazed boy, stopping short.

How they marveled at the enameled beds and colored wicker furniture, the easy chairs for lounging, the dainty dressers and all the innumerable pretty things discovered in boxes, bales and barrels, you may well imagine.

When the violence bred of religious quarrels finally forced the learned and courageous printer to expatriate himself, his first care was to say, at the head of his apology, "When I take account of the war I have carried on with the Sorbonne for a space of twenty years or thereabouts, I cannot sufficiently marvel how so small and broken-down a creature as I am had strength to maintain it.

To this Percival said, "I cannot tell thee what is my lineage, for I do not know," and at that Sir Ewaine marvelled a very great deal.

Long did they marvel in the town At God his strange decree, That let the stalwart skipper drown

I marvelled how my Odorik should have fallen by the soft Roman hand of yonder stripling; but thou art a worthy foe.

"Marvelling to see Bayard so young, 'Come hither, my gentleman,' said Ludovico: 'who brought you into the city?'

Hearing this Brutus marveled; and he no longer hid anything from her but felt strengthened himself and related to her the whole story.

Gentles, marvel not overmuch hereat.

"And to think," marveled Hinpoha, "that with all her lucky symbols, the other Many Eyes came to grief, and this one won without a single thing to help her!

The web of muscles that enwraps the nerves Stood out from the brute's fore-arm plain to see. Marvelled the King, and Phyleus his brave son, At the strange prowess of Amphitryon's child.

The glee of a score of untainted bosoms was heard in light and airy voices, which danced among the trees like sunshine become audible; the grown men of this weary world, as they journeyed by the spot, marvelled why life, beginning in such brightness, should proceed in gloom; and their hearts, or their imaginations, answered them and said,

And I marvelled more to see the two of us, both lovers of one lady and eager rivals, burying for the nonce our feuds, and with the same hope serving the same cause.

"Gentlemen," said Donnegan, rising, "is there a doctor here?" 24 That was the signal for the rush that swept across the floor and left a flood of marveling men around the fallen Landis.

Dunborough!' Marvelling at her coolness and the nimbleness of her wit, he turned so that he looked her full in the face.

" I suppose it was a pitiable thing about Grizelit was something he had discovered weeks ago and marvelled overthat nothing distressed her so much as the implication that she could love him less.

Looking back, Stillman marveled at the indiscretion he had committed when he handed over not only his reserve, but Claire Robson's reputation into the safekeeping of Lily Condor.

I marveled at old Doyle, over seventy, after that long, hard day, quickly and efficiently cooking a good hot supper.

"How?" "That's just what gits away with me," marvelled the sheriff.

The knight looked upon the sleeping maiden, and marvelled at so fair a sight.

He marveled that so brave a soldier and so strict a Puritan as Rodolph Maitland should still remain subject to so much worldly weakness.

35 collocations for  marvels