After some ineffectual attempts, therefore, to overawe and astonish his host, Mr. Skelton became aware of the fruitlessness of the effort, and condescended to abate somewhat of his pretensions.

We must deceive the arm which it stretches out against us, we must remain concealed from Bonaparte, we must harass him, weary him, astonish him, exhaust him, disappear and reappear unceasingly, change our hiding-place, and always fight him, be always before him, and never beneath his hand.

Nevertheless, all the more reason, in my opinion, to astonish and awaken Paris by an extraordinary spectacle, by a daring act of life and collective power on the part of the Representatives of the Left, by the daring of an immense devotion.

"You astonish me, Bob!

You astonish me!"

I can show you ordersgenuine orders, mindfrom some of your big wholesale houses, which would astonish you.

"Hardy, you astonish me!"

You can reason with a bulldog, astonish a bull, fascinate a boa, frighten a tiger, tame a lion; but you have no resource against this monster, a loose cannon.

Only look at my date, does it not astonish you?

I gave them five dollars when I left the island, which seemed to astonish them greatly.

And whether to astonish him or to encourage him, or perhaps from sheer vanity and as something to boast of, all of a sudden she threw a bombshell.

Such like Degeneracies astonish the Parents, [who] not knowing after whom the Child can take, [see ] one to incline to Stealing, another to Drinking, Cruelty, Stupidity; yet all these are not minded.

"Why, Jule," he exclaimed, "you astonish me!

" "You astonish me!

"You astonish me, Walters!

I decidedly agree with you in the propriety of our making some effort for the elevation and instruction of this hitherto neglected classany aid I can render" "You astonish me," interrupted Miss Cass, "though I must say very agreeably.

Then her mind rambled into futurity, to the day when she would astonish these very ladies far more than now by the richness of her costume.

I must confess that your firmness and consistency astonish me.

In tropical climates, one plant may be seen here, and another there, which, in their size, astonish an European, when he is told that they belong to the family of the grasses; but there he would search in vain for those swards of grass, and green meadows, with which almost the whole aspect of his own climate is verdant.

"It is us that they seek to please, or rather to astonish.

All his works, all his conduct, tend only to astonish mankind.

And that"which was The Crying Baby, Very Human"and that," which was a mystery, and called, so a neat card asserted, "Buy One and Astonish Your Friends.

"You were saying," he said, addressing himself to Gip, "before you came in, that you would like one of our 'Buy One and Astonish your Friends' boxes?" Gip, after a gallant effort, said "Yes."

We do not merely think how fine a performance it is; we think how much we should like to impress and astonish other people, to arouse their envy and jealousy by a similar performance.

It doesn't astonish a New Yorker to see a hospital ambulance tearing down the street with a white-clad woman surgeon on the back seat.