His friends in the village of Acredale were so astonished by his blue regimentals that he reached the homestead door unquestioned.

" He was astonished by a sudden silence, and looking up again, he saw that Donnegan sat with his hand at his breast.

But we are not to be stunned and astonished by him."

Before he had finished breakfast came a wire from Mr. Franklin Fullaway, answering his own: "Deeply grieved and astonished by your news.

The sultan, astonished by the gift of jewels, set Aladdin to perform prodigies of wonder, but all these he accomplished by aid of the genie, so that at last the sultan was obliged to give him the princess in marriage.

She gazed at him in amazement astonished by his action.

Gaspar, who looked on, was astonished by a certain deferential politeness on the part of the big cowpuncher.

The same thing may be seen in the account given by Gellius of one Lucius Veratius, who had the audacity to give some Roman citizens whom he met on the road a box on the ear, without any provocation whatever; but to avoid any ulterior consequences, he told a slave to bring a bag of small money, and on the spot paid the trivial legal penalty to the men whom he had astonished by his conduct.

He was to be astonished by the answer Ralston gave.

" He replaced the shade and glanced at her, astonished by her intensity, by the forceful gesture with which she grasped his arm.

Letty, and the other servants, were at first much astonished by the new title given to Miss Annie, and the only way in which they could explain it was by supposing that Mr Null had gone off somewhere and died; and although they could not understand why Miss Annie should show so little grief in the matter, and why she had not put on mourning, they imagined that these were customs which she had learned in the North.

Meanwhile, Aberalva pier was astonished by a strange phenomenon.

Shám Babu was astonished by the tone adopted by his visitor.

" The Texan was too much astonished by the question to venture any reply.

For a moment Ted was too much astonished by this fish-wife exhibition of temper even to be angry with himself.

" Adelaide was not a little astonished by this outburst.

'We are not to be stunned and astonished by him,' iv.

They were much astonished by his sudden disappearance; but when they found that Ratnavati was gone also, they readily believed the story told by the old woman, that he had fallen in love with his own wife; but was ashamed to acknowledge this after having so long neglected her, and was therefore gone to live in another place, where he was not known.

Being naturally endowed with superior parts, a penetrating intellect and rare firmness of character, he schooled himself to look Fortune in the face without being intoxicated by her smiles or troubled at her frowns, to be astonished by nothing that happened, and to make up his mind in any danger.

" Then he went in search of Lady Peters, whom he bewildered and astonished by telling her that it lay in her power to make him the happiest of men.

" Tilda had time in her distress to be astonished by his voice.

At this time the Spaniards were much astonished by a new mode of fishing which they saw practised by some Indians in a canoe, who shewed no symptoms of dread on the approach of the Christians.

I shouldn't be astonished by a cataract.

The clerk, astonished by this client who was so lost to the world, asked him which of the guides he would take.

At the most, a tale by Charles Cros, La science de l'amour, printed long ago in the Revue du Monde-Nouveau, could astonish by reason of its chemical whims, by its affected humor and by its coldly facetious observations.