"We thought we heard shootin'" began Galloway, staring in astonishment at the grotesque posture Rack Slimson had assumed the better to endure the ministrations of the bartender.

Our astonishment almost passed bounds when we heard her continue with a kindly inquiry after his health, and, undeterred by his evident readiness to launch into detailed symptoms, listen to him with the most respectful attention.

Franceand through France the rest of Europewas overflowed with a deluge of books, written with such lightheartedness, so absolute and with such daring, not counting on any responsibility toward people, that even those who received them without any scruples began to be overcome with astonishment.

It is as much of an astonishment as if Zola should order Clotilde's faith and principles to be turned into ashes after the doctor has read to her an almanac, time-table, bill of fare, or catalogue of some museum.

"Well," I said, "I can tell you off-hand, out of my own experience, that there certainly is a hell" He turned toward me with evident astonishment, but I proceeded with tranquillity: "Yes, sir, there's no doubt about it.

This he slipped off, while I looked on in some astonishment, and spread it out on the ground.

She had no school education there, but receiving some little instruction from the family, with whom she was so fortunate as to live, she obtained such a knowledge of the English language within sixteen months from the time of her arrival, as to be able to speak it and read it to the astonishment of those who heard her.

But no sooner was the feast over, than the greatest and worst of their astonishments ensued.

" I left him standing in angry astonishment and rushed forward.

Jot echoed in astonishment.

Jot Eddy, look at the chap that's grinding it!" Jot uttered an exclamation of astonishment.

He was shaking with suppressed laughter, that turned into astonishment at Old Tilly's calm rejoinder.

Mother raised her face, all swollen and spoilt with weeping, and gazed at her son in astonishment.

He noticed with a vague astonishment that the flimsy scraps of paper were trembling in his fingers like banknotes in the hands of a gambler, and he laid them down on the breakfast-table in disgust of the feminine weakness.

" Bosio uttered a loud exclamation of alarm and astonishment, for this was altogether beyond anything in his experience.

" They looked at each other, in considerable astonishment.

" Mr. Spragg's astonishment on learning that his son-in-law contemplated maintaining a household on the earnings of his Muse was still matter for pleasantry between the pair; and one of the humours of their first weeks together had consisted in picturing themselves as a primeval couple setting forth across a virgin continent and subsisting on the adjectives which Ralph was to trap for his epic.

The following are some of the more obnoxious astonishments of the place.

"Are there any more astonishments in store for me?" asked Nelson Randolph, as the clapping dwindled to a few tardy hands.

All this was done in silenceon the one side from timidityon the other from astonishment.

The world is full of magicians, transformations, magnetic miracles, juggling, chemical astonishments, moral gymnastics, hypocrisies, lies of wonder,but what is so strange, so marvellous, so inexplicable, as the power of conventions?

In the mean time the Lady of the Manor filled the [Area ] of the Church, and walked up to her Pew with an unspeakable Satisfaction, amidst the Whispers, Conjectures, and Astonishments of the whole Congregation.

Mâtâ's curly hair fairly stood on end, and his eyes rolled with ghastly astonishment at the spectacle.

To the astonishment of every man in the crowd he let loose one wild yell, a cross between the war-whoop of an Indian and the bay of a deep-lunged hound regaining a lost scent.

The waiter had to speak to him twice before he ordered his meal, and then he spoke so strangely that the fellow looked at him in astonishment.