Do we say wonder or wonderment

wonder 13541 occurrences

I wonder what would have happened had we taken the same line about German newspapers.

I wonder whether it was their guilt or their efficiency that prompted Austria's action.

His mother had died when he was very young, and he had had little education, and strange stories were in circulation about that lonely farmhouse, not much to the credit of father or son; which stories John Thornton must, in his position of clergyman, have heard somewhat of; so that one need hardly wonder at his uneasiness when he saw him enter.

"Jim," said I, "I wonder what is going on at Drumston now?" "I wonder," he said softly.

"Jim," said I, "I wonder what is going on at Drumston now?" "I wonder," he said softly.

I wonder if she married that fellow Hawker?" "I fear there's but little doubt of it," I said.

"Is nobody going to notice me or my boy, I wonder?" said Mrs. Buckley.

The boy looked in wonder at a tall man who looked short beside Little John, as he came up in coat of green with brown belt, a sword by his side, quiver of arrows hung on his back, and longbow in his hand.

she questioned breathlessly; "and what did you tell her?" Faith repeated the conversation in open-eyed wonder.

"I wonder what the deuce has got into him, anyway," he muttered.

" "I don't wonder," said Faith.

" Both women stared at her as she spoke, but, for a wonder, neither of them scoffed at her statement.

"I wonder if Miss Brady is ill?" said Faith as she squeezed by Miss Jones in the narrow space behind the counter.

It's no wonder that the prospect of a square meal and a little recreation tempted them.

"Why, the boss' religious attack has upset him completelyknocked him out in one roundand I don't much wonder.

"I wonder what she wishes to see me for?" said her employer, musingly.

I wonder what could have been their motive for keeping it a secret!" Faith shook her head.

She had hardly had time to wonder what had occurred, when the door flew open and she had a good look right straight into the office.

And wonder not, Reader, if the author as a poet thus reproach these prelates of the Church; for even great Doctors and Saints have not been able to abstain from rebukes of this sort against such men in the Church."

I think I'll sleep better if I have the debt off my mind, and I shouldn't wonder if you would.

He knows the mystical wonder and horror that Coleridge set forth in The Ancient Mariner.

The impressions of all these things were unfamiliar and ministered to a sense of wonder, and by that very fact they were classed as romantic, as modes of escape from a settled way of life.

If Wordsworth represents that side of the Romantic Revival which is best described as the return to Nature, Coleridge has justification for the phrase "Renascence of Wonder."

George was very angry, and no wonder!

No wonder God looks down upon sinful mankind and is grieved.

wonderment 198 occurrences

" Forthwith up rose Walkyn and summoning divers of his company strode away down stream, what time Giles, staring after him in wonderment, thereafter shook his head at Roger.

After he shall have realised this to himself, and after the tension of his soul in ranging through the universe and through space shall have kindled hope after hope, wonderment and aspiration after aspiration and wonderment, then indeed will he need to keep his heart light, lest it make him sink at the contemplation of his own nullity.

After he shall have realised this to himself, and after the tension of his soul in ranging through the universe and through space shall have kindled hope after hope, wonderment and aspiration after aspiration and wonderment, then indeed will he need to keep his heart light, lest it make him sink at the contemplation of his own nullity.

Filled with wonderment as to why I had been sent for, I halted at the foot of the steps gazing about the dreary interior, surprised at its positive dinginess.

He looked at her in wonderment; Gloria misread the look in his eyes and for a terrible moment thought that he was dying.

To those who note the methods by which many children are managed, it is a matter of wonderment that the results in character and conduct are not very much worse than they are.

He told them, growing wonderment in his gaze.

But Mrs. Freg did not come and did not come, until at last he opened his eyes, just in wonderment.

"'The end of Tragedies or serious Plays,' says ARISTOTLE, 'is to beget Admiration [wonderment], Compassion, or Concernment.'

And there he broods in wonderment On the celestial glory sent Through the rough loopholes, on the golden bloom That waves above the cornice on the wall, Where lately dwelt the echoes of the room; And drinking in the yellow lights that lie Upon the ivy tapestry.

Behind my father's house there lies A little grassy brae, Whose face my childhood's busy feet Ran often up in play, Whence on the chimneys I looked down In wonderment alway.

Some men I have beheld with wonderment, Noble in form and feature, God's design, In whom the thought must search, as in a mine, For that live soul of theirs, by which they went Thus walking on the earth.

Even this verse, vowd to eternity, Shall be thereof immortall moniment, And tell her praise to all posterity, That may admire such worlds rare wonderment; The happy purchase of my glorious spoile, Gotten at last with labour and long toyle.

"I, who had hitherto been lonely, deserted, homeless," he wrote, "suddenly found myself loved, admired, by many even regarded with wonderment."

And truly, as I did carry her, the Maid did make remark of her wonderment concerning me, in that I did be so hard of my body and set in the determination of my mind.

In nearly every one of these faces a sort of cow-like bewilderment expresses itselfnot grief, not even resentment, but merely a stupefied wonderment at the astounding fact that their town, rather than some other town, should be the town where the soldiers of other nations come to fight out their feud.

But our poet, we believe, did not stop with these ambiguous indications of her birthplace and family; he had promised her to immortalize the triumph of his passion, and to leave to all posterity a monument of the "rare wonderment" of the lady's beauty.

Here his worshipers halted in wonderment, but he kept on to the corner and out of sight.

Heady received the ball without obstruction, and by a quick overhead fling landed it in the high basket, and scored the first point, while applause and wonderment were loud in the gallery.

Thus he moveth, with such gesture, e'en as boy himself announcing Future master of all beauty, through whose limbs, whose every member, Flow the melodies eternal: and so shall ye hearken to him, And so shall ye gaze upon him, to your special wonderment.

Those who knew Katie best, Mrs. Prescott in particular, kept watching her in wonderment.

Hubert watched in wonderment this girl, so weak and languid in her own nature, awaking only to life when she assumed the personality of another.

I'd say the devil couldn't do that!" He said nothing more, but went out to lead in the hobbled horses, leaving Aldous in half-stunned wonderment to finish the preparation of breakfast.

He was telescoping his long glass as he spoke, and while Aldous was still staring toward the gorge in wonderment and a little fear, he added: "We'd better follow.

"I know that tune," he said, gazing at Dorothy in a sort of huge wonderment.

Do we say   wonder   or  wonderment