The stupid animal will stand, gazing in astonishment at the light, until the boat almost touches him.

Great was the astonishment of my companions, when they saw the number of deer that were feeding in this little lake.

After a broad stare of astonishment on her introduction to "Dr. Arkroyd," she took very little notice of Mary; only to Mr. Naylor was she clumsily civil and even rather cringing; it was clear that in him she acknowledged the gentleman.

One of the things that is a monumental astonishment to me, is that when we need supplication, intercession, prayer for the averting of great personal or national calamity, we flee to the Church, but we seldom think of the Church when we need brains!

I walked pretty quick along up the slopin' log till I was, maybe fifteen feet from the ground, and I saw Crop comin' over the ridge, in what the Doctor would call a high state of narvous excitement, with his tail between his legs, lookin' back over his shoulder, and expressin' his astonishment in a low, quick bark, at every jump, at something he seemed to regard as mighty onpleasant on his trail.

And he spoke his astonishment from the heart.

When he brought it, I increased his astonishment by proceeding to bore a hole through the top of my trunk.

" There was a perceptible tinge of horror in the look of astonishment with which Dr. Danvers listened.

It was with as much astonishment as indignation that Marie Antoinette learned that Boehmer believed that she had secretly bought the necklace, which openly and formally she had refused, and that he was looking to her for the payment of its price.

Verty looked after her with deeper astonishment than before.

They continued in this astonishment for some time; but seeing that the cannon ceased to fire, they plucked up courage, and renewed the fight, advancing within a stones throw of the ship.

There was a buzz of astonishment among the bystanders.

Have you recovered the breathless stone-staring astonishment into which you must have been thrown upon learning at landing that an Emperor of France was living at St. Helena?

The next is the best of these small roomsthe Sala of Prometheuswhere on Sundays most people spend their time in astonishment over the inlaid tables, but where Tuscan art also is very beautiful.

"What did you say to him, dad?" inquired Sue, gazing in some astonishment after their host's retreating coat-tails.

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.

She stood in mute astonishment before the faultless gift, this perfect bit of Beroviero crystal,opalesque and lucent, reflecting hidden rainbow tints, enhanced by the golden traceries delicate and artisticthe beautiful young face framed in those sea-gems dear to the Venetian heart, each pearl a study of changing light.

" "Why, where on earth else could you have gone?" he demanded, regarding her with astonishment through the eyeglass.

Terrapin-buzzards was bad enough, though it was true that this might be used innocently, as in a moment of mild dismay, or as an exclamation of mere astonishment without sinister import.

We had wandered near the centre of the island, when three deer started up within two rods of us, and rushed whistling and snorting in huge astonishment across the island in the direction of the mainland, and dashing wildly into the water, swam to the shore and disappeared into the forest.