Around the grounds was set a cedar hedge, and, in time, the place became noted for the beauty of its shrubbery; the roses especially were marvelous in the richness and variety of their colors, their fragrance and the luxuriousness of their growth.

In the frequent want of thiswe do not include Mackinack in this categoryis to be sought the true cause of our failures with the Indians, to whom the strange and intense story of the Gospel appears at first in something as wild and marvelous as some of their own relations; and who are, at any rate, firmly fixed in their heathenish rites and devotions to a subtil system of deism, and the invocation of gods of the elements and demons.

I have done things which, from a scientific point of view, were far more marvelous than this.

But, more than ever, the texture of this primeval tapestry now seems most marvelous to me; past, present, and future are so happily interwoven that the reader himself becomes the seer, that is, he becomes like unto God, and yet, in the last resort, that is the triumph of all poetry in the greatest and in the least.

Her skill transcended that of Al Farabi, for the harp, the tabor, and the mandolin were wedded to her dancing fingers; and, most marvelous of all, her soul was so filled with poetry that her verses were sung from Valencia to Cadiz.

And foremost among the productions, most marvelous for beauty, was a fabric of their lucent crystalthou knowest it, Marina?

The hold she had taken of him was marvelous from the first moment she held out her baby-hands until the last in which he saw her she was his one dream of delight.

The Roman in terror immediately killed him, an unsound weak old man, but marvelous through his works.

It was marvelous beyond comprehension, this absolute authority and this silent command that brought a wolf back instantly from the wildest chase, and that kept the cubs all together under the watchful eyes that followed every movement.

The Great Bear never rests until his work is done, and he is so marvelous with the rifle that it was not necessary for him to rise when he fired.

All along there had been a certain love of the marvelous at the bottom of his fancy for inventions.