Which preposition to use with wonders
I am anxious to repeat the voyage, for the purpose of ascertaining some facts, about which I have been lately speculating; and I wish, besides, to afford you ocular demonstration of the wonders I have disclosed; for, in spite of your good opinion of my veracity, I have sometimes perceived symptoms of incredulity about you, and I do not wonder at it.
a state cut off from this by the wonder of a transmigration, at least ...
I think he didn't want to admire anything French, but I wonder in what part of France he has travelled.
Feeling excited, and wondering to where it could lead, I laid my gun on the floor, and, sticking the candle in the trigger guard, took the ring in both hands, and pulled.
I wondered about my sister.
I've heard she was a wonder for beauty.
I wish I could give you a notion of the amazement, the paralysing wonder with which....
Mass-saying is not so generally developed in connection with natural wonders as dancing.
I did not like this silence; it made me wonder on what devilry the creatures were bent.
THE GREAT BLUE WATER, XIV THE WONDERS OF THE HILLS, XV MARTIN'S EYES ARE OPENED, XVI
They were slightly blotched and sprinkled with a dark colour in a way which was certainly not natural, and Gifford, held by the peculiar sight, looked in wonder from the flowers to the girl's face.
Pennington's seconds finally, at his own request, left him at an ice cream parlor, where he proposed to remain until he could return to the big, steel "Massachusetts" without exciting any wonder over the little time he had remained ashore.
The child will be pleased too to see a crystal or a bit of mica, but the main thing is that we should not imagine we have disposed of the wonder by a mere name with a glib, "Oh, that's just because it's transparent," but that we realise, and reinforce and deepen the child's sense of wonderfulness.
So Godiva might have looked on Peeping Tom, with more of wonder than of loathing, just at first....
On her way homeward, she wondered within herself whether they had any suspicion of the secret tie that bound her so closely to these unfortunate girls.
Still Grace was beautiful and attractive; and though she wondered where her cousin, in general so simple and unpretending, had acquired all those stores of thought, that, in the abandon and freedom of such a fête, escaped her in rich profusion, embellished with ready allusions and a brilliant though chastened wit, her generous and affectionate heart could permit her to wonder without envying.
Lawrence Jerome persuaded me to let him ride Buckskin Joe, the best buffalo horse in the whole outfit, and on his back he did wonders among the buffaloes.
when lo! there came a mystery and a wonder into that place.
Now how in the world did he get loose?" Andy stood for a moment staring in wonder after the disappearing animal.
And, truly, I not to have said aught about them, only that our path did take us now by their feet, and I to see them, as it were, newly; and to have nice ease of heart to perceive how that they did be a wonder unto the spirit and the brain for all time.
We still pause in wonder before the streams of virulent personal abuse and unbridled licence in temper which disgrace the early pages of volumes we now associate with sound and dignified, if somewhat conventional, utterances on the art of Literature as viewed from the table-land of authority.
and were already inclined to steal their neighbors' childrenthose of their own tribe they never sold at this timeto obtain these wonders out of the sea.
They are called Burton's Books[803]; the title of one is Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England.
I wonder under whose advice he chose him for his counsel.
Now and then he looked with wonder across the mountains.