After we arose from this strange scene, and had withdrawn to our chamber, I expressed my surprise to my companion at this contrariety in the tastes of the Terrestrials and Lunarians: whereupon he told me, that the difference was rather apparent than real.

Our dress, appearance, language, and the manner of our arrival, excited great surprise among the natives, and the liveliest curiosity; but with these sentiments some evidently mingled no very friendly feelings.

I approached, bowed to them all, but to Veenah last; and although my cousins showed surprise at seeing me in their garden, at this time, they did not seem displeased.

" "Yet you heard the two together in this remote building without surprise?" "No, I must have felt surprise, but I didn't stop to analyse my feelings.

It may cause you great surprise and pain.

The first warning we had that they were infesting that part of the country was the firing of shots and the whoops and yells from a party of them, who, catching us napping, gave us a most unwelcome surprise.

" I hope I did not betray my surprise, but for all that it was staggering.

During this time he employed the numerous cavalry of the Remi, the Lingones and the other allies, to protect the foragers and to prevent surprises, but this daily service, as is often the case, ended by being negligently performed.

The sudden appearance of an enemy, preparing to attack him, occasioned some surprise; but his sloop mounting several guns, and being manned with twenty-five of his desperate followers, he determined to make a resolute defence; and, having prepared his vessel over night for action, sat down to his bottle, stimulating his spirits to that pitch of frenzy by which only he could rescue himself in a contest for his life.

"I prepared this surprise for you, Mr. Gregg," Muriel said, laughing through her tears of joy.

He obeyed the call of the nation without delay and without manifesting surprise.

The report of Field Marshal French created much surprise in England, as it was not known until his statement was made public just how hard pressed the British army had been.

At seven o'clock, over a dish of lamb stew à la White Kitchen, he confessed, and if Miss Slayback affected too great surprise and too little indignation, try to conceive six nine-hour week-in-and-week-out days of hair-pins and darning-balls, and then, at a heliotrope dusk, James P. Batch, in invitational mood, stepping in between it and the papered walls of a dun-colored evening.

" "Aren't we going to run up to her?" asked McGuire, turning in surprise to Edwards.

But, doctor, I got the surprise of my life.

Darrin and Dalzell concealed their surprise, but expressed their pleasure in accepting the gracious invitation.

She sacrificed, as it were, the father to the son, now that the latter's greater learning brought her increased surprise.

When she heard Mathieu speak of the hamlet of Saint-Pierre, of Montoir the wheelwright, and of Alexandre-Honore, now fifteen, who must be in apprenticeship there, she evinced great surprise.

He had sprung one surprise.

You may imagine my surprise.

Being now quite independent of him, she spoke of it to her fatherto every one; she sought garments of the colour and taste that she knew Edoardo liked; she imagined and planned a thousand surprises.

After enjoying my surprise for a moment, the Brahmin observed: "We have, while you were asleep, passed the middle point between the earth's and the moon's attraction, and we now gravitate less towards our own planet than her satellite.

No," as he saw surprise and protest written on their faces, "don't refuse me this pleasure, I implore you!

There are many passages in my works which I have given to the public only after some hesitation, because of their paradoxical nature; and afterwards I have experienced a pleasant surprise in finding the same opinion recorded in the works of great men who lived long ago.

" "Going to leave the place with nobody in it?" Beaumaroy's manner indicated surprise.