astonished
Since this book was written I have received some very remarkable News from The Land of Oz, which has greatly
astonished
me.
“In fact, I was
astonished
that, with your eminence’s excellent memory,” replied Athos, smiling, “you had not recognized me before.”
(as he afterwards told me) that I must be a YAHOO; but my teachableness, civility, and cleanliness,
astonished
him; which were qualities altogether opposite to those animals.
The father was much
astonished
when he saw a stranger riding his horse, but the Hazel-nut child climbed down quickly and told him all that had happened, and his father had the robber arrested at once and put into prison.
I was much
astonished
, but the fairy who reappeared said to me,
The King seemed
astonished
. “Speak out, sir!” he commanded.
He sometimes talked in a way that
astonished
her at first and brought the crimson into her face; in a way that pleased her at last, appealing to the animalism that stirred impatiently within her.
it’s natural enough that they should be
astonished
,” said the doctor.
There they at last stood still beside one another; all of them old people, but with comforted, brave hearts, and
astonished
in themselves that it was so well with them on earth; the mystery of the night, however, came nigher and nigher to their hearts.
One Evening in December as my Father, my Mother and myself, were arranged in social converse round our Fireside, we were on a sudden greatly
astonished
, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward door of our rustic Cot.
But before she was half way upstairs she heard the parlour door open, and, turning round, was
astonished
to see Edward himself come out.
Carton, still drinking the punch, rejoined, “Why should I be
astonished
?”