wonder-loving

But I must enter into some account of this darling of fame — this favourite of the wonder-loving world.

The Last Man 2003

The chameleon is enabled to seize the little insects upon which it feeds by darting forth its wonderfully constructed tongue with such rapidity and with such delicacy of perception that "wonder-loving sages" have told us that it feeds upon the air.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

These people were invested, in after ages, by the wonder-loving mind of man, with supernatural powers.

Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen

Knowing the purity of their own intentions, and judging others by themselves, it is not strange that they regard such tales of guilt and terror as mere fabrications, put forth to gratify the curiosity of the wonder-loving crowd.

Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson

But it has ever been true, that the positive and reiterated assertions of a charlatan will usually avail to delude not only the wonder-loving public, but even persons of intellect and distinction.

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

His proportions and strength were those of a giant, and the wonder-loving people were accustomed to tell marvelous stories concerning him.

Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 Various

Excited, impassioned, wonder-loving disciples surrounded the simplest acts and words of Christ with a thaumaturgical atmosphere, and, when He merely exercised His power of moral help and healing, the “reporters” declared that He cured the sick and drove out evil spirits.

Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904

The credulous, wonder-loving scientist, however, still abides with us and, while his serious-minded brothers are wringing from Nature her jealously guarded secrets, the knowledge of which benefits all mankind, he gravely follows that perennial Will-of-the-wisp, spiritism, and lays the flattering unction to his soul that he is investigating "psychic phenomena," when in reality he is merely gazing with unseeing eyes on the flimsy juggling of pseudo-mediums.

The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé Harry Houdini 1900

The interval of two months that elapsed between the occurrence of the earthquake and its investigation was also unfavourable to the collection of accurate accounts from a wonder-loving people.

A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

Every day offered a new drama to our wonder-loving eyes.

Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899