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wonder-stricken

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  • The wonder-stricken visitor laid down the book and took up another, which was, at any rate, written in English.

    A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

  • ‘Yes, Miss Radie,’ answered old Tamar, wonder-stricken, with a strange expression of fear in her face.

    Wylder's Hand 2003

  • And on the harbour, in the midst of the drays and casks, and in the streets, at the corners, the good folk opened large wonder-stricken eyes at this sight, so extraordinary in the provinces, a cab with blinds drawn, and which appeared thus constantly shut more closely than a tomb, and tossing about like a vessel.

    Madame Bovary 2003

  • She was wonder-stricken at his bravery, although she felt in it

    Madame Bovary 2003

  • I can testify with a full and often wonder-stricken awe that I believe God answers prayer.

    The Kneeling Christian Unknown Christian 1971

  • With that he turned briskly, and walked away along Cheapside, leaving me wonder-stricken at what was not, perhaps, so very wonderful an adventure after all.

    Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray

  • Christopher followed at a little distance, wonder-stricken still, and half disposed to return to the charge again.

    Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray

  • We humbly followed on foot from tree to tree, when to our surprise he stopped on a low tree on the outskirts of the wood and allowed us to come almost within reach of him, and to stand wonder-stricken while he sang in answer to his companions.

    Bird Day; How to prepare for it Charles Almanzo Babcock

  • "In the old dungeon, I said," explained the wonder-stricken chamberlain.

    Heiress of Haddon William E. Doubleday

  • "I cannot read," he replied; but suddenly bethinking himself that he was implicated by the written evidence, he quickly changed his mind, and eagerly snatching the document from the baron, he hastened out of the room and turned the lock sharply upon the wonder-stricken knights.

    Heiress of Haddon William E. Doubleday

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