Sentence Examples
He looks not at his stepson, but at his wife, and not with anger or amazement, but with what can only be described as love and devotion. |
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As a young child, this prodigy sketched a portrait of his infant niece in the cradle, to the amazement of his family. |
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The amazement, glee, even exaltation he found in the face of what he set out to photograph can be imagined if not really demonstrated. |
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Every Wednesday I watch in amazement as rigid, gay-weary men turn into man-hugging metrosexuals over the course of a day. |
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I watched in amazement as the two combatants traded blows and then there was a flash of lightening that dazzled my eyes. |
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But this week, to my amazement, a man of perhaps Arab origin stood on the left, blocking the traipse of climbers. |
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Walter chuckled and continued to walk, and Edie padded along with him, wide-eyed in amazement. |
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In amazement, Ms. K looks at the misshapen creatures surrounded by tufts of shaggy hair. |
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A guy was standing in her way, eyes showing amazement and some emotion that looked like relief. |
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Not until spring was the box opened again, when great was my amazement to find a big moth flapping its wings! |
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Watch in amazement as the final free is taken in the All Ireland Hurling Final and the final whistle blows immediately afterwards. |
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The catchphrase was delivered with a look of saucer-eyed amazement which slayed the studio audience every time. |
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A crash of musketry followed, and when the smoke lifted there sat Washington, to the amazement of all, unharmed. |
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True to his words and to my amazement, he has selected some of the ones I thought were unpalatable to the taste of the Chinese authorities. |
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Alexander watched the twin red-hot points of fire smoulder in the figure's flesh, but to his amazement, the wound healed before his eyes. |
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Imagine my amazement to see a new hole appear by the weekend in the brand new, resurfaced road. |
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To his utter horror and amazement, 20 to 30 journalists were there to meet him. |
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To my complete and utter amazement, I felt okay, not just physically but emotionally as well. |
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Not to anyone's amazement, a woman was found in the audience who began nodding vigorous assent to everything Charles said. |
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Like lightning, out of nowhere, a 14-inch splake dashed in and smacked the jig as we watched in amazement. |
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I stared at her in amazement, startled by the sudden change of expression in her voice. |
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She cried out in pain and watched in amazement, as her attacker seemed to fly backward and fall head over heels over her bed. |
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After a brief pause to examine the tangled helictites in total amazement we crawled on. |
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The keeper unlocked the jewels and to his amazement was seized and held in the strongroom. |
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To the amazement of all of us, Johnson had shoulder-length hair, the style popular on campuses. |
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Ian hoisted himself onto the countertop and looked around in amazement at the high ceilings. |
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Imagine my amazement and chagrin when I saw the statue and surroundings in such a state of neglect. |
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I and found to my amazement that it was the pail holding the innards left over from the swine. |
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A couple of people left in a huff, but most of us just stared in amazement. |
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Hundreds looked on in amazement as more than 50 people defied their instincts and walked barefoot over hot coals. |
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He read speeches in a soft voice sometimes inaudible in the crowd, smiled shyly and waved as if in amazement at all the attention. |
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To the amazement of all concerned Simon's leukaemia had grown through some of the heaviest drug treatment available. |
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After grabbing a spare fly rod, she headed out the front door, while John shook his head in amazement. |
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I forgot to mention earlier that my amazement at the proliferation of wireless networks continues. |
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It was four blocks before he caught up with her, and he saw with numb amazement that she was running at nearly forty miles an hour. |
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He watches in amazement and mentally curses the fact that his camera is fitted with a macro lens. |
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A postwoman watched in amazement as two teenagers snatched her Royal Mail pouch bag full of letters while it was attached to her bike. |
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Several of the children around me gasped their amazement and I had to agree, it was quite cool. |
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Does it remind us of the time way back in our racial memory when our primogenitors viewed in amazement the shadows dancing on the cave walls? |
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I have watched that market with amazement and have solidly resisted efforts of my Chinese publishing friends to get my book out in Chinese. |
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A ragged decrepit old man blinking in amazement as a parachute descends into the valley, landing gently beside the lake. |
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Ask him about it, though, and he still professes amazement that he was even allowed on to the stage. |
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Her companion widened her eyes in amazement and gave a little indulgent gasp. |
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I looked at him, though still on the floor, his eyes were gleaming strangely with pride and amazement. |
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I had some dealings with him, and to my amazement, he never agreed to a discount and was always punctual in meeting delivery deadlines. |
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In utter amazement, Kirby found herself standing alone on the curb watching Jason's taillights disappear into the night. |
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It means a sense of amazement as I watch athletes make demands on their bodies and emotions I would never dream possible. |
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He recalled his amazement at seeing his friend play the harmonica with one hand while accompanying himself on the piano. |
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The crowd then watched in amazement as he freed himself in six and a half minutes. |
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He dodged, and then watched in amazement as it bounced off a tree but did not shatter. |
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She cupped the glass of sparkling apple cider between her palms as she stared at John in amazement. |
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He was a ragged decrepit old man blinking in amazement as a silver ship descends into the valley, landing gently beside the lake. |
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A couple of white-knuckled tourists, fearfully working their way up the cables, stare in amazement as he saunters past. |
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Walking out of Hannibal, I was struck with a sense of wonder and amazement. |
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For most of us this remarkable series of volumes will be a constant source of wonder, amazement, and re-thinking. |
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She listened in amazement and wonder, and when he ended, she immediately got up. |
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There is so much suffering in the world that we can only sit back in amazement and wonder how this could occur in a just world. |
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For a second he looked at me, eyes still wide but no longer wide with amazement and wonderment. |
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The rich, throat-catching smell of hard worked packhorses hit me even as I drew in a sharp gasp of amazement. |
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When I turned back to walk up to the house through the lengthening shadows I stopped still in amazement. |
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Bewildered, I watch her eyes flicker with the memory of sudden shock and amazement. |
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To my amazement I found that she was interested in me and she made the first moves. |
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Much to our amazement and surprise, on our return we found that the car was gone. |
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His three friends looked on in amazement as each article was taken out of the box. |
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Sometimes I can only wonder in amazement about how our pop stars are forced to suffer for their art. |
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She dragged them both back to the den to the shock and amazement of all three of them. |
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To my horror and amazement, everyone on the boat laughed, grabbed their masks and fins and jumped in. |
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The excited crowd stood wide eyed in amazement at the spectacle that lit up the night sky. |
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The Greek media reacted with relief and amazement at their sprinters' announcements. |
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I thought that most of the farmers would have better things to do but to my amazement more than 70 showed up. |
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When Alexandra arrived at the ball the room fell silent and everyone stared in amazement. |
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I feared to sip a drop of water, and I am sure that the timpanist saw me looking at him in awe and amazement. |
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Her joy and amazement are particularly well suited to such an unfettered process. |
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The amazement that these shots can awaken is the amplification of the experience itself. |
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The initial amazement and anger which greeted his decision has given way, in most quarters, to shrugged resignation. |
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There were some startling revelations along the way that made me check and recheck in complete amazement. |
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Motorists watched in amazement as a 30 ft fountain of water caused an explosion on the electricity lines above a railway track. |
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In the past, I stared with amazement and almost revered the brown, smelly liniment as I rubbed it into my bruises. |
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As I watched in amazement he leapt lithely from the couch, shook himself, stretched, and began to walk outside. |
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But once you saw such amazement in their eyes, it aroused a feeling of pride and some of your own amazement at the beauty. |
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Applying a little left rudder for lineup at the last second, I watched in amazement as my probe hit brass-to-brass in the center of the basket. |
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To my utter amazement, after discussing various engine tuners, Clive offered to ask John Oliver in person if he would do the refurbishment. |
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Fans would stare in amazement when he would roll a ball with such backspin that it would slowly reverse itself and roll back up the lane. |
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To my masochistic amazement, I found it less interesting with each viewing. |
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There was silence for a moment and then the place erupted with cries of delight and amazement. |
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Keith watches me from his seat at the kitchen table, his eyes are a mix of anger, amazement and confusion. |
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Robert gasped in amazement, his mouth gaped open, he went as white as a sheet and his eyes opened wide. |
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And as they watched in amazement, Lanyon's skin started taking on a greyish tint, and her hands, raised to ward off the basilisk, froze in place. |
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Ben watched with amazement that turned to pride as Hoss delicately guided Alberta Evans into the first few measures of the dance. |
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To our amazement a train suddenly appears, three lights ablaze. |
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Can I just say as a Yanqui, that I'm in constant amazement at the idea of a show running from the early 70s to the mid 80s, yet only having twenty-odd episodes? |
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Then the Maluka's reply came, and Mac whistled in amazement. |
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The Germans were rolling their eyeballs and tutting in amazement. |
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Some will shake their heads in amazement that such a debate still goes on. |
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I lifted my head from the bed and looked at him in amazement and relief. |
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To our amazement, the advocate then slapped the man hard across the cheek. |
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The officers watched in amazement as their daring fugitive escaped. |
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I was present at his Northern California seminars and remember vividly the amazement of the participants at his encyclopedic knowledge of aikido techniques. |
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When it was placed on my desk my reaction was one of total amazement. |
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To our amazement he impatiently knocked on the door a couple of times. |
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To the amazement and disappointment of Annie Besant and some of the other theosophists, he gave up all the power and prestige that he had gained under their tutelage. |
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All of this was much to the amazement of my grandfather, who observed that two and a half grand spent on a marine conservation expedition had left me with some useful skills. |
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Sage stared in amazement as she was squiggling around, trying to get away. |
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This unnatural act unhinged a stranger sitting next to me who looked on in amazement as he passed the same bus stop he had stood at five minutes previously. |
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I watched in amazement as the players were coddled and treated like gods. |
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Strolling up to the glacier edge, Victorian visitors could peer in amazement into deep-blue caves, or paddle in the freezing meltwater which surged from under the ice. |
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He then slumped to the floor, to the amazement of his audience, having departed this plane of earthly existence. |
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Some people stared in curiosity, some in amazement, and others in judgment, so it was interesting to get that glare. |
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To my amazement I was permitted to drive right up to it and park right in front. |
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The congregation, who had been expecting an unskillfully played favorite hymn of Ruth's, was in hushed amazement, for it was a technically demanding piece. |
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To his amazement, the two kinds of plants occurred in a one-to-one ratio. |
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I watched in amazement as it made light work of blending a whole assortment of foods, which, from experience, I knew my cheap high street blender would never have handled. |
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The look Evangeline gave me was one of complete and utter amazement. |
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We stared at her in dumb amazement before we burst out laughing. |
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I looked around with amazement as the earth trembled beneath my feet. |
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It's a constant source of wonder and amazement to me that people do. |
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To my utter amazement, she hardly cried for more than a few seconds! |
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I watch, with amazement, athletes making demands on their bodies in ways I would never dream possible. |
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It is, for my money, one of the best screenplays of the past decade, with passages that always produce a smile on my face or a look of amazement in my eyes. |
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So impossible did it seem that such an amazement of horse-flesh could ever be hers. |
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Players from Salisbury City and Chester City looked on in amazement as the skydiver made the dramatic appearance in the second half. |
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To my amazement, she gave me a hug and she was very upbeat and talkative. |
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Shoppers in Church Lane, Belfast, watched on in amazement as the gun-toting actors rifled through the Cornish Pastie shop for some grub. |
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He watched with amazement and relief as the men, his men, his heroes, reconsecrated the temple and rekindled the Ner Tamid, the Eternal Flame. |
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Crowds of Saturday shoppers looked on in amazement as three grannies whizzed down the High Street on the souped-up trolleys. |
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While encamped, Howe made no attempt to attack, much to Washington's amazement. |
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They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him. |
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The Margery, launched in Dumbarton in 1814, in January 1815 became the first steamboat on the River Thames, much to the amazement of Londoners. |
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Halfway through middle school, Edgar morphed from a soprano to a bass, much to the amazement and amusement of his fellow choristers. |
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To Allen's amazement, Collins told her to mwah off as she didn't exchange kisses with people she didn't know. |
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And to his amazement he finds himself back in the company of his old sparring partner River Song as he joins her squad for a warp speed chase across the galaxy. |
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To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds. |
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Millions of Sky TV viewers gawped in amazement as Brown berated the fiery Frenchman for allowing Karl-Heinz Riedle to score a goal that was disallowed. |
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She did not knock at the door, which stood open, but, somewhat to Fermi's amazement, walked at once into the front room, which was plainly the room of state. |
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The ethnic mix in Oakland, like every big city in the US, is a source of diverse amazement and truly places Oakland as one of the melting pots of the world. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
A gasp of amazement, a prickle, a shudder, ran over the skin of that susceptible assembly. |
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Colonel flesher came out of his office, watching the last stage with open-mouthed amazement. |
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Here was indeed a fulmination to strike an Englishman breathless and dumb with amazement. |
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As he read, his hand shook, amazement dilated his eyes and furrowed his brow. |
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Grief and amazement were blended in galliard's glance, and also, maybe, some reproach. |
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She saw with amazement, and walked on quickly that Harry might not also see. |
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Will you forgive me if I express amazement at your precocity, and congratulate you upon it? |
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There was amazement upon every person who saw the garron and the load that was on him. |
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Poor nabla, in amazement, sat looking at the big heap of silk and the golden wheel. |
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There came a squeal of amazement from Aggie, a start of incredulity from Garson. |
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This production is a gem, and always attracts the wonder and amazement of foreigners. |
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By this time the nerve or brain cell whereby one experiences the sensation of amazement was numb. |
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Now for a minute the gruel was forgotten, and Mrs. Lewis looked at Kitty in amazement. |
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The court was thrown into amazement, and even bumptious quailed before the fist of the mighty Jorrocks. |
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Then to my amazement Cousin Egbert insisted that our cabman should sit at table with us. |
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If Mr Western could have seen him and his earnestness, he would have been agape with amazement. |
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As for Rollin, he became, and remained for some time, a petrifaction of amazement. |
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She threw him a side-glance of amazement, from her pretended search of the ground. |
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And as aja looked at him, he was seized with amazement greater than before. |
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And up an avenue of giant place trees the peris led him, dumb with amazement. |
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The devil you did, the roundsman said, as much with irritation as with amazement. |
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I am sorry that the notion should so palpably wake your Lordship's amazement. |
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After tea they went into the garden, and there, to her amazement, she saw the high fence and the chain pump of her hallucination. |
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At his shoulder he heard a low gasp of amazement and incredulity commingled. |
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The cigaret dropped from Ansel Tomlin's mouth as he opened it in amazement. |
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I declare, the profoundness, the ingeniousness, and the boldness of your successful answers filled me with amazement! |
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Glennard turned to the bell, but Mrs. armiger pursued him with her lovely amazement. |
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Isadora's daily amazement at Yetta's outspoken Socialism gradually grew into a conviction that he had been wrong. |
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She marched to the door and there, turning, looked at him in awe-stricken amazement. |
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Jean stared in amazement, while Maurice, kneeling on his bed, craned his neck to see. |
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Then, abruptly, the round, baby-like face of the woman puckered in amazement. |
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The Inspector looked his amazement, and the others sat with receptively blank countenances waiting further disclosures. |
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It was a wordless pantomime, the ensuing scene, and Bert watched in amazement. |
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Mr. Dme picked it up, and to Nordica's amazement she recognized her own picture. |
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From convict mouths went out a respectful roar of amazement, and Mr. troke's eyes snapped with pride of outraged janitorship. |
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The master looked over his spectacles again at doddle with an expression of unutterable amazement. |
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He waited with bated breath, expecting her amazement, her indignation, her distress. |
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Mrs. Haskins stood by the door with the tea cosy in her hand and amazement on her face. |
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No pen can describe the amazement that appeared on the faces of linden and Bowlby. |
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This abstraction is the far-off heaven on which the eye of the mind is fixed in fond amazement. |
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I should not be so eccentrically spontaneous with these people, if they did not feed my sense of humour by their amazement. |
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He laughed most of the way home, and Mr. Todd walked at his side in amazement. |
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His amazement now was so open-mouthed as well as open-eyed that she could not help smiling. |
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He was blusterous and garrulous and, to Burgess' amazement, not at all amused. |
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And, to the utter amazement of the assembled family, Beth walked deliberately down the garden, through the hedge, and in at the Laurences' door. |
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To my amazement, the detective devoted his scrutiny to the dining table. |
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Linda's amazement on entering the room had been worthy of note. |
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It was only the occasion of it that struck her with amazement annually. |
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Jennie looked at the wall in amazement, but I told her merrily that I did it out of pure spite at the vicious thing. |
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There were gasps, explosive curses of bewilderment, amazement. |
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But now they stood back to back, facing, in wide-eyed amazement, the very evidently hostile demonstrations of a common enemy. |
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The bookseller who managed the paper looked at him in amazement. |
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This was a surprise even to the actors, and when they saw the table, they looked at one another in rapturous amazement. |
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Perhaps he got the feeling of being a rake more from his wife's rage and amazement than from any experiences of his own. |
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And in the end he could bear it no more, but buried his face in his hands and burst into tears, to the alarm and amazement of his hosts. |
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Madame Rabourdin listened in amazement to this singular profession of rascality. |
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To the amazement of all he led the way to the conning tower. |
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All eyes turned toward the bridal party, and a murmur of amazement went through the throng, for neither bride nor groom removed their masks. |
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And to Benny's amazement, Mr. deer mouse was just as polite as ever. |
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The domine and Angus looked at the beautiful girl in utter amazement. |
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Suddenly to his amazement he heard the drawling growl of Dan Boundary. |
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To the amazement of all present, her neck, instead of being as smooth and white as her face, was a mass of scars. |
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Tranter inquired, gazing with amazement round the festooned room. |
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But her amazement passed all bounds when he told her he had been on Maui, the particular island whereon she had attained womanhood and married. |
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Mrs. gamp looked at her with amazement, incredulity, and indignation. |
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There was Mrs. Mearson, the gatekeeper, was struck in amazement. |
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His sunburned, good-humored face was wrinkled and puckered with amazement. |
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He tossed a half-crown toward his host, who stared in blank amazement. |
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Mary stood silent for a moment from sheer amazement over the change. |
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Hawkeye regarded the young man a moment in speechless amazement. |
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To the Virgin's amazement, Daylight held up his three queens, discarding his eights and calling for two cards. |
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Honora's amazement at her cousin's hedonism gave way to contempt for it. |
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As Mrs. Owen came near the hen-house, she stood still, in amazement. |
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The note of amazement in her voice was stronger than that of het relief. |
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All were filled with amazement, and looked upon their governor as another Solomon. |
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She looked up at the starlit sky in a kind of wondering amazement. |
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I think, from his blank look of amazement, that he was under the impression that I had taken too much champagne, or something. |
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He heard mutters of amazement at the ghastly damage wrought, and was drenched with his own blood. |
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After any one has been to Finland, he reads the Kalevala with amazement. |
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He awoke in the early morning in his bedroom, and looked around him, now clear-headed, in amazement. |
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Ralph drew back in utter amazement at this plain speaking, and regarded Kate with the sternest look. |
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I looked on in amazement, for, splendid climbers though the cave men of Pellucidar are, I never before had seen so remarkable a feat per-formed. |
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He spun round in his amazement and met the leering face of Ayoub. |
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The tall commissionaire looked in amazement at her.The commissionaire put his finger on the bell of the outside door. |
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And to her amazement, lira's brother held out the magic castanets. |
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To the amazement of all, macer stepped back and flung down his sword. |
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Mr. McKenna turned suddenly in amazement as Mr. Dooley bolted. |
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While she spoke the young man gazed at her in unqualified amazement. |
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The first effect was a profound amazement, not untinctured by alarm. |
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Jack regarded the scene in amazement, not untinged by disapproval. |
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Her nimbleness and skill in dodging filled us with amazement. |
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He stared about him, open-eyed and open-mouthed with amazement. |
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To his amazement, he was not permitted to board the outbound bus. |
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Colonel Woodburn examined the present, and gave a whistle of amazement. |
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Suddenly he started and stood still with a look of distressed amazement, that alarmed Eppie. |
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I stood on the parados of Liverpool Trench and watched with amazement. |
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The peepers, not far away, heard him utter an exclamation of amazement. |
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The two youngsters stayed dumb with amazement before what they considered to be an apparition. |
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The words burst from him with the propulsive energy of total amazement. |
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The rebbe regards the pupil in amazement mixed with anxiety. |
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At last, a sudden recollection seemed to flash upon him, for he stared at the stranger with such an air of blank amazement and alarm, that he walked up to him. |
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Saxon's amazement increased, as, article by article, the old woman displayed the airiest, the daintiest, the most delicious and most complete of bridal outfits. |
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His Typeean majesty, with all his court, gazed upon me in amazement, as if I had displayed some preternatural faculty which Heaven had denied to them. |
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I had not advanced another two hundred yards, when, to my inexpressible terror, amazement, and indignation, I again beheld Trabb's boy approaching. |
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As to my adventure among the elephants he heard it with amazement, declaring that he could not have believed it had not my truthfulness been well known to him. |
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Old Mazey went out alone and used his influence with Dawkes, who, staring in stolid amazement, put a leather cushion on the cart-seat for his fellow-traveler. |
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What I look back at with amazement is the situation I accepted. |
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The listener in the hall walked up and down, lost in amazement. |
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The havoc wrought in her drawn features filled me with dumb amazement. |
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Duncan now turned to explain these proposals to his commander, who heard him with amazement, and a sensibility that was deeply touched by so unusual and unexpected generosity. |
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After an instant of amazement, he sprang to her and clasped her in his arms, and she, against her will, and protesting voicelessly, stumbled into his embrace. |
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Their amazement was great when they discovered me, and also their disappointment, and with one accord they fell to abusing me for having robbed them of their usual profit. |
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Miss Ophelia stood silent, perfectly paralyzed with amazement. |
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Their amazement at me, my language, my rules, and ways, once subsided, I found some of these heavy-looking, gaping rustics wake up into sharp-witted girls enough. |
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Just ahead of them were the gates of Hugson's Ranch, and Uncle Hugson now came out and stood with uplifted arms and wide open mouth, staring in amazement. |
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The knights heard this uncommon document read from end to end, and then gazed upon each other in silent amazement, as being utterly at a loss to know what it could portend. |
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All the good women of the neighborhood crowded to the palace, and held up their hands, in unutterable amazement, at the beauty and wholesomeness of this darling little prince. |
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