"Wonderment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... His wonderment continued when he found himself actually in his own apartment, going through its various rooms. He was somebody once more. The sight of the fruits of his riches and the enjoyment of home comforts restored his self-respect at the same time that the contrast recalled to his mind the ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... arrived at the house Chan was taken into the sick-room, and the girl gazed into his face with a look of wonderment. "I do not seem to recognize you," she said in a feeble voice. "You are much younger than Chan, and although there is something about you that reminds me of him, I cannot realize that you are the same person with whom my spirit eighteen years ago ...
— Chinese Folk-Lore Tales • J. Macgowan
... his ships were arriued at Messana in Sicilie, he made the more speed, and so the 23. of September entred Messana with such a noyse of Trumpets and Shalmes, with such a rout and shew, that it was to the great wonderment and terror both of the Frenchmen, and of all other that did heare and behold ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, v5 - Central and Southern Europe • Richard Hakluyt
... and gazed, in a dazed wonderment —for the disguises were stripped away, and the aged men and women were bright and young and gay again. Catharina's happy tongue ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... Spaniards lined the bulwarks of their vessel, smoked and yawned, and watched the reptile shooting, and then stared in sleepy wonderment at the busy smartening ...
— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn
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