Marvelled
[mɑ:vəld]
Definition
(-) of Marvel
Checker: Uriah
Examples
- Still more I marvelled what those scenes and days could now have to do with me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Rawdon marvelled over his stories about school, and fights, and fagging. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Hans carried them around with him in his map case all the time and still seemed marvelled and happy at the miracle of it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is hardly to be marvelled at that such views should elicit warm protest, summed up in the comment: Mr. Edison and many like him see in reverse the course of human progress. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Caroline marvelled at his humour, but still more at his entire self-possession. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I marvelled where you had got that sort of face. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- No one can have marvelled more than I have done at the extinction of species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Checker: Uriah