Marvellous

Examples

• Before that time we sit listening to a tale, a marvellous fiction, delightful sometimes, and sad sometimes, almost always unreal. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• As an instrument, in these things, he was marvellous, she had never seen any man with his potentiality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was a marvellous sight: a mighty revelation. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He stood there in his strange, whole body, that had its marvellous fountains, like the bodies of the sons of God who were in the beginning. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He was a wonderful mechanic; the control that he had of his fingers was marvellous, and his eyesight was sharp. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The Vengeance and Jacques Three vied with each other in their fervent protestations that she was the most admirable and marvellous of witnesses. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I noted the marvellous speed of the young red man as he raced after the guards. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He got completely drunk, and climbed to the top of a high studio ladder, and gave the most marvellous address--really, Ursula, it was wonderful! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The story of the marvellous inventions of the century in electricity is a fascinating one, but in length and details it is also marvellous, and we must hasten unwillingly to a close. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is along these lines that the inventors have wrought their marvellous changes from hand to power looms. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Ursula, it's marvellous, it's really marvellous--it's really wonderful, another world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• One of the main impressions left upon me after knowing Mr. Edison for many years is the marvellous accuracy of his guesses. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The fellow was a marvellous swordsman and evidently in practice, while I had not gripped the hilt of a sword for ten long years before that morning. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Mr. Upton says: One of the main impressions left upon me, after knowing Mr. Edison for many years, is the marvellous accuracy of his guesses. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Marvellous cognac this, madame! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• She was beautiful as a new marvellous flower opened at his knees, a paradisal flower she was, beyond womanhood, such a flower of luminousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We were just admiring these marvellous flowers, which will surprise her when she reappears. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It made no serious impression on any of us except my cousin--whose love of the marvellous induced him to believe it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The public is now familiar with the different forms of this wonderful instrument, and like the telephone, they no longer seem marvellous. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The sense of the awfulness of riches that could never be impaired flooded her mind like a swoon, a death in most marvellous possession, mystic-sure. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• THE STROLLER'S TALE 'There is nothing of the marvellous in what I am going to relate,' said the dismal man; 'there is nothing even uncommon in it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The marvellous glory of the nineteenth century has proceeded from the intelligence of the people, awakened, stimulated, and guided by the press. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• She thinks you're WONDERFUL--oh marvellous, beyond what man has ever been. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Webster has a marvellous capacity for understanding things scientific; and his address before the courts was lucidity itself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was one of the marvellous attractions at the great Paris Exposition of 1900. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is simply marvellous. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Her ships followed her marvellous inland waterways, and put to sea but rarely, and then only to India or Borneo as their utmost adventure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By George, it's marvellous! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• When anything marvellous occurs in real life, wiseacres shake their heads, and say, Wonderful! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It is marvellous. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

Typist: Rodger