Amaze

Examples

• Some of the restrictions of that Act amaze us to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Who, I ask in amaze, Hath begotten me these? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• There spoke in its light a deep solicitude, some trouble, and some amaze. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• With breathless amaze I entered on the gay scene, whose actors were --the lilies glorious as Solomon, Who toil not, neither do they spin. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But I understand, Holmes, that you are turning to practical ends those powers with which you used to amaze us? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• You amaze me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He re-folded it, and viewed the writer with a strange, tender, mournful amaze. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Above all, he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army, in the midst of peace, and among a free people. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He amazed and horrified his five companions by demanding ordinary food and refusing to continue his self-mortifications. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You would be amazed to hear how my brother, Mr. Suckling, sometimes flies about. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It was only what he had been expecting to hear at any time during the months of his work, but nevertheless he was amazed when he did catch the sound. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Dritzhn was amazed. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It amazed me to think that one so divinely beautiful could at the same time be so fiendishly vindictive. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Perdita looked at him like one amazed; her expressive countenance shone for a moment with tenderness; to see him only was happiness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And that amazes me most in you, Steerforth--that you should be contented with such fitful uses of your powers. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It amazes me, I confess; for, certainly, there can be nothing so advantageous to them as instruction. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• My love,' returned Mrs Lammle, 'your prudence amazes me--where DID you study life so well! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You know them as well as I; and, knowing them, Dr. John, it really amazes me that you should not repose the frankest confidence in her fidelity. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was amazing through how many hours at a time she would remain beside him, in a crouching attitude, attentive to his slightest moan. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This improvised stove will burn without attention for twenty-four hours, and it is amazing what a great amount of heat is given off from so small a surface. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Glaucon said, with a ludicrous earnestness: By the light of heaven, how amazing! Plato. The Republic.
• She had an amazing instinctive critical faculty, and was a pure anarchist, a pure aristocrat at once. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There was a formation of surface going on around her on an amazing scale, and it had not a flaw of courage or honest free speech in it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• What an amazing match for her! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It had hardly died away when an amazing thing happened. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

Edited by Eva