Marvelous

Examples

• It is marvelous, exclaimed D'Arnot. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Yes, answered Gutenberg, it is in effect a wine-press, but it shall shortly spout forth floods of the most abundant and marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to quench the thirst of man. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The chief reason for this marvelous advance was the cotton-gin, for which Eli Whitney applied for a patent in 1793. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is a marvelous creation of genius, and stands alone as the unique, superb, and unapproachable triumph of the Nineteenth Century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Yet it was not until the nineteenth century that the marvelous change was made from the short-lived candle to the more enduring oil lamp. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• No fact in electricity seems more marvelous than that the thousands of messages flashing along the wires overhead are likewise traveling through the ground beneath. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• With what seemed to her marvelous rapidity the brute bore her through the forest, but still she did not cry out or struggle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• This seems most marvelous until we learn that the lines are pulled back and forth by pulleys at the window and at a distant support. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The ear is capable of marvelous discrimination and accuracy. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The powerful, easy-riding machines of today with their many refinements are truly marvelous pieces of mechanism. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was also the scene of a very marvelous thing. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• By-and-by they came to a marvelous cave in the Hill of Pion and entered into it and feasted, and presently they hurried on again. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I am afraid I study the gondolier's marvelous skill more than I do the sculptured palaces we glide among. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The marvelous force of electricity was brought to bear on the making of silver-plated knives, forks, spoons, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Living in the midst of its grandeur are most marvelous and delicate creatures that ceaselessly toil to strew the ocean’s bed with lustrous gems--pearls. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• From the earliest times man learned to spurn the groveling things of earth, and to delight his soul with the marvelous infinity of the sky and its heavenly bodies. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

Checked by Alfreda