Marvels
['mɑrvlz]
Examples
- Who talks of the marvels of fiction? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- How else are these marvels of symmetry, cleanliness, and order attained? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They know nothing of sunrise or sunset, for they only see those marvels through a smoky veil. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This is one small sample of the vast accumulation of vulgar marvels that presently sprang up about the memory of Gautama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Wondering at marvels of your own manufacture. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They are such touches of nature as the art of Defoe might have introduced when he wished to win credibility for marvels and apparitions. Plato. The Republic.
- That very man has it within him to mount, step by step, on each wonder he achieves to higher marvels still. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- They were so much occupied, however, in discussing the marvels I had already presented for their consideration, that I escaped. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- By degrees these common marvels palled on us, and then other wonders were called into being. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But common men must have their cheap marvels and wonders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By untiring patience, skill, energy and invention, he produces in these several ways works which certainly rank among the marvels of human power. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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