Miracle

Examples

• It occurred to her, like a miracle, that she might go away into another world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• No less potent enchantment could avail to work this miracle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Sam, I think this rather apocryphal,--this miracle. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• No one knew exactly how the miracle was accomplished. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• But I delivered this written communication (slate and all) with my own hand, and Joe received it as a miracle of erudition. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And that others should approve, of what we approve, is no miracle or impossibility? Plato. The Republic.
• But a kind fate intervened, and by a miracle I escaped with but slight bruises. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• A twelve months' voyage at sea would make of an ordinary man a very miracle of meanness. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In two short days he has made his way straight into my favourable estimation, and how he has worked the miracle is more than I can tell. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Its hope is that some man living at one place on the globe in a particular epoch will, through the miracle of genius, be able to generalize his experience for all time and all space. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The miracle of a bird's flight, that st eady and almost effortless motion, had interested Langley intensely--as had also the sun's radiation--from the years of his childhood. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• This was the everrecurrent miracle of his life, at the knowledge of which he was lost in an ecstasy of relief and wonder. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the discovery were distinct and probable. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• In fact,' he said, 'it would be little short of a miracle, if she recovered. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• She was roused, and did--no miracle--but her best. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was not I who did it, it was love, love for Dejah Thoris, a power that would work greater miracles than this you have seen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• As for his shoulders and arms they continued as before; Frenchmen cannot work miracles like German princes! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Christ did few miracles in Nazareth, and staid but a little while. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• That British love of decency will work miracles. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Why, your friend has worked miracles. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Truly, love does work miracles. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Look at the miracles that have happened before this. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• She kept his copy-books, his drawings, and compositions, and showed them about in her little circle as if they were miracles of genius. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He worked miracles in Bethsaida and Chorazin--villages two or three miles from Capernaum. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Miracles were to be wrought in my favour, the machine of social life pushed with vast effort backward. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And these are not the days of miracles, I thought to myself, and wondered to hear her talk so. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The original Aryan gods were not expected to work miracles or control men's lives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What gasconading rascals those saints must have been, if they first boasted these exploits or invented these miracles. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• You can't base an operation on the presumption that miracles are going to happen. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If Lazarus was only half as far gone, that was the greatest of all the miracles. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Typed by Gladys