Miraculous

Examples

• Southey spoke of him as a miraculous young man, at whose talents he could only wonder. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It is, I believe, this power of being aggressively active towards the world which gives man a miraculous assurance that the world is something he can make. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Not half so strange as a miraculous circumstance as happened to my own father, at an election time, in this wery place, Sir,' replied Sam. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I still stood absolutely dumfoundered at what appeared to me her miraculous self-possession and most inscrutable hypocrisy, when the cook entered. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I read those miraculous words with an emphasis which did them justice, and then I looked him severely in the face. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• How miraculous did this appear! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The velocity and certainty of Mr. Bucket's interpretation on all these heads is little short of miraculous. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• These authors seem no more startled at a miraculous act of creation than at an ordinary birth. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• We had performed the miraculous and come through a thousand dangers unscathed--we had escaped from the land of the First Born. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• In the literal sense, any transfer is miraculous and impossible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The festivities, so to speak, closed with another of those miraculous balls on the promenade deck. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• How I longed for the almost miraculous healing power of the strange salves and lotions of the green Martian women. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He shewed himself collected, gallant and imperial; his commands were prompt, his intuition of the events of the day to me miraculous. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Now we are so familiar with such facts, that we are apt to dismiss them on the ground that life and instinct are a kind of miraculous thing anyway. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We see Jack Thriftless prancing in the park, or darting in his brougham down Pall Mall: we eat his dinners served on his miraculous plate. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If so, it possessed muscles of a quite miraculous quality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By the true Lord, answered the knight, every thing in your hermitage is miraculous, Holy Clerk! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• In spite of miraculous and incredible additions, one is obliged to say, Here was a man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The 20,000 papers printed per hour, above stated, has since been seen passed to a degree that seems fairly miraculous. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There would have been nothing miraculous in such foresight. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The perfect pulse throbbed with indescribable being, miraculous unborn species. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And must not we swim and try to reach the shore: we will hope that Arion's dolphin or some other miraculous help may save us? Plato. The Republic.
• It is the folly of the simple disciple which demands miraculous frippery on the majesty of truth and immaculate conceptions for righteousness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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