I will do something in course of time," he said, "which will astonish all England.
At any rate you can walk about and look at the country; and the next day--the next day--wont we astonish the natives!
In the scene of the Whampoa river, Joe affected to astonish John China-man with his song of "Hot Codlins.
She did it because she was in a don't-care frame of mind, also because she had quarrelled with Morvyth earlier in the afternoon, and wished to astonish her.
She told me that her school was moving in here, and I bet her a big box of Broad Street pop-corns I'd turn up some time in the house and astonish the girls.
When she cared to work she could astonish her Form and her teacher, but her energy came in such odd bursts, and with such long lapses between, that it did not in the aggregate amount to much.
He could tell them a few things that would astonish them considerably, if he chose.
I'll treat you to rump steaks, pumpkin pie, and a gin twister that will astonish you.
Paganini was the founder of his school, and the original inventor of those extraordinary tours de force with which all his successors and imitators are accustomed to astonish the uninitiated.
Shoddy & Petroleus hav gone tew Europe, to astonish Paris with their paste diamonds and fire gilt familys.
Last night I had been watching over the gate ever so long, when I darted out in front of Tynn, to astonish him.
The report of his death must have been erroneous; one of those unaccountable mistakes that do sometimes happen toastonish the world.
The desire to astonish and dazzle, the love of the uncommon for its own sake, was so evident that I shrugged my shoulders and avoided him.
Habitually he lived in humorous talk, in the epithets and epigrams he struck out in the desire to please and astonishhis hearers.
His powers of memory were so great as to astonish even those eminently gifted in the same manner.
General Jackson was one of those rare creations of nature which appear at long intervals, to astonish and delight mankind.
Do not press me on that point, if you please, I might astonish and offend you.
Greece will rise one of these days," Mr. Beveridge went on, "and when she does she will astonish Europe.
She willastonish the Turks, I warrant, when it comes to sailing.
I should like that immensely," Horace said; "we shall astonish them when we sail into the port.
Europe would see France rise by-and-by, like the Phoenix from her ashes, and spread her wings, and take a flight that would astonish the world.
Bismarck is committing one of those blunders, I dare not say one of those political follies, which astonish reason, and which form the premises of a syllogism having for its conclusion an inevitable failure.
I must indeed astonish you, for I no longer recognize myself.
We shouldastonish them at home, Beric," Boduoc said one day.
It would astonish me, my lord, if they were not asked.
Wait a little while," said Mr Ross, "and you will see a change that will astonish you.
Thus there is started a spirit of emulation that would astonish some white folks.
And it was this vision made you astonish us all with your resignation?
He will just break away their supports, astonish them, puzzle them, distress them, deprive them of confidence, convince them of nothing.
The novelist replied, in a thundering tone: "To astonish the bourgeoisie!
To "astonish the bourgeoisie" was the dearest hope and most ardent wish of these young men, and this desire betrayed itself in their slightest word; and doubtless Amedee thought it legitimate and even worthy of praise.
I promise you when you find yourself saddled with two thousand copies you will feel so sore that it will astonish you, particularly if the book is a little out of the common and not in any way highly spiced.
