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Example sentences for "marvel"

Lexicographically close words:
maruellously; maruelous; maruelously; marueylous; marumakkathayam; marveled; marveling; marvelled; marvelling; marvellous
  1. Not the marvel of intelligence and complex character you imagine, but still a good specimen.

  2. I used to marvel at the Colonel's patience with them.

  3. No tongue could tell the marvel of it; 'twas of such wondrous fashion that no man might say of what color it was.

  4. This marvel the Abbot and his monk saw at least four times, and thus at each Hour came the Mother of God with aid and succour for her man.

  5. But the lady answered-- "I marvel greatly that you should dare to speak to me in this fashion, for I have little reason to think you discreet.

  6. When the Jew heard this marvel he was filled with confusion, and was greatly astonied, so that he knew not what to say, nor what to do.

  7. Lady," said Sir Robert, "I marvel at such words.

  8. Old-fashioned roses begin blooming in the Cumberlands about the first of May, and when this time came round Nancy's garden was a thing to marvel at.

  9. The marvel of it was that one sense should be so clamorously challenged while the other was not addressed.

  10. One can only marvel at the completeness of the system of irrigation.

  11. It is a marvel of spontaneity and caprice.

  12. Viewed on the inner side, it was a marvel of luxurious comfort in every part of it, from basement to roof.

  13. And, as if to heighten still further the sense of marvel and enchantment, one traverses this magnificent forest landscape behind a locomotive running on its iron track.

  14. But what the heavenly key, What marvel in me wrought Shall quite exculpate thee, I have no shadow of thought.

  15. She fiercely cried 'Thou shalt not thus escape; For to this marvel dar'st thou not pretend.

  16. He will marvel at first at the fragile and delicate fabric of the craft in which he is asked to take his place.

  17. But he was so sore grieving and sad at heart of his good dame and fair, whom he had thus lost, that he could have no solace; and on the other hand, he was so sore grieving for John his esquire whom he had so lost, that marvel it was.

  18. Lady," said Sir Robin, "thou makest me to marvel at thy words.

  19. The Harvester looked carefully at the road, and ceased to marvel at the Girl.

  20. Not such a marvel as another the doctor couldn't have known.

  21. If he has a wife it's a marvel she has survived this long.

  22. He was spoilt so long before he was ripe that it is a marvel he ever ripened at all.

  23. Do you marvel that a household drudge should speak thus to a nobleman of Rome?

  24. Do you marvel that I desire from you such a revolution as this?

  25. Purified in the radiance of primeval fire, we shall vanish triumphant from enemies and friends--a marvel to the earth, a vision of glory to the gods themselves!

  26. I marvel that he should have been permitted to persist so long a time as he has in his course of contumacy towards the Church.

  27. Alas, my beloved, if I myself have been the dupe of the wicked, what marvel is it that you should have been betrayed as well!

  28. For this marvel is against kind and not with kind, that the fishes that have freedom to environ all the coasts of the sea at their own list, come of their own will to proffer them to the death, without constraining of man.

  29. And many other things they do by craft of their enchantments, that it is marvel for to see.

  30. And that is great marvel that it might be so, save only the will of God, that the air sustaineth it.

  31. And these 4000 barons be devised in four companies, and every thousand is clothed in cloths all of one colour, and that so well arrayed and so richly, that it is marvel to behold.

  32. And when they see the fox, they shall have great marvel of him, because that they saw never such a beast.

  33. And, natheles, I told them of as great a marvel to them, that is amongst us, and that was of the Bernakes.

  34. In that isle be ships without nails of iron or bonds, for the rocks of the adamants, for they be all full thereabout in that sea, that it is marvel to speak of.

  35. This is not the right way for to go to the parts that I have named before, but for to see the marvel that I have spoken of.

  36. And whether it be by craft or by necromancy I wot never; but it is a good sight to behold, and a fair; and it is great marvel how it may be.

  37. So that there is between them so great multitude of folk that it is marvel to tell it.

  38. It is a marvel that the poor brute can hold up the weight of the rider," said John Harned.

  39. The marvel was how he had managed to subsist and keep in condition during that time.

  40. It is a marvel that one of them survives, yet so far we have lost only six.

  41. On the heels of the little lop-sided man appeared an overgrown dolt of a fat youth, followed by another youth so tall and emaciated of body that it seemed a marvel his flesh could hold his frame together.

  42. I cannot but marvel at Andy Fay and Mulligan Jacobs.

  43. Sidenote: The Saints not to Marvel at Persecution.

  44. The marvel is not that it came at the time it did, but that it did not come earlier, more vehemently, and that some of the things it threatened were not effectively carried out.

  45. No one can marvel at the conclusion here arrived at if he will but pay attention to and give due weight to the enumerated wrongs which precede it.

  46. But there was nothing to throw light on the connexion between the Invisible Man and the Tramp; for Mr. Marvel had supplied no information about the three books, or the money with which he was lined.

  47. Henfrey stopped to discover this, but Hall and the two labourers from the Tap rushed at once to the corner, shouting incoherent things, and saw Mr. Marvel vanishing by the corner of the church wall.

  48. He has made me keep with him twenty-four hours," Marvel testified.

  49. Mr. Marvel pulled his mouth askew and scratched his cheek and felt his ears glowing.

  50. They were shouting in the street before Marvel was halfway there.

  51. Mr. Thomas Marvel hated roomy shoes, but then he hated damp.

  52. Mr. Marvel mended his pace, and for a time they went in silence again.

  53. Ted Hammer, quite a mechanical genius, had made to himself a set of these shelves, which for neatness, simplicity, and usefulness were the marvel of the school.

  54. Now we shot up till we looked down on the coxswain below us as from the top of a mast, and next instant we looked up at him till it seemed a marvel how he held to his place, and did not drop on to us.

  55. It was often a marvel to some of us how it came to be allowed for a boy to dress as Fred did.

  56. It's a marvel to me how the mater stowed all the things away.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marvel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    admiration; amazement; awe; curiosity; exception; fascination; gape; gawk; gaze; gem; jewel; magician; marvel; miracle; phenomenon; portent; prodigy; rarity; sensation; sight; spectacle; stare; stunner; surprise; wonder