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Example sentences for "marvellous thing"

  • Michael, which is held to be a marvellous thing, with a child in swaddling-clothes, which appears alive, in the arms of a woman.

  • In this picture are friars bewailing the death of their master, and it is a marvellous thing to see the beautiful expression of the sadness of lamentation in the heads, counterfeited with great art and resemblance to nature.

  • Arno had for a sign the Lion, and Tiber the She-Wolf, with the infants Romulus and Remus; and they were both colossal figures of extraordinary grandeur and beauty, in the likeness of marble.

  • I have made this digression for the sake of truth, and it must suffice for all the rest of his Life.

  • Michelagnolo, when he was placed with Domenico Ghirlandajo, was fourteen years of age.

  • And a portrait of the Emperor Charles V, which he made from the breast upwards, of marble, has been held to be a marvellous thing, and was very dear to his Majesty.

  • And it is a marvellous thing to see the difference between the two manners, and the judgment and excellence of a mere lad who was so spirited and bold, that he had the courage to correct the work of his master.

  • Marco, there is by the hand of Tiziano the portrait of a gentlewoman, which is a marvellous thing.

  • In these rivers there are fountains of healing water, and it is a marvellous thing to see their manner of rising in the midst of the rivers, for which thanks be to God our Lord.

  • It is certainly a marvellous thing to see the great quantity of dead bodies that there are in these sandy and barren mountains, with their clothes now worn out and mouldering away with time.

  • It is a marvellous thing to hear what the Indians do in this valley.

  • Costanza soon learned to do some of these and falling to working with the rest, became in such favour with the lady and the others that it was a marvellous thing; nor was it long before, with their teaching, she learnt their language.

  • A marvellous thing it is to think how uneath to search out are the ways of love!

  • This is a marvellous thing I see: my lady is dead, and I still live on!

  • Is not this a marvellous thing, that he has forced a passage here?

  • Now I beg and urgently request thee to give me some counsel, if possible, concerning some adventure or marvellous thing.

  • Upon my word," he says, "I know not what they may say, but to me this seems a marvellous thing.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about the same size; being surrounded; biographical sketch; common sight; diverse kinds; doubt that; fallen leaves; false pretences; finely powdered; hereby know; join their; joint stock; large portion; like manner; marvellous thing; might easily; mighty power; one hundred thousand dollars; particular purpose; popular song; shot down; sincere desire