There was therefore nothing very surprising in the question put by the commander of the fort.
The debilitating effects of the climate, and the numberless bodily pests draw so heavily upon human vitality that it is surprising that any one after a year's residence there can muster sufficient energy to work at all.
It is surprisinghow rapidly and thickly they grow.
He laughed so contagiously that we laughed too; and I found my heart warming to these unexpected, surprising friends of Angèle de la Mole’s.
Therefore, according to our contract, we were obliged to wait until eleven, surprising Ropes by our procrastination.
Mr. Doutfire accepted it with a suggestion of reserving all comment on the surprisingstatement till a later stage.
Carnaby, with a quite surprising flash of intuition.
Oh, shut up, Dagmar," her sister returned, with a surprising lack of dignity in one so highly born.
The two men plunged into a discussion, in which the politician became presently aware that the parish priest, the visionary, possessed a surprising amount of practical and statesman-like ability.
And yet--in some surprising way--they did not hurt her as sharply as they would once have done.
And now I'm coming to the most surprising thing of all.
And Angel wondered whether after all it was not surprising but right and natural that the captain should care for such things.
That is one of the most surprising and incomprehensible signs of the native character--the Arabs always lie.
Making a sudden dart, he sprang through the cordon of guards, and was off, running at a surprising speed.
I suppose the surprising fact is fresh in your memories even now that only two months after the Balkan war had been declared the delegates of the belligerents for peace stayed in Hyde Park Hotel in London.
It is scarcely surprising then to find the masses so indifferent, and as a consequence so helpless to assist themselves or each other in any unusual situation.
This, it is true, is a striking explanation and certainly a surprising one!
But a truly surprising result is obtained, if, as must often be the case with series, we begin not with the upper of the three dates, but with the lower.
Is this surprising dearth of the creative faculty, or of genius, in art and literature a good criterion--does it justify us in saying that the people are devoid of imagination?
I picked the bird up and was surprised at its docility, for it made no effort to escape, and then, more surprising still, the old bird flew down and perched a yard off, but did not appear at all anxious about the safety of its young.
Then, following their usual tactics, the Boer guns burst forth with loud and startling uproar, surprising the troops, who had almost accepted the idea that the enemy had fled.
At the restaurant he showed him what to order, withsurprising consequences in the bill.
It is surprising how this journey has fatigued me.
It was quite surprising how many things they found to talk about--the Fourth of July, for instance.
And, surprising as it may appear, it did not take nearly so long a time as one might have expected, to alter the face of everything again and to give back to him all that he had been in danger of losing.
Under the circumstances it was not surprising to hear well-founded reports that recruiting was falling off.
The surprising thing is not that the world has witnessed so colossal an exhibition of team-work in Germany.
The acolytes were small peasant boys, and whenever they knelt down they turned toward the congregation prodigious boot-soles studded with a surprising array of shiny hobnails.
It strikes in a very dangerous manner with its feet either behind or before, not unlike the kicking of a horse, at any object which offends it, and runs with surprising swiftness.
In former times these Dogs were used to hunt runaway negroes and others in the Spanish West Indies, and many surprising anecdotes are told of their wonderful sagacity and power of scent.
The Nuthatches are shy and solitary birds, and like the woodpeckers frequent woods, and run up and down the trees with surprising facility.
In the woods he leaps from tree to tree with surprising agility, living a most frolicsome life, surrounded with abundance, and having but few enemies.
From unseen sources a surprising crowd of men and women had suddenly gathered about them.
Even in this surprising moment, one of the old seamen had growled that when you saw a man too good, it was the time to look out for him.
That he tolerated drunkenness in Bud now would have been rather surprising to any one who knew Cash well.
It is notsurprising then, that the subject was talked out long before Bud or Cash came down into the town more than two months later.
We could not remove our eyes from the glittering, moving, thing; and now a mostsurprising change took place.
Though it was an article of domestic production, the beauty and commendable qualities of the Mackinaw were indeed a surprising revelation to the trade at large.
It now seemssurprising that an article possessing such attractive merits should have occupied a secondary position and been so long in establishing the reputation it finally secured.
To be told that the lily is not the flower of vestals, but of Venus, could not be more surprising than to be assured that the mannerless sex is not that of the troubadour Rudel, but of the Lady of Tripoli, to whom he sang.
In this regard it is not surprising that Latrobe, a man of considerable foresight, had, at an early date, given serious thought to the possible application of iron here.
Therefore, it is not surprising to find on the later machine an outboard or "tailstock" support for the work.
