Menelaus and Helen after a long Absence manage thesurprize of their good Fortune handsomly.
There should be something that is admirable, and unexpected to surprize the Audience.
A few minutes later Edwin's surprize was no less than his employer's had been; for the latter, breathing heavily and nearly exhausted from the exertion of climbing the hill in such haste, threw open the door and rushed in.
His surprize was therefore complete when, just as the back wheels of the wagon were dropping heavily over the last rail, there was a sudden breeze and whiz came the car around the curve.
He was beginning to reah'ze that what his wife had said concerning the changes of fifty years was true, but the greatest surprize was before him.
Then, while thinking of what had taken place at the camp meeting, he remembered his mother and his surprize at seeing her at such a place.
It was therefore a surprize to Edwin when he felt his cousin creeping stealthily from the bed and out upon the floor where the rays of the moon were the brightest.
When Mr. Engler recovered from his surprize and went to look for her, he saw her running up the road as fast as her feet would carry her.
Pippo leaned over the balcony and saw not without surprize that the negress knocked at his door.
Tis confess'd, Sir, you took me but for humble Employment; but my Intention was agreeably to surprize you with some superior Gifts of Nature, to your faithful Slave.
I was unexpectedly and by surprize engaged therein.
If we feel some repugnance in ourselves, it need not surprize us; for it is only too natural for us to shun the cross.
But while I am conversing with you about the first evening of the world, evening takes me bysurprize and puts an end to my discourse.
It will perhaps surprize those who have not attended to this subject, to hear it asserted, that the little conjunction if, is a verb in the Imperative Mode.
It may surprize those who have not turned their thoughts to this subject, that I should ascribe the manner of speaking among a people, to the nature of their government and a distribution of their property.
It will perhaps surprize my readers to be told that, in many particular words, the modern spelling is less correct than the ancient.
You may judge of our surprize when we found in the stranger, who had his head bound up and his arm in a sling, General , a relation of Mad.
At court, emotion or surprize Reveal'd the truth to other eyes.
And render it a realm of peace, Where beckoning Hope led on Surprize To see thy magic forms arise!
The prince, under the first impulse of surprize and remorse, started from the bed, and, heedlessly plunging into the boiling bath, was instantly suffocated or scalded to death.
The variety and originality of the characters here introduced would under any circumstances be remarkable, but it excites peculiar surprize and delight, that in so small a space they find room to act so freely and to shew themselves so fully.
The extent of your admiration may take you by surprize some day or other.
Mrs. Weston said no more; and Emma could imagine with what surprize and mortification she must be returning to her seat.
I have been silent from surprize merely, excessive surprize.
The news was universally a surprize wherever it spread; and Mr. Weston had his five minutes share of it; but five minutes were enough to familiarise the idea to his quickness of mind.
Every moment had brought a fresh surprize; and every surprize must be matter of humiliation to her.
Her father was quite taken up with the surprize of so sudden a journey, and his fears that Mr. Elton might never get safely to the end of it, and saw nothing extraordinary in his language.
Frank Churchill, with a look of surprize and displeasure.
Emma's only surprize was that Jane Fairfax should accept those attentions and tolerate Mrs. Elton as she seemed to do.
There, thesurprize was not softened by any satisfaction.
I was just going to tell you of our agreeable surprize in seeing him arrive this morning.
In speaking these words, she quitted them, leaving them in an inconceivable surprize at all they had seen.
It may surprize those who are personally unacquainted with India, to learn that horses are very little employed in carriages.
And 'tis as certain that he did surprize me, Without permitting time for my Defence, He had not else so soon dismounted me.
Then from my o'erjoy'd Arms to have him snatcht; Then when our Vows had made our Freedom lawful; What Maid cou'd suffer a Surprize so cruel?
What is't that checks the Joy, that shou'd surprize me at the receipt of this.
This would surprize a Virgin less resolv'd: But what have I to do with ought but Love?
The retreat of the Prussian army excites more surprize than interest, and the people talk of it with as much indifference as they would of an event that had happened beyond the Ganges.
The sudden appearance of the Portuguese rendered the astonished Moor perfectly motionless, and before he could recover from his surprize he was seized by Gotterez.
They expressed much surprizeat this circumstance; as they had been told by the Venetian ambassador at Lisbon, that the Portuguese could not send their ships to sea without assistance from Venice.
They asked with much affected surprize what had happened, and began to declare and even to swear in the presence of God that they knew nothing of the movement and were not in it, though one of them confessed he was glad of it.
We drove out to Prospect that morning, six miles, and to our surprize and joy met Brother and Sister Fisher, who had come with Brother Warner.
I also, unsolicited, apologized for the appointment of some meetings in the past which to mysurprize proved offensive to the churches.
Scarcely had this been said when Brother Warner arrived, to the surprize of all.
From these principles we may account for a phaenomenon in the passions, which at first sight seems very extraordinary, viz, that surprize is apt to change into fear, and every thing that is unexpected affrights us.
Unless it rise up to that stupendous height as to surprize us, or sink so low as, in some measure, to affect the judgment, we commonly take no notice of its variations, nor ever mention them to the praise or dispraise of any person.
However extraordinary this conclusion may seem, it need not surprize us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surprize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
