But I wonder what the black man must think of the--the inevitableness," I said.
Mam Daphne listened with a look of incredulous wonderon her old face.
No wonder she was left to the last; she's such a silly little thing and does nothing but giggle.
I wonder how it feels to be loved and admired by everybody, as May is!
I wonder if Charley Jarvis will recognise that row, or Phil Bently remember when he sent this.
To get up in the morning and wonder if this is the day I'll see him under my window?
At the first glance you might put him down for twenty-five; at the second, you would wonder whether you had possibly made a slight miscalculation of twenty years.
Indeed, I wonder at his thinking of coming at all after what has happened.
The sudden silence which followed this inquiry was only broken by a low whistle of wonder from Tom.
I wonder you haven't packed up Jill in one of the trunks.
With all these worries upon him it was little wonder if Mr Ratman's letters hurt his feelings.
I say, I wonder if you'll be my tutor as well as Frank's?
Wonder if I shall get any from my dear cousin Eva some fine day?
But great was the wonder and wild were the conjectures among the people of the valley on the subjects of Sybil's mysterious disappearance, Lyon's sudden voyage, and Clement and Beatrix Pendleton's eccentric conduct in following him.
I shouldn't wonderthe least in the world," assented Miss Tabby, with a serious nod of her head.
I fetches her sich a box of the years, as I shouldn't wonder if they ring yet, though that was a matter of nigh two months ago!
There were round games for the young people; now and then they went to the theatre or opera: no wonder Jill was too tired and excited to open her lesson-books.
I ought not to have said all that; but I thought you would wonder at our want of neighbourliness, and of course we cannot expect you to understand Giles's odd temper: it is a great pity he has got this idea in his head.
I wonder if Phoebe would like me to sing to her,' I observed quietly.
No wonder he looked like a Romish priest if he could make those Jesuitical remarks!
I wonder if you will be very much surprised by mamma's letter, Ursula dear.
I wonder if he mightn't have some idea of what else plutonium can be used for, beside generating power.
Why, it's a wonder they haven't developed a Theory of Relativity!
I wonder if the idea back of that spaceport proposition isn't to get us concentrated at Keegark, where Orgzild could wipe us all out in one surprise blow," somebody down the table suggested.
I wonder just what's going on at Keegark," von Schlichten said.
If there be anything excusable in such excesses as these," continues Montaigne, "it is where the novelty and invention creates more wonder than expense.
You have built a something, such as is to be found anywhere, and you have destroyed a wonder of the world.
When it was related as a wonder that Giordano painted with his fingers, no Angelo was found to observe, "Why does not the blockhead use his brush.
The reader will wonder all the more at this rhapsody after he has succeeded in picking out the modest Little Dog in the sky.
It is with your mind's eye that you must gaze, in order to perceive thewonder here hidden in the depths of space.
She had been so docile and affectionate during her visit, that he began to think her very lovely, and to wonder he had ever supposed she had a wayward temper.
I almost wonder your mother let you come here to play with my poor little girl.
He did not wonder the time had passed very pleasantly, for they knew how to make each other happy; they had tried to do right, and they had three lovely children, who were blessings to them, and would be blessings to any parents.
Then she began to wonderhow long she could live down there, in case she was not discovered.
The prevailing feeling was one of wonder that there should have been so much commotion about an unimportant affair.
Now when Mulier was turned in the way described, the relation of her frame to the film of the bubble was disarranged, and it was nowonder that this “atmosphere” disappeared.
No wonder she looks so cross, for the second wife walks leisurely on.
But at times the expression of his face would make you wonder that you ever could have thought him like his twin sister.
Spring returned, but winter had settled on the heart of the young Sisseton; she was gone who alone could drive away the shadow from his brow, what wonder then that his countenance should always be stern.
What wonder then that the arrow which was intended for the buffalo, should find its way to the heart of the trespasser!
No wonderthat Isaac was profoundly distressed by it.
It may occur to some of our readers to wonder why a man like Brownson, who was then fast nearing the certainty he afterwards attained, should have sent a youth like Isaac Hecker to Brook Farm.
It was small wonder then that verse of any worth should be to them but sounding brass and clanging cymbals.
Men of old believed it a succession of hollow spheres, one outside the other; it is hardly a wonder they should have had little gods.
The stars were brilliant overhead, and the wide void of the air between her and the earth below seemed full of wonder and mystery.
Let those who inherit or purchase, avenge the breach of law; but let them not wonder when those who are disinherited and sold, cry out against the breach of higher law!
Seeing that this left but eight shillings for eight people, it is small wonder that the club-money was rarely put by, and great wonder how the family managed at all when the club-money was wanted in a lump.
And it is no wonder if some of those habits seem now stupid, ignorant, objectionable; for the fitness has departed from them, and left them naked.
It is small wonder that he seems not to avail himself of the opportunity, prize it though he may.
No wonder that its survivals had struck me as venerable and pleasant, when there was so much vigorous English life behind them, derived perhaps from so many fair English counties.
That is so," one of them says; I wonder if he is a Kentuckian?
On one occasion Galloway had a cast-iron roof made for his workshop, so flat and so independent of ties that the wonder was that it should have stood an hour.
I was inclined to wonder that I had found it myself; but how much more did I wonder that he had found it.
This complete unconsciousness of the presence of beauty is always a wonder to me.
I did not choose to interrupt him, for she was obviously Mrs. Harvey-Browne's maid; but I did wonderwhether the bishop had grieved at all over the manifest unregeneracy of the way she did her hair.
The love dream of youth had hardly time to be told until the future dream of wonder and dread was about to be prophesied.
Next morning, after the trying adventure of the lonely outcast, was the scene of wonder at Dilworth Castle.
I wonder if that's anything like the sensation of shooting through the air on skis?
No wonder you people have to have steam radiators in your homes!
No wonder they elected him president of the United Classes of Lillard.
Then he stamps back to the door, tears the sign off and takes it inside, slamming the door after him so hard it's a wonder he don't jerk it off the hinges.
What made her wonder more than all the rest was a large library filled with books, a harpsichord, and many other pieces of music.
In the middle of a field they were met by the parson of the parish, who looked with wonder at the procession as it came near him.
For three days he wandered about the city, exciting the wonder and compassion of the multitude by asking everybody he met if they had seen his palace, or could tell him anything of it.
Beauty, in the most pleasing surprise, helped the prince to rise, and they walked along to the palace, when her wonder was very great to find her father and sisters there, who had been brought by the lady Beauty had seen in her dream.
But she had made herself so disagreeable to the old king, their father, that he had forgotten her in making his will; and so it was no wonder that her brother forgot her in writing his invitations.
As the knight came nearer they saw he was a handsome man; and presently he halted, and looked with wonder and pleasure at the beautiful tree with its silver leaves and golden fruit.
Thus, whilst on the one hand Christian influences, and all the changes in the world's life which are due to them, fill us with wonder and gratitude, the failures of Christianity are scarcely less impressive.
We may wonder that this should be so difficult; for of selfishness we should say that we all dislike it.
And we need not wonder at the mystery, for it is the Spirit of God which is in the seed; and it is ready to swell and grow and bear new fruits as it lodges in your heart.
It is our duty to endeavour that those who gaze with wonder at the structure may not be disappointed when they visit the apartments.
The ignorant often part from such pictures with wonder in their mouths and indifference in their hearts.
