It was at the end of the gallery, and a wonderful light was thrown on it from a globe just above the picture.
Its petals were heart-shaped and surrounded a heart of wonderful gold.
Mary, dear, it is wonderful to have been chosen by the King of England and to have been marked for use with his initials, but it is more wonderful to have been chosen by a greater king and marked with his name.
Away off in the distance, we saw some wonderful pines that towered high above the rest.
Earl was a wonderful student, but he had undermined his health.
So as the service began, many looked at the poles and thought what a wonderful thing it was to be allowed to give of themselves to the God who had become their own.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you and all the girls who are your friends would be as careful of your characters and never, no never, do that which would soil them?
She had such beautiful clothes; she sat so tall and stately; she had such a wonderful smile.
The Indians call it Nebraska or Big Horn; the Canadians give it the name of la Platte, and Irving designates it as the most wonderful and useless of rivers.
In proportion as we proceeded towards the sources of this wonderful river, the shades of vegetation became more gloomy, and the brows of the mountains more cragged.
The length, position, and elevation of this truly wonderful chain of mountains, have induced geographers to give to it the appellation of "the back-bone of the western hemisphere.
How wonderful are the phenomena betrayed in the geological structure of our earth!
They admit to their dwellings the bird of Minerva, the striped squirrel, and the rattlesnake, and it is impossible to determine what is the cause of this wonderful sympathy.
We looked down the wonderful wing-filled regions Where the dragons darted in glimmering legions.
The fish-otter was well known to the ancient Greeks and Romans, and was the subject of many wonderful fables and superstitions in olden times.
He had read of the wonderful abstemiousness of these children of the desert: how they can live on a single meal a day, and this scarce sufficient to sustain life in a child of six years old; that is, an English child.
His paces were long, and made with wonderful rapidity; and each time his foot came to the ground, he uttered a horrible yell, as though it had been planted upon a sheet of red-hot iron.
About two hours before daybreak, on the morning after the departure of Golah, there was an alarm in the douar, which created amongst the Arabs a wonderful excitement.
The observation was no less exact, the translation into poetic images no less wonderfulhere than there.
For the very reason, however, that mysticism is a tendency to obliterate distinctions, a partial mysticism often serves to bring out with wonderful intensity those underlying strata of experience which it has not yet decomposed.
The wheels of the universe have a wonderful magnetism for the human will.
Our poets have more wonderful tragedies of the imagination to depict than had Homer, whose world was innocent of any essential defeat, or Dante, who believed in the world's definitive redemption.
Meanwhile you can be thinking it over and planning in that perfectly wonderful brain of yours, how best to help Uncle Jason ward off disaster.
Almira is a wonderful woman," said Broxton Day, smiling across at his sister-in-law.
In a cushioned chair, well wrapped from any possible draught, sat 'Rill, the roses gone from her cheeks but with a wonderful light in her eyes.
It was difficult to seek to relieve Lottie's mind regarding the wonderful thing that was coming to pass in the Drugg household, without saying what might be unkind, but true, about Mrs. Scattergood.
Remember, Lottie must have just as deep an interest in this wonderful happening as any of you.
The teachings instilled into his daughter's mind by that really wonderful man, Mr. Broxton Day, to the end that she is always eager to begin the battle while other folk are merely talking about it, has served to put Polktown on the map.
The conversation of Burns, according to the testimony of all the eminent men who heard him, was even more wonderful than his poetry.
She was an athletic girl, and possessed a wonderful power of spring that caused her to clear the bars like a bird.
It was wonderful when once the ball had been set rolling how quickly offers of help flowed in.
It seems almost too wonderfulto believe," said Beatrice.
Dick was clever with his fingers, and as he was not allowed to read very much he spent long hours at home constructingwonderful boxes for birds' eggs, or stretchers for butterflies and moths, or preparing slides for the microscope.
It was wonderful how gracious the prefects were towards her, and how the members of her own Form suddenly treated her with respect.
It's wonderfulhow it's drawn everyone together at school," observed Gwen.
Oh, that wonderful East," he continued, in a low tone.
She was thinner than he had ever known her, and of that wonderful fresh beauty which had taken London by storm there remained but few traces.
I have seen him do wonderful things with the pistol.
Everything which lay in its path was revealed to us with minute and wonderful distinctness.
Prosperity had indeed had a wonderful effect upon Eleanor's looks.
To all intents and purposes, he was alone with Adrienne Cartuccio, listening to her low voice, and every now and then stealing a glance downward into those wonderful eyes, just then very soft and sweet.
Even in his first rapid glance he saw a wonderfulchange in her appearance.
He set me down at the gate of that wonderful inner world.
It was a wonderful tableau which had grouped itself upon that little strip of sand.
He was tall and strong like a god," she answered, "with yellow hair and beard, and wonderfulblue eyes.
Chance had favored him, insomuch that he had been able to secure almost a front seat in the concert room, and the wonderfulmusic of her voice rang still in his ears.
My meeting with this man was the most wonderful thing which has ever happened to me.
The Baptistery in St. Demetrius was wonderful; there was a wonderful shell-like font under a massive stone canopy.
It is most wonderful the amount of guns which the Serbs have taken from the Austrians.
We went to see the wonderful old bridge that Hadrian, the Roman Emperor, built.
A number of the patients come in ox carts and they travel all right; it is wonderful how quickly they have got to hear of the Dispensary.
It is wonderful the richness of the soil, for when we arrived here in April there was very little on the land, and it all seems to spring up at once.
The arches are wonderful and all inlaid with mosaic.
The hills round are lovely; the most wonderful colourings.
Their knitting iswonderful as they make such lovely patterns with different coloured wools.
It is indeed wonderful the view of Athens from the top, most beautiful.
The fields are perfectly wonderful with wild flowers, the most beautiful colours.
The fore-topsail imitated its example the next moment, leaving the ship now with only the reefed foresail on her in the shape of canvas, a wonderful metamorphosis to the appearance she presented the previous evening at sunset!
Yes, it was wonderfulfor one pig to have no less than twelve legs!
He did not die yet awhile, though, having a wonderful constitution and persisting in eating and living where another man would have expired long since.
A few minutes later, the assistant came in, and she was none other than the wonderful young woman whom Hale had called Miss Anne.
June's teeth snapped viciously through the stick of candy and then she turned on him and behind the long lashes and deep down in the depth of those wonderful eyes he saw an ageless something that bewildered him more than her words.
Then she set the lamp on the mantel-piece so that she could see herself in her wonderful night-gown.
She hurried to bed that night merely that she might put on one of those wonderful night-gowns, and again she had to look all her treasures over.
Her dead sister had gone into that far silence and had brought back wonderful stories of that outer world: and she began to wonder more than ever before whether she would ever go into it and see for herself what was there.
The dust and smoke had almost stifled her, and even now the dismal parlours, rich and wonderful as they were to her unaccustomed eyes, oppressed her deeply.
Stockings, petticoats, some soft stuff for a new dress and TAN shoes that looked like the ones that wonderfulyoung woman wore and then some long white things.
It devised and presented through the Van Eyck brothers the wonderful discovery of oil painting, and revolutionized the world of art, and gave, in the person of one of these brothers, Jan Van Eyck, the originator of the painted portrait.
Here are some of the rules of this wonderful town: "Citizens must leave their shoes at the door when entering a house.
But these were only a part of Holland's wonderful contributions to the world's enlightenment.
Here Boerhaave, a Dutchman, revolutionized medicine by his wonderful discoveries until Holland's medical school became the seat of authority for all Europe.
In his very sympathetic essay on Westminster Abbey in The Sketch Book, Washington Irving says of this wonderful chapel: "On entering, the eye is astonished by the pomp of architecture and the elaborate beauty of sculptured detail.
Stone seems, by the cunning labor of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and density, suspended aloft, as if by magic, and the fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb.
This is the entrance to the wonderful Blue Grotto.
The sky presents a panorama of clouds of the most varied and fantastic shapes, to which the setting sun imparts hues wonderful and beautiful.
The nest of the sunbird is one of the most wonderful pieces of architecture in the world, and it is the work of the hen alone.
If this were so we should expect to find a wonderful sameness about the eggs of this species, which are laid in such exposed situations.
I will, therefore, reproduce from the Saturday Review Colonel Willoughby Verner's description of those he witnessed in Spain: "What a wonderful sight it was!
Sometimes he chases his mate on the wing, and then the pair of lovers perform the most wonderful gyrations, twisting, turning, and doubling with greater rapidity and ease than the most mobile butterfly.
The one thing that made it possible for a man of his delicate frame, racked as it was by anxiety and over work, to keep steadily at his task, was the wonderful gift which he possessed of sleeping.
It's a wonderful parallel--not strangely, because the game is the same and the moral methods are the same.
You probably know what a wonderful success the British Mission has been, but I do not think you can realize what a deep impression they have made on all of us.
At the same time the issue of this wonderful episode is a little disappointing.
On the other hand, the sting of Dante's private wrongs, like the enthusiasm of his private loves, lent a wonderful warmth and clearness to the great objects of his imagination.
It is as wonderfulin its insight, in its sense for the ideal demands of method and understanding, as it is strange and audacious in its simplicity.
Of this Platonic expansion of emotion, till it suffuses all that deserves to kindle it, we have a wonderful version in Dante's Vita Nuova.
How great the blindness or the madness dissipated, and how wonderful the vision gained!
If the foretaste of his new Holland fills, from a distance, the dying Faust with satisfaction, how much more must the wonderful career of Faust himself deserve to be accepted and envied, and proclaimed to be its own excuse for being!
Our wonderful harpist, an old woman, watches with burning, lidless eyes, remembering her naked days, playing them back again.
She has wonderful wind-swept sight, from the rapture of lonely skies, her communions.
How wonderful it is to get out of bed and stand by the window and take in the sea and breathe deeply.
Patty gazed with delight at the blue ocean, dotted with whitecaps, and then back to the wonderful panorama of the gay crowd, the music of the bands, and the laughter of the children.
Mr. Fairfield declared that the medium must be phosphorus, but all agreed that it was a wonderful achievement, and many thought it would surely take the prize.
The sunlight streamed in, and disclosed a scene which seemed to Patty like a wonderfulvision of a century ago.
But at last it was all over, and the Fairfield verandah was crowded with young people, apparently of all nations, who were congratulating each other on the wonderful success.
When at last the grand march took place, it showed a wonderful array of thoroughly ingenious costumes.
While the girls were examining the wonderful old relics, she darted from the room, and returned in a moment, carrying two large baskets.
This delighted Patty, as she was still able to gaze out over the blue water, and at the same time enjoy the wonderful motion of the car.
When they reached Miss Bender's, they found that many and wonderful preparations had been made.
Both of your parents seem likewonderful people to me.
Of course, I can't handle the ropes or do much to help, but we have a wonderfulboat that will prove more than a match for Jack's Spindrift.
It is notwonderful that he whose life has been passed in heroic struggles on all fields will not fear to give homage to merit with his vote on the field of election; but will others follow his example?
At the first moment it seemed to Krysia that she saw a picture, or that she had fallen asleep and was dreaming, such a wonderful vision stood before her.
The dragoons, seeing how I was kneeling with head resting on the cross, understood that I was sunk in pious meditation, and no one wished to interrupt me; my eyes closed at once, and a wonderful dream came down to me from that cross.
Volodyovski read as follows:-- "I hear from all sides that there is no one more fitted than you for such a service, and this by reason of the wonderful love which those men bear to you.
Not through piety, but through love, which is so wonderful that I'm not sure that I shall not burst from it, as a bomb bursts.
The plump little lady could restrain her laughter no longer; and she had a wonderful laugh, for first she began to shake and tremble, and then to squeak in a thin voice.
From moment to moment their voices were audible in the empty church, and the echo gave forth wonderful and complaining sounds.
She opens her eyelids; he stands before her with head inclined somewhat, with admiration and respect in his wonderful face.
At first, she gazed with admiration on both knights; but with equal admiration did she examine Ketling's wonderful weapons distributed on the walls.
Then he said: "To-morrow you will see Timgad, which is the mostwonderful town in the world.
Very frequently I think of the life of Abraham Lincoln--that wonderful man!
The most wonderful idea is quite valueless until it is put into practical operation.
The scientific researches of the last twenty years have demonstrated the fearful and wonderful complication of matter, not only with mind, but with what we call moral qualities.
My invisible friend, the wonderful nature of your communication excites my curiosity to know your name ere we part.
There can be no doubt now that the sufferers under nervous disturbances, the subjects of abnormal condition, found themselves in possession of strange faculties, and thought themselves able to do new and wonderful things.
But even more wonderful still was the conversation which flowed so easily around the table.
She has a wonderful eye for a situation, so her stories move with a swing that is all their own.
Mr Vandel and papa have started their chess already; Madame de Bourbon is still making lace with those wonderful eyes and fingers of hers; and so, if you want to exchange the storm for the calm, come along.
