There is a convent, immense and wonderfully white, with rows and rows of staring windows and a far-seen figure of the Blessed Virgin, poised in a niche above the main door.
His voice was wonderfully soft and clear, and he spoke without a trace of any provincial accent.
It was certainly wonderfully pleasant to see the girls move through the room, and it seemed to him that they actually realized the almost forgotten ideal of serviceable womanhood.
For many evenings after the shearing your wife sits by the fireside with two carding-combs in her hands, and wipes off them wonderfully soft rolls of wool.
The eyes were near together and separated by the knifelike bridge of the nose, the latter descending in a fine curve of wonderfully delicate outline.
Even John says they have done wonderfully well: and after that you need have no fear.
To use her own words, she "had taken just wonderfullyto this old-fashioned child.
Her heart had been wonderfully lightened by the shedding of the tears that had been gathering all the week; and she soon laughed heartily over the merry stories he had to tell about his sworn friend Davie Graham and the master.
She had wonderfully sweet, dark blue eyes, generally dropped down, with notably long black lashes.
Bessie was eight years old and walked with a crutch, but she was a smart little lassie and kept the house wonderfully neat and tidy while her mother was away.
As a picture of American political life and possibilities it is wonderfully vivid and truthful.
Mrs. Bigelow tells a wonderfully vivid story of a woman in London "smart" life whose hunger for love involves her in perils, but finds a true way out in the end.
His style wonderfully improved from eighteen to twenty-five; and he tells us himself why it did.
During the last fifteen years of Daniel Webster's life, his wonderfully imposing form and his immense reputation concealed from the public the decay of his powers and the degeneration of his morals.
But old aunts are sometimes wonderfully made; sometimes they keep the most unlooked-for surprises up those capacious old-fashioned sleeves of theirs.
Wonderfully well have you played your little part of disinterestedness and reserve, as your friend Laubepin advised you to do when he sent you here.
In the wonderfully rich system of the Canon law are devices suitable for all circumstances.
In existence now for years, they have worked wonderfully well without a tithe of the evil predicted to follow in their train.
Ewbert picked up wonderfully at the seaside, and she said to him again and again that it was not merely those interviews with old Hilbrook which had drained his vitality, but it was the whole social and religious keeping of the place.
A still more useful instrument, however, was that which can always be obtained for a few shillings, and which is now made wonderfully cheap and wonderfully good; we mean the double or treble pocket-lens.
We have mounted and dismounted one of these ingenious contrivances in a wonderfully short space of time, and without any assistance.
Lithospermum fruticosum (1), a wonderfully pretty plant for the fronts of borders.
After this period she had improved so wonderfully under his magical tuition that, as he himself picturesquely expressed it, she was able to look down on her former efforts as from a mountain to a plain.
Whenever this occurred we were terribly disappointed, but this wonderfully gifted man's next lesson made us soon oblivious of the previous day's deprivation.
Illustration] Hanno sneered contemptuously, and said: "Hannibal is wonderfully clever.
I plucked up wonderfully when I thought of all these things; though I did not at all like wearing Bill's clothes.
So I dived in and then climbed back, and dried myself with a piece of an old sail, feeling wonderfully refreshed.
Brave Winthrop, marching with the city elegants, seems to have been a little startled to find how wonderfully human were the hard-handed men of the Eighth Massachusetts.
All ranks arewonderfully equalized under the fire of a masked battery.
Sir Kenelm, the ancestor, was a gallant soldier, a grand gentleman, and the husband of a wonderfully beautiful wife, whose charms he tried to preserve from the ravages of time by various experiments.
He was wonderfully well acquainted with the leading facts about the Andes, the Apennines, and the Appalachians; he had nothing in particular to say about Ararat, Ben Nevis, and various other mountains that were mentioned.
A few exercises on it daily at home fit a man wonderfully for his habitual labors, and refresh him immensely as he returns from them.
He means, by these words, something like the Archxus of Van Helmont, of which he discourses in a style wonderfully resembling that of Mr. Jenkinson in the "Vicar of Wakefield.
Mr. Stoker had parted his hair wonderfully that morning, and made himself as captivating as his professional costume allowed.
We made the acquaintance of several imps and demons, who were got upwonderfully well.
Human beings are wonderfully alike when they are placed in similar conditions.
One of these, from whom the name descended, was Thomas Emerson of Ipswich, who furnished the staff of life to the people of that wonderfully interesting old town and its neighborhood.
Once get it well into your heads, and you will find it renders the landscape wonderfully interesting.
People, young or old, are wonderfully different, if we contrast extremes in pairs.
She looked like a purple rose standing out from a cloud of fluttering snow-flakes, wonderfully charming, wonderfully seductive.
Yes, you are right, it is a wonderfully strengthening wine!
She was to-day wonderfully charming in her gold-spangled lace dress, which flowed like a breath over her under-dress of heavy white satin.
It was a wonderfullybrilliant festival that Cardinal Bernis had to-day prepared for his guests--a festival hitherto unequalled in Rome.
She is wonderfully beautiful, and she smiles in her slumber.
But she was to-day of a wonderfully touching beauty.
It was in the evening after this conversation of Orloff with Joseph Ribas, a wonderfully brilliant evening, such as is known only under Italian skies.
Brother Lorenzo was equally silent, but he no longer laughed; his usually cheerful face assumed a wonderfully clear and pleased expression, and two large tears rolled down over his cheek--but they were tears of joy.
You see we are only children, and we don't understand about wonderfully clever things.
On tasting it we found it sweet, and of a not unpleasant flavour, and wonderfullylike milk.
We rowed on shore, and went to a big house, where all the people were wonderfully polite.
He is wonderfully recovered, but is still unable to move.
There are several species of fish in the waters of the Amazon which are thus wonderfully supplied with the means of protecting their young.
It was a wonderfully light bird also, and these peculiarities enable it to walk over the leaves of the water-plants and procure its food, which consists of worms.
Duppo brought us a large wood-cricket, called the Tanana, the wonderfully loud and not unmusical notes of which we had often heard.
Still I hoped, as I had so wonderfully escaped, that you might also be safe.
All the houses, too, looked wonderfully high, and I thought if an earthquake were to occur, how quickly they would all topple down.
And now, from every side, those sounds which I have so often mentioned burst forth from the forest; yet, though so frequently before heard, their effect was wonderfully depressing.
Judith had heard of the night in Rocky Bend, a lurid and wonderfully distorted account from Mrs. Simpson, who had received it in a letter from her daughter.
