But a look of wonderment shot into his eyes at Alan's words.
There was wonderment in her voice, and then, if he had observed it, understanding.
At the present moment I am only capable of wonderment at the unpremeditated rapidity with which such solemn concerns as betrothals are knocked off in this country.
I am like a duck in thunder with admiring wonderment at the drollishness and jocosity with which your paper is ready to burst in its pictorial department.
Somehow he was filled with a great wonderment at his position, at the obstinate contrariness of his luck.
Peter's cannot be said to raise any feelings other than wonderment at its size and admiration for its grand proportions.
The exterior is disappointing, and many and many a visit must be paid to the interior before wondermentreaches admiration.
At last he did consent to get into the scale, and to the utter wonderment of all but the few English present, it was discovered that he had lost something like six pounds, and consequently lost the race.
The servant who presents my letter of introduction fills the untutored mind of his master with wonderment concerning what the peasants have told him about the bicycle.
Burl read their emotions in their eyes, but better than their amazement and wonderment was a glance that had nothing whatever to do with his leadership of the tribe.
But by that time the unstable fungus rafts were far down the river, bobbing and twirling in the current, with the wide-eyed people upon them gazing in wonderment at the shores as they glided by.
Burl and his people watched in wonderment and dismay, but presently a high resolve came to Burl.
Led by Burl, the tribesmen waded ashore, wonderment and excitement in their hearts.
As the meal progressed, Sary's wonderment increased; she failed to hear familiar sounds of eating, nor saw the usual form of plying knife and fork together.
She gasped in wonderment and went to the dark hole.
When reflection thus diminished the wonderment which Mr. Hatfield experienced at the behaviour of the young man, pain and sorrow succeeded that first feeling.
The wonderment of the old waterman was in no wise decreased when he saw the boys then fall feverishly to work and load the dinghy, attached to the launch, with large stones.
With what wonderment the boys listened to Billy's tale may be imagined.
She gave Peter a smile of wonderment and answered readily: "Grand as queen-lady.
She opened a box and displayed a wonderment of ribbon bands, and bits of gay colour.
The other squaws come crowding after her, each eager to grasp the general's hand, and then to insert therein the tiny fist of the pappoose hanging in stolid wonderment on her back.
Later in life he would lose caste as a warrior if he ventured to display wonderment at sight of a flying-machine.
In fact, Tom, I was lost in wonderment how one that had gone through so much not only retained the loveliness of her looks, but all the fascinations of her beauty, unimpaired by any traits of suffering.
I assure you I was perfectly lost in wonderment and admiration.
The King stood fixed to the spot in wonderment and asked his troops and all present, "Hath any one among you ever seen this piece of water before now?
After the meats were removed and they had washed their hands, King Shahryar turned to his brother and said, "My mind is overcome with wonderment at thy condition.
Thence he sailed westward, as close to the shore as safety would permit, and frequently entered into friendly intercourse with the natives who thronged the strand to gaze in wonderment at his strange ships.
But once again the foemen gaze inwonderment and fear To see a stranger break their lines and hear the Texans cheer.
Behind my father's house there lies A little grassy brae, Whose face my childhood's busy feet Ran often up in play, Whence on the chimneys I looked down In wonderment alway.
There was friendliness, compassion, wonderment in his voice, and he held down a hand that he had drawn from one of the thick mittens.
She had asked him in a sort of plaintive anxiety and with rather more of wonderment and perplexity in her eyes than fear, whether she belonged to Brokaw, and what it all meant, and whether a man could buy a girl.
I reached the summit hot and out of breath; and then I stood stock still, breathless in wonderment and all amazed.
Perhaps mystery had much to do with her power of enticement--a continual wonderment as to what she might do next.
Both his daughter and Miss Dale, who had disapproved the waspish snap at Colonel De Craye, were in wonderment of the art of speech which could so soothingly inform a gentleman that his behaviour had not been gentlemanly.
