Lexicographical Neighbors of Stonishing
Literary usage of Stonishing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1856)
"... is such an abandoned sinner as to like the New-York way of showin' up de 'stonishing
... I gibs any thing I like to 'tract 'tention to my 'stonishing ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1856)
"... is such an abandoned sinner as to like the New-York way of showin' up de 'stonishing
... I gibs any thing I like to 'tract "tention to my 'stonishing ..."
3. In the Arena: Stories of Political Life by Booth Tarkington (1905)
"... a-stonishing!" "Think it's pretty bad, do you ?" Some of the crowd turned to
listen, and the old fellow, hopelessly puzzled, stroked his beard with a ..."
4. In the Arena: Stories of Political Life by Booth Tarkington (1905)
"... a-stonishing!" "Think it's pretty bad, do you ?" Some of the crowd turned to
listen, and the old fellow, hopelessly puzzled, stroked his beard with a ..."
5. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"Ho was one of the few contemporaries who had genius enough to feel the •stonishing
scenes that were passing before their eyes. ..."
6. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1873)
"Almost every |||nr higher chain, for 650 miles stonishing gla- i J survey.
Great and the crash r, through the chapter, pro- coasts. ..."
7. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1911)
"... answers and exclaims: "Wonderful and «stonishing is what yon relate. For in
the water brought forth from Ihf rock (ie by Benedict) I see Moses, ..."
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