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Definition of Astonishments
1. astonishment [n] - See also: astonishment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Astonishments
Literary usage of Astonishments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Some Players: Personal Sketches by Lillie (West) Brown [Buck, Amy Leslie (1900)
"He was full of astonishments various and amusing to note during his first visit
to America, and America was equally full of astonishments over the dapper ..."
2. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer (1806)
"... and weak surprises, cold and languishing astonishments; and very little of
that delicacy and exquisiteness which ought to express a conjugal tenderness. ..."
3. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1879)
"... have been able to wreath and cast their bodies into strange forms and motions:
yea and others to bring themselves into trances and astonishments. ..."
4. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1845)
"The lady presently fell into a fit of melancholy, and, being asked by her friends
the cause of these alterations and astonishments, related the whole matter ..."
5. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1898)
"I may say, in truth, that her so sudden conversion has been one of my greatest
astonishments ; this woman became not only a good Christian, but pliable, ..."
6. Bulletin by Montana Historical Society, Henry E. Legler Regional Branch, Library, Chicago Public Library, Chicago West Side Historical Society (1920)
"It will be one of the great astonishments of history that American Democracy has
had the hardihood to attempt our great political experiment upon a basis of ..."
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