Amazement
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Sometimes, however, some curious person climbed on to the garden hedge, and saw with
amazement
this long-bearded, shabbily clothed, wild man, who wept aloud as he walked up and down.
I?' asked Julien in
amazement.
The children, seeing their parents' amazement, opened their eyes wide.
While Madame de Renal was rejoicing at the partial reparation which she had had the courage to make to Julien, he was lost in
amazement
at the quantity of books which he saw on the bookseller's shelves.
Julien stood watching her with
amazement.
He found with
amazement
that, for hours on end, the abbe talked to him of the ornaments which the Cathedral possessed.
As he travelled post along the road to Calais, Julien thought with
amazement
of the futility of the alleged business on which he was being sent.
Julien's thoughts were a thousand leagues away from the peasant's, he was looking with
amazement
at this handsome young man, and admiring his grace in the saddle.
She is not dead?' cried Julien, beside himself with
amazement.
"I don't want to see everything," said K., who was also feeling very tired, "I want to go, what is the way to the exit?""You haven't got lost, have you?" asked the usher in amazement, "you go down this way to the corner, then right down the corridor straight ahead as far as the door."
He stood in
amazement
and listened again to establish whether he might not be mistaken.
"Go and get that junk room cleared out!" he shouted, and, in amazement, they stopped what they were doing.
K. continued to look at the girl in
amazement
as she turned round to block the way into the living room, she had a round face like a puppy's, not only the pale cheeks and the chin were round but the temples and the hairline were too.
"What a freak of nature," said K., and when he had taken a look at the whole hand he added, "What a pretty claw!"Leni looked on with a kind of pride as K. repeatedly opened and closed her two fingers in amazement, until, finally, he briefly kissed them and let go.
Only, one time these visits became a bit too frequent, I began to tell him off for it, we started talking and I became interested how it was that he could earn a living just by painting, and then I learned to my
amazement
that his main source of income was painting portraits.
The air in the room had slowly become quite oppressive for him, he had several times looked in
amazement
at a small, iron stove in the corner that certainly could not have been lit, the heat of the room was inexplicable.
He merely looked in
amazement
at this distracted being, his eyes completely still.
He was taken totally by surprise, no-one was chasing him but he began to rush to and fro while she just stood there in
amazement
with her hands crossed in front of her.
The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in
amazement
for their breakfasts; they had been forgotten about.
"We!" repeated the son, in amazement; "did they take my sisters, also?
Turning in
amazement
from the view to the speaker, she saw him standing bareheaded, erect, and with his eyes lifted to heaven.
asked Dunwoodie, in
amazement.
He was about to turn, and retrace his path to his quarters, when he was startled by a voice, bidding him,-"Stand or die!"Dunwoodie turned in amazement, and beheld the figure of a man placed at a little distance above him on a shelving rock, with a musket leveled at himself.
The order was obeyed; but to the utter
amazement
of the honest veteran who entered the prison, he found the room in no little disorder - the coat of the peddler where his body ought to have been, and part of the wardrobe of Betty scattered in disorder on the floor.
"On the heights above Sing Sing," returned the lieutenant, with no little
amazement.
He waited not to explain, but darting from the room, he left the family in
amazement.
"Who's that?" cried the prisoner, in amazement, gazing around the room in quest of the speaker.
It is hard to die at the best, Captain Wharton; but to spend your last moments alone and unpitied, to know that none near you so much as think of the fate that is to you the closing of all that is earthly; to think that, in a few hours, you are to be led from the gloom, which, as you dwell on what follows, becomes dear to you, to the face of day, and there to meet all eyes fixed upon you, as if you were a wild beast; and to lose sight of everything amidst the jeers and scoffs of your fellow creatures - that, Captain Wharton, that indeed is to die!"Henry listened in amazement, as his companion uttered this speech with a vehemence altogether new to him; both seemed to have forgotten their danger and their disguises.
The surgeon listened with
amazement.
[Then to the clerk:] "Call Thomas Sawyer!"A puzzled
amazement
awoke in every face in the house, not even excepting Potter's.
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