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Astonishment in sentence

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The knife and fork fell from the hands of the unwelcome intruder, as the door closed on the retiring figure of Harper; he arose slowly from his seat; listening attentively, he approached the door of the room - opened it - seemed to attend to the retreating footsteps of the other - and, amidst the panic and astonishment of his companions, he closed it again.
Mr. Wharton was stupefied; but the captain, hesitating a moment from astonishment, sprang into the middle of the room, and exclaimed, as he tore off the instruments of his disguise,-"I believe you from my soul, and this tiresome imposition shall continue no longer.
"Colonel Wellmere!" cried young Wharton in astonishment as they entered, "has the fortune of war been thus cruel to you also?
"'Twould be no astonishment to me if he didn't; for they say an unquiet life makes an uneasy grave."
"Not believe in the tides!" repeated the healer of bodies in astonishment.
"Which is Captain Lawton?" said the leader of the gang, gazing around him in some little astonishment.
The officers paused in astonishment; but the surgeon cried eagerly,-"Hold him, while I administer an emetic."
Neither the officer nor the woman, however, appeared during the night, and nothing further occurred to disturb the repose of the peddler, who, to the astonishment of the different sentinels, continued by his breathing to manifest how little the gallows could affect his slumbers.
A figure moving rapidly among the trees, in the direction of the wood whither the Skinners had retired, caught his eye, and, wheeling on his heel, the cautious partisan approached it, and, to his astonishment, saw the washerwoman at that hour of the night, and in such a place.
Lawton heard the man in astonishment - appeared struck with a new idea - walked several yards towards the orchard, and returned again; for several minutes he paced rapidly to and fro before the door of the house, and then hastily entering it, he threw himself on a bed in his clothes, and was soon in a profound sleep.
The light was not yet sufficiently powerful to reach the recesses of that gloomy spot, and a second look was necessary before he discovered, to his astonishment, that the peddler stood before him.
His compliments were received as graciously as they were offered, and after exchanging a few words with the different individuals present, he approached the surgeon, who had withdrawn, in a kind of confused astonishment, to rally his senses.
He soon perceived, to his astonishment, that it was the surgeon, and the body of one of the Skinners, that he had saved.
The trooper turned from gazing at the edifice, to the speaker, and to his astonishment, instead of one of his own men, he beheld the peddler.
While yet lost in the astonishment created by discovering a habitation in such a spot, on moving her eyes she perceived another object that increased her wonder.
"Nay," continued Frances, catching her breath as she witnessed the intense interest of her lover, "we knew him not; he came to us in the night, a stranger, and remained with us during the severe storm; but he seemed to take an interest in Henry, and promised him his friendship,""What!" exclaimed the youth in astonishment.
Frances received it in astonishment, and read the following:"Life is too precious to be trusted to uncertainties.
Miss Peyton received the avowal of her niece with infinite astonishment, and a little displeasure.
Dunwoodie went to the spot, and to his astonishment beheld the aged stranger.
Dunwoodie opened it, and found a paper in which, to his astonishment, he read the following:-"Circumstances of political importance, which involve the lives and fortunes of many, have hitherto kept secret what this paper now reveals.
When she found the entire fence white-washed, and not only whitewashed but elaborately coated and recoated, and even a streak added to the ground, her astonishment was almost unspeakable.
Tom's astonishment was bound-less!
The old lady stood petrified with astonishment, peering over her glasses; Tom lay on the floor expiring with laughter.
However, the widow made a pretty fair show of astonishment, and heaped so many compliments and so much gratitude upon Huck that he almost forgot the nearly intolerable discomfort of his new clothes in the entirely intolerable discomfort of being set up as a target for everybody's gaze and everybody's laudations.
He saw our astonishment, and laughed at it.
It is impossible to express the astonishment she was in; she was not inclined to believe the story, or to remember the particulars, for she immediately foresaw the confusion that must follow in the family upon it.
As Camille listened to his friend, he contemplated him with all the astonishment of a simpleton.
The young woman would have preferred to remain in the damp obscurity of the arcade, for the exercise fatigued her, and it worried her to be on the arm of her husband, who dragged her along the pavement, stopping before the shop windows, expressing his astonishment, making reflections, and then falling into ridiculous spells of silence.
As to old Michaud, he uttered exclamations of fright, commiseration, and astonishment; he fidgeted on his chair, joined his hands together, and cast up his eyes to the ceiling.
At times he questioned himself with astonishment, fancying he had had a bad dream.
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