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Astonishment in sentence

402 examples of Astonishment in a sentence

Planchet, all astonishment, was busy grooming them, and had already finished two.
At the noise made by d’Artagnan in entering, Aramis lifted up his head, and beheld his friend; but to the great astonishment of the young man, the sight of him did not produce much effect upon the Musketeer, so completely was his mind detached from the things of this world.
The officer looked at me with astonishment, and then said, ’What is your business with me, monsieur?
Two or three times, even, to the great astonishment of his friends, he had, when Aramis allowed some rudimental error to escape him, replaced a verb in its right tense and a noun in its case.
Monsieur the Governor was all astonishment.
The Englishman looked, and was seized with astonishment.
And then commenced a roar of laughter in which they all joined, to the astonishment of poor Porthos; but when he was informed of the cause of their hilarity, he shared it vociferously according to his custom.
At the first word Milady turned, looking at the young man with astonishment; and when he had finished, she said in very good French, "Monsieur, I should with great confidence place myself under your protection if the person with whom I quarrel were not my brother."
Nevertheless, to d’Artagnan’s great astonishment, the pretty Kitty defended herself resolutely.
Then the cambric was torn from her beautiful shoulders; and on one of those lovely shoulders, round and white, d’Artagnan recognized, with inexpressible astonishment, the FLEUR-DE-LIS--that indelible mark which the hand of the infamous executioner had imprinted.
You refuse?" cried the cardinal, with astonishment.
It may be observed that at the very moment when, thanks to the ray of the sun, he perceived the gun barrel, he was thinking with astonishment on the forbearance of his Eminence with respect to him.
As it is not our intention to give a journal of the siege, but on the contrary only to describe such of the events of it as are connected with the story we are relating, we will content ourselves with saying in two words that the expedition succeeded, to the great astonishment of the king and the great glory of the cardinal.
Lord de Winter, the corrupted Catholic, knows very well that I am not of his religion, and this is a snare he wishes to lay for me!""And of what religion are you, then, madame?" asked Felton, with an astonishment which in spite of the empire he held over himself he could not entirely conceal.
Repair your crimes toward her; let her go free, and I will exact nothing else from you.""You will exact!" said Buckingham, looking at Felton with astonishment, and dwelling upon each syllable of the three words as he pronounced them.
Monsieur Cardinal is indeed a privileged man!""Imagine my astonishment," continued Milady, "when I found myself face to face with this woman!"
The persons whose names were thus pronounced looked at the stranger with astonishment.
The four horsemen looked round them with astonishment, for they sought vainly in their minds to know who this other person could be.
Porthos cast his eyes over the commission and returned it to d’Artagnan, to the great astonishment of the young man.
And, sharing his astonishment, but I think not his joy, I read on the western face of the block, in Runic characters, half mouldered away with lapse of ages, this thrice-accursed name:[At this point a Runic text appears]"Arne Saknussemm!" replied my uncle.
I expected some signs of astonishment; but he spoke not a word, and went on.
When he told me that we had gone fifty leagues horizontally, I could not repress an exclamation of astonishment, at the thought that we had now long left Iceland behind us.
I was under a new course of treatment with the aid of astonishment, and my convalescence was promoted by this novel system of therapeutics; besides, the dense and breezy air invigorated me, supplying more oxygen to my lungs.
My uncle had uplifted his long arms to the vault which was our sky; his mouth gaping wide, his eyes flashing behind his shining spectacles, his head balancing with an up-and-down motion, his whole attitude denoted unlimited astonishment.
I was prepared for any surprise, my imagination was ready for any astonishment however astounding.
However, we had left behind us the luminous forest, dumb with astonishment, overwhelmed and struck down with a terror which amounted to stupefaction.
In spite of darkness, noise, astonishment, and terror, I then understood what had taken place.
Suddenly, to my intense astonishment, I noticed a strange fact, and I uttered a cry of surprise.
Dr. Mortimer blinked through his glasses in mild astonishment.
His dark eyes, glaring out of the white mask of his face, were full of horror and astonishment as he gazed from Sir Henry to me.
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