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Updated: May 28, 2025
Two things astonish me: one is, how, with your good qualities, you could have ever abandoned yourself to vice; and the other, which amazes me still more, is, how you can receive with such perfect temper my advice and instructions, after having lived so long in a course of debauchery.
This was the last polar expedition of that sort, or any sort; but my plan is so easy of accomplishment at least, so it seems to me and so devoid of risk and danger, that it amazes me that it has never been tried before.
That it should prove a horse to be, Most certainly amazes me." "Good!" exclaimed Will, with a laugh. "You are progressing, Mr. Lagg." A goodly supply of oats was placed in a box near the tent that evening, and then the boys and girls sat about the camp-fire and talked, while waiting for the time to retire. The boys were to make the attempt to capture Prince.
After Seti I. and the Ramses had built, in honour of Amen, this temple, which, beyond all doubt, is the grandest and most durable in the world, men still continued for another fifteen centuries to heap up in its neighbourhood those blocks of granite and marble and sandstone, whose enormity now amazes us.
If she renounces housekeeping in disgust occasionally and moves to an hotel, she soon amazes her friends by looking ten years younger; and if her husband makes enough money to move to a city large enough to minimize the burdens of housekeeping and offer a reasonable amount of distraction, she recovers a certain measure of her youth, although still far from being at forty or fifty what she would have been if her earlier years had been relieved of all but the strains which Nature imposes upon every woman from princess to peasant.
'That was the most perfect thing I have ever seen, she said in cold, brutal tones, when at last she turned round to him. 'It amazes me that you should want to destroy it. If you can't see it yourself, why try to debar me? But in reality, he had destroyed it for her, she was straining after a dead effect.
It amazes me that a reasoner so shrewd, so clear, and so exacting as Horace Smith did not pursue the proposition further; for without booksellers there would have been no market for books the author would not have been able to sell, and the reader would not have been able to buy.
He is taking his wife and his four children with him, and they are all going off to conquer as fortune may will it, like valiant pioneers beset by the idea of founding a new world. I confess that it amazes me, for it is a very hazardous enterprise.
He jerked his thumb outward toward the flames and threw back his head with a laugh. "Where is your 'general knowledge' which you learnt at school, man? Didn't they teach you any? What amazes me most is that there are others forgive me equally as ignorant. Want to know what those flames are, eh?" "Well, rather!" "Well, well, just to think that you've actually been losing sleep on it!
"Silence again, while we quickened our pace, making the branches fall off more than ever. Then 'The wheelbarrow, said the professor, 'amazes us by its combined simplicity and perfection. The conception of a man of universal genius and vast erudition, I allude to Leonardo da Vinci, the marvellous Florentine, it has for upwards of three hundred years served mankind as a humble but valued ally.
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