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Updated: May 26, 2025
It was all natural and commonplace, for the time. There were other upleaping flame sheets in the surrounding region forever burning as there are in northern Asia to-day but Ab knew of these fires only from Old Mok's tales. He stood wonderstruck at what he saw about him.
Suddenly his strange operation with that sill, of which I had not thought for a long time, came into my mind, and I whispered, quickly: "In the sill of the house?" His expression instantly changed to a very happy one, and yet he looked wonderstruck, which was natural enough.
That is why I suggest that they may have belonged to a race who knew what we do not, namely, how to suspend animation for great periods of time." I said no more, nor did Bastin, who was now engaged in studying the old man, and for once, wonderstruck and overcome. Bickley, however, took one of the candles and began to make a close examination of the coffins.
He had raised his head when he felt her move, and her dim and failing eyes saw his face in a mist, looking so like his father when she had known him first, that she shrank from him, with a terror and aversion too deep to be concealed. "Roland!" she cried. He did not speak or move, being too bewildered and wonderstruck at his mother's agitation.
The inside of the church disappointed me, though no doubt I should have been wonderstruck had I seen it a month ago. We went into one of the chapels, which was very rich in colored marbles; and, going down a winding staircase, found ourselves among the tombs and sarcophagi of the Corsini family, and in presence of a marble Pieta very beautifully sculptured.
Now if Prince Lionheart had been wonderstruck before, what was his astonishment when he saw that the basket contained the head of the most lovely, the most beautiful, the most perfect young Princess that ever was seen!
He could explain the laws of mechanics, and tell his wonderstruck comrades what is meant by the resultant of several forces and the equilibrium of forces, giving them unexpected notions about kinematics and dynamics.
Pearls fell drop by drop, as subterranean waters filter in their caves. Edmond, amazed, wonderstruck, filled his pockets with the radiant gems and then returned to daylight, when he discovered that his prizes had all changed into common pebbles.
He bowed humbly at the feet of the woman saint. "Before I had recovered from my bewilderment, I was further wonderstruck to behold a circling mass of mystical light traveling in the sky. Descending swiftly, the flaming whirlpool neared our group and materialized itself into the body of a beautiful youth who, I understood at once, was Babaji.
A ball of white smoke, the size of a balloon, drifted up in the air a quarter of a mile distant. The American stared at the smoke quite wonderstruck, then looked around at the distant ships that had not yet topped the horizon. "Did they shoot this far?" "A request to heave to." "Are you going to do it?"
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