How To Use Marvell In A Sentence
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After a long flight, all you can do is stumble around its pathways and cactus gardens, marvelling at the sheer audacity of it all.
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And such is the infatuating efficacy of their prejudicate persuasion herein, that it hath had two marvellous effects; -- the one against the light of nature, and the other against the fundamental principles of religion.
The Sermons of John Owen
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Its foliage is pleasing and the seed pods are marvellous.
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Rome created the word that denotes this marvellous and monstrous phenomenon, of history, the enormous city, the deceitful source of life and death -- _urbs_ -- _the city_.
Characters and events of Roman History
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From the restaurant there was a marvellous prospect of/over Sienna and the countryside beyond.
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The transformation girlhood to womanhood is quite marvellous.
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Marvell: Hello, Jennifer, Glad to hear you.
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I marvelled at his megawatt smile.
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After a long flight, all you can do is stumble around its pathways and cactus gardens, marvelling at the sheer audacity of it all.
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We often went to the park for picnics, sitting on the cannon in the sun, marvelling at the dewy luminescence of the bleeding heart begonias in the steamy green light of the conservatory.
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This recipe is marvellously simple and quick.
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He certainly is a marvellous actor.
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So it's great to find this marvellous motley crew still making records and still having something to say.
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It is not always so marvellous for anyone who prefers to speak to humans.
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Or Eliot, who wrote on the Metaphysicals, Marvell, Dryden, Blake, Wordsworth, Baudelaire and, of course, Dante, as well as many other writers.
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He is a marvellous sight on the course, languid but long.
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It was a marvellous feat of organisation and the reward was to see the young people from five years of age to eight togged out in their individual club colours.
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Mr Winter said: ‘If the project comes to fruition it will be a marvellous regenerator for the community and a wonderful opportunity for the young people of Thorne.’
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Many groups and organisations got involved and they all did a marvellous job.
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The stage was marvellously decorated to look like a shabby pub with its bar stools, spongy seats, Guinness mirrors and jukebox.
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They were good blankets, of most marvellous thickness and warmth, and her pride in them was greatened in that they had been come by so cheaply.
THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
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We were talking about this only today in the office, and marvelling that such a flat and movie-ish pile of mawk could be anyone's greatest film of all time.
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These marvellously embellished cups are the best thing that ever came from fox-hunting.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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Palace has released two marvellous films that pay homage to our literary heritage.
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On a visit he had thought it a marvellous place and seeing an advertisement for a bank cashier there, he successfully applied for the post.
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It's a marvellous thing as a backing to other shrubs, in flower and autumn colour.
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Capes, big brass buttons, skinny knits belted over print dresses, together with marvellously subtle colour combinations made for one of the most beautiful collections in Milan.
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What is evident is that his best music has a marvellous elegance.
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Hair is a marvellous natural fibre - you could almost compare it to pure silk thread.
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It's as marvellous as a church spire running off down a country lane to join the circus.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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We marvelled at the strange and wonderful calm around us and wondered if it could last.
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He said, "Sorry your party ended up in a yike, Mum. Never mind. The tucker was marvellous."
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We went up in one of those and it was tremendous, a marvellous little airship.
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Marvelling at all the glass, all the metal and glass of modern London, the boiled chrome and hi tech mirror walls.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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Rare paintings, frescoes and stone carvings present a marvellous panorama to the visitor.
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He was a great character and a marvellous storyteller and will be sadly missed by his family, neighbours and many friends.
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Marvellous actors have to deliver stilted, arch and laughably clichéd dialogue.
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We marvelled at the centre, which has clearly had loads of money pumped into it.
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There were neither lifeboats nor mortar-apparatus in those days, but there were the same willing hearts and stout arms then as now, and in a marvellously short space of time, hundreds of the able-bodied men of the town, gentle and semple, were assembled on these wild cliffs, with torches, rope, &c.; in short, with all the appliances for saving life that the philanthropy of the times had invented or discovered.
The Lighthouse
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Her marvellous acting talent is preserved on celluloid.
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We went up in one of those and it was tremendous, a marvellous little airship.
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He is marvellous at his job and really happy.
The Sun
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No one will be able to follow in your footsteps with such gentle tact and marvellous support.
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We went up in one of those and it was tremendous, a marvellous little airship.
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It was a marvellous sporting moment following an outstanding performance.
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While Nicky watched and marvelled, his father Paul, rating Rio the finest place he has been, was struck by the bold attitudes towards poverty.
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Obviously the market is having an off day, and this is a marvellous opportunity for you to double your stake.
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The Bodleian Library, Oxford is a marvellous place for bibliophiles!
Literary Oxford: The Bodleian Library | The Creative Penn
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Vernon Street, marvelling as I always did at the evidence of the high-density canine population on the Hill.
THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
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I admired his fearlessness with Couples, marvelled at the word acrobatics in the Rabbit series, read of his psoriasis, childhood stammering and problems of self-image, counted the novels and short stories and wondered, 'How does he do it?'
Daily News & Analysis
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Nuzhat al-Zaman and the Wazir Dandan, they marvelled at the wonderful events that had betided them and bade the scribes chronicle them in books that those who came after might read.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In the middle of July gone by, she journeyed to America to meet friends and enjoy a vacation and had a marvellous time.
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Only in the fullness of the autumn would the trees produce their finest aspect in marvellous red and gold.
CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
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Then in the center of this cloud there blazed out that marvellous light called the Shekinah, which was the indication of the presence of Him who cannot be seen, but whose glory may be manifest.
Recover the Gospel.com
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This is the work of Johann Beringer, professor in the University of Wurzburg and private physician to the Prince-Bishop -- the treatise bearing the title Lithographiae Wirceburgensis Specimen Primum, "illustrated with the marvellous likenesses of two hundred figured or rather insectiform stones.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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This was the first trial of our _sliding-gunter_ mainsail upon our singularly-constructed boat; and Bob and I were thrown into perfect raptures at the truly marvellous speed with which it propelled the craft along.
For Treasure Bound
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They are marvellously done, and they have caused a stir of approval in this country, while also raising doubts.
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We toured the city and marvelled at the specialist shops that occupied specific streets; one street specialised in supplies for chapel selling vestments, candles and other religious accoutrements.
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Note, All our wonder should help to enlarge our hearts in glorifying God, who alone does marvellous things.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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She had the most marvellous black hair, all hanging down in ringlets around her neck.
DESPERADOES
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Of course they were marvellous, pulled the best boys in there, and were signed up for a fabulous six-week holiday right then.
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But though in theory every living man and woman is merely an ancestor or ancestress born again and therefore should be his or her equal, in practice they appear to admit that their forefathers of the remote _alcheringa_ or dream time were endowed with many marvellous powers which their modern reincarnations cannot lay claim to, and that accordingly these ancestral spirits were more to be reverenced, were in fact more worshipful, than their living representatives.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
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It had a fantastic chef, Kam Po But, who's still there and still producing marvellous food.
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The thick tan leather strap improves with age and feels marvellously comfortable to wear.
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This was considered so marvellous a circumstance that the term peloria, from the Greek [Greek: pelôr], a prodigy, was applied to it. [
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Medes and Assyrians, Virgil is the most ancient writer, who expressly mentions the soft wool which was combed from the trees of the Seres or Chinese; 62 and this natural error, less marvellous than the truth, was slowly corrected by the knowledge of a valuable insect, the first artificer of the luxury of nations.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The design of new offices for a firm of lawyers in the southern Spanish city of Cadiz proclaims the virtues of elegant restraint, use of few materials, and manipulation of marvellous south light.
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The coolness of her hand against his temple was a marvellous thing.
The Broken God
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It's marvellous how he's managed to climb that far.
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If you are a real lover of art, you will appreciate its exquisite melodies, fine librettos, marvellous arias, charming performances, as well as the beautiful costumes and makeup.
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The wonder of this series is that it is all great stories about marvellous, crazy people.
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Its sight is marvellously keen, hearing exceedingly acute, and sense of smell wonderfully perfect.
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What I do oppose is the line that being an older mother is a really marvellous ambition and easily achievable.
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We had a marvellous meal at that restaurant you recommended - incidentally, I must give you the number of a similar one I know.
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The exhibition is a marvellous place, full of noise, wonder, props and children.
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Great marble slabs clawed their way out of the earth, gigantic and marvellous, revelling in their beauty.
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Then the Lady Guinevere, greatly marvelling, aroused herself right quickly, and, dighting herself with all speed, went with the damsel unto that casement window which looked out into that part of the garden.
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I refresh myself after a day in the train with a marvellously spicy bouillabaisse (fish stew) in the elegant, vaulted Les Arcenaulx, one of many atmospheric harbour-side restaurants.
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I marvelled that anyone could be so stupid.
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This is where that marvellous rag-bag of feeling we relieve through our tears comes to our aid.
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‘Anger and sadness are not uncommon today to those who still care for the history of this marvellous city’, writes Llewellyn-Jones bluntly in the preface to this omnibus edition.
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To their credit they have done a marvellous job and it has more than justified its cost.
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I had not noticed until that moment two commercial-looking individuals, obviously British, seated close by and gazing biliously upon the marvellous rapids; but I heard one remark to the other:
The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)
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The Games were marvellous but talk of a legacy of swelling enthusiasm for energetic pursuits was always unconvincing defiance of Olympic history.
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The Channel Tunnel is a marvellous achievement of engineering prowess that has brought the UK closer to the European mainland than ever before, although some would say that isn't a good thing.
Web TV Hub
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And at the last he came to the abbey where Sir Galahad had the white shield, and there Sir Gawaine learned the way to sewe after Sir Galahad; and so he rode to the abbey where Melias lay sick, and there Sir Melias told Sir Gawaine of the marvellous adventures that Sir Galahad did.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Eugenia (Eugenia Malaccensis), and the pandanus, with its aerial roots, all looped together by large sky-blue convolvuli and the running fern, and is marvellous with parasitic growths.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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The apple and raspberry crumble is marvellous.
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He should also visit a forensic science lab to see the marvellous work they do in solving crime while underfunded and undervalued.
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A marvellous discovery for every bride-to-be, The Wedding Centre is the ultimate one-stop shop.
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The passage and piaffe were marvellous and we did a really good extended trot - it felt even better than Amsterdam because the horse was not stressed like he was there, this time he was much happier.
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It is the marvellousness which paralyzes our judgment.
The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886
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The whole work was played without a break, and took two and a half hours, yet there was no suspicion of monotony, while the quickness and noiselessness with which the elaborate set scenes were changed was little short of marvellous.
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And then there came the plots of Jules Verne's stories and marvellous narrations about _l 'uomo cavallo, l' uomo volante, l 'uomo pesce_.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III
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My partner for the event was the marvellous American player.
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London, a marvellous fairyland to her; tell her of "rags" in which he had played the leading part; of things he had done when he was in Rio for three months -- Rio! the very name enthralled her!
Captivity
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Here we marvelled at more of the chequered history of our host country involving the Byzantines, the Romans, and the Ottomans as well as the Bulgarians.
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Matilda the book is a marvellous oddity to which the musical gave a new shape and impetus.
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Then he carried him into the antre and sat down with him, whilst Hasan related to him what had befallen him in the Islands of Wak; whereat the Elder marvelled with exceeding marvel and said, “O Hasan, how didst thou deliver thy wife and children?”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Etruscans in an art in which afterwards they attained to such marvellous perfection, and the only relics now remaining of the fictile statuary for which Veil was so celebrated.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
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The atmosphere of the place was, the Marvells later decided, mediaeval.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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But I marvelled at my luck, for I knew many eyes of secret-service experts scanned that slow-moving column of togaed noblemen and such adepts have a marvellous memory for the shape of an ear, a nose, a chin, or any such feature.
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
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Elbows on the table, chin cupped in my hands, I look from The Boy to Tadpole and back again, marvelling at how simple and how right everything feels.
Three
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You actually defend them!" she marvelled, rebukefully.
The Cardinal's Snuff-Box
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No one will be able to follow in your footsteps with such gentle tact and marvellous support.
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Hollywood directors have a marvellous pool of acting talent to draw from.
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This crew is embodied by a builder turned speculator who marries Fonty's daughter in a marvellously comic wedding scene.
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Moira fluttered her discreetly mascaraed lashes and said, `I'll bet they all thought you were marvellous.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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Technology, marvellous as it is, has the ability to infantilise us.
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Marvellous mosaics, realistic frescoes, silver and glass.
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And at the heart of the book lies one of the most marvellous depictions of an adulterous affair in fiction.
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There are also some marvellously statuesque perennials for boggy soil.
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A marvellous discovery for every bride-to-be, The Wedding Centre is the ultimate one-stop shop.
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The science fiction film had some marvellous special effects.
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We marvelled at the child's linguistic abilities
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Benicio Del Toro does a marvellous turn as a mentally debilitated Indian.
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A marvellous reception awaited me on my first day at work.
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The Wife, of course, was already having a marvellous time and had been gambolling around since we'd left the train station.
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`Cor-er, marvellous crumpet in the suburbs," Pomeroy confided.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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For a split second, I marvelled at his spirited attitude before it dawned on me that he was actually a tourist.
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Their voices blend marvellously as they sing in chorus.
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Because you see, that food washed down with those little steel ‘lotas’ of chai, does something marvellous to our innards and renders us fighting fit to face life's little colds, coughs, and other headaches.
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This marvellous creation is worked in precious two-tone variegated lace, and is accompanied by a tanga panty and a push-up bra with latticed straps.
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In the middle of the lawn was a basin of whitest marble, graven with marvellous art.
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He has harmony without melody; he invents and executes marvellous variations upon verse; he has footed the tight-rope of the galliambic measure and the swaying planks of various trochaic experiments; but his resolve to astonish is stronger than his desire to charm, and he lets technical skill carry him into such excesses of ugliness in verse as technical skill carried Liszt, and sometimes Berlioz, in music.
Figures of Several Centuries
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The 97 rooms are reached via the lift or a marvellous staircase flanked by marble columns.
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I much prefer to cab; especially at night when you're all dressed up it feels so marvellously ritzy.
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In just a few years, he evolved into a respected veteran player whose peers marvelled at his skill.
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He cultivates a sense of social responsibility in a marvellous vacuum of normal social constraints.
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As for the walls of that chamber, they were hung with a marvellous halling of arras, wherein was wrought the greenwood, and there amidst in one place
The Well at the World's End: a tale
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He has done a marvellous job.
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Great post, Mary – good way to collate and distil some marvellous ideas!
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_alcheringa_ age to have been endowed with marvellous powers which they themselves do not possess; but they do not regard these ancestral spirits as deities, nor do they pray and sacrifice to them for help and protection.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
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Hair is a marvellous natural fibre - you could almost compare it to pure silk thread.
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The bridge is a marvellous work of engineering and construction.
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I think it's a marvellous tool and it's great that we all have instant access to so much information, knowledge and learning at our fingertips.
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It struck me as a marvellous opportunity.
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The Viswarupa Darshan of Lord Krishna is marvellously brought out in the open-handed use of hushed but powerful tones of red, yellow, black and white.
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While marvelling at your good fortune, treat yourselves to an exquisite dinner at The Music Room restaurant.
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These two interwoven stories are the salutary subject of this marvellous book.
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The folk marvelled at this quill, when they saw it, and the man who was called Abd al-Rahman the Moor (and he was known, to boot, as the Chinaman, for his long sojourn in Cathay), related to them the following adventure, one of many of his traveller’s tales of marvel.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The humble polliwog in its development is significant of far more marvellous facts than the caterpillar changing into the butterfly, embodying as it does the deepest poetry and romance of evolution.
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
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And these set forth like the blast of violent winds, that rushes earthward beneath the thunder of Zeus, and with marvellous din doth mingle with the salt sea, and therein are many swelling waves of the loud roaring sea, arched over and white with foam, some vanward, others in the rear; even so the Trojans arrayed in van and rear and shining with bronze, followed after their leaders.
The Iliad
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Some stopped to pray at the open-air altar, others walked slowly and quietly around marvelling at this little oasis of peace.
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I marvelled at one such time marker that dripped water from one cup to another.
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We had a marvellous meal at that restaurant you recommended - incidentally, I must give you the number of a similar one I know.
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The title track, full of optimism and with knowing references to the band's past, is a marvellous way to start the new album.
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What I'm trying to eradicate out of the Jamaica team and the West Indies team is people hiding behind people and playing in people's shadow and marvelling in a next one's success.
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Judge Meek's writings teem with the romantic and marvellous incidents of the early history of Alabama, such as De Soto's march to the Mississippi, the Battle of
Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
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This marvellous dead picture lived once in S. Maria Nuova; its predelle have been torn away from it, but may be found here, nevertheless, in the Birth of S.. John Baptist
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
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I am constantly marvelling at locations and often comment more on the landscape than I do on the monument itself.
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Now they fared over that neck somewhat east, making but slow way because the ground was so broken and rocky; and in another hour's space Sure-foot led down-hill due east to where the stony neck sank into another desolate miry heath still falling toward the east, but whose further side was walled by a rampart of crags cleft at their tops into marvellous-shapes, coal-black, ungrassed and unmossed.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
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And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
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Since I had returned to Buckkeep, I had marvelled that he could integrate it all, and dreaded the coming of a day when he could not.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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The wonder of this series is that it is all great stories about marvellous, crazy people.
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The juice was marvellous, cutting through the taste of dust and diesel fumes.
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I overhear two people marvelling over the same specimen.
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Father brought from Paris a marvellous game, called Fortuna, with bells over pockets in the wood, and balls which were pushed with cues.
Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
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The finish always looked marvellous with very little effort.
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This painting is a marvellous example of her work.
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And I sat back and marvelled secretly at this encyclopaedic-minded man, this
Local Color
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Thank you everyone, marvellous entertainment and smashing, friendly people, lots of them!
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Most of the people it seemed spent their time walking around aimlessly or staring and marvelling at the fires in pits outside their homes.
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Tired of criticising les rosbifs as backward and bellicose, they are marvelling at Britain's economic robustness.
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During the summer months, the light lasts well into the evening while passengers sit on deck, wrapped in rugs, marvelling at the beauty of the glaciers.
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‘We play for as much of the journey as we can, and we tend to use our shawm band, the traditional outdoor band with the shawm (an early oboe) and the sackbut, or the shagbolt as it was marvellously called sometimes in ‘early’ England!’
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The Premiership has produced a marvellous cast of popinjays and prima-donnas.
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Which being echoed in chorus by the other six, they took their departure, much marvelling what the reverend doctor could mean by an agistor.
Gryll Grange
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Then came forward the Persian sage and, prostrating himself before the King, presented him with a horse5 of the blackest ebony-wood inlaid with gold and jewels, and ready harnessed with saddle, bridle and stirrups such as befit Kings; which when Sabur saw, he marvelled with exceeding marvel and was confounded at the beauty of its form and the ingenuity of its fashion.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He had been here in another lifetime, just another glaikit Geography student on a field trip, and had marvelled at it like he was standing on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise.
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
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And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
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And as the clergyman gazed, the belief which had so strongly clung to him that the Earl of Etherington and young Valentine Bulmer were the same individual person, melted away like frostwork before the morning sun, and that so completely, that he marvelled at himself for having ever entertained it.
Saint Ronan's Well
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I have an old acetate recording of this marvellous performance.
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She said: 'It was simply marvellous.
The Sun
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Four out of a total of nine are en suite and two are attic rooms with marvellous views over the village and hills.
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He will support his arguments with many stories of the wonderful instinct and percipiency displayed by his animals; all of which stories, though exceedingly marvellous, obtain implicit credence in the mind of the narrator; and only come short, in point of hyperbolical marvel, of the wonderful utterance of Tom Connor's cat, in the plain Anglo-Saxon vernacular.
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
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According to me, it is absolutely marvellous.
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What a victory, what a marvellous salve to ease the anguish of his own pain!
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
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a marvellous player who was a legend in his own lifetime .
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I lay on her couch and marvelled at the effect a humble tuning fork in F sharp could have on one's mental equilibrium.
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He is currently in good form and his positive attitude is a marvellous help to this noble son of Ulster.
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Martin grinned and accepted the invitation, marvelling the while at his complacence.
Chapter 43
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After a long flight, all you can do is stumble around its pathways and cactus gardens, marvelling at the sheer audacity of it all.
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I had enough loin of Deeside venison to feed a small family, while the black pudding that accompanied it was marvellously smooth and rich.
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He said: "Maggie not only is one of our finest actresses, she's also what we call a trooper, she would just get on with her work and she just did it unflinchingly and marvellously and with a great deal of wit, her sharp wit that she retained throughout the whole shoot even though she hadn't been very well.
Undefined
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Then he walked on a little and came to a goodly cage, than which was no goodlier there, and in it a culver of the forest, that is to say, a wood-pigeon,63 the bird renowned among birds as the minstrel of love-longing, with a collar of jewels about its neck marvellous fine and fair.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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As usual, I heard Gustave's staccato yap, and Gwen Nielson calming him down: `There's a marvellous watch-dog!
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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I marvelled at the imaginative energy of the Martian enterprise, at its visionary and dogged inventiveness.
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It is not to be marvelled at if the Regent did style the letter a “pasquil.”
John Knox and the Reformation
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‘So Richard, the trouper that he is, hit the stage to a rapturous applause of appreciation, gave a marvellous opening speech and saved the day gloriously,’ said Mr Simpson.
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What kind of boy, Pumfrey marvelled, would choose a picture like that to decorate his room?
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The band ventured further into rhythmic exploration on a marvellously inventive step forward.
The Sun
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It had butlers and waiters, and served the most marvellous tea in a proper dining carriage with tablecloths, elegant crockery and cutlery.
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This is a marvellous, warm and insightful book and if you're a football fan you must buy it.
The Sun
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I've heard she's a marvellous player but I've never seen her in action.
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Don't they all look like they're having a ruddy marvellous time?
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I marvelled at the maturity of such a young child/at the beauty of the landscape.
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It would be marvellous to hear his reactions on other fuss and bother while he's in the mood.
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And what a marvellous generosity there was to his civilisational world-view.
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There is a wealth of marvellous biographical detail here, with the leading players lit up in the full glare of the garish footlights.
