How To Use Wondrous In A Sentence

This is God-fucking wondrous awful, Thomas Blanky had time to think as the entire ton or ton and a half of ice-encrusted manrope and human being began being pulled upward as easily and surely as if a fisherman were hauling up his net after a casting. The Terror
Dolphins have a natural affinity with humans and just being with them, playing with them and touching them, is credited with bringing about wondrous results for sick people.
And she would tell us wondrous stories of her youth, of the lands she had seen, and the darbar s of the olden days; of kings who were gods, and women whose friendship was victorious over every accident. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
I am now a fount of knowledge about this wondrous organisation.
Now it has, it's a wondrous thing. Times, Sunday Times

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I felt I was in the presence of an angel; a wondrous, exquisite but delicate angel.
Far more wondrous than the wonders of the world are wonders of the human body. . . The eyes, the ears, the nose, the mouth, the hands, the head and the heart. RVM
For those lucky enough to have had clear skies, the partial solar eclipse yesterday was a wondrous sight. Times, Sunday Times
Nothing seemed impossible; the whole of biology was about to become transparent to this wondrous new science.
Manchester Science Festival, ManchesterThis might be the season of superstition and spooks, but since science is more unbelievable, wondrous and scary than fiction, it's apt timing for Manchester's cornucopia of explorative events (more than 200 of them). This week's new events
But for the dog, each and every brandishment of the fuzzy orb produces the same wondrous glee.
If you read him with attention, Williams will expand your mind, will set it on things wondrous and permanent, will make the world you live in deepen because of the new-perceived order. The Image of the City « Unknowing
His eyes flicked up to that wondrous sea-green gaze that had so capti - vated him. Second Skin
This was not common knowledge until around a year ago, when the information leaked out about this wondrous book.
Far more wondrous than the wonders of the world are wonders of the human body. . . The eyes, the ears, the nose, the mouth, the hands, the head and the heart. RVM
The polarizing of the population has been a wondrous gift to debate, and we are more politicized and aware than ever before.
Wondrous sights seen along the way mixed and mingled with mystic truths discussed afloat a rolling ocean in daily yoga classes with Gurudeva and his swamis.
This one is my gift to all the lazy people who happen upon my blog and cant be bothered to plough any further to discover the bounteous and wondrous delights contained herein.
TV technology is a wondrous thing. The Sun
It was a wondrous sight. Moby Dick
Shortly after, when the calm evening was dressed in all the gorgeous colours of a southern sunset, and whilst the military calls were sounding those stirring notes he loved to hear, my good horse was lowered to his rest among the nautili and wondrous seaflowers which floated round the ship. Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
The result is a tortilla of wondrous flavour, the tastes and smells of all of Mexico distilled into a single bite. Times, Sunday Times
Shall I then shower you with wondrous remnants of scent from field and forest, and warm you ever so slowly, until you give up your magical elixir, as precious as life itself?
I believed that such wondrous girls walked around Rome with birds on their heads while I suffered the drab and comfortless interior of boarding school for two whole terms.
For most people the modern world is a wondrous place full of medicine and food and fizzy drinks in vending machines. Times, Sunday Times
It's a wondrous transmutation, where the blood of one man is turned into the money of another. THE CURSE OF CHALION
Lifted from their debut EP, this minimalistic yet charmingly whimsical slice of lo-fi alt-folk opens with nought but a lone slappy bass riff and jerky surreal prose, before blossoming out into a cacophony of wondrous twangy noises, and ends up sounding like Badly Drawn Boy, Sufjan Stevens and a parliament of owls caught up in a weird feathery, beardy group hug, happily tumbling down an upwards escalator in slow motion. This week's new singles
O God, who in wondrous wise didst raise up blessed Joan for the defense of her faith and her country: grant, we beseech thee, through her intercession, that thy church, overcoming all the wiles of her enemies, may enjoy unceasing peace. May 30 -- St Joan of Arc
We were driven across this wondrous vast land of lakes and forests.
-- and the echo rose in unnumbered voices of lonely lips, toned with wondrous gratitude, "Free, Free, Free! A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Abraham Lincoln
The profits from that wondrous innovation and growth that send Shlaes into rhapsodies went to fatcats who turned the country into a casino and smashed the economy. Lynn Parramore: Amity Shlaes's Forgotten History: When Unions Go Bust, We All Do
Then it ends where you guess it would, the most wondrous place of all: our own blue marble. Times, Sunday Times
The wondrous thing is that he cared as much at the end as at the beginning. Times, Sunday Times
But in the expression of her countenance there was no character of suffering or distress; on the contrary, a wondrous serenity, that made her beauty more beauteous, her very youthfulness younger; and when this spurious or partial kind of syncope passed, she recovered at once without effort, without acknowledging that she had felt faint or unwell, but rather with a sense of recruited vitality, as the weary obtain from a sleep. A Strange Story — Volume 02
Tell his glory among the nations ; among all peoples , his wondrous deeds.
Then we noticed that the clump of algae was actually a wondrous crab, no bigger than a thumbnail, whose body shape had evolved to mimic the green wafers of algae.
For those lucky enough to have had clear skies, the partial solar eclipse yesterday was a wondrous sight. Times, Sunday Times
God works in wondrous ways destroying the wisdom of the wise and frustrating the intelligence of the intelligent (1 Cor 1: 19). The Chinese are Coming
I hated the voice from behind me, that cut through the wondrous strains of music being wafted to us in that green and prosperous neighbourhood through powerful speakers.
The result is a tortilla of wondrous flavour, the tastes and smells of all of Mexico distilled into a single bite. Times, Sunday Times
Spring is a wondrous time full of marvelous sights, sounds and smells.
Or Dr. Frankenstein concocting from his menagerie of elemental particles a wondrous creation but one that could, in an instant, mutate into a destructive monster, severing pinkies, arms, perhaps even torsos. The “45.5 Meteorite Craters Made by Humans on Their 45.5 Hundred Million Year Old Planet” Fountain
Oh, it was wondrous beautiful! Andersen's Fairy Tales
The setting is a breathtaking reminder of the wondrous beauty of our province.
And unto the gentlemen, who were wondrously commoved, she turned again and said, "O, my hearts, should ye not love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind? and should ye not love your neighbours as yourselves? John Knox
In fact, vulnerability came to me to seem a wondrous thing. Times, Sunday Times
This wondrous production continues to exercise a hypnotic power. Times, Sunday Times
Standing on the fantail of a ship beneath a canopy of starlight alone on a moonless night, the first time he'd ever seen the Southern Cross and it made him weep for the beauty, the implication was, at once symbolic and wondrous. Southern Cross
This can be a wondrous help if your life is being disturbed by others, but what if you are the disturbed disturber? ASBO Nation
Watts (1674 - 1748) was a great hymn writer/psalmodist whose work includes "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" .... WN.com - Articles related to Lindsay Lohan's mother says actress will move East
Sur Incises, dominated by three pianos, three harps and percussion, proved a real stunner with its wondrous ‘passing on’ of sound waves and effects between cellos and pianos.
Gladly will I bestir the deedy hands, everywhere behold where thou hast need of me; bepraise the rich pomp of thy splendour; pursue unwearied the lovely harmonies of thy skilled handicraft; gladly contemplate the thoughtful pace of thy mighty, radiant clock; explore the balance of the forces and the laws of the wondrous play of countless worlds and their seasons; but true to the Rampolli
The long building in the city centre is surrounded by parkland, and the wondrous gothic cathedral is but a hop away. Times, Sunday Times
He was the finest fly that Barchester had hitherto afforded to her web, and the signora was a powerful spider that made wondrous webs, and could in no way live without catching flies. Barchester Towers
Since then, birding luminaries and legendary enthusiasts have sacrificed huge chunks of their lives to catch the merest glimpse of the wondrous woodpecker.
The result is a tortilla of wondrous flavour, the tastes and smells of all of Mexico distilled into a single bite. Times, Sunday Times
Ibrahim, Wazir to King Shamikh; and the manner of my coming hither is wondrous and the cause thereof marvellous. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Here the poet called up into pictorial presence, and informed with life, grace, beauty, infinite friendly mirth and wondrous naturalness of expression, the people of whom his dear books told him the stories, — his Shakspeare, his Cervantes, his Moliere, his Le Sage. Roundabout Papers
The charge therefore of some against us that we paganize the nation, by reason of some different apprehensions from others concerning the regular constitution of particular churches for the celebration of gospel worship, is wondrous vain and ungrounded. A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity
And we read of some that were workers of iniquity, and yet in Christ's name prophesied, and did many wondrous works. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
If in the pensive twilight, while I recall my yesterdays, I hear the risen Lord call my name, the call awakes the thought of a wondrous tomorrow! Brooks by the Traveller's Way
It is a pity because so much else is wondrous. Times, Sunday Times
The contents of the box were truly wondrous. The Times Literary Supplement
Wondrous stories are told of the amatorial passion for marble statues; but the wonder ceases, and the truth is established, when the irresistible ideal presence is comprehended; the visions which now bless these lovers of statues, in the modern land of sculpture, Italy, had acted with equal force in ancient Greece. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
Over the past few days I have seen the most amazing and wondrous sight.
The result is a tortilla of wondrous flavour, the tastes and smells of all of Mexico distilled into a single bite. Times, Sunday Times
Her mother slammed the plates down on the countertop, wondrously not breaking them but making a mess as Megan's uneaten food spilled on the counter.
Rembrandt has a quizzical, jesting expression, as well he may, in view of his wondrous hat and slashed leather jerkin, ornate with glass beads.
Considering the wondrous richness and variety of the terrestrial life wrought out by the few sunbeams which we catch in our career through space, we may well pause overwhelmed and stupefied at the thought of the incalculable possibilities of existence which are thrown away with the potent actinism that darts unceasingly into the unfathomed abysms of immensity. The Unseen World, and Other Essays
And, in verity, as I did lie there so dreamful, it did come to me afresh how wondrous strange was mine adventure; and how that I did lie warm and alive in a Country of red light and smoking seas. The Night Land
Not long after the war was born a desire in Howells to compose settings of the Anglican canticles, the first of which was the wondrously beautiful Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for King's College, Cambridge.
The gold curled and twisted in the wondrous shape of a serpent, its shimmering scales glinting in the candlelight.
Tear-drops have chafed mine eyelids and rail down in wondrous wise, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
But it isn't the place of wondrous bounty he had dreamed of. Times, Sunday Times
This is a night of wondrous things; crashing guitars and beautiful sounds and haunting voices and clever, true and haunting words.
Tear-drops have chafed mine eyelids and rail down in wondrous wise, v. 53. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Uncle Paul took out his watch again, and this time their landlady took the hint, and hurried into the kitchen, from which delicious odours soon began to escape, and in the midst of the examination upon the window-sill, where the bright sun lit up the lenses of the microscope, the magnified hydrae, with their buds and wondrous developments, were set aside, to be superseded by the morning meal. The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise
Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748) was a great hymn writer/psalmodist whose work includes "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" .... WN.com - Articles related to Lindsay Lohan's mother says actress will move East
Oh, how wondrous it looked to him; the red and yellow striped umbrella calling out his hunger, with pretzels and chips suspended in a case on the cart, sodas and water sweating beads of condensation.
You, all the while, in cities of exile, in that exile that was your detested and chosen instrument, the weapon of your craft, erected your pathless labyrinths, infinitesmal and infinite, wondrously paltry, more populous than history. Ulysses, Ulysses, soaring through all the galaxies
We sampled the wacky food, we saw the wondrous sights and just had a fantastic time. Times, Sunday Times
This goodly frame, the earth, was such a configuration, authored by God, and with wondrous messages for those who cared to examine the text.
the colors changed wondrously slowly
She came before us wondrous clad in chemisette of green, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Instead of demolition, however, Swan Hall enjoyed the most devoted restoration of its long life. The team working for Rochford Hall Ltd stripped out the uglier accretions of the centuries, exposing the wondrous oak framework.
Rashîd came up behind me as we rode along, and poured into my ear a wondrous tale of how the Sheykh Huseyn was our ill-wisher and would do his best to make things lively for us if we took the place. Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6
The clump of algae was actually a wondrous crab, no bigger than a thumbnail, whose body shape had evolved to mimic the green wafers of algae.
Rhodes thought of Van Vliet's new theory, the floating soup of amino acids out of which wondrously virulent bacteria would be generated.
Yet the courts of the land counted as nought this wondrous devotion.
The three sing a wondrous trio where Claire supports the voices with some strikingly dark instrumental timbres.
It continues a tradition of apt venues for the awards which for years were held in the Merchant Adventurers Hall in York - that wondrous 14th century Foss-side building where business people have gathered and parleyed for centuries.
She laughed again, a peal of silvery laughter every bit as lovely and wondrous as its owner.
The labor is difficult and long, and it may get worse before the vagitus is heard, but don't despair over the Middle East: something great, something wondrous, something completely unimaginable is there aborning. Skinny Legs and All
She'd worn uncommon well; middle sixties and still shaped like a Turkish belly-dancer, with the same guileless idiot smile and wondrous blue eyes that had set me slavering when she was sixteen - she'd performed like a demented houri then, and who was to say she'd lost the taste in half a century? Watershed
Makes his promise good, 851. his pulses fly, 655. me or fordoes me, 156. my gain, every way, 156. one wondrous kind, 387. that and the action fine, 204. up life's tale, 502. us or it mars us, 156. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
Here Pons paused to hold up to scorn my new scarlet satin doublet — a wondrous thing of which I had been extravagant. Chapter 11
These are apt descriptions for that wondrous wader, the Black-crowned Night-Heron.
Further evidence for this comes from the musical rendering of the first line of the reprise, ‘These things seem more wondrous, yet more wondrous I’.
Terfel effortlessly wraps his wondrous voice around the songs. Times, Sunday Times
The result is a tortilla of wondrous flavour, the tastes and smells of all of Mexico distilled into a single bite. Times, Sunday Times
Kinkade's wondrous ability to illuminate a canvas is as evident in his Impressionistic and plein air works as it is in his studio paintings.
His angels were likewise adorned with beautiful garments and wondrous instruments.
With the sale of "D is for Delicious" (which means I sold 2 out of 5 stories written in wondrous Michigan), I can declare that Clarion was, writing-wise, only a major waste of time. Mroctober: Clarion wasn't a huge waste after all...
Oliver Sacks' most recent New Yorkerarticle, about people who suffer from alexia, or loss of the ability to recognize written language, puts the wondrousness and complexity of that last brain function into perspective. Marian Salzman: Headstrong, Part II: The Creative Process
For most people the modern world is a wondrous place full of medicine and food and fizzy drinks in vending machines. Times, Sunday Times
His mission is to seek out wondrous treasures, discover strange new lands and to boldly go where no action-packed adventure has gone before.
His speed defied belief and he allied it with a wondrous temperament.
Most imagine a wondrous city or a verdant garden where human beings come face to face with God.
Spring is a wondrous time full of marvelous sights, sounds and smells.
Maximum meaningful glances and a wondrous MacLaine. The Sun
Telling tall tales Some pretenders to glory spin wondrous yarns. Bill Burke 12/2001
(Oliver Sacks 'most recent New Yorker article, about people who suffer from alexia, or loss of the ability to recognize written language, puts the wondrousness and complexity of that last brain function into perspective.) Marian Salzman: Headstrong, Part II: The Creative Process
There is an indefinability and preciousness about her, a mystique which informs her, an exceeding of what is seen, a nature and wondrous mystery, like that of a companion and lover, a creature and friend. Renegades Of Gor
Anent this question the Tibetan legends speak of a strange lama who came to the land of Amdo from the far western regions and resided in Tsong K'aba's tent, a man of wondrous learning and piety, having a big nose and bright dashing eyes. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
But the most wondrous sight of all is their first swim. Times, Sunday Times
Enfold these gifts into a greater offering that reveals God's wondrous love to all who seek it.
A wondrous silver heron its inner darkness fledges! The Falconer of God
Korea was every bit as misunderstood, as were the risks of marching toward China: potentially helpful sources of guidance were ignored, alternatives went unscrutinized, yet wondrous results just had to occur. Magic and Mayhem
So the trader went up to her in courteous wise and saw that she was wondrous beautiful and loveable, especially as she knew the Arabic tongue; and he said to the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Hence his love of images which convey these sudden transformations, ” the worm, putting forth in autumn its “two wondrous winglets,” [110] the “transcendental platan,” breaking into foliage and flower at the summit of its smooth tall bole; the splendour of flame leaping from the dull fuel of gums and straw. Robert Browning
Shepherds saw the wondrous sight, heard the angels singing. Christianity Today
A shutterbug from an early age "I learned to process film before I learned how to drive", Mr. Shitagi started out capturing some of the wondrous natural settings in his native Hawaii. Quiet Moments in Loud Environments
When an ancient treasure of precious vessels, overscored with glowing gems and wrought artistically into wondrous shapes, has, by a prodigious process, been converted through a vast community into the small change, the simple circulating medium of dollars and 'nickels,' we can only say that the consequent permeation will be of values of a new order. An Englishman Looks at the World
Magic town is a wondrous land where all sorts of glorious and spellbinding things take place.
The result is a tortilla of wondrous flavour, the tastes and smells of all of Mexico distilled into a single bite. Times, Sunday Times
A man who wrote wondrously for the ear was surely not seduced by the euphony of her name, but they fell in love and she stuck to him over the years through many a scrape.
For most people the modern world is a wondrous place full of medicine and food and fizzy drinks in vending machines. Times, Sunday Times
When the riser halted and the portal reopened, she was greeted by a vista of tangled alien rain forest, wondrous aromas, and ferine screeching. Diuturnity's Dawn
A wondrous mark, most clearly stamped, doth noble birth imprint on men, and the name goeth still further where it is deserved. Hecuba
Wondrous ethereal, soft comes along the third movement, as though exhausted from the topsy-turvy scherzo.
Still, it's a truly unique and wondrous experience. The Sun
Gladly will I bestir the deedy hands, everywhere behold where thou hast need of me; bepraise the rich pomp of thy splendour; pursue unwearied the lovely harmonies of thy skilled handicraft; gladly contemplate the thoughtful pace of thy mighty, radiant clock; explore the balance of the forces and the laws of the wondrous play of countless worlds and their seasons; but true to the Rampolli
_Unchanged: _ chaunted [chanted] cotemporary/ies [contemporary/ies] descendent [descendant] devest [divest] monkies [monkeys] mystries [mysteries] pedler [pedlar] surprize [surprise] wo [woe] wonderous [wondrous] then "hear him, hear him," loudly rings, [final comma is unclear] assuage their wrath or heal the wound, [comma is unclear] _Corrected: _ The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810
Dominic Cooper is a fatuous rock star, and Jessica Barden is a wondrously funny teenager, and slatternly deus ex machina, who adores him. A Grownup Look at Lennon as a 'Boy'
The plates of embossed and chiseled bronze which encased the body of the chariot are figured with admirably-worked subjects in basso-rilievo, many of them relating to the "wondrous tale of Troy. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
Our new improved face cream has wondrous effects on tired-looking skin.
For that strange spectacle observable in all sperm whales dying — the turning sunwards of the head, and so expiring — that strange spectacle, beheld of such a placid evening, somehow to Ahab conveyed a wondrousness unknown before. Moby Dick; or the Whale
Lover said affected her; _it was strange, 'twas wondrous strange_. The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays
And I think out of that, in Ovid, Shakespeare gets something of the wondrousness, the marvellousness of the human personality.
There are here and there these type of flaws, but overall the story really is wondrous.
But now we have put our childish ignorance behind us, and we know that there is a perfectly naturalistic explanation for the wondrous rainbow. Times, Sunday Times
About this time she met a small band of Franciscans who had come to eastern Europe telling tales of wondrous goings-on in Assisi. RIDDLE ME THIS
Whose Candell burneth cleare and brighte; a wondrous force and might Leap Year -- Day
You feel drugged within this wondrous little world, this babymoon in which nothing, for the moment, is allowed to intrude.
Given their concerns about long flights and humidity, I think our patients should consider the Mediterranean, which is wondrous in June.
The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous.
Astounded, she gazed in his eyes for a space, like a beautiful statue, and then suddenly burst out sobbing; and with the wonderful feminine impetuosity which only grand-souled, uncalculating women, created for fine impulses of the heart, are capable of, threw herself upon his neck, encircling it with her wondrous snowy arms, and wept. Taras Bulba
But as soon as the six musicians began to play, pure beauty arose from the wondrously cacophonic and exotic noises of lute strumming, recorder tuning, cittern plucking, and crumhorn adjusting.
Get conversant with the interior of your body, understand the wondrous mechanism and realise what it does for you and thank it.
The fantasy itself is ‘drawn out’ of archival TV kinescopes, wondrously haunted artifacts of mid-century media archeology.
Put on like that, with the slats on the boards mounted side-on, is going to be a wondrous difficult medium to remove tag graffiti from ... the cracks between the slats should serve quite well to allow the paint to wick down into the panels. See for yourself (Jack Bog's Blog)
As he held them they changed completely and became beautiful people with wondrous smiles. The Sun
But, sir, " she said, "I have not yet decided whether or not to grant you your peep, that moment of inutterable bliss for which you will, willingly, surrender the wondrous veil to me in its entirety. Cinnamon Roll
In fact, it was only by a capricious and wondrous synchronicity that the two individuals there on the strand, buffeted by the Gaelic wind, knew each other at all, brought together by a coincidence of events that pivoted entirely upon the very humble Liparis liparis, otherwise known as the common sea snail. Soul
Delicately and gradually its pressed petals expanded, .. its golden corolla brightened in hue, .. a subtle, sweet odor permeated the air, .. and soon the angelic "immortelle" of the Field of Ardath shone wondrously as a white star in the quiet room. Ardath
The gold curled and twisted in the wondrous shape of a serpent, its shimmering scales glinting in the candlelight.
In Chamonix I took a day or two to thaw out and mend bruises, and then ran over to Martigny, crossed the Grand St. Bernard, the St. Gotthard, and the Grimsel passes, spent a week in William Tell's country, prowling about the ruins of old castles and the sites of legendary battles, and finally settled down in Milan to feast my eyes on the pinnacles of its wondrous cathedral. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896
What wondrous words would we hear in place of little "yips" and "grrrs"? Fifille - French Word-A-Day
In school, I learned many wondrous things about science that amazed me.
Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him; talk of all His wondrous works!
Yet such is our winsome God's wondrous plan that skill may come to any one who is willing; simply that -- who is willing; and it comes _very simply_ too. Quiet Talks on Prayer
A brightest favour and a mouth bedight with wondrous smiles; The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The film is filled to overflowing with strange and wondrous images, but they all feel organic to that world, never thrown on screen simply for their own sake.
Sisters in Christ I feel an interest in _you_, and often has the secret prayer arisen on your behalf, Lord "open thou their eyes that they may see wondrous things out of thy Law" -- It is then, because I _do feel_ and _do pray_ for you, that The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4
And the women's flight through a starry night sky is conjured here with a simplicity that is genuinely wondrous. Times, Sunday Times
For those lucky enough to have had clear skies, the partial solar eclipse yesterday was a wondrous sight. Times, Sunday Times
The first round, where hundreds of folks submitted wondrous items for the judges’ perusal, is over and the top 32 have been selected! RPG Superstar 2009 Round One – Results Are In! « Geek Related
What joy rises in my bosom as I imagine gazing on that wondrous sight!
New York stage vet Charles Busch has taken another stab at bringing his wondrous and elaborate drag acts to the big screen, with excellent results.
A unique romantic comedy, unfettered by the normal expectations of the genre, is a rare and wondrous thing.
Leave prating," he answered; "for surely my Lord Is wondrous of working, sans flaw or dissight. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
But it isn't the place of wondrous bounty he had dreamed of. Times, Sunday Times
Arthur, even with the sometimes hypercritical nature of Ray's lyrics, is simply an album of wondrous moments.
Maximum meaningful glances and a wondrous MacLaine. The Sun
One of the many things I have learnt is what a wondrous thing the human kidney is. Times, Sunday Times
For those lucky enough to have had clear skies, the partial solar eclipse yesterday was a wondrous sight. Times, Sunday Times
It is sleekly, shinily wondrous, an object of polished chrome there to be fetishistically fascinating (not unlike the silver-plated, ivory-handled Colt. 45s and suchlike of the Western), but because of the sheer strangeness it is equally as unsettling, equally as creepy. Freeform Critique
I will tell, in fact, how this strange man carried with him, in his bag, instruments that I had never seen before then, which he called his wondrous machines. The Name of the Rose
The Stanley Cup has suffered dents and dings and, no doubt, it has been a witness to wondrous - and scandalous - things while being passed from hand to hand at bars and parties around the world.
Licking my lips at the wondrous prospect of a day jam-packed with data entry madness, I marched onwards determinedly.
Who has not heard of Mount Olympus — that high abode of all the powers of type, that favoured seat of the great goddess Pica, that wondrous habitation of gods and devils, from whence, with ceaseless hum of steam and never-ending flow of Castalian ink, issue forth fifty thousand nightly edicts for the governance of a subject nation? The Warden
So far as the Scriptures seem to suggest there is not a fresh act upon God's part at certain times in one's experience, but His wondrous love is such that there is _a continuous act_ -- a continuous flooding in of all the gracious power of His Spirit that the human conditions will admit of. Quiet Talks on Power
For Mr. Trenchard, besides the wondrously sweetening power of his candidateship, came of a very ancient name in Dorsetshire. Agatha's Husband A Novel
Back before any of us were here on earth, Ira Gershwin was writing divine, clever and wondrous lyrics for another age.
'Sileni' of the old French apothecaries, as described by Rabelais, so decorated with wondrous figures, harpies, satyrs, horned geese and bridled hares, that men were incredulous, and doubted that precious ambergris, musk and gems were to be found within. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Kipling has caught up in wondrous songs for the future centuries to sing. These Bones Shall Rise Again
Lay himself deserves much of the credit for awakening geophysicists to this wondrous terrain half way to the center of the earth.
In Chamonix I took a day or two to thaw out and mend bruises, and then ran over to Martigny, crossed the Grand St. Bernard, the St. Gotthard, and the Grimsel passes, spent a week in William Tell's country, prowling about the ruins of old castles and the sites of legendary battles, and finally settled down in Milan to feast my eyes on the pinnacles of its wondrous cathedral. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896
What a perverse, stubborn, wondrous thing is human nature! Times, Sunday Times
States and the nation are setting aside big tracts of wilderness where rock and rill, waterfall and cañon, mountain and marsh, shell-strewn beach and starry-blossomed brae, flowerful islets and wondrous wooded hills welcome the populace, soothe tired nerves and mend the mind and the morals. Some Winter Days in Iowa
Madden showed all the whole affair and said how that she was dead and how for holy religion sake by rede of palmer and bedesman and for a vow he had made to Saint Ultan of Arbraccan her goodman husband would not let her death whereby they were all wondrous grieved. Ulysses
It is a multisensory experience involving bursts of physical activity, and can be wondrously creative. Times, Sunday Times
Lay himself deserves much of the credit for awakening geophysicists to this wondrous terrain half way to the center of the earth.
Yet, as it did chance, no harm came to me, and I gat away, as that some wondrous power did cast a viewless cloak about me, that I might be utter hid; and oft have I wondered whether this was truly so; but have no knowing. The Night Land
This was a wondrous, soul-stirring dish. Times, Sunday Times
Here the poet called up into pictorial presence, and informed with life, grace, beauty, infinite friendly mirth and wondrous naturalness of expression, the people of whom his dear books told him the stories, — his Shakspeare, his Cervantes, his Moliere, his Le Sage. Roundabout Papers
It may not seem like much out of context, but the effect within this song is truly wondrous.
I am indebted to Dot Wordsworth's Spectator column for drawing my attention to the wondrous vocabulary of church furnishings - ‘dossals and paenula-shaped chasubles, footpaces and tables of prothesis’.
How tempting it is to linger in this wondrous place, but we must hurry. Times, Sunday Times
What anchors us against the implacable tides of a terrifying, wondrous world in which anything can happen? Times, Sunday Times