Always do right - this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. From LearnThat.org. [Mark Twain]
He hid himself, and worked always to astonish, which is an egotism, and therefore little. From Wordnik.com. [Uncollected Prose] Reference
The Brits must use "astonish" differently than do Yanks. From Wordnik.com. [Cause and effect] Reference
When heaven's vast orb first strikes th 'astonish'd sight. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Sketches] Reference
"This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.". From Wordnik.com. [Anthony Lake: Right in Principle, Right in Practice] Reference
Kossuth, Bem, and Georgei would astonish her, astonish her!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And some day, when you break loose, you will astonish yourself. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
Now ye begin to amaze and astonish all who are gazing at you from the earth!. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
'Oh, going to astonish the natives a little, that's all,' replied Mr. Cough. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
They were made at Groton, Mass., and astonish the negroes by their efficiency. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
Vile mongrel breeds of men multiply to astonish the ethnologist and the moralist. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
I often astonish travellers by my marvellous natural gifts: I am a ventriloquist. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Sometimes, to astonish, and attract by novelty, the arena was converted into a wood. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Of course we're not ruined; but it would never astonish me any day if we came a howler. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
Arnold will astonish the multitude -- the high rank he bore -- the eclat he had obtained. From Wordnik.com. [Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold] Reference
An it ain't onlikely that them shores could a tale onfold that mought astonish some on us. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
To a degree that would astonish a time traveler from 1969, we now live in Woodstock Nation. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Five Years Later, We're Still Living In Woodstock Nation] Reference
Well, that does not astonish me; for he was no braggart, that father of yours; he was a man!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I had an electric battery which I frequently took into the steerage to astonish the natives. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
While the other three classes are making plans we ought to go ahead and astonish the natives. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
We can certainly instruct them, but not astonish them; for nothing is completely new to them. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In thy anger thou wilt tread the earth under foot: in thy wrath thou wilt astonish the nations. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 40: Habacuc The Challoner Revision] Reference
I immediately resolved to try my skill again in that quarter and expected to astonish the camp. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
All that it wants is the long arm to give us the command of deposits that would astonish the world. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
In hope of hearing a new voice that would thrill and astonish, or break my heart, or repair the world. From Wordnik.com. [Me, Reading: My Years at the Antioch Review] Reference
Well, how it would astonish everybody if she really were cured, and could walk like her old self again. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Knock A Story] Reference
It has never failed to astonish me just how unrealistic some of the Westerners who work and live here are. From Wordnik.com. [Bartering Human Lives] Reference
Decision of purpose and rapidity of action enabled him to astonish the world with his marvelous successes. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
I will not astonish you with descriptions of complex reproductive methods and beautiful survival strategies. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Teams that concentrate on individual skills, like the Brazilians, astonish with their virtuosity and abandon. From Wordnik.com. [World of Wonder] Reference
We are so familiar with his work and style that a new movie by him doesn't astonish or surprise on some level. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Giltz: Toronto Film Fest Day 4: Two Documentaries and a Little Girl] Reference
And in truth, were I to recount his cruelties one by one, I could make a big book that would astonish the world. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
You will have opportunities of sewing seeds in their minds that will grow into a harvest that will astonish you. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
"Ernest, you astonish me!" cried Hoffland, laughing; "address a young lady whom I have not the pleasure of knowing?". From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
I did no more, as you may imagine, than respond to his questions; but it seemed to astonish him that I could respond at all. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Then," exclaimed Jo, planting himself directly in front of her, "here goes! now I am going to astonish you very much, Cyn!". From Wordnik.com. [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference
Admiral's ship, and here what I saw did much astonish me, and would scarcely be believed by others than ourselves who saw it. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
Maryland and Virginia will astonish Baltimore by an increase of her population and commerce beyond the brightest speculative dreams. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
"It would not astonish me," she said, "to hear that the child, who has a noble nature, would remain in the convent and take the veil.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The next two sentences are among the most misquoted in American letters, but it is the end of the paragraph that continues to astonish me. From Wordnik.com. [In the Hamptons] Reference
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