Bartolo; he is literally "astonied," and Figaro makes him the victim of several laughable pranks before he recovers his wits. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music] Reference
The stony or "astonied" appearance of these figures is a resonant emblematic image of the fact that they are not life but art. From Wordnik.com. [Dialogic Text] Reference
When Sir Palomides heard him say so he was astonied. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Plutarche is astonied, in the life of Marcus Antonius. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
When the Count heard this adventure he was sore astonied, and altogether cast down. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. From Wordnik.com. [Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences] Reference
Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. From Wordnik.com. [Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences] Reference
That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. From Wordnik.com. [Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences] Reference
When Guillardun heard these tidings she was astonied beyond measure, and for joy and pity wept right tenderly. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men. From Wordnik.com. [Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences] Reference
Then was the king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
And when they heard these words they fell down to the earth and were astonied; and therewith was a great clereness. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
And when they heard these words they fell down to the earth and were astonied; and therewith was a great clearness. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Then forthwithal Gareth rushed upon Sir Launcelot, and gave him a great stroke upon his helm so hard that he was astonied. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
But, alas, they were so strongly set in the stone that he could not move them, "for which cause the King was ugly astonied.". From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
I went away amazed and astonied, towards the Baines, considering with myself and devising of the grace of my companion Pythias. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Asse] Reference
Now Godred and his company rising early in the morning, and seeing themselues beset with their enemies on all sides, they were vtterly astonied. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
Then suddenly came the Scots from about the mountain and set on the Englishmen or they were ware, and cried their cries; whereof the Englishmen were sore astonied. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?. From Wordnik.com. [Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences] Reference
Lo now, as they stand astonied, a wonder they behold. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs] Reference
Then e'en as a man astonied King Elf the Volsung took. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung] Reference
I was fair astonied that she should dare thus to speak. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall] Reference
When she saw the earls astonied, and the golden Sigurd grieve. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs] Reference
I cried, much astonied, ` you are a Lutheran? here, in the Queen's. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution] Reference
I laugh, I weep, I am astonied, -- just all same as fifty years since. From Wordnik.com. [Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada] Reference
Then looked they on her, and saw her so fair that they were all astonied. From Wordnik.com. [Aucassin and Nicolete] Reference
If you whipped her not well for such indiscretion, I were something astonied. '. From Wordnik.com. [It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot] Reference
'Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. From Wordnik.com. [Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature] Reference
But the man stared at her wildly, as if he were astonied to hear the unused sweetness of her voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Sundering Flood] Reference
Then, she standing abashed and astonied, he turned to her, saying: -- "Griselda, wilt thou have me for thy husband?". From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron, Volume II] Reference
They that are bitten of a wood hound have in their sleep dreadful sights, and are fearful, astonied, and wroth without cause. From Wordnik.com. [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference
Whereat the rest that were besieged were so astonied, that they knew none other meane to saue their liues but by fleeing into the. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.] Reference
He recovered himself, sitting-wise, with his mouth agape and his eyes astonied, while the whole assembly burst into a hearty fit of laughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice] Reference
Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name: leave us not. From Wordnik.com. [Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature] Reference
The physic that I fetched for her quickly gave her ease, and I was something astonied at the blessings which the husband did heap upon me when I departed from them. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution] Reference
Gourgues that the bruit was that he had 2000 Frenchmen with him for feare of whom the 200 and threescore Spaniards which remained in the great fort, were greatly astonied. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.] Reference
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