Sentence Examples

1. It was a marvel to see their feet lift right off the ground.
2. She was a marvel, a work of such beauty he could scarcely believe she was real.
3. THE KNIGHT OF PHŒBUS To Don Quixote of La Mancha My sword was not to be compared with thine Phœbus of Spain, marvel of courtesy, Nor with thy famous arm this hand of mine That smote from east to west as lightnings fly.
4. What I marvel at is, that I know it to be as sure as that it is now day, that Durandarte ended his life in my arms, and that, after his death, I took out his heart with my own hands and indeed it must have weighed more than two pounds, for, according to naturalists, he who has a large heart is more largely endowed with valour than he who has a small one.
5. Defiance rose up in me and I folded my arms and tilted my head to the side and told him that once La Mareta opened, in all likelihood coachloads of tourists would stop coming every Saturday to marvel at the Manrique residence in Haría.
6. I am loath to think it, and indeed it would be almost as great a marvel as the other to find that Van Helsing was mad but anyhow I shall watch him carefully.
7. He still seemed to marvel at the bright, clean sheen of the new high school building, built only a few years ago.
8. This done, in profound silence they entered the room where he was asleep, taking his rest after the past frays, and advancing to where he was sleeping tranquilly, not dreaming of anything of the kind happening, they seized him firmly and bound him fast hand and foot, so that, when he awoke startled, he was unable to move, and could only marvel and wonder at the strange figures he saw before him upon which he at once gave way to the idea which his crazed fancy invariably conjured up before him, and took it into his head that all these shapes were phantoms of the enchanted castle, and that he himself was unquestionably enchanted as he could neither move nor help himself precisely what the curate, the concoctor of the scheme, expected would happen.
9. And in sooth some who beheld the portrait spoke of its resemblance in low words, as of a mighty marvel, and a proof not less of the power of the painter than of his deep love for her whom he depicted so surpassingly well.
10. I marvel at rocks we have none in South Louisiana.