1 He excites at once my admiration and my pity to an astonishing degree.
2 When I found so astonishing a power placed within my hands, I hesitated a long time concerning the manner in which I should employ it.
3 Waldman inflicted torture when he praised, with kindness and warmth, the astonishing progress I had made in the sciences.
4 Still, as I ascended higher, the valley assumed a more magnificent and astonishing character.
5 The fact was infinitely astonishing to him--and I recognized first the unusual quality of wonder and then the man--it was the late patron of Gatsby's library.
6 Mr. Jaggers was for her," pursued Wemmick, with a look full of meaning, "and worked the case in a way quite astonishing.
7 It is astonishing to me now, how I found time, in the midst of my porings and blunderings over heavier themes, to read those books as I did.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 8 The Orfling met me here sometimes, to be told some astonishing fictions respecting the wharves and the Tower; of which I can say no more than that I hope I believed them myself.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK... 9 She preserved an equable cheerfulness in the midst of her sympathy, which was not the least astonishing part of the change that had come over her.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY 10 What was scarcely less astonishing to me, was, that his affairs were in a most disordered state.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP 11 I can hardly believe, writing now long afterwards, but that I was actually present in these scenes; they are impressed upon me with such an astonishing air of fidelity.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY 12 It had spread with astonishing speed.
13 "It's astonishing how they pick up," said Isa.
14 It's astonishing how Lesbian women are, consciously or unconsciously.
15 Away they run, pell-mell, helter-skelter, slap-dash: tearing, yelling, screaming, knocking down the passengers as they turn the corners, rousing up the dogs, and astonishing the fowls: and streets, squares, and courts, re-echo with the sound.