astoundment
Example Sentences
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Some of those very same vistas may have inspired the works he rendered for our astoundment and pleasure on his show.
From Salon ● May 2, 2026
Into this she sank, half fainting, and sat shaking with astoundment, with horror, with wrath.
From No. 13 Washington Square by Leroy Scott
While I was blinking and rubbing my eyes in astoundment, a big, bearded man whose face was strangely familiar opened the door and whipped the captured pistol from the seat.
From Branded by Francis Lynde
Being fair agasp with astoundment at this new spinning of fate's wheel, I sprang up quickly—and was as quickly glad to fall back upon the pallet.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
Brouillard bit his lip to keep back the exclamation of astoundment that the blunt inquiry threatened to evoke.
From The City of Numbered Days by Francis Lynde
