astoundment

Raise your hands to your face, raise your eyebrows to your hair, open your mouth and assume a gesture of complete amazement, astonishment and astoundment as I let you know that is none other than the nation's most insightful pundit Mark Lawrenson Gary Neville.

When the mists of astoundment cleared he found himself in the street with the thick wad of bank-notes still in his pocket.

Brouillard bit his lip to keep back the exclamation of astoundment that the blunt inquiry threatened to evoke.

Its attention was eventually captured, however, by Dan Whipple, who announced importantly that it gave him much pleasure to say that, at a great expense, the committee had secured as an added attraction the world-famed Signor Duodelli, who, with their kind permission, would exhibit for their pleasure and astoundment his miraculous act known as the Vanishing Man, as performed before the crowned heads of Europe, to the bewilderment and applause of all beholders.

When he had dodged the laden waiters and was taking the vacant seat he found himself confronting the young woman in the veiled hat and the gray box-coat, identified her, and discovered in a petrifying shock of astoundment that she was not Miss Elsa Craigmiles's fancied double, but Miss Craigmiles herself.