marveled

On an 1861 trip to the United States, the English novelist Anthony Trollope marveled that Americans consumed twice as much beef as Englishmen.

From the day Guggenheim Baseball bought the Dodgers, team president Stan Kasten marveled at the chance to run the storied team.

After a brief trip to the medical tent, teammates marveled about the guts of their quarterback.

“All within two years, it was like this,” he marveled, “Suddenly, this New York theater actor became a movie actor. Boom.”

Travelers marveled at it, and word of it reached the desk of William Saunders, an acquaintance of the Tibbetses and the man in charge of horticultural experiments at the gardens of the newly created U.S.