What is "astonishing"

Usage examples of "astonishing".

And more than this, read nine of these cases, which he has published, as I have just done, and observe the absolute nullity of aconite, belladonna, and bryonia, against the symptoms over which they are pretended to exert such palpable, such obvious, such astonishing influences.

In return, she spewed me some trifles with which I was well acquainted, but which I pretended to think very astonishing.

I knew that the countess was acquainted with you, but I should never have thought that her name by itself could have such an astonishing effect.

Camille had no other lovers--an astonishing thing in an actress of the kind, but being full of tact and wit she drove none of her admirers to despair.

Kowalski, with a keenness which Asch and Wedelmann found quite astonishing.

The camp had awakened at four in the morning and begun moving south, traveling through night-shrouded jungle with a confident certainty that Batman found astonishing.

We then supped, and the real orgy began, in which la Riviere bore the brunt in a manner that was simply astonishing.

It extended upward with astonishing haste, bifurcating and flexing like a groping fist.

Christians, supposedly disciplined in the old virtues, boasting of their code of honor, courageous in the face of death on the battlefield, is astonishing, though perhaps it can be grasped if one remembers the course of German history, outlined in an earlier chapter, which made blind obedience to temporal rulers the highest virtue of Germanic man and put a premium on servility.

The marquis came as usual, and like myself he thought Annette, whom he had never seen before, an astonishing miniature beauty.

She had an astonishing memory for the sentimental verses of her own time, which were sold in the street in pamphlet form for two centavos as soon as they were written, and she also pinned on the walls the poems she liked most, so that she could read them aloud whenever she wished.

She would smear the liquid froth into careful position, slopping astonishing tones in suggestive patches and scabs, where it coagulated quickly into shape.

She was right, and I could not help admiring the truly astonishing tact of this girl.

There were some astonishing buildings on the skylinefairytale, spires wrapped in the lace of white balconies, a great pearshaped dome of sparkling blue tile, a teetering cuboid fantasy of tinted glass and dressed stone, something like a shimmering sphere divided like the segments of an orange into freestanding slices.

The astonishing thing was that her lover did not seem in the least ashamed of the part he had to play.