What is "surprizing"

Usage examples of "surprizing".

As we are now entering upon a book in which the course of our history will oblige us to relate some matters of a more strange and surprizing kind than any which have hitherto occurred, it may not be amiss, in the prolegomenous or introductory chapter, to say something of that species of writing which is called the marvellous.

I ever met with, and must have something very surprizing in your story, which you must confess I have a right to hear.

I had the good fortune to escape in a most surprizing manner, and am now going to London with this young lady, who is a near relation of mine, and who hath escaped from as great a tyrant as my own.

I protest it seems very surprizing that you should pass for a relation of a gentleman, without being so.

Either cede your daughter to my disposal, or take her wholly to your own surprizing discretion, and then I here, before Mr.

Miller, I have made surprizing discoveries, and you shall soon know them.

It will, therefore, not seem at all surprizing that he was zealous in acknowledging the brilliant merit of his son.