What is "wondrously"

Usage examples of "wondrously".

Pillars of Woe and twenty miles closer to Menzoberranzan, Nimor stood in the shadows at the mouth of the Lustrum, a wondrously rich mithral mine.

They ate breakfast under the awning on the after-deck of the yacht, eggs and bacon and Veuve Clicquot champagne, and watched the hubbub of dawn traffic on the wondrously smelly old Thames.

He looked away from the projected image, to find himself the object of a glare from Brond Halorn that would doubtless have wondrously transformed him into some species of small, squeaking vermin, had she but the power.

Queen of Goddesses, In golden beauty gleaming wondrously, Even she that hath the Heaven for canopy, And in the arms of mighty Zeus doth sleep, - And then for dread methought that I must die, But Hera called me with soft voice and deep: L.

And also it was a marvel to see in that castle how by magic they make a compost out of fecund wheatkidneys out of Chaldee that by aid of certain angry spirits that they do in to it swells up wondrously like to a vast mountain.

They were blue, wondrously large and full, and tinted with that unfathomable variegated iris which nature only gives to youth, and which generally disappears, after having worked miracles, when the owner reaches the shady side of forty.

But if one goes ahead quietly and, just as the experienced beekeeper, lays hold with a firm hand, if one is not afraid and shows that one intends no wrong, the excitement and asperities subside wondrously quickly and the petty world tolerates what it contended it could never endure.

Here and there, in seemingly no special arrangement at all, stood tables and shelves, the surfaces of which were buried under fringed silken cloths and delicately carven boxes, golden baskets and wondrously glazed vases, crystal bottles and enameled wicker boxes woven with thread of gold from which depended brilliants and faceted stones of blue, red, and smoke, or enormous beads of amber.

Do you know how Caliburn was quenched, to give it that wondrously fine temper?

And sooth, men say that he was not the sonneOf mortall Syre, or other liuing wight,But wondrously begotten, and begonneBy false illusion of a guilefull Spright,On a faire Ladie Nonne, that whilome hightMatilda, daughter to Pubidius,Who was the Lord of Mathrauall by right,And coosen vnto king Ambrosius:Whence he indued was with skill so maruellous.

Which when as Scudamour, who now abrayd,Beheld, whereas he stood not farre aside,He was therewith right wondrously dismayd,And drawing nigh, when as he plaine descrideThat peerelesse paterne of Dame natures pride,And heauenly image of perfection,He blest himselfe, as one sore terrifide,And turning his feare to faint deuotion,Did worship her as some celestiall vision.

Until I recalled other inner words, heard in an­other time and in other places, spoken certainly for other ends, but which seemed wondrously in keeping with my joy in that moment, as if they had been born consubstantially to express it.

In the case at bar, the value of the decedent as the wellspring of a burgeoning trust in plaintiff's name composed of royalty and licensing fees pertaining to its various profitable configurations as dolls, ceramic items, mugs, keychains, puzzles, T shirts, logos, comic strip rights and a projected animated series for television is plainly evident and even, in point of fact, inadvertently attested to by defendant in an earlier and wondrously ill considered action filed and dismissed in a lower jurisdiction claiming a generous share of such profits as having provided the circumstance for its notorious predicament in the first place.

It was the legendary blade of Leonidas, the Sword King, beautifully crafted and wondrously sharp.

Ancient traditions that had once been employed in the service of constructing impressive underground chambers had been transformed into a wondrously intricate kind of performance art human acrobats could only hope to emulate, but never duplicate.