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Example sentences for "marvellous"

Lexicographically close words:
marvel; marveled; marveling; marvelled; marvelling; marvellously; marvelous; marvelously; marvels; maryage
  1. So the days came and went with marvellous rapidity.

  2. It is marvellous the power with which the natives of New Guinea compose verses.

  3. Surely God has heard my wishes, and, in his own marvellous manner, hath sent me an object on which my affections may expand themselves.

  4. The memorable scene of the hostelrie rushed on his recollection, with all its doubtful and marvellous circumstances.

  5. Nelda insisted on going on shore with the working party, the marvellous crane flew down from the hulk, and Bob was always lowered gently over the side.

  6. So before they got home that night they made up their minds to explore the marvellous cave in company.

  7. And no wonder, for in whatever direction they dug nuggets were found in this marvellous cave.

  8. That man has a marvellous aptitude for his work; and has, what is more than aptitude, the experience of ten years of failure.

  9. It was one of those marvellous accidental resemblances which every man has met with in the course of his life.

  10. And a cry of hatred arose from all the humble ones, all the disinherited ones who had as much need of the Marvellous as of bread to live!

  11. Had Rabelais never written his strange and marvellous romance, no one would ever have imagined the possibility of its production.

  12. According to the purpose and argument of that lesson, he oftentimes gave himself to worship, adore, pray, and send up his supplications to that good God, whose Word did show his majesty and marvellous judgment.

  13. But though he did not copy Sermini, yet Sermini's work provided him with the form of the subject, and was the theme for Rabelais' marvellous variations.

  14. Nay, nay, my lord, let not your marvellous wisdom and sage indifference be so speedily at fault.

  15. And so I did, sweet sister mine; but I wished to see the effect of such marvellous abstraction, and whether, in case of necessity, an iron shield would serve our purpose as well as a jewelled diadem.

  16. From sure authority, my liege, marvellous as they seem.

  17. Before the day was over, however, they found anticipation for once had been less marvellous than reality, and stranger things were seen and heard than they had dreamed of.

  18. One object only was extracted from the ruinous cavern; a polychrome cameo of marvellous beauty (di meravigliosa bellezza) representing a Bacchanalian.

  19. Her younger companion is, or rather was, of marvellous beauty, before Bernini draped her form with a leaden tunic.

  20. The inscriptions, silent on the main point at issue, that of their violent death, are worded with marvellous dignity, coupled with a sad touch of irony.

  21. I have known of one workman breaking marvellous objects (cose insigni) into small fragments to melt them into handles for knives.

  22. The cylindrical portion or drum (tamburo) which supports the dome proper was finished at midnight of December 17, of the same year, a marvellous feat to have accomplished.

  23. Antonio Bosio, the Columbus of subterranean Rome, was but three years old at that time, but he seems to have developed his marvellous instinct on the strength of what he saw in the Vigna Sanchez in his boyhood.

  24. His father has the kind of devotion that is not exacting about clothes, and would burn with as steady a flame if its idol were in sacking as if she wore the most marvellous confections of the French man-dressmakers.

  25. That first Speech Day, when it did arrive, was a marvellous occasion.

  26. Though this last gleam of the setting sun touched the tree-tops only, it enabled the eye to see distinctly the caprices of that marvellous tapestry which nature makes of a forest in autumn.

  27. At times there seemed to pass within her a marvellous and delightful phenomenon which promised to Love a woman concealed thus far from every eye.

  28. When she talks with friends on some literary or philosophical topic, or on certain religious questions which interest her, she is roused into appearing suddenly an unknown woman of marvellous beauty.

  29. For the more a Book contains of what is marvellous and extraordinary, the more 'tis liable to Suspicion.

  30. But besides the elders there was a marvellous manifestation of spiritual life, inexplicable to us who have no experience of the life of a spirit without the body: for in chap.

  31. May it please God in His mercy to give us the sacred teaching of the Holy Spirit, and to lead us into the full realisation of the marvellous wonders of His redeeming love!

  32. How can we understand the marvellous contrast?

  33. I cannot imagine a more marvellous contrast than that which now exists between the present condition of the two parts of man while awaiting the resurrection of the dead.

  34. There was a transfer of the imputation of guilt, and thus by God’s marvellous grace, blessed be God, in Christ Jesus we are free.

  35. Was atonement made for all mankind in that marvellous act of mercy, or were the great majority left out altogether most miserably to perish, without any hope of deliverance, and without the possibility of being saved in the Lord Jesus?

  36. Partly perhaps owing to its comparative isolation and detachment at home, the Irish clergy was fired with a marvellous and almost preternatural zeal for the propagation of the Gospel abroad.

  37. Mr. Legion took him to a kind of club which had its quarters in the top storey of a lofty building, from which a marvellous view of New York was obtained.

  38. It will end in three months," he prophesied; "and then will come a marvellous prosperity.

  39. In the evening Isaac Haight favoured us with some Mormon songs and recited examples of the marvellous curative effects of the Mormon "laying on of hands.

  40. Pinto, after his return to Europe, told so many marvellous stories about Japan that people doubted him as much as they had doubted Marco Polo.

  41. One of the Minamoto, Tametomo by name, was an archer of marvellous powers.

  42. The war with China first revealed to the world the marvellous progress of Japan in the military art.

  43. I might discant for hours with an enthusiasm which, perhaps, only an actor could feel on the marvellous details of Kean's impersonations.

  44. I regard what has been done as the most marvellous thing in human history.

  45. I think it more marvellous than the invention of printing, or, I am almost ready to say, than the voyage of the Genoese.

  46. I am telling marvellous stories here of our adventures to gaping audiences, and exhibiting my blind fishes with tremendous effect.

  47. The last of August and part of September this year were spent in another journey to the Pacific coast, in which he was much impressed with the marvellous beauty of the Canadian road.

  48. The conviction that I am walking in the New World is even yet marvellous in my own eyes, and I dare say it is little less so to you, the receiving a letter from a son of yours in such a quarter.

  49. This marvellous transformation is all owing to you.

  50. I took several specimens of an Octopus which possessed a most marvellous power of changing its colours, equalling any chameleon, and evidently accommodating the changes to the colour of the ground which it passed over.

  51. This I did, and believe now that it was the marvellous currents of protoplasm in some vegetable cell.

  52. It was Tekla's first visit to the tall tower and she looked upon the marvellous scene spread before her with keen and enthusiastic appreciation.

  53. The news spread through the castle with marvellous rapidity, and the Black Count and Rodolph were on the battlements above the gate before the archer and some of the garrison had hoisted the insensible man up the ladder.

  54. It is a marvellous shot," cried the Emperor, with enthusiasm, "and such art is wondrous cheap at threepence a day.

  55. Nothing, Roger, but the most marvellous lines that ever man was privileged to listen to.

  56. To a man of action, however, the precincts of the castle are somewhat circumscribed, and the marvellous view makes him more and more conscious of the limited extent of this most charming terrace.

  57. He has displayed marvellous knowledge of the arts of war, and has routed the infidels, horse and foot, wherever he encountered them, scattering them like chaff before the wind.

  58. You made no mention of the lady in your messages, and I could only guess that such was the case, because the monk who carried our despatches reported that a lady of marvellous beauty sat at your table.

  59. Many of them wondered, and they came together in groups gravely discussing the marvellous matter, until a priest came along from the church and read one of the scrolls which was attached to the arrow.

  60. By the lofty mountain across the steppe there are three wonders, even three marvellous damsels.

  61. Now Cæsar, though he was marvellous sorry for the death of Cleopatra, yet he wondered at her noble mind and courage, and therefore commanded that she should be nobly buried and laid by Antony.

  62. This famous soldier is said to have possessed marvellous swiftness of foot and gigantic strength, with extraordinary capacity for food, while his iron strictness of discipline was at times relieved by a rough humor.


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