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"I thought it would be an astonisher," said her father; "how are Grace and Eeny?"

From Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel by Fleming, May Agnes

The amount was an astonisher for me when I came to reckon it up.

From The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

"What in three dashes, two hyphens and an astonisher do you want here, you double-dashed and double-blanketed blank to dash and return!!"

From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Nye, Bill

Here was an astonisher, and here was also a clue.

From Out of a Labyrinth by Lynch, Lawrence L.

If that ain't as much of an astonisher as when the scuttle-butt danced a jig on the dog-vane!

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman