Example Sentences

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The freshness he had marvelled at was like the unnatural whiteness of flowers forced in the dark.

From The Reef by Wharton, Edith

She had accepted her life, she had resigned herself, she had marvelled that it was no worse.

From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley J.

Miss Billy Breeze had marvelled over the luxurious toilet table at L'Hommedieu; here the whole room was like that table.

From Horace Chase by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

The palaces of Sargon and Sennacherib, at which the world had marvelled in the 'forties, appeared relatively modern beside the vast antiquity of the Chaldean city.

From Recent Developments in European Thought by Various

The flickering power that she had marvelled at, and then despaired of, burnt up at last into a strong flame.

From Flames by Hichens, Robert Smythe