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For the two decades after the second world war, there wasn't anyone who could touch us for engineering, innovation and all-round bloody marvellousness.

From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2012

It forces us actually to remodel our conduct in accordance with this revolutionary theory of the marvellousness of all things.

From The Defendant by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

It has the richness of the promised land; it has the marvellousness of the desert.

From Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8) by Newman, John Henry

There, sir," said Kettle sotto voce to Dayton-Philipps, "you see the marvellousness of it?

From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Wood, Stanley L.

She did not love her father for he was entirely too remote and awe-ful for love, but he entranced her with his marvellousness.

From This Freedom by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)