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By the time the mate saw the fire, it had crept farther; he stared in be wilderment and then spoke to the Captain through a tube.

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Every newcomer to San Francisco is overtaken with a sense of complete be wilderment.

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To anyone seeing the film, her be wilderment and distress seemed achingly real, but the jurors had been carefully instructed not to consider it as direct testimony.

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Then Aias' noble might   Stood frozen stiff; and suddenly fell on him   Dark wilderment; all blood within his frame   Boiled, and his gall swelled, bursting forth in flood.

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders

O the wilderment of the moon at him, when he appears!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by Payne, John