wonder-stricken
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of wonder-stricken
First recorded in 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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She turned her wonder-stricken face towards him still.
From Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read by Dickens, Charles
Then he did likewise with the oxen in the second, the third, and the fourth wagons, and, turning about, went on his way, and left the wonder-stricken butchers staring after him, speechless, in the street.
From Old Greek Stories by Baldwin, James
"The moon has melted, disappeared!" cried Michel Ardan, wonder-stricken.
From The Moon-Voyage by Verne, Jules
With that he turned briskly, and walked away along Cheapside, leaving me wonder-stricken at what was not, perhaps, so very wonderful an adventure after all.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie
And yet how useless were his preparations; how wholly all his preconcepts were swept away, and a wonder-stricken "Oh-h-h!" went softly from his throat.
From The Trail of the Sandhill Stag by Seton, Ernest Thompson
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