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wonders will never cease

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  1. What a surprise, as in He's on time—wonders will never cease. This expression is generally used ironically. [Late 1700s]


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If not, it should, for Robert Irwin’s ingenious historical fantasy “Wonders Will Never Cease” is a contemporary novelist’s version of the poetic form known as a cento.

From Washington Post

Throughout “Wonders Will Never Cease,” Irwin embeds lines and episodes from dozens of poems, legends and medieval romances.

From Washington Post

Yet Irwin is hardly a dry-as-dust antiquary, and “Wonders Will Never Cease” frequently reveals the wide range of his reading: His description of the world’s end was obviously adapted from H.G.

From Washington Post

Wonders will never cease, although some people do say that there's nothing new under the sun.

From Project Gutenberg

But that her simple statement, supported by no other evidence, should be gravely accepted in this nineteenth century by men who are supposed to be still in the possession of sober reason, is one of the strange things which it would be impossible to believe, were it not that I have seen it with my own eyes, and which is one more proof that wonders will never cease.

From Project Gutenberg