Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public which is used to much political braying in the wilderness will not be surprised that Representative Crisp, of Georgia, has seen fit to introduce a bill pardoning the convicted defendants in the Massie case; but it must wonder at the state of mind which the action reflects. A pardon extended form the highest legislative body in the nation would virtually sanction the action of any person who takes the law in his own hands and commits an act of Violence. That lynching and violent personal revenge are subversive of law and order, and contrary to the spirit of modern...
...Peshawar, capital of the newly-created Governor's Province, natives gaped with wonder at the chuffing in of the glistening white Viceregal Train, prostrated themselves as Lord & Lady Willingdon alighted with the icy-smiling mien of ruling sovereigns. The natives stuck their brown fingers into their hairy ears as heavy British field guns shook the earth with a meaningful salute...
...hand when he gave her fertile eggs to sit on; the extraordinary story of Joe the gardener working himself into cancer growing flowers and turning stones to bread: such things Author Eckstein depicts with the intense exclusiveness of a Japanese print. The reader, with the Doctor, will wonder what lies beyond his pictures' boundaries -it must be a dazzling landscape in which such sparkling details live...
...evening in (or near) Boston; how anyone can succumb to the charms of Boston maidens under the bare trees of Walden Pond is beyond our comprehension; how anyone can do anything with one of those Boston maidens even if he were to succumb is still more a matter for wonder...
...native fishers, who looked on the continent as a distant planet, he was a wonder and delight. By day he would wander along the beach, picking shells and tossing pebbles in the ocean, or telling fairy tales to the children. He never worked. In the fishing boats he was an awkward hand, and let them alone, but in the pub at evening a grand man for a pot of ale and a wild story of the foreign lands. They would sit and talk about his quiet manner and his witty speech, and why, do you think, he should be coming...