His appearance astonished the spectators, and Sports Illustrated wrote that " his celebrated stride was unmistakable to the crowd.

" He asked her to sing something for him, and she responded with an impressive rendition of a local salsa hit that left both the producer and the crowd astonished.

Columnist Avelino de Almeida of O Século ( Portugal's most influential newspaper, which was pro-government in policy and avowedly anti-clerical ), reported the following: " Before the astonished eyes of the crowd, whose aspect was biblical as they stood bare-headed, eagerly searching the sky, the sun trembled, made sudden incredible movements outside all cosmic laws-the sun ' danced ' according to the typical expression of the people.

She was publicly stoned to death by the astonished crowd, and according to the legend, removed from the Vatican archives.

Ashley astonished the crowd with his disc-catching, as he ran up to and leaped in the air to snag the disc.

After nearly drinking melted candle wax, Homer decides to coat his mouth with melted wax, enabling him to eat several of the peppers, leaving Wiggum and the crowd astonished.

The astonished crowd fell silent, not believing that England could possibly have lost by 7 runs.

The proceedings were then disrupted when a youngster " raced across the newly-opened bridge before the Governor's procession " on horseback after announcing the following to the astonished crowd:

The Judges were so astonished at the verdict of the jury that they had to repeat their question before they would believe their ears, but the public which crowded the judgment hall, on the announcement of the verdict, broke out into cheers so loud and long as, according to the unanimous testimony of contemporary reporters, had never before been heard in the Guildhall.

That physician, amazed that Edgar had lived so long and was in such ( relatively ) good shape, almost immediately informed the astonished Edgar that he had diabetes and that the doctor could not believe he had not been blind or sight-impaired for years.

The battle on 14 June 1658 which resulted from this manoeuvre, became known in England as the Battle of the Dunes because the red-coats of the New Model Army under the leadership of Sir William Lockhart, Cromwell's ambassador at Paris, in Turenne's army astonished both armies by the stubborn fierceness of their assaults particularly with a successful assault up a sand-hill high and strongly defended by Spanish veterans.

One of football's most famous photographs shows the elation on the England bench as the final whistle was blown, except for Greaves, in his suit and tie, looking astonished at what had happened.

The judgment of Severus himself is no doubt that which he puts in the mouth of his interlocutor Posthumianus: " I am astonished that one and the same man could have so far differed from himself that in the approved portion of his works he has no equal since the apostles, while in that portion for which he is justly blamed it is proved that no man has committed more unseemly errors.

The Nga Puhi were astonished that the British could keep an army of nearly 1000 soldiers in the field continuously.

An astonished Van Dyke protested that he could not dance, to which Champion replied " We'll teach you ".

When he appears unharmed, an astonished Superman exclaims " I-I thought I was the only man who could fly !!

* The Alpine Fortress " grew into so exaggerated a scheme that I am astonished we could have believed it as innocently as we did.

Rubinstein was astonished, saying " I could never play that ... never at that tempo.

The painter entered the cave but the entrance closed behind him, and before the astonished emperor could move or utter a word, the painting had vanished from the wall.

Kirk is astonished that another planet could independently develop a culture so similar to one that once existed on Earth, Spock agreeing the odds of it happening naturally are virtually impossible.

He cited it as a classic case of false memory and said that he had been repeating the anecdote as his own in many speeches over the years, adding that he was " chagrined and astonished that my mind could play such a trick on me ".

Apelles, his great rival, standing astonished in presence of one of these works, could only console himself by saying that it was wanting in charm.

Confused by the police box, Litefoot is astonished by its de-materialisation, a stunt which Jago remarks that even Li H ' sen Chang could have appreciated.

Before the astonished friend could object, Himber steered him into a clothier's shop where an exact copy of the coat was waiting-paid for ahead of time by Himber himself.

When she returns to the rowboat, she is met with astonished suspicion as few people in Connecticut could swim so well.

The folly and absurdity of the Queen in allowing this trumpery must strike every sensible and well-thinking mind, and I am astonished the ministers themselves do not insist on her at least going to Osborne during the Exhibition, as no human being can possibly answer for what may occur on the occasion.

That any sort of duty was owed by his nation to other nations would have astonished a nineteenth-century statesman.

Many a sheltered scholar would have been astonished at the Cimmerian's linguistic abilities ..." He also has incredible stamina, enabling him to go without sleep for a few days.

Laband further claims that even though these stories have been repeated by " astonished and admiring white commentators ," the Zulu army covered " no more than a day, and usually went only about .".

Heyerdahl said that when the Europeans first came to the Pacific islands, they were astonished that they found some of the natives to have relatively light skins and beards.

The Dutch nobility were astonished: even the Prince of Orange would not have dared such an outrage, Leicester was warned ; but, he wrote, he would not be intimidated by the fact that Hemart " was of a good house ".

In July, Richardson sent Hill a complete " design " of the story, and asked Hill to try again, but Hill responded, " It is impossible, after the wonders you have shown in Pamela, to question your infallible success in this new, natural, attempt " and that " you must give me leave to be astonished, when you tell me that you have finished it already ".

Segovia told the composer " You will be astonished at the success it will have ".

In the unfamiliar setting of a Presbyterian church, of all places, I had been moved to astonished tears which came from so deep inside me that to this day I have never fathomed them, I wanted to learn more about the source of those tears and the object of that astonishment.

' I have to tell you ,' said their spokesman, ' that we were astonished to find after reading all the newspapers and watching TV, that all the opinions on all the vital issues were by and large, the same.

" I was astonished, for example, at the decidedly gay atmosphere in Hanoi's Reunification Park on a Sunday afternoon [...] I honestly did not have the impression they were discussing socialism or the ' American aggressors ' [...] I saw quite a few patriotic posters crudely ' improved ' with erotic graffiti and sketches.

Waugh is said to have invented the cocktail party when he was active in London social life in the 1920s when he served rum swizzles to astonished friends who thought they had come for tea.

Our ships have gone one way, and we are much astonished to see our Father tying up everything and preparing to run the other, without letting his red children know what his intentions are ... We must compare our Father's conduct to of a fat animal that carries its tail upon its back ; but when affrighted, it drops it between its legs and runs off.

' In all my fifty years of public service ,' he told the astonished diplomats, ' I have never seen such a document that was more crowded with infamous falsehood and distortion.

As LaPlante wrote, " Her success before the court may have astonished her judges, but it was no surprise to her.

Its founders would have been astonished at its progress as BoB ’ s total business crossed 2. 09 lakh crores, its branches crossed 1000, and its global customer base exceeded 29 million people.

That neolithic people with such primitive flint tools quarried, carved, transported uphill, and erected these massive pillars has astonished the archaeological world, and must have required a staggering amount of manpower and labor.

Being unable to go there to experiment and verify the radiations of the Keops Pyramid, I have built with cardboard some pyramids that you can see now, and I was astonished when, having built a regular pyramid and oriented it, I found the positive at the East, the negative at the West, and at the North and the South, dual-positive and dual-negative.

Arlene Howell had appeared several times on 1957's western series Maverick and was a former Miss USA ; she appears to have retired from the screen after a last appearance as an understandably astonished Sergeant Carter's blind date on Gomer Pyle, U. S. M. C .. Richard Long went on to play the lead in the western series The Big Valley ( 1965-69 ) and the sitcom Nanny and the Professor ( 1970-71 ).

Dominic reportedly told his astonished fellow students: " Would you have me study off these dead skins, when men are dying of hunger?

When Chamber called on the minister to answer about the discrepancy, he declared himself " astonished " by news of the retreat, attributing it to British pressures, and indicated that " we have entered Belgium in good will ; good will is what led us to withdraw ".

Halhed's observation of Sanskrit in the preface of his book stated that he had been " astonished to find the similitude of Shanscrit words with those of Persian and Arabic, and even of Latin and Greek: and these not in technical and metaphorical terms, which the mutation of refined arts and improved manner might have occasionally introduced ; but in the main ground-work of language, in monosyllables, in the names of numbers, and the appellations of such things as would be first discriminated as the immediate dawn of civilisation.