As a poet Van Doorn called himself Johnny the Selfkicker, a nickname he has proven to be worthy of by means of wild, often haphazard performances, during which he never failed to work himself into a frenzy, which often resulted in him collapsing right in front of an astonished audience, say, in the middle of a large retail outlet.

An astonished Oval crowd fell silent, struggling to believe that England could possibly have lost to a colony.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

In 1899 he astonished Widor by explaining figures and motifs in Bach's Chorale Preludes as painter-like tonal and rhythmic imagery illustrating themes from the words of the hymns on which they were based.

However, when observing the native bees in the Canterbury province in the South Island, the scientists were astonished to see the bees biting the top off the buds, then pushing with their legs, occasionally popping open the buds to allow the bees to harvest the nectar and pollen, and therefore aid in the pollination of the mistletoe which is in decline in New Zealand.

According to Wullschlager, " he speed with which France collapsed astonished everyone: the French army, with British support, capitulated even more quickly than Poland had done " a year earlier, even though Poland had been attacked by both Germany and the Soviet Union.

Returning after nine days, Agelaus was astonished to find the child still alive, and brought him home in a backpack ( πήρα, hence Paris's name, which means " backpack ") to rear as his own.

In May 1861 Bizet gave a rare demonstration of his virtuoso skills when, at a dinner party at which Liszt was present, he astonished everyone by playing on sight, flawlessly, one of the maestro's most difficult pieces.

Because of the recent invention of the cast plate glass method in 1848, which allowed for large sheets of cheap but strong glass, it was at the time the largest amount of glass ever seen in a building and astonished visitors with its clear walls and ceilings that did not require interior lights, thus a " Crystal Palace ".

Pulcheria had heard about this young girl, who had only 100 coins to her name, and when she met her she was " astonished at her beauty and at the intelligence and sophistication with which she presented her grievance.

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.

They went to the deaths bravely singing Aleinu to a " soul-stirring " melody, which astonished their executioners.

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.

Here the " red-coats " made their first appearance on a continental battlefield, under the leadership of Sir William Lockhart, Cromwell's ambassador at Paris, and astonished both armies by the stubborn fierceness of their assaults, for they were the products of the English Civil War, where passions ran higher and the determination to win rested on deeper foundations than in the deterioration of the feudal spirit in which they now figured after decades of war had sapped the main parties of all belief.

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.

Eventually, he visits the survivors of his original crew in Yedo, and is so astonished at how far he has ventured from the standard European way of life ( which he now sees to be filthy, vulgar, and ignorant ) and is disgusted by them.

On the positive side, Marti was astonished by the " inviolable right of freedom of speech which all U. S. citizens possessed ".

By the adoption of a regular system of work, and a careful plan of reduction, he was able to keep his observations up to date, and published them annually with a punctuality which astonished his contemporaries.

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.

Japp and Hastings are also generally astonished to find that Poirot cannot understand anything typically English ( like cricket, which he maintains is utter nonsense ).

Talking of his home life, he continues " I'm astonished to think that, apart from some Catholic Truth Society pamphlets, some books on saints, there were, essentially, no books in the house, except one set, the Junior World Encyclopaedia, which I certainly read again and again.

He learned the rudiments of Latin at the grammar school of Montrose, after leaving which he learned Greek for two years under Pierre de Marsilliers, a Frenchman whom John Erskine of Dun had persuaded to settle at Montrose ; such was Melville's proficiency that on going to the University of St Andrews he astonished the professors by using the Greek text of Aristotle, which no one else there understood.

A more mythological version is the one in which Boris is astonished and frightened by an icon of Judgement day and thus decides to adopt Christianity.

The manner in which she acquitted herself astonished all present, and greatly increased her reputation.

In Marcus's time chemists were astonished at the slow rate in which this specific reaction took place.

Thing astonished the Champion with his resilence and courage, leading the Champion to say Thing was the opponent he had sought through the ages, the one who would require all of his might and skill.

" Cimrman replied: " Dear Mr. Durman, the theatre is here mainly so that the spectator shall be astonished.

: I'm astonished, wall, that you haven't collapsed into ruins,

Another variant of the scam, dating back to circa 1830, appears very similar to what is passed via email today: "' Sir, you will be doubtlessly be astonished to be receiving a letter from a person unknown to you, who is about to ask a favour from you.

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 ".

' 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.

: " As you play the game, you will be astonished at its almost supernatural resemblance to actual racing.

: Interlocutor: I'm astonished at you, Why, the idea of a man of your mental calibre talking about such sordid matters, right after listening to such a beautiful song!

" I'm as astonished as you are ," he claims.

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.

I ’ d rather leave the big decisions up to you .’ I was astonished at myself.

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

: Allen: ( astonished ) You drank two buckets of hot mint julep and you still held the floor?

( 4 ) And if you are astonished, Muúammad-then astonishing is their saying, " When we are dust, will we indeed be into a new creation?

I am astonished that you should have applied to me.

Having noted my obstinate silence, Hubert was astonished and shocked that such a ticking off was being given to a man who had already written a great deal and given a course in free composition at the Conservatory, that such a contemptuous judgment without appeal was pronounced over him, such a judgment as you would not pronounce over a pupil with the slightest talent who had neglected some of his tasks — then he began to explain N. G.