Arriving in pursuit of her daughter, Lady Bracknell is astonished to be told that Algernon and Cecily are engaged.

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

Czech Franciscan Remedius Prutky asked Emperor Iyasu II about this identification in 1751, and Prutky states that the man was " astonished, and told me that the kings of Abyssinia had never been accustomed to call themselves by this name.

He said he was astonished by what the villagers told him.

' 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.

General von Vormann, who commanded the relief attempt of the XXXXVII Panzer Corps, bitterly noted that " The troops who took part were astonished and unbelieving when they were told they had won a great victory at Cherkassy in the Ukraine in 1944.

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

Moses was astonished at the possibilities and told Walt that he had to have this figure at the Fair.

In the 1998 – 99 season, FK Blšany astonished the Czech Republic and achieved 6th place.

The Indian was again raising his bottle, but to my astonished relief -- probably only a fraction of Johnson's -- the bottle this time went to the Indian's lips.

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

The Frenchman was astonished.

Amalric had an enormous curiosity, and William was reportedly astonished to find Amalric questioning, during an illness, the resurrection of the body.

He was astonished at the numbers of Russians who knew of his work.

Nebuchadnezzar, who had made a drinking-cup from the skull of a murdered Jew, was greatly astonished when, at the moment that the three men were cast into the furnace, the bodies of the dead boys moved, and, striking him in the face, cried out: " The companion of these three men revives the dead!

Luther's appearance was hailed by the Utraquist clergy, and Martin Luther himself was astonished to find so many points of agreement between the doctrines of Huss and his own.

Among the Turks and Mongols, he was astonished at the way women behaved, remarking that on seeing a Turkish couple, and noting the woman's freedom of speech, he had assumed that the man was the woman's servant, but he was in fact her husband.

In 1888, Nobel was astonished to read his own obituary, titled The merchant of death is dead, in a French newspaper.

Everybody was astonished.

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

He was astonished to find he was as popular there as he had been in 1964 ; he was forced to stay in his hotel room because he was mobbed on the streets of Sofia.

Later, when he screened the printed footage of the street traffic, he was astonished to see an omnibus suddenly turn into a hearse.

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.

Schoen said, " The entire room was astonished to see this short little man with a big chest walk in and listen to our session.

A colleague was astonished to discover that Falcone, who had no computers at his disposal, was personally recording the details listed on printouts of transactions that he had requisitioned from every bank in Palermo province.

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 ".

Rupert at the very last moment decided to invert his squadron order, hereby causing such a chaos in the Allied fleet, that the Dutch and French were too astonished to fully commit themselves to the fight.

This incredible growth reportedly so astonished his parents that they forbade him from doing chores around the house, fearing that his body would be too fragile.

He, too, was astonished by the fantastic array of wildlife and the contrast between the arid areas of the dry-lake bed and the oasis of the swamps, a contrast that persists today.

Lestrade, and Watson too, are also quite astonished at what happens next: the very much still living Mr. Oldacre emerges from a hidden chamber at the end of a hallway — where Holmes has deduced it must be — and runs to escape the fire.

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

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 .".

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

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 ".

Meanwhile, having retreated to the island of Lobau after the battle of Aspern-Essling, Napoleon knew that he had failed in his attempt to cross the Danube and was so astonished by the severity of the setback that he remained in uncostumary inaction for 36 hours.

The 1860s " colored " troupes violated this convention for a time: the comedy-oriented endmen " corked up ", but the other performers " astonished " commentators by the diversity of their hues.

Upon their return to civilization on July 28, they were astonished to find that they had been given up for dead.

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.

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.

Young Kamal Haasan strode up the stairway to ask the noisemaker not to shout over the phone as someone was ill, leaving the person astonished.

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.

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

Thus, Tibetologists were astonished when fieldwork turned up several active Jonangpa monasteries, including the main monastery called Tsangwa located in Occupied Tibet, Dzamthang County.

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

Monty explains this all to the astonished orphans and tears Stephano's ticket to Peru up, saying that Stephano will not be going on the trip with them.

For the video, he created five, 12-inch-high Spice Girl tin puppets with wings who coax one of two astonished real-life teens into growing up, and took five months to make, considerably longer than it took to make Spiceworld: The Movie.

The young Kamal Haasan strode up the stairway to ask the noisemaker not to shout over the phone as someone was ill, leaving the person astonished.

[...] And after wee were returned to our ships, their Captaine clad with an old Beares skin, with three of his sonnes, and a brother of his with him, came unto us in one of their boates, but they came not so neere us as they were wont to doe: there he made a long Oration unto us, shewing us the crosse we had set up, and making a crosse with two fingers, then did he shew us all the Countrey about us, [...] One * of our fellowes that was in our boate, tooke hold on theirs, and suddenly leapt into it, with two or three more, who enforced them to enter into our ships, whereat they were greatly astonished.

The four again meet up with Wendel Maculatum, who is astonished to see that Ysabelle is alive.

" The creature or spirit in him had spoken up, having all along had the words in there that would betray him and which, when they came hooting out of his mouth, so astonished him: Do not shoot.

Philippe Brunel wrote in L ' Equipe that at the end of his long ride to Agen in 1951, " followers were astonished to see him sit up, blow kisses to girls and take out of his pocket a sponge soaked in water.