At the end of 68, Galba, to the general astonishment, selected him to command the army of Germania Inferior, and here Vitellius made himself popular with his subalterns and with the soldiers by outrageous prodigality and excessive good nature, which soon proved fatal to order and discipline.

I must be informed that one of my great duties was to obey the priests in all things ; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.

That he overcame the difficulty — that, soon after, we find him travelling about England as member of an amateur dramatic company — that he undertook all sorts of public engagements and often devoted himself to private festivity — Dombey going on the while, from month to month — is matter enough for astonishment to those who know anything about artistic production.

His preaching was received with astonishment and acclamation by his hearers, and many were soon converted to the Reformed Faith, among them both Viret's parents.

Tony stops her and much to Kit's astonishment, Tony then confesses he never called them but soon will after she has been thrown from the terrace and killed " fighting off the intruder ".

:" The King of England was struck with great astonishment, and wondered what alliance could mean, and, taking precautions for the future, frequently sent messengers into France for the purpose of recalling his son Richard ; who, pretending that he was peaceably inclined and ready to come to his father, made his way to Chinon, and, in spite of the person who had the custody thereof, carried off the greater part of his father's treasures, and fortified his castles in Poitou with the same, refusing to go to his father.

How can I describe my astonishment and admiration on seeing my esteemed correspondent M leBlanc metamorphosed into this celebrated person.

As the Doctor, he ventured into a furniture store seeking a replacement TARDIS, entering one wardrobe and re-emerging from another ( to the astonishment of the shop clerk ).

They're like jewelled self-dribbling basketballs and there are many of them and they come pounding toward you and they will stop in front of you and vibrate, but then they do a very disconcerting thing, which is they jump into your body and then they jump back out again and the whole thing is going on in a high-speed mode where you're being presented with thousands of details per second and you can't get a hold on ... and these things are saying " Don't give in to astonishment ", which is exactly what you want to do.

Surveyors quickly encountered problems, however, when they discovered the land selected for the new settlement still inhabited by Māori, who expressed astonishment and bewilderment to find Pākehā tramping through their homes, gardens and cemeteries and driving wooden survey pegs into the ground.

Once he manages to distract Watson's attention for a few seconds ( making Watson turn to his bookshelf to see if there is enough room to fit some books ), he transforms himself into Sherlock Holmes, much to Watson's great astonishment when he turns back round.

A man of true brightness and purity who can enter into simplicity, who can return to the primitive through inaction, give body to his inborn nature, and embrace his spirit, and in this way wander through the everyday world – if you had met one like that, you would have had real cause for astonishment.

Just before the visitors left, he fainted from lack of air and fell into the room, to the utter astonishment of the Germans.

Blackstone lowered the cage and then seemed to toss it into the air: bird and cage " disappearing " in the process to the astonishment and delight of the surprised children.

The weather was fine at about 14: 00 on 23 November 1785 when The Daredevil Aeronaut ' ascended into the atmosphere with majestic grandeur, to the astonishment and admiration of the spectators ' from St. Andrew's Square in Glasgow.

Dorgan is generally credited with either creating or popularizing such words and expressions as " dumbbell " ( a stupid person ); " for crying out loud " ( an exclamation of astonishment ); " cat's meow " and " cat's pajamas " ( as superlatives ); " applesauce " ( nonsense ); " cheaters '" ( eyeglasses ); " skimmer " ( a hat ); " hard-boiled " ( a tough person ); " drugstore cowboy " ( loafers or ladies ' men ); " nickel-nurser " ( a miser ); " as busy as a one-armed paperhanger " ( overworked ); and " Yes, we have no bananas ," which was turned into a popular song.

After tapping thus a wellspring of astonishment, Mr Howe turned the emotion dextrously into profound sympathy by explaining that it was the thought of the little girl which prompted Unger to conceal a deed done in the heat of passion.

To the emperor's astonishment, none other than Corocotta himself walked into the Roman camp, presenting himself and demanding the reward.

Eddie Cochran and fellow Texan Buddy Holly — both of whom Orbison had previously toured with — had died, to Orbison's deep astonishment.

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.

On November 3, 1805, William Clark wrote: " I arrived at the entrance of a river which appeared to Scatter over a Sand bar, the bottom of which I could See quite across and did not appear to be 4 Inches deep in any part ; I attempted to wade this Stream and to my astonishment found the bottom a quick Sand, and impassable ... ".

To everyone's astonishment he seemed no more like the run-of-the-mine Russian ambassador than George Babbitt was like Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov.

In 1929, Ivens went to the Soviet Union and, to his astonishment, was invited to direct a film on a topic of his own choosing which was the new industrial city of Magnitogorsk.

Benjamin Jowett ), a view which is echoed by Aristotle in his Metaphysics 982b12: " It was their wonder, astonishment, that first led men to philosophize and still leads them.

Beeckman had proposed a difficult mathematical problem, and to his astonishment, it was the young Descartes who found the solution.

Expected to make use of devices with which listeners could press a button to indicate whether they liked or disliked a particular piece of music, Adorno bristled with distaste and astonishment: “ I reflected that culture was simply the condition that precluded a mentality that tried to measure it .” Thus Adorno suggested using individual interviews to determine listener reactions and, only three months after meeting Lasarzfeld, completed a 160-page memorandum on the Project ’ s topic, “ Music in Radio .” Adorno was primarily interested in how the musical material was affected by its distribution through the medium of radio and thought it imperative to understand how music was affected by its becoming part of daily life.

She is credited with introducing the fork to Western Europe-chronographers mention the astonishment she caused when she " used a golden double prong to bring food to her mouth " instead of using her hands as was the norm.

It was held in total secrecy late on a Saturday evening to the astonishment of Orlando's secretary.

At the age of sixteen, Saint-Saëns wrote his first symphony ; his second, published as Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, was performed in 1853 to the astonishment of many critics and fellow composers.

[...] What will be your Lordships astonishment when I tell you that an act passed for the express purpose of gratifying the Canadians & which was supposed to comprehend all that they either wished or wanted is become the first object of their discontent & dislike.

The ancient historian Cassius Dio writes that Berenice was at the height of her power during this time, and if it can be any indication as to how influential she was, Quintilian records an anecdote in his Institutio Oratoria where, to his astonishment, he found himself pleading a case on Berenice's behalf where she herself presided as the judge.

When the ploughman was surprised at seeing him, and in his astonishment made a great outcry, a number of people assembled around him, and before long all the Etrurians came together at the spot.

Whenever and wherever Eudocia needed to express greatness, pain, truthfulness, deceit, beauty, suffering, mourning, recognition, understanding, fear, or astonishment, there was an apt Homeric line or passage ready in her memory to be recalled.

This night I was invited by Mr. Rog: L ' Estrange to the incomperable Lubicer on the Violin, his variety upon a few notes & plaine ground with that dexterity, as was admirable, & though a very young man, yet so perfect & skillful as there was nothing so crosse & perplext, which being by our Artists, brought to him, which he did not at first sight, with ravishing sweetenesse & improvements, play off, to the astonishment of our best Masters: In Summ, he plaid on that single Instrument a full Consort, so as the rest, flung-downe their Instruments, as acknowledging a victory.

: To my utter astonishment Arthur Coles, after the expected pep-talk about the DC-4 assignment, said he was relying on me to find out what new equipment was being developed that would enable us to offer our passengers a better product than our established rival, at a competitive price.

Spedding's initial reaction was " speechless astonishment ;" but on later occasions he clearly expressed his disfavor of the Baconian hypothesis, and explained some of the common-sense reasons against it.

Archeologist Sepeti Matararaba of the Fiji Museum expressed astonishment at some of the discoveries at the site, which included an iron axe used by white traders in exchange for Fijian artifacts.

In political, casual, or even humorous contexts, " coming out " means by extension the self-disclosure of a person's secret behaviors, beliefs, affiliations, tastes, and interests that may cause astonishment or bring shame.

Soon, he is extolling the superiority of French cyclists and culture, and the film ends with him greeting his father by saying, " Bonjour, Papa ," much to his father's astonishment.

He is a talented singer and guitar player ( as Head is in real life ) which the gang discovered, to their astonishment, when they saw him singing " Behind Blue Eyes " by The Who in " Where the Wild Things Are ".

Their bicycles caused no little astonishment on the way, and the remarks passed by the natives were almost amusing.

Aristotle praised Euripides, however, for generally ending his plays with bad fortune, which he viewed as correct in tragedy, and somewhat excused the intervention of a deity by suggesting that " astonishment " should be sought in tragic drama:

Hunyadi's engagement at the Iron Gates is one of Hungary's more celebrated victories, Hunyadi's maneuvers of infantry, cavalry and war wagons performed superbly to the astonishment of the Turkish commander Sehabbedin, who was astounded by the smallness of the Magyar army.

The word countach ( pronounced ) is an exclamation of astonishment in the local Piedmontese language — generally used by men on seeing an extremely beautiful woman.

On April 9, 1937 the Kamikaze, a Mitsubishi aircraft sponsored by the Asahi Shimbun company and flown by Masaaki Iinuma, arrived in London, to the astonishment of the Western world.

To everyone's astonishment, the famous Vittorio Vidal is accompanied by the unknown Charity.

The king expresses his astonishment at this exordium, which seems to him incoherent ; but the Jew replies that the existence of God, the creation of the world, etc., being taught by religion, do not need any speculative demonstrations.

Though Hofmann's " discoveries " of important Mormon documents often appeared to bolster the Tanners ' own arguments, Jerald had, by early 1984, concluded there was significant doubt as to the Salamander Letter's authenticity, and " to the astonishment of a community of scholars, historians and students, published an attack on the so-called Salamander Letter.

The lithographs were hand coloured, and writing the introduction for the work Gould states ‘ every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand ; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought .’

Suddenly, to everyone's astonishment, the grand jury testimony was sealed from the public by Judge Mitchell Schweitzer, for reasons that to this day are still not clear.

It tells of the author's astonishment at reading the works of the ancient Greek poet Homer as freely translated by the Elizabethan playwright George Chapman.

At the next obedience class, Michelangelo leaves everyone in astonishment, by finishing the entire new obstacle course, while the sergeant is announcing about the course.