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.

After the event, four out of six Goodwin children began to experience strange fits or what some people referred to as " the disease of astonishment ".

There was much astonishment at the emperor's unexpected choice, but the people of Constantinople were delighted at the news as was the whole council.

It was computed that about 700 people were drawn in this train, a number which created the greatest astonishment .".

One justification for the expensive parade dresses of the Guard was that they would " lead the people of the conquered nations to regard the French uniforms with unreserved astonishment ".

Edward Irving, a minister in the Church of Scotland, writes of a woman who would " speak at great length, and with superhuman strength, in an unknown tongue, to the great astonishment of all who heard, and to her own great edification and enjoyment in God ".

: 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.

The Ego of genius is the truth, if not in the sense in which Kierkegaard would have us understand his proposition, " Subjectivity is the truth ", still in the sense that the Ego has every externally valid commandment and prohibition in its power ; and, to the astonishment and scandal of the world, invariably expresses itself in paradoxes.

to which accounts they would listen with great attention – and express much astonishment.

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.

One colonel suggested that Major-General Augustin Ndindiliyimana, chief of the staff of the National Gendarmerie, would be a more appropriate choice, but Ndindiliyimana declined to take responsibility, to the astonishment of some officers.

When Joseph Cotten read the names of the next week's cast, he supposedly said, with a mixture of shock and astonishment, that listeners would hear " that new, talented personality ... Sonny Tufts?!

to which accounts they would listen with great attention – and express much astonishment.

), would be annexed by Britain, an announcement received by Kruger with the greatest astonishment and regret.

Humphrey Lyttelton is among those who have testified to the fact that fame and success sat easily on his shoulders, and reports that he would show genuinely astonishment when Lyttelton would confess, as well as other prominent musicians, to Gonella having been his first jazz hero.

During their highly emotional conversation Bethmann Hollweg expressed astonishment that the British would go to war with Germany over the 1839 treaty guaranteeing the neutrality of Belgium, referring to the treaty as a " scrap of paper " compared to the " fearful fact of Anglo-German war.

Meanwhile, pro-lifers had condemned the killing of Tiller that inspired the episode, but praised the episode for being " outright pro-life ", with Dave Andrusko of the National Right to Life Committee saying, " t occurred to me as I listened in utter astonishment that each of these observations could have been presented in a way that was artificial, forced, or ( as so often is the case with network portraits of pro-lifers ) something that you would expect from an idiot.

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.

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 .’

:" 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.

When he met her many years later, to his astonishment she was the same person in the dream.

To their astonishment, however, the bard raised himself up, and, smiling at their inexperienced efforts, pointed out how the ideas might be improved and the verses made to run in another and smoother form, at the same time giving an illustration in a few original measures of his own.

Some Anglicans were more in favour, and Huxley reported of Kingsley that " He is an excellent Darwinian to begin with, and told me a capital story of his reply to Lady Aylesbury who expressed astonishment at his favouring such a heresy – ' What can be more delightful to me Lady Aylesbury, than to know that your Ladyship & myself sprang from the same toad stool.

During 1997, to their surprise and astonishment, they encountered the True Jesus Church building in Pammal which also had the Tamil equivalent of the church inscribed on the signboard ( உண ் ம ை ய ா ன இய ே ச ு த ே வ ா லயம ்)-this Tamil name of the True Jesus Church turned out to be the exactly the same Tamil name of the True Jesus Mission as well!

From 2007-2009, an expert from Cornell University did an experiment listening in on the acoustics of the Harbor Estuary, where, to the astonishment of many, he discovered at least six species of whale singing to each other ... less than 20 miles from where the Statue of Liberty stands, just past the Verrazano Bridge where the water gets deeper.

To their astonishment each and every coconut in the sack had horns!

Begging my pardon, he must express his astonishment over seeing a person of my background applying at the hall.

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

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.

While he is worldly, the musician often cultivates public attitudes of childlike astonishment and naivete.

One day, to everyone's astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.

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

`` A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment '', he says.

* A prayer for future prosperity ( 7: 14 – 17 ): The mood switches from a request for power to grateful astonishment at God's mercy.

The young Gauss reputedly produced the correct answer within seconds, to the astonishment of his teacher and his assistant Martin Bartels.

To my astonishment, my publisher informed me that certain words, phrases, sentences, and even passages, are at present taboo in England.

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.

Several Berlin Jewish businessmen who did business with Ribbentrop in the 1920s and knew him well later expressed astonishment at the vicious anti-Semitism Ribbentrop later displayed in the Third Reich, saying that they did not see any indications that he had held such views when they knew him.

To widespread astonishment, Nobel's last will specified that his fortune be used to create a series of prizes for those who confer the " greatest benefit on mankind " in physics, chemistry, peace, physiology or medicine, and literature.

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.

... great astonishment in the Roman, Italian and international press.

The visitor without any ceremony whatever turned the crank, and to the astonishment of all present the machine said: " Good morning.

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

Ruby is said to follow the principle of least astonishment ( POLA ), meaning that the language should behave in such a way as to minimize confusion for experienced users.

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

Breaking with two centuries of Ottoman tradition, a former concubine had thus become the legal wife of the Sultan, much to the astonishment of observers in the palace and the city.

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.

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.

One British observer wrote, " To the astonishment of the whole fleet, the French center were permitted without molestation to bear down to support their van.

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