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  • Ten years later, he has a new book out, called The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • The book fully titled The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; vol.

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  • The book fully titled The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; vol.

    Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation; vol. 1: The Pox Party 2006

  • "Astonishing," "preposterous," "deceptive" and, finally, that cruelest of jurisprudential epithets, "bad law" were among the phrases he used last week to describe the work of his colleagues on the court.

    Tacking Toward Moderation 2008

  • "Astonishing," Volrath echoed, his hand lunging like a cobra and gripping the Kyren's bowed head.

    Mercadian Masques Lebaron, Francis 1999

  • And there he remained so long, saying "Astonishing" at intervals, so often, that I began to think his senses were never coming back.

    Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861

  • And there he remained so long saying, "Astonishing" at intervals, so often, that I began to think his senses were never coming back.

    Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1841

  • "Astonishing," says Mr. Ashmun, "that in this atmosphere there should exist causes, so universal in their operation, as, amongst all the varieties of age, sex, and habit, not to leave one in the whole number without disease, and that in less than four weeks."

    Biography of Elder Lott Cary, Late Missionary to Africa. With an Appendix on the Subject of Colonization, by J.H.B. Latrobe 1837

  • "Astonishing," he judged the painting, for "the sense it gives us as of assimilated secrets and of instinct and knowledge playing together."

    NYT > Home Page By MEGAN MARSHALL 2011

  • 'Astonishing' verdict in Italy conflicts with European law, claims Google

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