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  • All this while Hester had been looking steadily at the old man, and was shocked, as well as wonder-smitten, to discern what a change had been wrought upon him within the past seven years.

    The Scarlet Letter 2002

  • All this while Hester had been looking steadily at the old man, and was shocked, as well as wonder-smitten, to discern what a change had been wrought upon him within the past seven years.

    XIV. Hester and the Physician 1917

  • Seaborn, Nereids eyeing the prodigy wonder-smitten.

    The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

  • All this while Hester had been looking steadily at the old man, and was shocked, as well as wonder-smitten, to discern what a change had been wrought upon him within the past seven years.

    The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • He carelessly lifted his club, and balanced it in his hand, measuring Antaeus with his eye, from head to foot, not as if wonder-smitten at his stature, but as if he had seen a great many Giants before, and this was by no means the biggest of them.

    Tanglewood Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • All this while, Hester had been looking steadily at the old man, and was shocked, as well as wonder-smitten, to discern what a change had been wrought upon him within the past seven years.

    The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

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