wonderment

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He is the man who discovered the other chap, and I'm sure he would like to hear your story Dempsey was accordingly summoned, and his wonderment was as great as his friend's had been Now," said Gregory, when Dempsey had been made familiar with the other's story, "what is it you want to know about the man we picked up?

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  1. noun Astonishment, awe, or surprise.
  2. noun Something that produces wonder; a marvel.
  3. noun Puzzlement or curiosity.

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  • As he was looking at it in wonderment, there was another undoubted chuckle from Morgridge Klaus. —  Seven Little People and their Friends
  • But soon recovering from her wonderment, the gipsy soundly boxed the dwarf's ears, recovered her spoon and set herself once more to stirring the contents of the pot The jester observed her for a moment--the heavy, bare arm moving round and round over the kettle; her sunburnt legs uncovered to the knee; the masculine attitude of her figure with the torn and worn garments that covered her--and she seemed to him a veritable trull of disorder and squalor. —  Under the Rose
  • 'Twas for me to dismiss my wonderment, and not strive to reconcile my neighbor's affairs. —  Under the Rose
  • He gazed at us all in wonderment, and, overcome by mingled shame and exhaustion, I sank into a chair and popped no more Ah, Mr. Snapper," said Mr. Klick, "we were just trying to get this young gentleman amused Mr. Snapper, who, I should imagine, was the adenoid victim, looked first at me and next at Timothy, and then blew his nose vigorously. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25
  • Gom dis vays Still in growing wonderment, and feeling on the whole that I should have been much better satisfied if I had had with me the brace of revolvers I had bought that morning, I followed the man down the companion-ladder CHAPTER XV The paddles had already begun to churn in the water, and the vessel to move slowly, but with a swift vibration in every plank of her which promised speed when once she had gathered way. —  In Direst Peril
 

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