Citations:wonder

English citations of wonder

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1678, John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
Then was Christian glad and lightsome, and said, with a merry heart, "He hath given me rest by his sorrow, and life by his death." Then he stood still awhile to look and wonder; for it was very surprising to him, that the sight of the cross should thus ease him of his burden.

Tell me now, what you have met with in the way as you came; for I know you have met with some things, or else it may be writ for a wonder.

Now did Faithful begin to wonder; and stepping to Christian, (for he walked all this while by himself), he said to him, (but softly), What a brave companion have we got!
1843, Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
But finding that he turned uncomfortably cold when he began to wonder which of his curtains this new spectre would draw back, he put them every one aside with his own hands; and lying down again, established a sharp look-out all round the bed.

"Spirit," said Scrooge, after a moment's thought, "I wonder you, of all the beings in the many worlds about us, should desire to cramp these people's opportunities of innocent enjoyment."

2009, Christian Langston Davidson, Kernels of Corn, T.E.D. Ministries Press (→ISBN):
Perhaps some or many of you may be wondering that question.
2016, Victoria Hegner, Peter Jan Margry, Spiritualizing the City: Agency and Resilience of the Urban and Urbanesque Habitat, Routledge (→ISBN):
To the question of why their parish was “saved,” one parish leader in his mid-sixties expressed:
That's a really good question, because we've been wondering that question a lot. We're a very vibrant, ministry-oriented parish.
2017, Soneakqua J. White, A Time to Heal (→ISBN):
I had been wondering that question since they first began to talk from their own perspectives.
2017, Charles Spellmann, Jesus the 15th Messiah (→ISBN):
Sarn had not wondered that question in a long time, probably since he was a kid.