Citations:astonish

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English citations of astonish

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  • 1814, The Protestant advocate: or, A review of publications relating to the Roman catholic question, and repertory of Protestant intelligence, page 97
    It may astonish some who are unacquainted with the evasions of this sect, that people who pretend to lead the rest of mankind into the paths of rectitude and truth...
  • 1843Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
    If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son's weak mind.