"Wonders" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with wonders fraught That triumph over time and space; In woven steel its dreams are wrought, The ...
— The Hudson - Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention • Wallace Bruce
... "Look here, how the arm bends, and the wrist! I believe I could make its fingers close on mine," he continued, stepping back—evidently afraid of the remains which lay before him. "If I was sure now, that it was not Stephen or Nan ... But the peat water does wonders, they say, ...
— The Settlers at Home • Harriet Martineau
... names His disciples. When He does, there is a deep cadence of affection in the designation. This man was one of the first disciples, the little original band called by Christ Himself, and thus had been with Him all the time of His ministry, and the Master wonders with a gentle wonder that, before eyes that loved Him as much as Philip's did, His continual self-revelation had been made to so little purpose. In the answer, in its first portion, there lies the ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren
... Bohemia. Moreover, it was even hinted (but this was a greater mystery than all the rest) that a certain performance, called the "Monk," in three neat volumes, had been seen by a prying eye, in the right-hand drawer of the Indian cabinet of Lady Ratcliff's dressing-room. Thus predisposed for wonders and signs, Lady Ratcliff and her nymphs drew their chairs round a large blazing wood-fire, and arranged themselves to listen to the tale. To that fire I also approached, moved thereunto partly by the inclemency of the season, and partly that my deafness, ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... tip of his nose he perceived smell; on the tip of his tongue he realized taste, on the root of his tongue he knew sound, and so forth. He practiced the eighty-four Asana or postures, raising his hand to the wonders of the heavens, till he felt no longer the inconveniences of heat or cold, hunger or thirst. He particularly preferred the Padma or lotus-posture, which consists of bringing the feet to the sides, holding the right in the left hand and the left in the right. In ...
— Vikram and the Vampire • Sir Richard F. Burton
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