Since this book was written I have received some very remarkable News from The Land of Oz, which has greatlyastonished me.

"In fact, I wasastonished that, with your eminence's excellent memory," replied Athos, smiling, "you had not recognized me before."

(as he afterwards told me) that I must be a YAHOO; but my teachableness, civility, and cleanliness,astonished him; which were qualities altogether opposite to those animals.

The father was muchastonished when he saw a stranger riding his horse, but the Hazel-nut child climbed down quickly and told him all that had happened, and his father had the robber arrested at once and put into prison.

I was muchastonished, but the fairy who reappeared said to me,

The King seemedastonished. "Speak out, sir!" he commanded.

He sometimes talked in a way thatastonished her at first and brought the crimson into her face; in a way that pleased her at last, appealing to the animalism that stirred impatiently within her.

it's natural enough that they should beastonished," said the doctor.

There they at last stood still beside one another; all of them old people, but with comforted, brave hearts, andastonished in themselves that it was so well with them on earth; the mystery of the night, however, came nigher and nigher to their hearts.

One Evening in December as my Father, my Mother and myself, were arranged in social converse round our Fireside, we were on a sudden greatlyastonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward door of our rustic Cot.

But before she was half way upstairs she heard the parlour door open, and, turning round, wasastonished to see Edward himself come out.

Carton, still drinking the punch, rejoined, "Why should I beastonished?"