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Astonishment, that is, that anyone would think that there was a different reality than what the inside-the-Beltway crowd had decided upon for that particular week.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [87] -- A Tale Of Two Houses 2009
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That at this sight Mrs. Markleham dropped the newspaper, and stared more like a figure – head intended for a ship to be called The Astonishment, than anything else I can think of.
David Copperfield 2007
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That at this sight Mrs. Markleham dropped the newspaper, and stared more like a figure-head intended for a ship to be called The Astonishment, than anything else I can think of.
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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That at this sight Mrs. Markleham dropped the newspaper, and stared more like a figure-head intended for a ship to be called The Astonishment, than anything else I can think of.
David Copperfield 1850
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That at this sight Mrs. Markleham dropped the newspaper, and stared more like a figure-head intended for a ship to be called The Astonishment, than anything else I can think of.
David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1841
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Astonishment, because my parents were as devoted to civil liberties as any two people could possibly be in their generation.
Eliot Daley: Same-Sex Marriage Is Not A Matter For Ballots Eliot Daley 2011
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Astonishment, because my parents were as devoted to civil liberties as any two people could possibly be in their generation.
Eliot Daley: Same-Sex Marriage Is Not A Matter For Ballots Eliot Daley 2011
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Astonishment is of all other passions the easiest raised in raw and unexperienced mankind.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011
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Astonishment is of all other passions the easiest raised in raw and unexperienced mankind.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011
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Astonishment is of all other passions the easiest raised in raw and unexperienced mankind.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011
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