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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
marvel .
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Examples
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Yonder he goeth, said a knight, he with the black face; he is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.
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Balin and Balan fought together the marvellest battle that ever was heard of, and how they were buried both in one tomb.
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I may well be pensive, said the king, for I have seen the marvellest sight that ever I saw.
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This change at which thou marvellest is no work of mine, but was wrought by Athene, daughter of Zeus.
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Aye, even thyself thou marvellest, methinks, nor any more does this grove know me for Aeetes 'daughter.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Soon after this was done Merlin came to King Arthur and told him of the dolorous stroke that Balin gave to King Pellam, and how Balin and Balan fought together the marvellest battle that ever was heard of, and how they were buried both in one tomb.
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I may well be pensive, said the king, for I have seen the marvellest sight that ever I saw.
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Yonder he goeth, said a knight, he with the black face; he is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.
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But if thou marvellest how it is possible for one that hath nothing to have all things, let us bring forth this man himself into the midst, who commanded the world and was lord not only of their substance, but of their very eyes even.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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And why marvellest thou that the people any where utter aught with the priest, when indeed even with the very Cherubim, and the powers above, they send up in common those sacred hymns?
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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