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- noun Plural form of
marvel . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
marvel .
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Examples
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Freaks, a 1932 movie starring real life human marvels, is available for download at Archive. org.
‘Freaks’ (The 1932 Tod Browning Movie) at Archive.org | Disinformation 2008
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Freaks, a 1932 movie starring real life human marvels, is available for download at Archive. org.
Boing Boing 2008
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Martin marvels at the shotmaking ability of the new crop of players.
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A distorted vision of the marvels is offered us by Chateaubriand in 'Atala' and 'Les Natchez'.
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Others like Herodotus, Montaigne, Jean de Léry and Mandeville set out in search of 'marvels' - to experience the thrill of the uncanny, to listen to the cadences of barbaric tongues.
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One of the room’s marvels is how ingeniously and snugly all the specialty kitchenware is housed — the hanging copper pots, the garlic press, the mandolin, the lemon zester, the French press coffeemaker …
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One of the room’s marvels is how ingeniously and snugly all the specialty kitchenware is housed — the hanging copper pots, the garlic press, the mandolin, the lemon zester, the French press coffeemaker …
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I want to believe in marvels, even though I’m a big skeptic.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Sarah Micklem, Part Three 2006
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There is no end to the so-called marvels in these Romish churches.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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I am only expressing what has gradually grown into belief in my mind through reading with Angus ancient books and modern ones -- books about faiths and religions, books about philosophies and magics, books about what the world calls marvels, but which are not marvels at all, but only workings of the Law most people have not yet reasoned about or even accepted.
The White People 1917
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