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- adjective Not
astonished .
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Examples
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Immutable laws, such as gravitation and the conservation of energy, became wobbly, and I was prepared to witness their violation at any moment and to remain unastonished.
Chapter 14 1913
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Immutable laws, such as gravitation and the conservation of energy, became wobbly, and I was prepared to witness their violation at any moment and to remain unastonished.
Chapter 14 1911
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Immutable laws, such as gravitation and the conservation of energy, became wobbly, and I was prepared to witness their violation at any moment to remain unastonished.
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Then, too, the rise of suicide attacks directed at civilians is astonishing -- and it is also astonishing how unastonished we claim to be in the face of it.
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My classmates were as unastonished by their extravagant traits as a blowfish is by its quills.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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The old man viewed her with mildly curious eyes, unastonished and benign.
The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983
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When the day broke, after the falling of the dreadful night, the brave or the thirsty who ventured forth saw him at his post, silent, unastonished, unafraid.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller
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The old woman looked at him with unastonished eyes.
Coming Home. 1915
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They supposed, in their unastonished acceptance of the facts, that things would have to go on like this indefinitely.
The Creators A Comedy May Sinclair 1904
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They refused to recognize in it any divine element of destiny, while they remained imperturbably unastonished at its course.
The Creators A Comedy May Sinclair 1904
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