Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...brilliancy, but losing these bright tints and assuming one of a duller sort when any one approaches, so our recluse draws about him his mantle of chilling reserve if any one ventures to break in upon his privacy, and with some well-worded excuse is gone, leaving one to wonder how he can ever break through this coldness, which, like a coat of icy mail, repels all advances of a friendly sort. It may be that some are so inclined that to their minds this solitude is real pleasure, but we can hardly think so; to us there...
...winter drives every one within himself; and its long evenings give ample opportunity for that deep thought or light fancy suggested by our contact with the master minds of all ages in science or letters. When one thinks of the opportunities for culture here possessed, he cannot but wonder at the insignificant results attained by most men. The present Freshman Class have an unequalled opportunity for instituting a new order of things in this respect, since they have not to follow blindly in the path of absurd and frivolous precedent...
...when I wonder what that country...
...prevent our referring to the fete-day speech of the hero; when he wished his father's tenants a speedy death, as the greatest good which could happen to them. One can almost see the honest British yeomen, wiping the beer from their big mouths, and gazing in stupid wonder at the young philosopher who assured them that death was better than even the roast-beef and plum-pudding of Merry England...
...this immense crowd ever reached Spring-field without loss of life or limb, passing over poor roads and shaking bridges, in darkness and rain as they did, is a wonder...