Marvellous

"The more I know dogs the more amazin 'marvellous they are to me," ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now break it out into a series of 1 and 2 story personal dwelling units … and something marvellous is achieved!!!!!! ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thereupon the youth began, “Right wondrous and marvellous is my case and that of these fishes; and were it graven with gravers upon the eye corners it were a warner to whoso would be warned.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Disraeli wants to create a context where the marvellous is possible. ❋ Unknown (1979)

To say the British people have been marvellous is an absolute understatement. ❋ Unknown (1945)

For eleven days I walked in marvellous spring weather, under the sun and in the green. ❋ Unknown (1924)

Which he calls a marvellous line of Theobald, 'unless (says he) the play called the Double Falsehood be (as he would have it thought) ❋ Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 (1753)

But of the five sovereigns of the Tudor dynasty it happened that only one, Henry VII., the first monarch of that dynasty, found or made an opportunity for the display of marked -- scarcely perhaps of "marvellous" -- personal courage; and thus the selection of the Tudor dynasty by the writer referred to as furnishing a contrasting illustration in the matter of personal courage to that of the Romanoffs was not particularly fortunate. ❋ Archibald Forbes (1869)

And it's only occasionally - like this occasion - that I lift my head and think, `Bloody hell, that's marvellous, that is.' ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sanin could not help recalling the marvellous country he had just come from .... ❋ Unknown (2006)

He now recalled a marvellous stage-curtain entirely of glass mosaic executed by Louis C. Tiffany, of New York, for the Municipal Theatre at Mexico City. ❋ Unknown (1921)

He has a feather fan like a peacock's tail; he speaks like the cockatoo, only he differs from them in being infallible; and he is infallible, because another bird, also marvellous, which is called the Holy Ghost, tells him by night everything that takes place on earth and in heaven. ❋ P��o Baroja (1914)

In an address to the Canadian Club of Winnipeg, in 1906 1 could not refrain from saying: In contemplating the grave of Wolfe at the old parish church of St. Alfege, in Greenwich, one cannot but recall his marvellous bravery and the brilliant generalship that planned the attact at the Anse du Foulon, which led to the capture of Quebec, and the cession of this continent to the AngloSaxon race. ❋ Unknown (1910)

Why, my experience all goes to prove the truth of what you will call a marvellous proposition, that the better you treat a slave, the more you destroy his value as a slave, and enhance the probability of his eluding the grasp of the slave-holder; the more kindly you treat him, the more wretched you make him, while you keep him in the condition of a slave. ❋ Unknown (1911)

A knight clad in full armour lay stretched out in his last sleep; his clasped hands rested over the good sword whose handle formed a cross upon his breast; the attitude of the inclined head and the sculpture of the strong, lined, noble face in its utter repose were magnificent, and recalled the marvellous art that created the busts of the emperors in the days of Rome's zenith. ❋ Angela Brazil (1907)

"But the Lord is mindful of His own," singing it with a power of expression marvellous in so young a girl. ❋ Ralph Connor (1898)

The picture has been described as marvellous, brilliant, astonishing, superb, but no one has described it as beautiful. ❋ Unknown (1892)

They were of the war-party recently returned from Presque Isle; and, recalling the marvellous things done by this white medicine man, they were still fearful of his power. ❋ Kirk Munroe (1890)

Two months later, speaking of some poem, undefined, perhaps, even to himself, which he desired to write, he says: “As the marvellous is the most enticing, and the surest guarantee of harmonious numbers, I have been endeavouring to persuade myself to untether Fancy, and to let her manage for herself. ❋ Unknown (1884)