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Wonder-struck   /wˈəndər-strək/   Listen
Wonder-struck

adjective
1.
Affected by or overcome with wonder.






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"Wonder-struck" Quotes from Famous Books



... pursuit of a snow-drift, which the west-wind was driving hither and thither! At length, after a vast deal of trouble, he chased the little stranger into a corner, where she could not possibly escape him. His wife had been looking on, and, it being nearly twilight, was wonder-struck to observe how the snow-child gleamed and sparkled, and how she seemed to shed a glow all round about her; and when driven into the corner, she positively glistened like a star! It was a frosty kind of brightness, too, like that of ...
— The Snow Image • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... was superstitious; but there was good excuse for their being wonder-struck. If an individual in the middle of a desert should suddenly become aware of the appearance of a strange person at his elbow, a situation apparently in which he could only be placed by supernatural means, it would be a very mild word to say he would ...
— Adrift on the Pacific • Edward S. Ellis



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