Sentence examples for astounded him from inspiring English sources

My little bald skull so astounded him that he almost departed from this life the moment I entered it and, indeed, it was a misfortune and harmful thing for him that he did not, because after that night he never had anything but misery and was destroyed and rent by the world and bereft of his health as long as he lived.

Charles Baggage affectionately called Ada the "Enchantress of Numbers," as her capabilities astounded him and many others.

But the number of these sales astounded him.

The differences between B and C "astounded" him.

My obtuseness at one point had "astounded" him.

It was Miggs's girl-getting that astounded him.

But what astounded and infuriated him the most, he said, was that the scale of the scandal had only been wrung out of the Met by the civil litigants suing the NOTW once the Met had "failed to or refused to join up the dots of evidence" it already had.

The prospect of a retrospective would doubtless gratify him, although the skeptic in him would be astounded: I don't know what will be left of me fifty years from now.

That astounded people, even those who knew him well".

The waiter was astounded and said they could give him a sliced-egg, chopped-egg, or deviled-egg sandwich, but not a fried egg.

She cradled and protected the boy from the other gorillas as she carried him to the entrance of the enclosure and deposited him at the feet of astounded zoo personnel.