Sentence examples for it astonished him from inspiring English sources

Holed up on an obscure island somewhere in Britain, physically broken from the torture, cared for by a young runaway in flight from her vicious, pimpish boyfriend, who also happens to be a British cop, Rose scours human existence for meaning: "It astonished him that those around him went about their business as if the world — as if being alive — was uncomplicated and unmysterious".

But if its contents astonished him he gave no sign.

Even in the Depression, its energy and vitality astonished him.

With both his legs once more in a cast, his state of mind became almost suicidal, and it still astonishes him to recall that he was saved from melancholia by, of all people, the Shuberts.

Interested but skeptical, he consumed it in a safe and supervised setting, and what happened astonished him.

It soon went sour between Silky and his new chums when they astonished him with their ungrateful reluctance to make him their supreme leader.

The sauciness astonished him.

What he found astonished him.

The size of the cities astonished him.

The noises from the pit must have astonished him.

And his publishers astonished him by telling him to make the book longer.