astonishment

To his astonishment, the driver found the gate open; guards already had abounded the border post.

What astonishment that such beauty urges me into bed for a nightlong sweaty roll in tangled sheets.

His friend stares in astonishment at Soyinka, who seems unperturbed.

The frustrating thing here is the astonishment over it all, over the Iggy Azalea phenomenon.

Now in her 70's, living in Ontario, Feld Carr tells the story with a delightful sense of astonishment that it ever took place.

Georgie now, to her astonishment, found her movements invariably chronicled in the society journals.

It was considerably to Justice Haggard's astonishment that he heard of the invitation to his son and his son's wife.

Marcella stood all this while, leaning against the tapestry, in a silent astonishment of thought and feeling.

Lucy clapped her hands with delight, her more staid cousin was rapt in pleased astonishment.

The bridge that spanned it had, to Harry's astonishment, been only partially destroyed; it could easily be crossed.