Citations:astonish


 * 1814, The Protestant advocate: or, A review of publications relating to the Roman catholic question, and repertory of Protestant intelligence, page 97
 * It may astonish some who are unacquainted with the evasions of this sect, that people who pretend to lead the rest of mankind into the paths of rectitude and truth...
 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son's weak mind.