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• Wonders of the World seem to come in sevens.
• That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
• The idea was so crazy that it is a wonder that anyone went along with it.
• He's a wonder at cooking.
• Socrates: I see, my dear Theaetetus, that Theodorus had a true insight into your nature when he said that you were a philosopher, for wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. He was not a bad genealogist who said that Iris (the messenger of heaven) is the child of Thaumas (wonder).
• They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
• All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.
• Miss Paynter had a little wonder as to whether the man, as she called Mr. Lacy in her own mind, had ever been admitted to this room. She thought not.
• I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals.
• We cease to wonder at what we understand.
• The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
• I wonder, in my soul, / What you would ask me, that I should deny.
• I wonder whether penguins can fly.
• I wonder whether it is possible to find an easy and effective solution.
• Je me demande s’il est possible de trouver une solution simple et efficace.