1 They only knew, as surely as they knew there was a just and jealous God in Heaven, that Lee was miraculous and the Army of Virginia invincible.
2 It seemed miraculous that this could be when she thought of all the unsaid things that lay between them.
3 She had never lost the child's miraculous power of wonder.
4 She hoped that in some miraculous way yet unrevealed she might find it possible to remain in California.
5 For, with but a bit of broken sea-shell or a shark's tooth, that miraculous intricacy of wooden net-work has been achieved; and it has cost steady years of steady application.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in She... 6 This particular feat of the shark seems all but miraculous.
7 And some three centuries ago, an English traveller in old Harris's Voyages, speaks of a Turkish Mosque built in honour of Jonah, in which Mosque was a miraculous lamp that burnt without any oil.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded. 8 They at length agreed that the person should be chosen as pope who should be distinguished by some divine and miraculous token.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE THREE LANGUAGES 9 He would be condemned to die, but he was about to die of grief and despair when this miraculous noise recalled him to life.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 10 Only, in order to satisfy himself that it really belongs to us, he wishes you to relate to him, as I have done already, the miraculous manner in which the diamond came into our possession.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 11 Indeed," said Chateau-Renaud, "it seems quite miraculous to make a new house out of an old one; for it was very old, and dull too.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 63. The Dinner. 12 d'Avrigny carried the science of divination almost to a miraculous extent, for he was one of the physicians who always work upon the body through the mind.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 72. Madame de Saint-Meran. 13 I still stood absolutely dumfoundered at what appeared to me her miraculous self-possession and most inscrutable hypocrisy, when the cook entered.
14 She had heard nothing of Lady Catherine that spoke her awful from any extraordinary talents or miraculous virtue, and the mere stateliness of money or rank she thought she could witness without trepidation.
15 However little Mr. Darcy might have liked such an address, he contented himself with coolly replying that he perceived no other alteration than her being rather tanned, no miraculous consequence of travelling in the summer.