Marvelled

Everyone marvelled at her courage.

The teacher marvelled at my response.

Studying a table of Russian paradigms, Mary unconsciously knitted her brows and scratched her head. She marvelled that most Russian six-year-olds master the noun declensions with little apparent effort.

Many pundits marvelled at how presidential the president had become.

Tom marvelled at Mary's unique, language-transcending vocals.

For while, the queen awaiting, round he gazed, / and marvelled at he happy town, and scanned / the rival labours of each craftman's hand, / behold, Troy's battles on the walls appear, / the war, since noised through many a distant land, / there Priam and th' Atridae twain, and here / Achilles, fierce to both, still ruthless and severe.

Led by the prince she moved as lightly as a bubble, and he and every one else marvelled at her graceful gliding gait.

"You're really good at that," marvelled Tom, as he watched Hanako preparing sushi with the consummate skill of a master. "Well, I have done it a few times before, Tom," she replied, blushing slightly. "There comes a time when you can just do it."

We marvelled at the little boy's eloquence.

Many years ago, my elementary grade class went to the VanDusen Botanical Garden for a field trip. My Austrian friend Danny K. was with us. We marvelled at the biology. I collected yellow leaves from the Ginkgo biloba trees there. The leaves had a strange shape. Later, I put some of the yellow leaves in a book about horror movies with Frankenstein on the cover. Years later, in high school, during silent reading class, I showed Danny one of the yellow leaves pressed in the pages of my book about horror movies. With sudden anguish, Danny crumpled the yellow leaf in his hand, as if his mind started racing.