"The reading of this wondrous story . . . had a surprising effect on me," Melville wrote.
Herbert Badgery is a 139-year-old charlatan who races us through a whirlwind of adventures and seductions, joking, inventing and telling wondrous tall stories as he goes.
An exceptional and wondrous story about how she entered the realm of acting trails Swaran.
When he had finished, the traveler said, "That is a wondrous story indeed.
Her father had told her wondrous stories of a winged horse from Elder legends, and of a hero who rode him to slay demons.
Although she composes lyrics to love songs, has a rich vocabulary and tells wondrous stories, Ms. Verougstraete has an I.Q. of only 49.
The Caterpillar has a book of wondrous stories, similar to fables in their animal characters and simple morals.
It was said "that little children delighted to crowd around him and hear from him the wondrous story of our Lord".
This is a wondrous story.
Look now at the wondrous traditional story of how this island was settled by the red-men.
