astonishes

The artistry that went into the making of Gollum still astonishes.

Years later, a beautiful girl in college astonishes me at a party by drunkenly reciting this poem from memory, word for word.

I do not know a spot on the globe which astonishes and delights, upon your first landing, as the island of Madeira.

It astonishes me,” said Mr. Grey to Mr. Walter, “that ‘Floy’ should be so little elated by her wonderful success.

And who knows if the volcanic crater, whose absence at first astonishes the observer, is not the Dead Sea itself?

The precocious knowledge of Nicolka astonishes the child, whose one ambition is to be like his friend one of these days.

The crabs are pulled out with a celerity that astonishes their crustaceous lordships.