So they apply for the use of your trade-mark. You are amazed and affronted. You retort that you are not that kind of person. Then they are amazed and affronted; and wonder "since when?"
By this time you have got your bearings. You realize that perhaps there is a little blame on both sides. You are in the right frame, now. So you write a letter void of offense, declining. You mail this one; you pigeon-hole the other.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 4》
"I am amazed!" he found words to say at last. "I am amazed! I felt certain that you at least would do me justice. I thought--"英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
She could not altogether keep the sneer out of her voice; she could not quite deprive her words of their sting. They sounded to her own ears like the hiss of a lash in the air. She was amazed at the amount of bitterness in her voice--amazed and ashamed.英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
The men on the other side had begun to use ball-cartridge. I could see through a gap the centre of the river, and it was filled with a mass of struggling men and horses'. I remember that it amazed me that no shot was fired in return. Then I remembered the vow, and was still more amazed at the power of a ritual on that savage horde.英文原著 · 《Prester John》
Norman sprang up again. "This is plain lunacy, Tetlow. I am amazed at you--amazed!"英文原著 · 《The Dust》
You understand?"
"Not in the least," Geraldine told him frankly. "It's my fault," he declared. "The words all seem to be tumbling out anyhow and I don't know how to put them in the right order. Can't you see that I love you, Geraldine? I want you to be my wife, and I want to get right away as quickly as ever I can. Why not America? Why couldn't we be married this week and get away from everybody?"
She looked at him in sheer amazement, amazement tempered just a little with a sort of tremulous uncertainty. "But, Captain Granet," she exclaimed, "you can't be serious!英文原著 · 《The Kingdom of the Blind》