"An' I never knew it. Last I seen of 'm was on the beach. Next I seen of 'm there, he was fast asleep in my bunk. Now how'd he get there, sir? How'd he pick out my room? I leave it to you, sir. I call it marvellous, just plain marvellous."
"With a quartermaster at the head of the gangway!" Captain Duncan snorted. "As if I didn't know your tricks, Steward.英文原著 · 《Michael, Brother of Jerry》
And I have "proceeded to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder" (Isa. 14), enabling them now to read in the Torah of Moses our teacher, "plainly and giving the sense" (Neh. 8), that which thou hast given in thy Torahs (works of instruction). And when my people perceive that thy view has by no means "gone astray" (Num. 12, 19, etc.) from the Torah of God, they will hold thy name in the highest reverence, and "will at the same time glorify the God of Israel" (Isa.英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
"Zounds! but I call it marvellous ... demmed marvellous ... I wonder now," he added blandly, "what made you think of the Angelus?"
Everyone laughed at this, a little irrelevantly perhaps. "Ah!" continued Blakeney gaily, "I remember now. Faith! to think that I was nigh forgetting that when last you and I met, sir, you had just taken or were about to take Holy Orders. how well the thought of the Angelus fits in with your clerical garb.英文原著 · 《The Elusive Pimpernel》
He broke into a laugh, his own usual pleasant laugh, half shy and somewhat inane, then said in tones of lively astonishment:
"Zounds! sir, but you are full of surprises. Faith! I never would have thought of that. ...Marvellous, I call it ... demmed marvellous. What say you, gentlemen? Your Royal Highness, what think you?英文原著 · 《The Elusive Pimpernel》
they will understand that your identity as the leader of that so-called band is not only known to me and to my colleague, but that it also covers your real character and profession as the paid spy of France."
"Marvellous, I call it ... demmed marvellous," quoth Sir Percy blandly. Chauvelin had paused, half-choked by his own emotion, his hatred and prospective revenge. He passed his handkerchief over his forehead, which was streaming with perspiration. "Warm work, this sort of thing ... eh ... Monsieur ... er ...英文原著 · 《The Elusive Pimpernel》
"Nay, Monsieur Chaubertin," said Sir Percy gaily, "but this is marvellous ... demmed marvellous ... do you hear that, m'dear? Gadzooks! but 'tis the best joke I have heard this past twelve-months. Monsieur here thinks ... but I shall die of laughing. Monsieur here thinks ...英文原著 · 《The Elusive Pimpernel》