They
wondered about human nature, human passions, human hopes and fears, the struggles, triumphs and defeats, the cares and joys and sorrows, the lives and deaths of common men and women!
How often she had mused on the subject, thinking of her friend abroad, Varenka, of her painful state of dependence, how often she had
wondered about herself what would become of her if she did not marry, and how often she had argued with her sister about it!
She
wondered, with little intermission what could be the reason of it; was sure there must be some bad news, and thought over every kind of distress that could have befallen him, with a fixed determination that he should not escape them all.
Green's park-gates, she '
wondered whether he was at home--great stupid blockhead'; as Lady Meltham's carriage passed us, she '
wondered what Mr.
I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have
wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT- POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
She
wondered and
wondered in those few moments if there was any reality in that other thing Dickon had said.
"No, I suppose that's right," observed Tom; but there was a queer gleam in his eye, and his chum
wondered if Tom did not have in mind the prospective race between himself and Fenimore Beecher for the regard of Mary Nestor.
When the Frost-Spirits told their King, he greatly
wondered and often stole to look at the sunny little room where friends and enemies worked peacefully together.