When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  The Bad Child's Book of Beasts,'The Elephant'.

Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime,ö A rose-red cityö'half as old asTime'!

-Burgon,JohnWilliam
  Petra.

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  Michael  Angelo, pt.1, sc.5.

Nowadays a sales conference resembles a Passion play: everybody is invited to participate and marvel at the drama.

-Scribner, Charles,Jr
In the Company ofWriters: A Life in Publishing.

I'll say, a strangemanisa marvel, with hismighty talk; but what's a squabble in your back-yard, and the blow of a loy, have taught me that there's a great gap between a gallous story and a dirty deed. 834

-Synge,John Millington
  Pegeen Mike.The Playboy of theWesternWorld, act 3.