Careful Words

wonderful (adj.)

How wonderful is Death!

Death and his brother Sleep.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): Queen Mab. i.

  O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all hooping.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

  Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816): The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 2.

  Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

Old Testament: 2 Samuel i. 26.

  O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all hooping.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.