As she shook her head, I could only marvel aloud that a shopkeeper who had seen his very business fail had nonetheless taken the trouble to finish the job and, indeed, to do a final kindness for one of his customers.

"Man, this must have really been something, back in the day," John marveled aloud, his voice echoing in the hall.

For the next five rounds Tony boxed, while the spectators marveled aloud at the value of the talent that had been hidden in managerial soil.

Dressed in a white silk gown and a colorfully beaded jacket, she marveled aloud to the reverentially silent audience at the mere fact that this "skinny broad," as she called herself, had been turned into a "marketable commodity."

I marveled aloud.

When Cole had stood up from the boy, she'd marveled aloud, "You still believe in Santa Claus, don't you?"

The color commentator started marvelling at Avery's tactics aloud:

They are an interfaith couple, and so, "this way, you can get presents all month long," she said A final thought: it's better not to marvel aloud that Hanukkah "came early" this year.

"Zeke rode Occam all by himself," Jillian marveled aloud.

He couldn't help but marvel aloud.