In that brief moment when I had been so close to her, I had looked deep into her dim eyes and was feeling a vast astonishment.

So I pushed-and had the warm feeling of summer against my palms, the sharp faint fragrance of bruised grass in my nostrils, and a vast astonishment in my mind.

To his vast astonishment he heard them conversing in a quaint form of English that, while understandable to him, seemed yet a foreign tongue.

Stans who had allowed her to read his thoughts in spite of all the horror his kind felt for such an act-Stans. . . . To her vast astonishment that face she held in her mind became alive, not just a representation she used as a part shield against Karn's devilment.

But then to my vast astonishment our clothes seemed to melt away and we were naked and touching and she was warm and slippery and it was just sort of happening.

To his vast astonishment, he was not one of them.

Into our viewscreen as we watched in astonishment rose a dazzling alabaster messiah, a ship vast and bulky with three thick, angular nacelles lancing out behind like scarves flying in wind, and a sculpted engineering hull any designer would worship.

Three months later Robinette got a letter whose envelope contained, to his vast astonishment, ten ten-dollar bills.

But Burl's thoughts were now not of horror but a vast astonishment.

To his vast astonishment, she turned pale, stared at him in fright.