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Meanings of pained wonder in English

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Usage of pained wonder in English
1
Her dark face was flushing now in pained wonder.
The Lions of the Lord: A Tale of the Old West
2
Do you think I could brook Lord Earle's angry scorn and Lady Helena's pained wonder?
Dora Thorne
3
A dismal woman with startled eyes and dolorously drooping mouth, that would listen to him in pained wonder and mute stillness.
An Outcast of the Islands
4
Alan and Marjorie were in front, and he noted his friend's bearing towards the girl with a pained wonder, and thought of Doris.
Till the Clock Stops
5
For it is a poem that recalls childhood with pained wonder, ending on "Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears".
The Guardian
6
That Mozart had been able to compose music to such libretti as those of "Don Giovanni" and "Così fan tutte" filed him with pained wonder.
A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
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