I was struck all on a heap.
I am all astonishment.
Sometimes all you can do is say, 'Wow.'
Always the tone of surpise.
My gast was pretty well flabbered.
...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild.
No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.
an expression of surprise falls from her face, though she's trying to keep it. it breaks off and she seems to catch it and fidget with it in her hands.
I'm sorry I stood there like a half-wit, Count Petroff," she told him matter-of-factly, "but I was a bit--surprised. After all, it's not everyday that I see a man who's prettier than I am." (Alexandra)
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
I didn't even apply. There was no warning.
You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
