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1838 H. W. Longfellow Jrnl. 26 Mar. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. xix. 293 The great wonder-flowers bloom but once in a lifetime; as marriage and death.

1845 J. C. Mangan Anthologia Germanica I. 185 But, lo! a wonder-sight!—Ere long Rose, blooming,..The fairest lily ever seen.

1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life viii. 120 That wonder-avenue of palaces [the Grand Canal].

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right III. xli. 238 You..discover so many wonder-treasures..that you will never consent to return.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xviii A Pharos, a wonder-sign, an exemplar throughout all the civilised world.

1896 Catholic Mag. May 258 Hermann Cohen, by reason of his marvellous piano-playing, was looked upon as a ‘wonder-child’.

1921 D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia v. 210 Real fresh wonder-beauty all around.

1922 D. H. Lawrence Aaron's Rod (N.Y. ed.) xviii. 269 The glimmer of the open flower, the wonder~look, still lasted.

1924 A. J. Small Frozen Gold 211 By the time the aurora ceased its wonder dances.

1927 E. O'Neill Marco Millions iii. i. 167 Worth while your waiting, eh?.. Yes, my wonder boy!

1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 15 A wonder-woman in every way.

1929 R. Bridges Test. Beauty iv. 188 The shifting hues that sanctify the silent dawn with wonder-gleams.

1938 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 38/2 The one signed work in the series..was the wonder-child of the project.

1939 Time 14 Aug. 50/2 Sulfanilamide, the ‘wonder drug’, introduced into the U.S. in 1936, is credited with remarkable cures.

1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 395 You know her, our angel being, one of romance's fadeless wonderwomen.

1939 New Yorker 13 May 80/2 He may not be quite the wonder horse the flushed and eager second-guessers insist he is.

1948 Sun (Baltimore) 9 Jan. 5/1 Recently publicized ‘wonder drugs’ include..subtilin.

1958 P. Scott Mark of Warrior i. 82 Old Ramsay's something of a wonder boy. He'll be top cadet of the course.

1975 Daily Tel. 18 June 2/8 Experts..began work on the vaccines following the failure of the post-war ‘wonder drugs’ such as sulphonamides and penicillin to wipe out these two diseases.

1976 West Lancs. Evening Gaz. 15 Dec. i. 4/7 He scored a superb hat trick with a wonder goal to round it off.

1976 Liverpool Echo 23 Nov. 7/1 Southport's golden sands, world famous as the training track of wonderhorse Red Rum.

1980 ‘R. B. Dominic’ Attending Physician xiv. 117 Senator Gerald Ewell was a Democrat... ‘What's Wonder Boy done this time?’ demanded Tony.

1980 I. Hunter Malcolm Muggeridge iv. 59 Various bizarre proposals to sort out and rearrange our genes so that everyone will become superman and wonderwoman.

1985 Times 2 Jan. 15/2 The word from the market is that a replacement ‘wonder drug’ is now in clinical trials.