112 adjectives to describe awing

He regarded him always with a sort of superstitious awe, never being able to comprehend how he butted him through that big stone.

For "the church dedicated to St Thomas erects itself," as Erasmus says, "with such majesty towards Heaven that even from a distance it strikes religious awe into the beholders.

Hence it has been invested with an almost reverential awe, and has been generally employed when search has been made for some valuable lost property.

When this came into her mind, she rose up again softly with a sacred awe, and wept not, but did them reverence; for without any light or guidance in their anguish they yet wavered not, died not, but endured, and in the end would overcome.

But she was shocked into a most solemn awe as she pressed the arm of the poor tragic woman who, but for an accident, might have plunged off the end of the groin into water deep enough for drowning.

Thus matters were; and, even after the many incredible things that I have seen, I experienced all the time a most profound awe.

I have a little awe of it, to tell the truth.

They do not exalt the soul into inspiring ecstasies like the psalms of David, or kindle a holy awe like the lofty meditations of Job; but they are yet such impressive truths pertaining to human life that we invest them with more than human wisdom.

" Mrs. Crowder looked with almost reverent awe into the face of her husband.

The Cross he deemsthe blessed Cross, whereon The meek Redeemer bow'd His head to death Was formed of Aspen wood; and since that hour Through all its race the pale tree hath sent down A thrilling consciousness, a secret awe Making them tremulous, when not a breeze Disturbs the airy Thistle-down, or shakes

Heale had been fairly taken aback by the imposing list of acquirements, and looked at his guest awhile with considerable awe: suddenly a suspicion flashed across him, which caused him (not unseen by Tom) a start and a look of self-congratulatory wisdom.

She stood in wholesome awe of Mrs. Kinzer; and a "brush" with the portly widow, re-enforced by the sweet face of Annie Foster, was a pretty serious matter.

* * Religious honour, humble awe; Obedience to our Father's law; A lively grateful sense Of tenderness immense; Full trust on God's paternal cares; Submission which chastisement bears; Grief, when his goodness we offend; Zeal, to his likeness to ascend; Will, from the world refined, To his sole will resigned: These graces in God's children shine, Reflections of the love divine.

"A party of Tory spies had just been arrested in the neighborhood, and among them was a certain Yan Yost Cuyler, a queer, half-witted fellow not devoid of cunning, whom the Indians regarded with that mysterious awe with which fools and lunatics are wont to inspire them, as creatures possessed with a devil.

and off came bascinet, and back fell mail-coif, whereat the Bailiff started and caught his breath and stared on Beltane in sudden awe.

And again I sustained the full flattery of that speechless awe which was yet unembarrassing by reason of its freedom from undue solemnity.

" Aristabulus nodded his head, and he would have winked, could he have presumed to take such a liberty with a man he held as much in habitual awe, as John Effingham.

He must arm himself against disappointment and mortification with a portion of that same noble confidence which soothed the greatest of modern poets when weighed down by care and danger, by poverty, old age, and blindness, still "In prophetic dreams he saw The youth unborn with pious awe Imbibe each virtue from his sacred page.

To these Jenny was "Teacher," a name of gentle awe; and to these Teacher was as deeply dear as anyone can be to very young hearts.

he answered, gazing steadily and with pretended awe at Skinny's white shirt.

Little Arcady Argus of May 21st.= Looking back to that time from a happier present, I am filled by a genuine awe of J. Rodney Potts.

Everything belonging to the Colonel is held in the utmost awe by the villagers.

His personal attraction was growing every minute; that vague awe he roused probably only increased it.

At this stage of affairs, Aunt Comfort's interest in Charlie's success had reached such a pitch that her customary awe of the place she was in entirely departed, and she exclaimed, "I'll give yer a start'Our Farrer,'"then overwhelmed by the consciousness that she had spoken out in meeting, she sank down behind a pew-door, completely extinguished.

At first within the yard confined, He flies and hides from all mankind; Now bolder grown, with fixed amaze, And distant awe, presumes to gaze; Munches the linen on the lines,

112 adjectives to describe  awing