The schoolmaster was equally astounded, and withdrew the pipe from his mouth; that of the exciseman dropped to the ground: the landlord groaned aloud, and his spouse held up her hands in mingled astonishment and awe.

In the poet and the philosopher, the lover of the sublime, and the student of the beautiful in artthe contemplation of such a scene as this must awaken ecstatic feelings of admiration and awe.

The right of thinking freely and acting independently, of using our minds without excessive awe of authority, and shaping our lives without unquestioning obedience to custom, is now a finally accepted principle in some sense or other with every school of thought that has the smallest chance of commanding the future.

In other words, the dogmas are false, but the liturgy, as a performance stirring the senses of awe, reverence, susceptibility to beauty of various kinds, appeals to and satisfies a sentiment that is both true and indispensable in the human mind.

It is scarcely possible to describe the sickening awe which came over the party, when they had assured themselves of the fatal facts by further observation.

Veronica, in a passion, was something to strike awe into the breast of the beholder.

In the old days she had not been moved by any great feeling of affection for her; she pitied her along with the rest and enjoyed her society after a fashion, but she stood not a little in awe of her mercurial temperament and her aristocratic ways, and much preferred the friendship of the simple, dispassionate Winnebagos.

"There I hung, and the awe gather'd icily o'er me, So far from the earth, where man's help there was none!

Upright And the Honest, undreading, Look safe on the night Which the evil man watches in awe, For the eye of the Night is the Law!

This sentiment was held to be adequate to the regulation of social and political life: by it, ruffians were to be made to stand in awe of virtue; thieves, burglars, and murderers were to be made ashamed of themselves, and turned into honest and amiable citizens; children were to be governed without punishment; and the world was to be made a paradise.

They built their Cathedral and their Campanile, as the Jews of old built their Temple, with awe and religious fear, that they might thus express by costly and imperishable monuments their sense of God's majesty and beauty.

For an instant the turbid heart of the man cowered, awe-struck, as yours or mine has done when some swift touch of music or human love gave us a cleaving glimpse of the great I AM.

Do cultivate all the religious emotions, reverence, awe, and aspiration, if for no better reason than as a means of self-culture.

6 Heaven (that hath placed this island to give law, To balance Europe, and her states to awe), In this conjunction doth on Britain smile; The greatest leader, and the greatest isle! 7 Whether this portion of the world were rent, By the rude ocean, from the continent, Or thus created, it was sure design'd To be the sacred refuge of mankind.

28 Your never-failing sword made war to cease; And now you heal us with the acts of peace; Our minds with bounty and with awe engage, Invite affection, and restrain our rage.

Finding no person at his arrival who could in any way keep him in awe, Bovadilla immediately took possession of the admirals palace, and appropriated every thing he found there to his own use as if it had fallen to him by inheritance.

To us, fresh from Gizhiga, Penzhina, and Okhotsk, a city with numbered houses was really too remarkable and impressive a thing to be treated with levity, and we therefore received the information with proper awe and in silence.

And because of this, and of his merit as a hunter, he was looked upon with respect, and even awe; and there was talk of making him chief after old Klosh-Kwan.

This it is which produces the convulsions that change the terrestrial configuration, and fill the minds of men with fear and awe.

The passion and the awe of the infinite seemed to toss it to and fro from heaven to hell.

[with awe] the power of God, saying, "Anterior to me, what mighty possessors of kingdoms and wealth have been born on earth!

As we came opposite the mouth of the Moselle and under the shadow of the mighty fortress, I gazed up with awe at its massive walls.

Here Nature smiles like a lovely woman extended unadorned on the greensward; there, like a slumbering giant, she excites a feeling of awe.

I explored its interior, and was struck with awe on beholding innumerable tombs, bearing dates as far back as the eighteenth century.

After a few moments' contemplation, a singular awe comes over us when gazing at this extraordinary edificean edifice which, like the great work that Charlemagne began, remains unfinished; and which, like his empire that spoke all languages, is composed of architecture that represents all styles.