117 examples of awe-struck in sentences

" "I wonder if Hally's a goner?" murmured Dan in an awe-struck voice.

Miss Jane wants to know," said the old servant, in awe-struck tones.

"Well, I saw something moving therelook now, there it is again, over just beside the nearer tent," whispered Will, in an awe-struck voice.

"She might be ten years older," he said, in awe-struck tones.

Awe-struck we gaze, and hold our breath Till the fair pageant vanisheth, Leaving us in perplexity,

The first was a large engraving of the Presidents of the United States, which had formerly done duty in the bar-room, where the villagers were wont to gaze upon it in an awe-struck manner, being impressed with a vague idea that it was CHRISTY'S Minstrels.

And trembling and awe-struck they remained an instant longer in the lugubrious chamber full of the silence and the majesty of death, facing Pascal, motionless forever, and Clotilde, overwhelmed by the grief of her widowhood.

"He against the gate of iron Pressed his wan and wistful face, Gazing with an awe-struck pleasure At the glories of the place; Never had his brightest day-dream Shone with half such wondrous grace.

The boys huddled together in the hay, with awe-struck faces, but unafraid.

"I suppose you would not say much for their science; but, as poetry, they are just what you ask forthe expression of thoughtful spirits, who looked round upon nature with awe-struck, childlike eyes, and asked of all heaven and earth the question, 'What are you?

Frank paused, awe-struck.

Mrs. Spragg's eyes usually dropped before her daughter's inclement gaze; but on this occasion they held their own with a kind of awe-struck courage, till Undine's lids sank above her flushing cheeks.

Jack Archer and Dick Hawtry, who with two other midshipmen occupied a tent, sat listening awe-struck to the fury of the gale.

What now the aspect of the stars? Awe-struck the very walls appear; The door-posts quivered, sprang the bars Else you yourself could not have entered here.

For events precisely resembling eruptions take place in my brain; and one spangled midnightah, how spangled!I may kneel on the roof with streaming, uplifted face, with outspread arms, and awe-struck heart, adoring the Eternal: the next, I may strut like a cock, wanton as sin, lusting to burn a city, to wallow in filth, and, like the Babylonian maniac, calling myself the equal of Heaven.

Such poets have resembled a blind man, who feels, although he cannot see, that a stranger of commanding air is in the room beside him; so they stand awe-struck in the "wind of the going" of a majestic and unseen Being.

A man brought up among soft things is so imbued with the feeling that his wife should be something better, cleaner, sweeter, holier than himself that he could not but be awe-struck when he thought that he was bound to marry this all but nameless widow of some drunken player,this woman who, among other women, had been thought unfit for all companionship!

BARBARA [awe-struck] Oh! PIPER [slowly] Will you drink the philter?

No voice had reached the Galilean vale Of star-led kings or awe-struck shepherds' tale; In the meek, studious child they only saw The future Rabbi, learned in Israel's law.

I am still very young, but I remember how awe-struck I was the first time Her hand woke you in this same chimney-place.

Such was the rapidity of his movements, and such the terror they inspired that for a while a sort of awe-struck tranquillity prevailed.

We stood in awe-struck amazement as the torch slowly, inexorably, traced a thin line along the edge of the door.

She herself gazed and listened, awe-struck.

As the marchesa passes slowly by, wan-faced womencolored handkerchiefs gathered in folds upon their heads, knitting or spinning flax cut from the little field without upon the mountain-sideput down the black, curly-headed urchins that cling to their lapsrise from where they are resting on the door-step, and salute the marchesa with an awe-struck stare.

The other youngsters sat motionless, awe-struck.

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