2530 examples of awes in sentences

He had a note-book in his handthat terrible weapon which awes even the London cabman.

And in his lines on the Eagle, from another gem: So when with bristling plumes the bird of Jove, Vindictive leaves the argent fields above, Borne on broad wings the guilty world he awes, And grasps the lightning in his shining claws.

I wish my children to believe in one God, not a God in the abstractness of pantheism, but in a Supreme Being with whom they have relationship, to whom they are accustomed to pray, and who at once awes and fortifies them.

She awes him into decency.

Its presence awes us.

All extended power, measured by duration in time or vast areas of space, becomes an incarnate Presence in the world, which awes to the dust all who resist it, and exalts with its own glory all who trust in it.

No head, save some world-genius, ought to rest Above the treasures of that perfect breast, Or nightly draw fresh light from those keen stars Through which thy soul awes ours: yet thou art bound O waste of nature!to a craven hound; To shameless lust, and childish greed of pelf; Athene to a Satyr: was that link Forged by The Father's hand?

Mindful of my bygone sorrows, E'en the present awes me now.

A hundred yards farther the smooth, swift water fell into a seething, roaring cataractsuch a manifestation of the mighty powers of nature as checks the breath and awes the hearta death stream in which seemingly the canoe would be shattered to pieces in an instant.

Let bright invention rove where no one awes, Unfetter'd by dull, narrow, civic laws, Which shut out commerce, ingenuity.

To be present when a prima donna awes this audience into silence by her tones, and then to hear a triumphant roar of approval rend the silence, is an unforgettable adventure of the spirit.

It is impossible to hear the "Dies Iræ;" or the "Stabat Mater dolorosa," without feeling, that the stately simplicity of the language, differing almost as widely from classical poetry as from that of modern nations, awes the congregation, like the architecture of the Gothic cathedrals in which they are chanted.

" The old graveyard, like the hoary tower, awes the mind and touches the heart.

AWES, ASTRID DAHLE.

Astrid Dahle Awes (A); 11Dec63; R328252.

AWES, ASTRID DAHLE.

Astrid Dahle Awes (A); 11Dec63; R328252.

The mental pleasure I experienced with you was measured and limited only by my own perversity and morbid self-absorption; the splendour of the passion I divine in you, unawakened, awes me, leaves me in wonder.

Every thing is sacrificed to the army and Paris, and the people are robbed of their subsistence to supply an iniquitous metropolis, and a military force that awes and oppresses them.

Every thing is sacrificed to the army and Paris, and the people are robbed of their subsistence to supply an iniquitous metropolis, and a military force that awes and oppresses them.

Where blackness bides unbroke, must devils be? Is it so certain, not another cell O' the myriad that make up the catacomb, Contains some saint a second flash would show? Will you ascend into the light of day And, having recognised a martyr's shrine, Go join the votaries that gape around Each vulgar god that awes the market-place?" (iv. 219).

v. 81. 'Awes the tumultuous noises of the pit.' (Roscommon).

He lays in a mixed stock of solemnity, mystery, and importance, and occasionally awes the friends of his flippant days by assuming the reticent look and the shake of the head of one who is marked off from common mortals by the possession of secrets the revelation of which might, perhaps, imperil the peace of the world.

There is a dignity about Marescotti that involuntarily awes them.

We feel this in our daily intercourse with them, for angels like these dwell often in the lowliest form about us, and our common contact with them thrills and awes us, though we scarcely realize that it is from them we have these sensations, or what renders them so far, though near at hand!

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