Do we say awesome or great

awesome 70 occurrences

There was an awesome silence everywhere, and I was hesitating whether to attack the front rooms first or to follow up a certain narrow hall leading to a rear staircase, when I remembered the thin line of smoke which, rising from one of the chimneys, had first attracted my attention to the house.

But not in my dreams; it ever came back at night, sinister, awesome, haunted with dead hopes and breathing of an ever doubtful future.

There was silence, and in that awesome stillness Kazan and Gray Wolf stood shoulder to shoulder facing the cry, and in response to that cry there worked within them a strange and mystic change, for what they had heard was not a warning or a menace but the call of Brotherhood.

The hills are hearing the awesome cries; The sand lies thick in his dripping hair, And his hoofs are twined with weeds and ware.

No runner could keep pace by Caoilte's side, And ere the Fians, following in his path, Had wended from the deep and dusky strath, He swept o'er Clyne, and heard the awesome owls That hoot afar and near in woody Foulis, And he had reached the slopes of fair Rosskeen Ere Finn by Fyrish came.

Now when the last hour of his life drew nigh, Cuchullin woke from dreams forewarning death; And cold and awesome came the night-bird's cry An evil omen the magician saith A low gust panted like a man's last breath, As morning crept into the chamber black; Then all his weapons clashed and tumbled from the rack.

'Tis strange to think how all things to-night look bright and hopeful, which yesterday were gloomy and awesome.

It has just occurred to me, and it is an awesome thought, that you must converse every day, and all day, in the German language.

At night a tent is an awesome place.

It was an awesome picture, that ravenous and reduplicating mouth!

From the elaborately uniformed footman that opened the door for me to the awesome French maid who "did" my hair, I adored them all, and moved as in a dream of enchantment.

I felt that I was indeed, it might be, taking a risk in making this journey, and it was an awesome thought that I, too, might have seen my native land for the last time, and said a real good-by to those whom I had left behind me.

In the silence of the night-time, and with the knowledge that danger was in front and behind me, the sight of that great distant fire was very striking and awesome.

I saw one of the awesome whiskerandos from Paris, haughty and secretive toward the French, lighting the cigarette of a blanchisseuse at the Pool of Psyche, his arm about her, and his black bristles nearer than necessary to her ripe mouth.

Meanwhile Schumann had sunk into another awesome abyss of melancholia.

On the 12th of August, the super-deliberate court handed down its awesome verdict.

But the second officer, with a strange awesome look in his eyes, was leaning back in his seat, tightly gripping the edge of the table in both hands.

Nay! had a sound now disturbed the silence of this awesome night, surely it had been the laughter of demons aghast at such a deed!

Of course the news had traveled slowly from cottage to cottage, although Petty Constable Pyot, who resided at St. Nicholas, had immediately apprised Squire Boatfield and Sir Marmaduke de Chavasse of the awesome discovery made by the watches on the sands of Epple Bay.

"I only heard of this terrible crime an hour ago," she said, speaking once more to Boatfield, "and as I methinks, am the only person in the world who can throw light upon this awesome mystery, I thought it my duty to come.

A vague and haunting fear had seized him, a fear thatif he did do his duty, if he did continue his investigations of the mysterious crimehe would learn something vastly horrible and awesome, something he had best never know.

Then in the midst of the awesome silence that followed on that loudly spoken curse, there was the sound of a firm footstep on the rough deal floor, and the next moment Michael Richard de Chavasse was kneeling beside his mother, and covering her icy cold hand with kisses.

A career that makes such women as this is a beautiful and awesome thing.

Slowly, and now in awesome silence, two figures came down the path and when they reached a point opposite the hummocks Nathaniel could see that they turned their faces toward them and that for a brief space there was something of terror in the gleam he caught of their eyes.

And that simple gesture of kissing the paper, that gesture buried in a room, stripped bare by the dark, had something sublime and awesome in it.

great 149332 occurrences

Many persons entertain a belief that cow's milk is hurtful to infants, and, consequently, refrain from giving it; but this is a very great mistake, for both sugar and milk should form a large portion of every meal an infant takes.

"Time," according to the old proverb, "is money;" and it may also, in many cases, and with equal truthfulness, be said to be life; for a few moments, in great emergencies, often turn the balance between recovery and death.

These baths are used whenever there is congestion, or accumulation of blood in the internal organs, causing pain, difficulty of breathing, or stupor, and are employed, by their stimulating property, to cause a rush of blood to the surface, and, by unloading the great organs, produce a temporary inflammation in the skin, and so equalize the circulation.

When the inside of the throat is the part stung, there is great danger of violent inflammation taking place.

The great thing is to prevent the poison getting into the blood; and, if possible, to remove the whole of it at once from the body.

The patient's friends will have to use their own judgment to a great extent in these and in many other cases, as to when leeches, fever-mixture, &c., are necessary.

The great thing for people to do in these cases isnothing; contenting themselves with putting the patient to bed, and waiting the arrival of a surgeon. 2624.

In every case, amusing the mind, and avoiding all causes of over-excitement, are of great service in bringing about a permanent cure. 2644.

There is great burning pain, extending from the mouth to the stomach; vomiting of a liquid of a dark coffee-colour, often mixed with shreds of flesh and streaks of blood; the skin inside the mouth is taken off; and the exposed surface is at first white, and after a time becomes brownish.

When the pain over the stomach is very great, the same local treatment is necessary; but if it is only slight, a good mustard poultice will be sufficient without the leeches.

When very strong fumes of smelling-salts have in any way been inhaled, there is great difficulty of breathing, and alarming pain in the mouth and nostrils.

There is a coppery taste experienced in the act of swallowing, with a burning heat, extending from the top of the throat down to the stomach; and also a feeling of great tightness round the throat.

There is also great prostration of strength.

These consist at first in giddiness and stupor, followed by insensibility, the patient, however, being roused to consciousness by a great noise, so as to be able to answer a question, but becoming insensible again almost immediately.

If he has been a great drinker, he may be allowed to take a little beer; but it is better not to do so.

When the swelling and tenderness about the joint are very great, from eight to twelve leeches may be applied.

Ye chief, for whom the whole creation smiles; At once the head, the heart, the tongue of all, Crown the great hymn!

Yet not in thoughtless slumber were they passed; For oft the heavenly fire, that lay concealed Beneath the sleeping embers, mounted fast, And all its native light anew revealed; Oft as he traversed the cerulean field, And marked the clouds that drove before the wind, Ten thousand glorious systems would he build, Ten thousand great ideas filled his mind:

be sure the best of men; Nor thought he more than thought great Origen.

the learned, the wise, The great, the busy, I despise, And pity even the gay. 'These, these are joys alone, I cry, 'Tis here, divine Philosophy, Thou deign'st to fix thy throne!

Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hear: They breathe a soul to animate thy clay.

The officer had ordered a great many things of this man, promising to pay on his return to Tangier.

Now a large dark outline loomed before him; he would have to stop, to come about in a moment, orA great wave struck him, half filling his boat, but he did not seem to notice.

And it is only when there is this soul longing to reach the excellence conceived, for itself alone, that great works have been produced.

Pray, when would Sheikh Tâhâr, that eminent Koordish saint, have become convinced that he was a great sinner, if they had not carried about the contribution-boxes in the little New England churches?

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