The nobility of our aim in the war must not blind us to the awfulness and the magnitude of the destruction.

The rest, between the awfulness of their late discovery and the odd conduct of this third visitor, looked as if they knew not what to think, and said nothing.

Diseases, storm, flood, blight, all these show that there is in God an awfulness, a sternness, an anger if need bea power of destroying his own work, of altering his own order; but sunshine, fruitfulness, peace, and comfort, all show that love and mercy, beauty and order, are just as much attributes of his essence as awfulness and anger.

Diseases, storm, flood, blight, all these show that there is in God an awfulness, a sternness, an anger if need bea power of destroying his own work, of altering his own order; but sunshine, fruitfulness, peace, and comfort, all show that love and mercy, beauty and order, are just as much attributes of his essence as awfulness and anger.

It seemed a desecration of its awfulness to find comfort in anything but the highest and the deepest.

Does that former dream of a human Son relieve this dream of none of its awfulness?

He was terribly affected by the awfulness of the tragedy, and offered a liberal reward to stimulate the activity of the police in search of the miscreant.

It needs to be mellowed and ripened, like some pictures; altho I suppose this awfulness of antiquity was supplied, in the minds of the generation that built cathedrals, by the sanctity which they attributed to them.

There is a scriptural awfulness in the account of the hero's becoming naked; and the violent result is tremendous.

The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my understanding to comprehend this, for many years I never could see why it should produce such an effect.

It wasn't death nor awfulness I couldn't face,not that, not that; but I loved her true, I say,I loved her true, and I'd spoken my last words to her, my very last; I had left her those to remember, day in and day out, and year upon year, as long as she remembered her husband, as long as she remembered anything.

Few people have the slightest conception of the magnitude or awfulness of this cañon.

A storm in such a location had its awfulness intensified beyond measure, and the frightened men looked in every direction for shelter.

During the first rush of war the German system of destruction, and the doctrine of "awfulness," as I saw it applied to physical objects, was barbaric, relentless, and totally unjustified.

For every thing that is Majestick imprints an Awfulness and Reverence on the Mind of the Beholder, and strikes in with the Natural Greatness of the Soul.

It is no wonder that the solemnity and awfulness of the Future have been felt so much, that the languages of Northern Europe have, as I dare say you know, no word which expresses the essential notion of Futurity.

In their opinion the awfulness of the situation had been adequately recognized by the teacher and signaled by the equally awful expedient of a visit to the Principal's office, the last resort in the case of the rarely occurring insubordinate boy.

The agitation of her confessor, the tremulous eagerness of his words, the alternations of severity and tenderness in his manner to her, all struck her only as indications of the very grave danger in which she was placed, and the awfulness of the sin and condemnation which oppressed the soul of one for whom she was conscious of a deep and strange interest.

" "Avast!" burst out of the chest of Fid, with an awfulness and depth that stayed even the daring; movements of that lawless moment.

More than any other teacher Jesus Christ emphasized the actuality and awfulness of sin; more than any other has He intensified the world's consciousness of sin.

Evidently there was some "awfulness" she shrank from.

There was something eerie in the night, in the wreck and confusion of the storm, in our loneliness without father and mother, and in the possible awfulness and change that were so near,over there in Grandfather Holabird's lighted room.

Let the awfulness of my condition warn thee.

Or had woman's hope, so persistent where her loved ones are concerned, made Beulah Sands blind to the awfulness of the situation?

I have read about the rumblings of earthquakes, and although I never heard any of them, I have felt a shock, and I can imagine the awfulness of the rumbling, and I had a feeling as if the building was about to sway and swing as they do in earthquakes.