68 Verbs to Use for the Word awing

" I drew myself up with no little indignation at the imperative tone, but feeling at least equal awe at the stern calmness with which the mandate was spoken.

The huge, complicated press had already inspired their awe, and they were eager to "see it work" as it printed the new paper.

For "the church dedicated to St Thomas erects itself," as Erasmus says, "with such majesty towards Heaven that even from a distance it strikes religious awe into the beholders.

Now behind this herald two knights advanced, the one in glittering armour whose shield was resplendent with many quarterings, but beholding his companion, Beltane stared in wondering awe; for lo!

The savage appearance and manner of Daaga excited awe.

He had lost his awe of Elspeth, and devoted himself to making the road easy for her.

He threw off the awe of the glad news.

Graham could not conceal his awe at the sight of the place.

'Frisco Kid was describing to him, between mouthfuls, the last sou'easter the Dazzler had weathered, and Joe experienced an increasing awe for this boy who had lived so long upon the water and knew so much about it.

The grocer was cold and inscrutable, and his wife, fearing he was meditating some severe course against Amabel, and aware of his inflexible nature, if a resolution was once formed, shook off her habitual awe, and thus addressed him: "I fear you have not forgiven our daughter.

After such a marvellous proof of second-sightedness, it may easily be conceived with what awe and faith she listened to the prediction, that his life should be in danger from poison before he was of age, and that he should be twice married; the second time to a foreign lady.

But soon men saw, with deepening awe, That sea grow white with spray; Its brilliant hue was changed from blue To a deathlike, leaden gray; And a sullen roar approached the shore

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.

In contact with the men, I dreaded lest sooner or later he do something to lessen or destroy the awe in which they held him.

The departure of such a man, in the full strength of his faculties,on whom the country had for thirty years looked as one of the permanent ornaments of its literature, and whose name had been so often associated with praise, with renown, with controversy, with blame, but never with death,diffused a universal awe.

As time somewhat diminished our awe, we gained the entrée of my grandmother's apartment, and even ventured to express our curiosity respecting the contents of various trunks, parcels, and curious-looking boxes.

For Lady Wondershoot, in these early days, he displayed the profoundest awe.

So he had to be converted with his sire, To doff the awe he learned as Ephriam, And suit his manners to a Christian name.

"Perhaps it's under the bear," hazarded Horace, his low voice evidencing the awe which the silence and the surroundings inspired in him.

He forgot his awe and said: "What's the matter with Bryce?" Doctor Nordau looked puzzled.

Good Mrs. Jenner, and the pretty girl, each gazed with eyes of solemn expectation in the face of the old woman, who seemed to gather awe from the recollections she was summoning.

And it is the avoidance of realityit is the all-purifying Presence of the Ideal, which make the vast distinction in our emotions between following, with shocked and displeasing pity, the crushed, broken-hearted, mortal criminal to the scaffold, and gazingwith an awe which has pleasure of its ownupon the Mighty Murderesssoaring out of the reach of Humanity, upon her Dragon Car!]

Nothing seemed to have been neglected which could render the execution solemn and impressive; the scenery and the weather gave additional awe to the melancholy proceedings.

But hide it they did, having a wholesome awe of the emerald eyes of their mistress, or perhaps of the steely light which sometimes came into them.

The idea of Him ruled potent in the lives of the two, filling heart and brain and hands and feet: how could she help a certain awe before it, such as she had never felt!

68 Verbs to Use for the Word  awing