Had their party been perfectly agreeable, the delay would have been nothing; but General Tilney, though so charming a man, seemed always a check upon his children's spirits, and scarcely anything was said but by himself; the observation of which, with his discontent at whatever the inn afforded, and his angry impatience at the waiters, made Catherine grow every moment more in awe of him, and appeared to lengthen the two hours into four.
These powers received due admiration from Catherine, to whom they were entirely new; and the respect which they naturally inspired might have been too great for familiarity, had not the easy gaiety of Miss Thorpe's manners, and her frequent expressions of delight on this acquaintance with her, softened down every feeling of awe, and left nothing but tender affection.
I just gazed at her in awe.
" The titter that rippled around the room appeared to abash the boy, but in reality that result was caused rather more by his worshipful awe of his unknown idol and the dread pleasure that lay in his high good fortune.
The awe which these reflections inspired was attested by the impressive silence and the ranks of staring eyes.
"I cannot strike," he said with awe, "there is something stays my hand.
Together, apart, united, divided, in greatness and awe, , in brokenness and shamed… , YOU… , are the beauty of this world.
But you do inspire wonder and awe amongst those that write you letters and go to sleep hoping there might be a new object in their possession come dawn.
Any awe is flattened by follow-up questions.
One examines the bud in awe: Where were those seeds a month ago?
I rediscovered Daddy again—not as a boy in awe, but with respect as a man.
Every child is in awe of ants, birds, and dandelions.
Creatives live in the present and are in constant awe of the world around them.
Go to the park, walk on a nature trail, clear your thoughts, listen to the sounds of the forest, and be in awe of the beauty that's right in front of you.
Expressions are limited to mouth movements when someone is faking emotions (like happy, surprised, sad, awe, ) instead of the whole face.
Adagio:·-B-Jim Broadbent :· The silver trumpets rang across the Dome: ,: The people knelt upon the ground with awe: : And borne upon the necks of men I saw, ,, Like some great God, the Holy Lord of Rome.
Have a name that is whispered with reverent awe?
The woods arose in folds, like drapery of awakened mountains, stately with a depth of awe, and memory of the tempests.
The poetry of mere day and of late summer becomes perceptible to mature eyes that have long ceased to be sated, have taken leave of weariness, and cannot now find anything in nature too familiar; eyes which have, indeed, lost sight of the further awe of midsummer daybreak, and no longer see so much of the past in April twilight as they saw when they had no past; but which look freshly at the dailiness of green summer, of early afternoon, of every sky of any form that comes to pass, and of the da
Here then is the first pole of life's paradoxical demands on us: Never too busy for the wonder and the awe of life.