The conception awed her.
Anna was awed by the sensation of being surrounded by terrific forces always straining for release and held in check by the power of a single wall.
" I asked in a whisper, half awed by the deep pervading hush.
Paulina was awed by the savants, but not quite to mutism: she conversed modestly, diffidently; not without effort, but with so true a sweetness, so fine and penetrating a sense, that her father more than once suspended his own discourse to listen, and fixed on her an eye of proud delight.
Madame's presence would have awed her back to her own realm of the vestibule and the cabinet—for mine, or that of any other teacher or pupil, she cared not a jot.
We sat in awed silence, gazing with timid curiosity about the room, the stained, plastered walls of which were well-nigh covered with a motley assortment of pictures, chromos, and advertisements, pasted on without much regard for order or character.
We can never pierce its infinite mystery—we may only wander, awed and spellbound, on the outer fringe of it.
" said Christopher Robin in an awed voice, hardly daring to believe it.
" said Celia, in an awed under tone.
There too I was awed by the greatness of the man who had painted that ceiling.
And he was awed.
"Just think, Diana, I'm thirteen years old today," remarked Anne in an awed voice.
Rachel found abundant time to sit for hours at her kitchen window, knitting "cotton warp" quilts—she had knitted sixteen of them, as Avonlea housekeepers were wont to tell in awed voices—and keeping a sharp eye on the main road that crossed the hollow and wound up the steep red hill beyond.
The group loitered away, still recalling memories of the lost heroes, in awed voices.
The boys went back to camp, a good deal awed; but they found there was still something to be thankful for, because the great sycamore, the shelter of their beds, was a ruin, now, blasted by the lightnings, and they were not under it when the catastrophe happened.
"'Tain't thunder," said Huckleberry, in an awed tone, "becuz thunder—" "Hark!
'" Even the pirates were awed, and Tootles cried out hysterically, "I am going to do what my mother hopes.
I was so awed at how destiny arranged all the incidents in our lives to come up for blessings that it has prepared ahead of us!
And I am awed by our GREat fortune that the Bobber earned his way into this family with such grace that it now seems he was always there.
I was so awed at how destiny arranged all the incidents in our lives to come up for blessings that it has prepared ahead of us!
