"Awed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in her voice that soft, almost awed note with which an unengaged girl regards a companion who has actually plighted her troth. ...
— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... his pride, a secret shame Invades his heart at Shakspeare's sacred name; Awed when he hears his godlike Romans rage, He, in a just despair, would quit the stage, And to an age less polish'd, more unskill'd, Does, with ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various
... A man's devotion to another commands awed respect, however it may manifest itself. But he was ...
— Out of the Ashes • Ethel Watts Mumford
... historical monument in the United States is Independence Hall, on Chestnut Street between Fifth and Sixth streets. Here the American nation really came into being and began to function, and here come thousands of visitors annually to view in awed admiration the greatest patriotic shrine of a free people. The building, designed by Andrew Hamilton, speaker of the Assembly, and built under his direction for the State House, was used for that purpose until 1799. The foundations were laid in 1731, and the main building was ready ...
— The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia • Frank Cousins
... case of injury to the Prince, and who was in the habit of dissecting such dead beasts as interested him, cut along the path followed by the missile, cleaving the dead lion in two lengthwise and laying the two halves hide downward on the sand, so as to demonstrate to a bevy of curious and awed spectators the incredible ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White
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