awe

• We look first into the interior of the old house of which Pippa has spoken with a kind of awe, and see the proud Ottima who owns the mills where Pippa is but a poor worker. —  How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions
• This silentness had from the very beginning of their acquaintance induced in her that faint awe, which is the most ominous yet most delicious feeling that a woman can have towards a man. —  Agatha's Husband A Novel
• Often, indeed, the use of an ancient language, which has gradually fallen into disuse among the people, is deliberately maintained for the air of mystery and of awe which is conveyed by its use, and which has something of the same effect upon the intellect as the "dim religious light" of a cathedral has upon the emotions. —  Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678
• Giovanni was hurrying blindly past when they stopped him There was no reproach spoken for what he had done, no bitterness; only a kind of awe--and pity Rosa had died on her knees in the nunnery at the exact time he stabbed yonder picture. —  The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story
• Then slowly into that feeling there entered something which was a kind of awe, almost an actual fear. —  Under Handicap A Novel

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