Not only for the persons of ministers of religion had the ancient awe and reverence disappeared, but even for the sacred precincts of the Sanctuary.
The awe of the eighth century for a Priest or Bishop had already disappeared in the tenth, when Christian hands were found to decapitate Cormac of Cashel, and offer his head as a trophy to the Ard-Righ.
Tis a far cry to Lough Awe," is still a lowland proverb, and Lough Awe was in the very heart of that old Irish settlement.
In filial piety there is nothing greater than the reverential awe of one's father.
In Australia the deference shown to them is partly due to the superstitious awe of certain mysterious rites which are known to them alone, and to the knowledge of which young persons are only very gradually admitted.
For the unknown stranger, like everything unknown and everything strange, arouses a feeling of mysterious awe in superstitious minds.
It filled Kant with the same awe as the star-spangled firmament.
In the reverentialawe shown to one's father there is nothing greater than the making him the correlate of Heaven.
The girl to whom she had spoken, and the others, simply looked at her, but in one face after another presently dawned awe and joy.
Naida and the two girls were silent now, and suddenly Kirby realized that to their awe of the gem was added awe of deepest religious nature.
We gazed in silent awe till the dazzling radiance crept to the last mountain top, and faded into night.
If so, would not the awe be also removed, and would religion gain by it?
With what awe does the first acquaintance with death impress us!
The superstitions of the Danes were strong in Githa; and she felt an indescribable awe when Hilda stood before her, the red light playing on the Vala's stern marble face, and contrasting robes of funereal black.
Harold longed to speak to her of Edith, but a strange awe at his heart chained his lips; so he stood silent by the great wooden gates of the rude house.
To regard with reverence, or profound respect and affection, mingled with awe or fear; to venerate; to reverence; to honor in estimation.
I could brook condescension from my father, for I looked up to him with awe as a superior being, but I could not brook patronage from a brother, who, I felt, was intellectually my inferior.
The voice from the water was again heard in a tone of impatience; the bystanders stared with redoubled awe at this man of storms, which seemed to have come up out of the deep and to be called back to it again.
Wolfert, who, from a dark corner of the room, had listened with intense eagerness to all this talk about buried treasure, looked with mingled awe and reverence on this bold buccaneer, for such he really suspected him to be.
The stories connected with this wreck made it an object of great awe to my boyish fancy; but in truth the whole neighborhood was full of fable and romance for me, abounding with traditions about pirates, hobgoblins, and buried money.
The long time that had intervened since his nocturnal adventure had effaced all Sam's awe of the place, and the promise of a trifling reward roused him at once from his sleep and his sunshine.
Wolfert took his seat in a remote part of the room in silence; impressed with profound awe of this unknown, so versed in freebooting history.
Not far from where we landed, was an old Dutch family vault, in the side of a bank, which had been an object of great awe and fable among my schoolboy associates.
How often did he shrink with curdlingawe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramping close behind him!
He blurted his question with a ferociousness that again startled Fred; but he was beginning to suspect that this was the banker's usual way of conversing, and his awe of him diminished.
It was a trinket of beauty and value, and Phil clasped it upon her wrist and contemplated it with awe and delight.
It had been said of Phil that she liked to tease; she had, with a pardonable joy, made the high-school boys dance to her piping, and the admiration of the young collegians was tempered with awe and fear.
At length they began to converse, though at first in a low tone, as if the silence had its awe even for them.
Mrs. Brace and Mattie sat withawe and wonder on their faces.
The duke she remembered well; she felt no especial awe of him; she could tell, from the expression of his face, that he thought her beautiful.
In old times people looked with awe upon the mountains, and regarded them with feelings akin to horror or dread.
But this awe was not unmixed with other and more comforting thoughts.
To many who have contented themselves with the bottom of the glen, and have looked with awe at the array of peaks and crags overhead, this statement will doubtless appear incredible.
Yet, science-worshiper that he was, something of reverent awetinged the keen triumph.
Before long Cliff Villa shone resplendent, to the awe and marvel of the Folk.
And through their souls thrilled wonder, awe and passion, and life held another meaning and another mystery.
His huge frame was shaken with sobs for one long minute, while I stood looking on with awe and reverence.
Her face looked almost glorified with delight: there was a hush of that awe upon it which is perhaps one of the deepest kinds of delight.
It is because we are coarse and fibrous and confined in the sick weight of flesh that we do not stand in a kind of creative awe before the lowliest mystery of our physical sight.
I regarded the new person with aweif he could do that.
I am in awe of men who plaster houses for a living--and for pennies the hour.
