Roland Graeme was too much awed by early habits, as well as by the mysterious import of her words, to ask for farther explanation of the purpose she obscurely hinted at.
He obeyed, indeed, awed into submission by the sudden recurrence of former subordination, and by feelings of affection and gratitude.
The church has its terrors as well as the law; and Henry was awedby the dean's tremendous wig as much as Paternoster Row is awed by the Attorney-General.
There were no spectators, Agnes, by your side when last he parted from you: if there had, the awful William had been awed to marks of pity.
Young William was wondering to himself what kind of an unpolished monster his beggarly cousin would appear; and was contemplating how much the poor youth would be surprised, and awed by his superiority.
A second later he uttered my name in a strange, awed tone, and I entered hesitatingly.
But to see him so glum and staring within doors awed her: she set a finger to her lips as she felt the tune on her tongue, and went about her business mute.
He pressed closer to his companion, and, with his elbows on the balustrade and his hands clenched in his hair, spoke in an awed whisper.
Every one who entered his presence was awed by the indescribable influence of his imperial mind.
When he appeared, a deep and solemn silence awed the multitude; and until he addressed the Highlanders in Gaelic, a whisper might have been heard in the crowd.
It awed him, and made him long to enjoy such an experience as would make prayer so delightful.
Yes, sir," replied Tim, a trifle awed by the gruffness of the voice.
Finally he saw one of the deck hands, who, despite his dirty clothes, did not appear to be awed by the magnificence of the boat, and Tim asked him where he should find the steward.
Far below him, in one of the green-valleys sloping down to the sea, Fakredeen and a band of Bedouins pitched their tents for the night, and talked in awed tones of their strange companion.
He did much to make her stay in London pleasant; but there was something about the maiden that awed while it fascinated him.
Her husband beckoned to Marie, the servant, who hardly dared to approach, awedas she was at having to witness a person in the grip of death.
Travelers in this land are told in awed tones strange tales of terrific gales.
Before it, awed into silence, the mob on the dock fell back, then began slipping away.
Awed by the great man's look, they brought in a submissive verdict of "Death by misadventure.
He has played his game," she said low to me, in an awed undertone.
With an awedair she stopped short, repeated once more the four mystic words, or mantra, and bowed thrice with well-assumed reverence to the Buddha.
For a season Carlos sat motionless, his soul filled to overflowing with a calm, deep tide of awed and wondering joy.
Juan could not understand him, but he was awed and impressed.
I pushed on with passionate force, till I stood close to the dying woman, as she received extreme unction amid the breathless and awedhush of the multitude around.
The rabbit, awed by the strangeness of the voice, moved its long ears; then it hopped away into the shades.
Awed by the mien of the stranger, the people stared in silence.
Mrs. Montgomery finally uttered in a little awed voice, as I finished my story.
I asked, looking around with a sort of awed delight as we paused to read one or two inscriptions--voluminous in length and medieval in spelling.
They, meanwhile, finding themselves thus intercepted in three directions, will probably lie so close as to afford a fair shot to at least one gun, for they will not fail to see the dog and be awed by his presence.
It took all the afternoon to collect and quiet the flock, and when Marcus started home he had himself not lost the awed sense of a Presence in his pasture.
Marcus was awed into speechlessness when his mother told him that the great man was personally to see to his registration and fees and clothes and books.
Swept onward like a straw in the whirlwind, I was seized with a childish desire to be the Duc d'Angouleme himself, to be one of these princes parading before an awed assemblage.
Mrs. Fielden was awed and startled; and before she could recover even breath, Lucretia had quitted her side and taken her post at the fatal door.
His servant, whose respectful admonitions had been awed into silence, lent him his arm to bed, but Sir Miles scarcely touched it.
A fell energy and power were in the aspect of the murderess as she thus spoke; and while her determination awed the inferior villany of Varney, it served somewhat to mitigate his fears.
She shocked all the notions he sincerely entertained, and he stoodawed by accusations from a blasphemer whom he dared not rebuke.
Sir Miles himself so stoutly and so eagerly repudiated the least hint of the more unfavourable interpretation that the doctor, if not convinced by his patient, was awed from expressing plainly a contrary opinion.
The servant looked and looked, and the stillness of Sir Miles awed him: he was seated on an armchair, leaning back.
She looked up at him quickly, awed by the earnestness of his tone.
Donovan could not bear to leave her in such a position, but just then a doctor came up, and the police began to drive back the crowd; and since the people were rather awed by what had happened, they dispersed meekly enough.
