Harley was a boy, and Nora was one of those women who must find or fancy an Ideal that commands and almost awes them into love.
It may have been but a broken column, a lonely pool with a star-beam on its quiet surface,--yet it awes us.
There is something in the tone that awes the young man, though long afterward he recalls the fact that Floyd did not say he loved her.
With him thy Edwards and thy Henrys shine, Names dear to fame, the first who deep impress'd On haughty Gaul the terror of thy arms, That awesher genius still.
And immortality itself, the spirit of celestial order, a beauty that awes while it charms, and chastens while it kindles, are imaged in the aspect and countenance of those structures.
She is perhaps the Poet's best illustration of the great principle, which I fear is not so commonly felt as it should be, that the highest beauty always has an element or shade of the terrible in it, so that it awes you while it attracts.
Accordingly the highest Art always has something of the terrible in it, so that it awes you while it attracts.
As to the young lady herself, I confess she rather awes me; I know I shall be henpecked.
Darkness begins to reign; the louder wind Appals the weak and awes the firmer mind; But frights not him whom evening and the spray In part conceal--yon Prowler on his way: Lo!
For he that rules his thoughts has a nobler soul Than he that awesthe world from pole to pole.
Will you ascend into the light of day And, having recognized a martyr's shrine, Go join the votaries that gape around Each vulgar god that awes the market-place?
Who would use Man for his pleasure needs must introduce The element thatawes Man.
He lives profusely, for a person in such society (regaling Daredevils whom he awes by a strength and courage which are described as extraordinary), but with out any visible means.
He commands the living public--the Ghost of the Public awes himself.
Hence, while the one pleases, the other awes and subdues us.
Darkness begins to reign; the louder wind Appals the weak and awes the firmer mind; But frights not him, whom evening and the spray In part conceal--yon prowler on his way.
Shame at first repress'd Thy open fondness, though thou wast embrac'd) Now reputation awes thee, now prevents That bliss.
Encourag'd too by that inglorious race False Gallia's sons, who once their arms display'd At Quebec, Montreal and farthest coasts Of Labrador and Esquimaux where now The British standard awes the coward host.
The brow superbawes back the maiden band, From the roused woman towers sublime the queen.
And from that title must your safety own: 'Tis that which awes my hand, and not your crown.
The Turk, who by certain imposing qualities awes all other Orientals, tacitly recognises the superiority of the Circassian ousden, or noble.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "awes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
