The awful burden dragging behind terrified him, and with head strained forward and starting eyes he galloped madly.
Then came the catastrophe, and I passed through the most awful misery that man had ever felt: even now as I thought of it the sweat gathered on my forehead.
I should stand by and see this awful thing and be utterly powerless.
The sun beat down with all the power of August, and everything seemed livid with the awful heat.
I could not have been so--so happy if anythingawful had happened to Kent.
Auberon Herbert's Highland retreat on the shores of Loch Awe, is an awful tale of destiny, the premonition of which only renders it more tragic.
I turned white and cold, felt an awful dread; I was too much afraid to go near enough to shut the door when he had vanished.
You're the most awfulspecimen of materialism I ever hope to run up against.
Small chance of my getting married for a few years, anyway, so I won't have such a very awful time living up to that promise.
Must I dip again into the soilure and abomination of thatawful time?
That idea had already flitted through my brain, but I had never dared to formulate the awful thought.
She found her mother on her knees beside her father, who would indeed have been a ghastly and awful object to all but the eyes of love.
Help Phebe get him on the bed, and then we must stop this awful bleeding.
They take an awful lot of wood; and wood is getting scarce in these parts.
The cold of this awful day is chilling my very heart, and my grief, as hope dies, is crushing my soul.
Their further action, however, soon inspired Phebe with a new and more awful fear, for she found that they had fastened the doors on the outside and were building a fire against one of them.
After one glance at the awful scene she sank, half fainting, on a settee near the door.
General Grant could scarcely believe at first that Lee had left his strong intrenchments to give battle in a region little better than a jungle; but he soon had ample and awful proof of the fact.
Among the phenomena of these mountains are certain visionary figures, which have something awful and supernatural in their aspect.
After the awful destruction of the Janissaries at the Atmeidan, they were everywhere hunted down like wild beasts through the city.
When fires have penetrated, they have been attended with the mostawful consequences.
This is intersected by ravines of immeasurable depth, and his way leads along the edges of precipices of awful grandeur.
Tradition has handed down to us the flood of Deucalion; and ancient writings have assigned as its cause, “the rupture of the Cyanean rocks:” so that both poets and historians concur in preserving the memory of this awful event.
I imagined her work, after she asked me to pray for her, upon that awful night.
You do as I tell you," said he, in that most awful tone of his, which always makes you so afraid.
Your mother did not come home; and the awful Irishwoman was here all the time.
As thus I wander musing, lo, whatawful forms Yonder appear!
Roars not the rushing wind; the sons of men And every beast in mute oblivion lie; All nature's hushed in silence and in sleep: O then how fearful is it to reflect That through the still globe's awful solitude No being wakes but me!
And Heaven allows an awful pause from guilt, Suspend the war, and recognize the bands, Against whose lives you arm your impious hands!
In winterawful thou' with clouds and storms Around thee thrown, tempest o'er tempest rolled Majestic darkness!
As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
There is no one here in this desolate, awful place--not even a wild beast.
But tell us--we thought you were drowned in that awful place.
I should say the person must be very dense and stupid who is not frightened of such an awful place.
He snatched off his hat, and began to wave it, bursting out at the same time into the most awful parody of a Swiss jodel that ever startled the mountains, and made them echo back the wild, weird sounds.
To make the passage along this ledge the more perilous and strange, each was invisible to the other, and their voices in the awfulsolitude sounded muffled and strange.
Dale; but he spoke seriously, for the terrible nature of the place impressed him, and before going farther the two again peered down into the awful gulf.
Saxe aloud, after shouting till he grew hoarse, and speaking out now for the sake of hearing a voice in that awful silence.
The block they turned over was roughly cylindrical, and turned over pretty readily upon their using their axe handles as levers, and at last they had it close to the brink of the awful chasm, and paused for a few moments.
Here is a fiend throttling me--oh, its awful eyes, they blaze like two marsh fires.
Half burnt, he dragged himself out, on our side, from the awful conflagration, and hid himself till eventide in the woods, suffering greatly.
The body was borne by the chief tenants yet living, and surrounded by chanting monks, whose solemn "Domine refugium nostrum" fell with awful yet consoling effect upon the ears of the multitude.
At least, if he must die, let him die freed from the supposed guilt of such awful sacrilege, and let men know to what kind of father King William committed the innocent English lad.
The merry song ceased; the conversation dropped; and in the awful stillness the senses of each man confirmed the report of the sentinel.
Oh, how awful were his ravings to her, when at last she learned the truth.
Well might they stand aghast who gazed upon this awful portent, which had seemed to set the southern heavens on fire.
Shall we, who have conquered the awful Harold Hardrada, the victor of a hundred fights, fear these puny Frenchmen?
But hours were not given to Baron Hugo; for at this moment the awful cry of "Fire!
This awful description of the cruelty of the Norman barons under the grandson of the Conqueror may partially apply to the barons of an earlier period, such as Hugo de Malville.
The life had been ebbing when, hearing our signals, he had striven with his last breath to summon us that he might not die alone, and, indeed, his face looked as one who had died in awful fear with some gruesome sight before his eyes.
Oh, how awful that sucking, clasping feeling beneath the surface of the earth, that gradual sinking out of sight--a process lasting perhaps for hours.
Silence dread and awful reigned over the Dismal Swamp, the scene of strife and suffering; the very beasts fled the spot, nor could the birds of night linger in the heated air.
Dealing as Milton does with subjects the most awful and mysterious that poet ever chose, he is never troubled by the obstinate questionings of invisible things which haunted the imagination of Shakspere.
Cromwell landed in Ireland on the fifteenth of August 1649; and his storm of Drogheda in September was the first of a series of awful massacres.
No,' said he, 'but yer sintiments were awful highfalutin'.
He did not remember ever having had even a headache before; and, as to theawful pain in his heart, there never had been a reason for its existence till this moment.
So they started across France, three days and awful nights they went, weary and sore and bitter still.
There had been three awful days when his "peach of a captain" about whom he had spoken to Ruth, had been called away on some military errand and Wainwright had been the commanding officer.
If there really is a God why does He let such awful things happen to a pure good girl?
Do you know, I don't believe I ever realized what an awful thing the war is till I saw those people down at the station this morning saying good-bye.
They spoke as if all their household were one great family, equally interested in one another, equally suffering and patient in the necessities of this awful war.
It seemed so awful for a girl with brains--or hadn't she brains?
Ruth had one awful moment of adjustment when she tried to think how her aunt Rhoda would look if she could see her now; then she threw the whole thing to the winds and resolved to enjoy the day.
And just then you came along behind me and jumped through the hedge and caught Chuck and gave him anawful whipping.
The sight was horrible enough, but, with the awfulsmell added, was simply unbearable.
That awful man--I shall see him for ever in my dreams.
And through it all theawful cry came up from that fathomless pit, whose entrance was flooded with spots of fresh blood.
Many of the awful fragments were of something which had lately been alive.
Sir Nathaniel's voice was full of seriousness, and it brought to Mimi in a convincing way the awful gravity of the occasion.
And this befell to the great consolation of the dwellers among the glaciers; for it was as if Heaven had told them that the spot where an innocent babe was born, on this awful day, had nothing to fear from God's wrath.
She makes me feel awful mad because she can't understand that I ain't--I am not mad at her, but at myself.
She says the trees are awful crowded in places and there's no dust on them.
Seems awful funny not to have any housework to do in the morning," Ma Briskow confessed, as they left the Ajax.
I charge them with my dying breath, ere thirty days be gone, To meet me in the realm of death, and at God's awful throne!
In that awful hour they confessed his name, bewailing their sins, and the all-merciful God forgot not their past labours for the sake of Christ, for whose faith they lost their lives.
You had told me of that awful experience of yours in the Bosphorus and of the effect it had on you.
It is that awful western person's that George Holt would drag to our box--our box--last night.
In the first place it cannot be possible that she regarded her son Jesus as "that awful Being, before whom e'en the devout saints bow in trembling fear," when she used such language and evinced such a spirit as she did.
An awful personage will soon make his appearance among us.
He fled to the woodshed and there punctuated his morning task of kindling chopping with groans and awful forebodings.
I'm awful glad you didn't tell Emulous you was the minister.
You look awfulpeaked lately, Mr. Ellery," said Didama Rogers.
The old lady's been awful kind and sympathizin' since--since this new trouble.
And when I was your age I wa'n't so awful homely, either.
Seems to me you took an awfullong time findin' that hammer.
I hid beside my mother, where I said I would stay until the man was through his breakfast, but father came out and demanded that the boys should come in, and he set me right under the wing of that awful giant.
And the awful sincerity of his character was found by many to be absolutely intolerable.
