It is this that constitutes the greatness and awfulness of the temptation.
The greatness and awfulness of the sin of Eve therefore can neither be lessened nor made too great.
It is very probable therefore, and the events of the series of years which followed confirm this probability, that the sorrowing parents, struck with the awfulness of this calamity, abstained for a long time from connubial intercourse.
To all this are added the perils of gestation and parturition, the difficulty of rearing children when born, and an infinity of other evils; all which tend to impress us with the awfulness and magnitude of original sin.
Here again the awfulness of the original fall and sin is revealed.
In a word, even here and in all things else, is present the unspeakable awfulness of original sin.
This greatness and awfulness of the sin of Eve are the pregnant causes of all the calamitous punishments which we endure.
This brief clause therefore shows us the awfulnessof the evil which has come upon us, as the consequence of the sin of .
Croisenois seemed overwhelmed by this new caprice: his palpable grief alleviated the awfulness of Julien's agony.
He was touched by this circumstance, and somewhat forgot the awfulness of the indiscretion.
He was there free to exaggerate to himself all the awfulness of his fate.
Then that the American tribes were in the eyes of the colonists "real worshippers" of the Devil, and a few lines later we hear of "the real awfulness of the world.
It showed the familiar scene of the street, with the distinctness of mid-day, but also with the awfulness that is always imparted to familiar objects by an unaccustomed light.
Frightfulness more frightful, awfulness more awful; in Rosalie almost now beyond control the desire to scream, or to burst into tears or wildly into laughter.
He appeared unmoved at the awfulness of his situation, and his eyes were downcast; a slight hectic tinged his cheeks when the inquisition was read over.
Thurtell, on taking his station under the gallows, looked round with a countenance unchanged by the awfulness of his situation.
And here amid our idle pastime we sat down upon almost the only stone that breaks the surface of the sand, and were lost in an unlooked-for and overpowering conception of the majesty and awfulness of the great deep.
The awfulness of these last words and of this last significant sign is increased by the tenderness of Him who gave them forth.
The lesson that we have to learn is the reality and awfulness of sin, the reality of that persistence in wickedness that can make even the love of Jesus vain for our salvation.
And it did me good to enjoy the awfulness and sanctity of Gothic architecture again, after so long shivering in classic porticos.
But the awfulness if the text impressed me all the while with the sense of allure, and though the sermon was finished, I mainly felt at the end that I had lost my week.
The awfulness of prayer to me inclines me more and more to make it silent, speechless.
In the earlier of these, angelic presences, mingled with human, occur frequently, illustrated by no awfulness of light, nor incorporeal tracing.
I would also have the reader compare with the meagre lines and contemptible tortures of the Laocoon, the awfulness and quietness of M.
No miracle is to be worked which should be overwhelming in point of awfulness so as to terrify men into acceptance, or which should be unanswerably certain, leaving no loophole for unbelief.
However he might wonder at the strangeness and awfulness of the truth, yet he had been led into it most carefully and gradually.
It gives solemnity and awfulness to the investigations of science.
No descriptions of divine punishment which are written anywhere, can come the least into comparison with them for awfulness and horror.
It may be that we see but a promise of him as we look into the prophetic faces of children; into the eyes of those we love, and the awfulness of life’s possibilities presses into our souls.
The leaning house was half submerged when Fanny appeared at the door, like a figure in a dream; seeming a natural part of the awfulness of it.
The prisoner's countenance here indicated surprise, unmixed, however, with any demonstrations of that concern which the awfulness of his situation was calculated to produce.
The executioner was so affected by the awfulness of the scene, that on his asking pardon of the prisoner, he burst into tears.
Habitually, his entrance into a room where his elders sat brought a cloud of apprehension: they were prone to look up in pathetic expectancy, as if their thought was, "What new awfulness is he going to start NOW?
Do you know WHY he says all that awfulness happened?
The class sat weighted with the awfulness of the responsibility.
Oh, Sadie," said Hattie, and while there was despair in her voice one knew that in Hattie's heart there was exultation at the very awfulnessof it.
But he is not conscious of any awfulness from having offended God; his awfulness proceeds from a sense of his being eternally lost.
He would also disclose to our view the hideousness and awfulness of sin, and the uneasiness, discontentments, trouble and fear attending the wicked as they journey onward to the eternal region of woe.
