The audacity with which he claimed the obedience of these men to the senatorial decree overawed them.
Montebello was the centre from which Buonaparte, during the greater part of this autumn, negotiated with the emperor, controlled all Italy, and overawed the Luxembourg.
I made no sign, but out of the corner of my eye I saw that the Yellow Handkerchief had discovered the emptiness of the pocket which had hithertooverawed him.
The Greeks were plainly overawed by the display of armed strength and were putting their own rifles away.
They stood there silent and motionless, almostoverawed by the strange, touching spectacle.
The provinces dared not revolt while the armies of Misnar overawed them; but I will replenish thy coffers, and Ollomand will tempt the leaders of the Sultan's troops to join the cause of Ahubal.
After the lapse of a few seconds, the Great Dignitaries also arrived: and as I advanced to kiss the hand of the Patriarch, I felt completely overawed by the magnificence of the spectacle.
Bereft of him, Chicago overawed me, and took my breath away.
They wouldn't have self-consciousness enough to be overawed by her, though she can be so dreadfully alarming.
Ashamed and terrified with her maidenly sense, overawed and obscured by this hateful charm, yet unable to stay herself, unable to resist it, in a transport of fear and remorse, she danced on irresponsibly.
Montague Nevitt was aware that that mountain of a man, with his six feet four of muscular humanity, fairly cowed and overawed him at such very close quarters.
Yet the veterans were entirely overawed by his brilliant and commanding powers.
People of clear views wereoverawed by want of confidence in the Mayor, and fear of the thugs, many of which he had selected for his police force.
He was received with welcome by the Norman nobles, who, if not well disposed towards their new sovereign were overawed by his power or bought by his gold.
He overawed the Diet at Augsburg by the Spanish soldiery: he forced formularies of doctrine upon the vanquished Protestants: he set up and pulled down whom he would throughout Germany, amid the muttered discontent of his own partisans.
Though the king was now possessed of guards, which in some measure overawed the populace, he was determined still further to obviate all inconveniences; and he summoned the new parliament to meet at Oxford.
The commons were not overawed by the magisterial air of the king's speech.
The spirit of rebellion and insubordination, which had been overawedby the imperious demeanour of this dreaded commander, awoke upon his death.
Most of the members of the Union considered the affairs of Bohemia as foreign to the real object of their confederacy; others, who were devoted to him, were overawed by fear of the Emperor.
My father, my dear old master, whose profound and mysterious knowledge overawed my mind, and who yet reassured it with a revelation of maternal tenderness, save your child from the brink of a precipice.
He was not popular, and we would have made him our butt had he not rather overawed us by something of savage pride and by his reputation as a clever scholar, for though he was unequal in his work he was often at the head of his class.
For a moment he stood in silence, as he looked down upon the lifeless bodies of his friends, and around upon the overawed multitude gazing in silent admiration upon this heroic enthusiasm.
Her spirit was most deeply impressed and overawed by the sacredness of the ceremony.
The two new nawabs soon became the mere creatures of Dupleix, whose military strength completely overawed their motley armies.
There the Parliament assembled, overawed by the armed retainers of the duke and his partisans.
He thought Merrington rather an unpleasant type, but he was overawed by his great reputation as a detective, and impressed by his energy and massive self-confidence.
His was the type of temperament which isoverawed in the presence of a more successful practitioner in the same line of business.
Her son overawed her, as he did all the rest of the world.
The genius of Bonaparte overawed her: she only criticised him in what concerned herself personally; in everything else she respected what he called “the force of his destiny.
He overawed by his disdainful silence, by his patronizing politeness, from which no one could escape.
In society this man was tongue-tied, embarrassed and overawed by the well-dressed and prosperous-looking.
All of her life, said she, she had been overawed by others.
Sturk's house, with a gait and a countenance that might have overawed an army.
This miracle, as it seemed to them, overawed the rough mob for a moment.
The preacher's words and tones and his piercing eyes quickly overawed his audience, and made them forget his outlandish appearance.
Caesar had begun the struggle to liberate the overawed senate from its oppressors.
The Irish, thoughoverawed by the departed Deputy, had been plotting in the usual way, and after all that had passed Lord Thomond and O'Carroll were sworn allies.
Bellingham established a garrison at Athlone, which overawed the O'Kellys and O'Melaghlins; but little progress was made beyond the Shannon.
Sir Richard Butler, some of whose misdeeds have been already mentioned, built a castle in O'More's country without any title, and overawed the whole district of Slievemargy.
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