But the sight, though it awes us, does not depress us or deter us.
Surely it can't be merely his habit;——there's something in him that awes me.
Hence, while the one pleases, the other awes and subdues us.
Then comes the dark cell, an experience which awes the boldest.
The majesty of Night is so contagious, it awes, it inspires.
Blake on the wing has a strange beauty, a swift, direct and strenuous flight that thrills and awes the imaginative spectator.
The beauty and boldness of the scenery on either side alternately enchants and awes.
Is it, thought I, the shadow of a sinister catastrophe that already projects over and awes, appalls him?
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 ever something in courage and in will that awes numbers, though brave themselves.
c.1300, earlier aghe, c.1200, from a Scandinavian source, e.g. Old Norse agi "fright;" from Proto-Germanic *agiz- (cf. Old English ege "fear," Old High German agiso "fright, terror," Gothic agis "fear, anguish"), from PIE *agh-es- (cf. Greek akhos "pain, grief"), from root *agh- "to be depressed, be afraid" (see ail). Current sense of "dread mixed with veneration" is due to biblical use with reference to the Supreme Being. Awe-inspiring is recorded from 1814.
