Other Word Forms
- awelessness noun
Etymology
Origin of aweless
Example Sentences
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Overhead, an aweless eagle, rising wing above wing says to his sweetheart, "It is my opinion God made these mountains for no other reason than that you and I might build our nest in them....."
From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey
In their town The aweless Trojans armed themselves the while War-eager, praying to the Gods to grant Respite from slaughter, breathing-space from toil.
From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders
Friends, I have lost hope: mine heart seeth not Or help, or bulwark from the storm of war, Now that the aweless Hector, who was once Troy's mighty champion, is in dust laid low.
From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders
We must make allowance for the intoxication of recent triumph and final victory over a triumphing and victorious enemy; or who but would start back at the aweless temerity of this assertion?
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson
Its prayer is to hold fast the pious mind, the smooth painless life at peace with heaven and earth, instead of fighting with the invincible, aweless outcast from all law.
From Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy by Moulton, Richard Green
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