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Inside the Sistine Chapel, where in the past I have been shoved and elbowed by the crowds, about 30 spectators were awing over Perugino’s frescoes and craning to see Michelangelo’s burly musclemen on the ceiling.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2021

The ball seemed for a time as if it were awing forever, and would fall to the ground no more.

From The Frontiersmen by Murfree, Mary Noailles