Word: awe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dusky, lustrous eyes of Roman citizens grew large and moist with awe, last week, when a Papal medal as big as a smallish soup plate was borne pompously across the "Eternal City...
...less than 17 months. The mortuary equipment includes "a pile of nice linen handkerchiefs for the bereaved, all absolutely free . . . and a casket that slides out of the back room into the chapel-drawing room on a little electric trolley, as if by magic . . . thus giving a feeling of awe and mystery...
...present no valid reason why a person should not stroll across Boston Common at the first appearance of the tulips and the Swan-boats; wander through the vaunted architecture of Copley Square; mingle with a good natured, entertaining holiday crowd against a rope and before a policeman; gaze with awe at series of exhausted men who have run twenty-six miles for glory: and not, having done all this, enjoy it immensely...
Fifteen years have proven too much for its withered neck and tall feathers and now this bird, once honored and looked up to with wonder and awe, lies discarded in some dumping ground, the location of which could not be discovered according to Notman...
...most striking aspect of the United States as I have found it, is the architecture," he went on, in answer to the reporter's query. "I tis really awe-inspiring. I can readily perceive a re- lationship between ancient. Nineveh and the towering cities here. At any moment I fancy that I may see some city dwellers from ancient Babylon appear in the tall buildings...