Word: awestruck
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...them, by accident, dropped a heavy piece of steel. It fell upon the flat, glass-paneled ceiling of the Senate and went crashing through to the floor. Dismayed, the workmen hurried to see which of the 48 stained-glass State seals in the Senate skylights had been broken. Awestruck, they found that the missle had missed all the State seals, missed also the figures of Peace, Industry, Valor, etc., and had singled out for destruction the great Horn of Plenty from which gifts of flowers and fruits pour down upon the U.S. people's most august representatives...
...multicolored cupolas and towers bedizened with snow. Beyond lie the grim walls and towers of the Kremlin. The people have just heard the ukase. They stand in clusters, joyfully inarticulate, habitually stolid. The bizarre tints of the Cathedral glimmer like a huge lantern of faith above and beyond the awestruck host...
Engineer Louis Janin and Miss Lou Henry came into the Hoover picture at about this time-Mr. Janin to hire Herbert Hoover as a stenographer and to let him, almost overnight, acquire an outstanding international reputation as an engineer; Miss Henry to gaze awestruck at Professor Branner's greatest pupil and to accept him a few years later, when he cabled an important question to her from the Australian goldfields, scene of his first...
...horsemen looked at one another in awestruck silence; for it was certain that an outlaw band of hostile Morroccan tribesmen had kidnapped M. et Mme. Yvse Steeg, M. et Mme. Jean Maillet, nephew and stepson and their wives of Theodore Steeg, French Resident General of Morrocco, the highest official of the Republic in the Morrocco protectorate. The party had gone ahunting...
...decorator made known his errand at the Lihme apartment building to a suavely superior individual in grey livery, John Healy, stalwart doorman; and was formally admitted. He ascended to the Lihme floor, entered the apartment, halted, gazed awestruck. Gulping with astonishment he called back the elevator man, who summoned blue arms of the law, who brought detectives and newsgatherers in their train. Soon the Lihme apartment-once imposing, now dismaying-was filled with a buzz of talk, excited, threatening, incredulous, ominous. With the aid of stalwart Doorman Healy whose front changed from polite surprise to bitter penitence, the time...