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1. Hereafter, perhaps, the natives of those countries may grow stronger, or those of Europe may grow weaker ; and the inhabitants of all the different quarters of the world may arrive at that equality of courage and force which, by inspiring mutual fear, can alone overawe the injustice of independent nations into some sort of respect for the rights of one another
2. particular sect having thus become complete masters of the field, and their influence and authority with the great body of the people being in its highest vigour, they were powerful enough to overawe the chiefs and leaders of their own party, and to oblige the civil magistrate to respect their opinions and inclinations
3. These two jokers wanted to overawe her with their big bodies, squeezing her between them like a kid
4. overawe the lad with his size
5. In the Gospels and Epistles, in the teaching of Christ and His apostles, you find it flaming out like lightning on every side, whose 'flash hangs durable in heaven;’ you find a terrible clearness of outline and force of coloring given to the doctrine, which astonish and overawe you
6. Reflecting, probably from certain fairly unmistakable signs, that he would get nothing in this "cabin" by attempting to overawe them, the gentleman softened somewhat, and civilly, though with some severity, emphasising every syllable of his question, addressed Zossimov:
7. Jonathan's impetuosity, and the manifest singleness of his purpose, seemed to overawe those in front of him
8. They were sparing of the Heat-Ray that night, either because they had but a limited supply of material for its production or because they did not wish to destroy the country but only to crush and overawe the opposition they had aroused
9. Reflecting, probably from certain fairly unmistakable signs, that he would get nothing in this ‘cabin’ by attempting to overawe them, the gentleman softened somewhat, and civilly, though with some severity, emphasising every syllable of his question, addressed Zossimov:
10. He spoke with a harsh, jerky voice, as if he wanted to overawe us
11. One State makes additions to its army in order to overawe its own subjects; its neighbor takes alarm, and straightway follows the example
12. They are, in the first place, needed to overawe their own subjects, and every man who yields to military conscription becomes an involuntary participator in all the oppressive acts of government toward its subjects
13. On the contrary, they see, and very plainly too, that if our Cabinet be gratified in the object of its ambition, and Canada become a conquered province, that an apology is immediately given for extending and maintaining in that country a large military force; under pretence of preserving the conquered territories—really, with a view to overawe adjoining States
14. The gentleman would overawe the Indians
1. Henri Dubois was not a man easily overawed or
2. Nicolas seemed overawed by the room
3. The instructor could see George was a bit overawed by his request
4. It was a good show, but I wasn’t overawed
5. Overawed was his exact word, then for an hour he relived old pleasures by skinny dipping with the two young men in the pool before Jarek drove him home so Edgar could be sure he knew all the idiosyncrasies of the vehicle
6. Thus overawed by his father's aura and pushed by his own emotion, Suresh fell at Gautam's feet
7. Man's mind is not to be crushed by the mere weight of logic or overawed by shrewd eloquence
8. 7 But the audacious boldness of Jesus in publicly appearing in Jerusalem overawed his enemies; they were not prepared for such a daring challenge
9. Before midnight they crossed the Ophirean border and at dawn the spires of Khorshemish stood up gleaming and rose-tinted on the south-eastern horizon, the slim towers overawed by the grim scarlet citadel that at a distance was like a splash of bright blood in the sky
10. It wasn’t nerves, or being overawed by being spoken to by such a powerful man, and her just a lowly DC
11. He knew she was different but was still overawed by her beauty, personality
12. an amphibious being like Kandras and he had been overawed by the richness
13. Even otherwise, it’s worth noting that the hadith and sunna are based on what Muhammad’s followers said that he said, and at any rate, they were all but an overawed crowd to be able to retain objectively in Muhammad’s prophetic presence
14. vast majority of Tibetans ‘are overawed [into silence] by the mere
15. whose personality was so imposing that he was overawed
16. ” Wary that Hanor could be overawed, life
17. that!” he stuttered, overawed
18. Basilio has but this ewe-lamb, and no one, however powerful he may be, shall take her from him; these two whom God hath joined man cannot separate; and he who attempts it must first pass the point of this lance;" and so saying he brandished it so stoutly and dexterously that he overawed all who did not know him
19. Claudia and Roque threw themselves off their horses and advanced towards him; the servants were overawed by the appearance of Roque, and Claudia was moved by the sight of Don Vicente, and going up to him half tenderly half sternly, she seized his hand and said to him,
20. Though he had resolved never to let the Bird knock him down, the power of the blow, and the explosive pain that followed, overawed everything in him
21. And unlike any other Safeholdian fleet, they respected the Charisian Navy’s reputation without being overawed by it
22. But against her own will, here in his own house, he overawed her more than ever, and she
23. the steward and the architect, belonging to a completely different world, struggling not to be overawed by an elegance to which they were unaccustomed, and unable to sustain a large share in the general conversation
24. I was touched by his gentle tone, and overawed by his
25. She DOESN'T! She DOESN'T! She's so hungry sometimes that she eats crusts out of the ash barrel!" She pressed her hands hard against her face and burst into passionate little sobs, and Ermengarde, hearing this unusual thing, was overawed by it
26. So that overawed by the rumors and portents concerning him, not a few of the fishermen recalled, in reference to Moby Dick, the earlier days of the Sperm Whale fishery, when it was oftentimes hard to induce long practised Right whalemen to embark in the perils of this new and daring warfare; such men protesting that although other leviathans might be hopefully pursued, yet to chase and point lance at such an apparition as the Sperm Whale was not for mortal man
27. And as a rule, when I meet such people I'm not at all overawed and only become more abrupt, which is sometimes, perhaps, a mistake
28. The evening before he had visited Father Ferapont in his cell apart, behind the apiary, and had been greatly impressed and overawed by the visit
29. Thou didst crave for free love and not the base raptures of the slave before the might that has overawed him for ever
30. He was respected in society for his active benevolence, though every one was overawed by his stern and gloomy character
31. If they had been revolutionists, advocating and practicing violence and murder, their suppression would have been an easy matter; some of them could have been bought over, some could have been duped, some could have been overawed, and these who could not be bought over, duped, or overawed would have been treated as criminals, enemies of society, would have been executed or imprisoned, and the crowd would have approved of the action of the government
1. The authority of this assembly overawes the executive power ; and neither the meanest nor the most obnoxious colonist, as long as he obeys the law, has any thing to fear from the resentment, either of the governor, or of any other civil or military officer in the province
2. In the capital, his presence overawes, more or less, all his inferior officers, who, in the remoter provinces, from whence the complaints of the people are less likely to reach him, can exercise their tyranny with much more safety
3. That administration is necessarily composed of a council of merchants, a profession no doubt extremely respectable, but which in no country in the world carries along with it that sort of authority which naturally overawes the people, and without force commands their willing obedience
4. He overawes his opponents, and their allies are prevented from joining against him
5. That voice of the pontifical Magician, as of subterranean thunder, still overawes adoring millions, still sends up to heaven its 'blasphemies against the God of gods’: and the tyrant will 'prosper until the indignation’ against Israel be accomplished (Dan
6. "On the Esplanade des Invalides, among the exotic and colonial encampments, a building in a more severe style overawes the picturesque bazaar; all these fragments of the globe have come to gather round the Palace of War, and in turn our guests mount guard submissively before the mother building, but for whom they would not be here
1. Possibly, for the salvation of his creatures, he might accelerate natural law, but to transcend his own laws, either for the benefit of himself or the overawing of his fellow men, that he would not do
2. At first they are overawing; their calm self-collectedness of simplicity seems a Socratic wisdom