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This popularity to which he had thus suddenly sprung was not a little strange, in fact it was a little aweing.

From In the Whirl of the Rising by Mitford, Bertram

The vastness of the crowd in the grounds was aweing.

From Westward with the Prince of Wales by Newton, W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas)

And, within little more than an hour, having gained the great causeway, we saw the mighty pyramids towering up through the moonlit air and aweing us to silence.

From Cleopatra by Haggard, Henry Rider

A hushed solitude seemed to reign over it, aweing all undersea life from the vicinity....

From Astounding Stories, February, 1931 by Bates, Harry

The few that have been spared in the disastrous conflagrations of centuries are still capable of aweing us by the grandeur and richness of their decoration.

From The Book of Tea by Okakura, Kakuzo