strike with awe

Wherever o'er thy billows lonely I might direct my careless prow, Amid thy waste one object only Would strike with awe my spirit now; One rock ... the sepulchre of glory ...

All was now one wide waste of waters, as far as the eye could reach, bounded on every side by the distant horizon; a scene which, though at first it must strike with awe and wonder a person unaccustomed to it, soon becomes insipid, and even wearisome, from its constant sameness.

The quality of mercy is o'erstrained, It droppeth twaddle-like from Lord Mayor's lips Upon a Russian ear: strength is twice scornful, Scornful of him it smites, and him who prates Of mercy for the smitten: force becomes The thron�d monarch better than chopped logic; His argument's—two millions of armed men, Which strike with awe and with timidity Prating philanthropy that pecks at kings.

His majesty of demeanor, his calm deportment, the reasonableness of his pretensions, had not failed to strike with awe and respect his four thousand comrades of captivity.