Significats de awing en anglès

Is he to pay the forfeit, and awing at the yard-arm?

Except in the presence of awing femininity melancholy found no place in Pearson's bosom.

Then they were all awing once more, hawking for supper.

His voice was low, in an awing, confident contrast with the headlong emphasis of his movements.

Willis, however, now saw that he possessed in his pipe a ready means of awing them.

Its office is not to win power by awing mankind, but to use power in governing mankind.

He had no capacity, whatever, for either awing or conciliating those with whom he came in contact.

Her faulty administration, moreover, drew the people into the crime, because she exasperated without sufficiently awing them.

Ballades, Scherzi, Studies, Preludes and the great F minor Fantaisie are purposely omitted from this awing scheme.

Such beautiful kisses, such awing love.

The piece that would transform computer music from obscure, nerdy noodling to crowd-awing Wagnerian epic has thus far eluded him.

That morning I was disposed for silence: the austere fury of the winter-day had on me an awing, hushing influence.

The ball seemed for a time as if it were awing forever, and would fall to the ground no more.

Forby that I'm awing ye my life, he added, with more solemnity, and offered me his hand upon the bargain.

His eloquence, occasionally rapid, electric, vehement, was always chaste, winning, and persuasive, not awing into acquiescence, but arguing into conviction.

The old alchemist was a secretive and pretentious person and used to invent queer names for the purpose of mystifying and awing the ignorant.