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Meanings of awful grandeur in English

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Usage of awful grandeur in English
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The awful grandeur of these temples, sculptured by the Deity, is overpowering.
John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) / Southern Californ...
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No words of mine can paint the awful grandeur of the sight I saw.
The Sign of the Red Cross: A Tale of Old London
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The awful grandeur was becoming too much for human endurance.
Among the Forces
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There was a kind of awful grandeur in the storm to which neither was insensible.
The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude
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The sun rose upon a scene of awful grandeur.
The Drummer Boy
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The awful grandeur of the subjects of which they treat has evidently never appealed to them.
Mushrooms on the Moor
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But existence is an awful grandeur and delight.
Adela Cathcart, Volume 2
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He himself, involved in awful grandeur, ruled remotely, through his chosen instruments, from an inaccessible heaven.
Eminent Victorians
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I cannot describe its awful grandeur; human language fails to convey an idea of its savage sublimity.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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We had all the more opportunity to reflect and admire the awful grandeur of the scene around.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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This self-contained reticence had an awful grandeur, in solemn accord with a life that needed no defense.
Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
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The spectacle was one of awful grandeur.
Three Years in the Sixth Corps / A Concise Narrative of Events i...
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There he sits in quiet but awful grandeur,-strongalmost as Thor, but holding his mighty strength in check.
The Story of Siegfried
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Among the many wonderful works of God, none exhibits so much of awful grandeur as an active volcano.
Wonders of Creation: A Descriptive Account of Volcanoes and Thei...
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The hills were almost mountains now, and sloped away on all sides of us in bleak and awful grandeur.
Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
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The awful grandeur of the cloud scenery at last so oppressed Amy that she sought relief in Maggie's lighted room.
Nature's Serial Story
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