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  • I have aome really plane rifles - fiberglass stock, unfinished barrel, or gunkoted or whatever, and the way those guns shoot is what makes them art, the care in the level of machining makes them somehwat aweinspiring, and I give them care commensurate with thier status as ART.

    All About Rifle Abuse* 2009

  • I have aome really plane rifles - fiberglass stock, unfinished barrel, or gunkoted or whatever, and the way those guns shoot is what makes them art, the care in the level of machining makes them somehwat aweinspiring, and I give them care commensurate with thier status as ART.

    All About Rifle Abuse* 2009

  • Album covers, posters, and T-shirts almost never showed the group members; that role was filled by Eddie, a sinewy cartoon corpse who had presumably been inspired to rise from the dead by the aweinspiring majesty of rock.

    Fargo Rock City Chuck Klosterman 2003

  • The effect of it all -- so pale and pure and perfect -- was rather aweinspiring; I felt almost afraid of her.

    Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970

  • It is an aweinspiring experience to be asked to respond to this toast, but I am encouraged by knowing that this is one of the greatest honours that can befall any Scot, particularly on this the 125th Anniversary of your Society, and also by the warmth of the welcome I have received, not only here tonight, but every time I have visited your great city and country.

    St. Andrew's Day Special Meeting 1961

  • I had attended almost entirely to what I thought aweinspiring, or wild, or eerie, and above all to distance.

    Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955

  • And he was afraid and said: How aweinspiring is this place!

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • Whether this deduction in years to come, of about 23 percent of the water passing over the brink of the Falls will detract from their grandeur, can only be estimated, but as a mere spectacle I am inclined to think that a depth of water of, say, from is to 14 feet projecting into the abyss below will be as aweinspiring as ever.

    Niagara's Power: Past, Present, Prospective 1905

  • As after the most aweinspiring death known to literature the _Oedipus Coloneus_ closes on the note of acquiescent peace --

    Milton John Cann Bailey 1897

  • They passed in out of sight and presently there was a most aweinspiring racket in the wood.

    The Red Badge of Courage 1895

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