Verb (used with object), : He often uses that imperious scowl to overawe his subordinates. From Dictionary.com.
No wealth will bribe, no name overawe, no artifice deceive, the guardian of those Elysian gates. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
"I saw no attempt to 'overawe' us," said the young girl. From Wordnik.com. [An International Episode] Reference
Spanish vengeance, in order to overawe the populace. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Hence the desperate attempt to overawe and suppress them. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
It is there also to separate, to mark off, and to overawe. From Wordnik.com. [The Break on Palestine] Reference
Kansas to overawe the uneasy people of the town of Lawrence. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
"They may be wanted to overawe Guise and Anjou," I suggested. From Wordnik.com. [For The Admiral] Reference
You could not always overawe people, or bludgeon them, either. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
To prevent negroes escaping to the Spanish territories, and overawe the. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
Chancellor Jefferies went to Arundel on purpose to overawe the electors. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832] Reference
Not that he really needed more than himself to overawe the stiffest pride. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
"To your work," he cried, bravely, thinking yet that he might overawe them. From Wordnik.com. [Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser A Brave Fight Against Odds] Reference
Mr. Sherwood had aimed at a sufficient force to overawe the threshers, if possible. From Wordnik.com. [Injun and Whitey to the Rescue] Reference
The magistrates, to their amazement, found they could not overawe the young upstart. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference
Only a truly unforgettable spectacle would overawe the notoriously cynical Didionites. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
He thought Tegethoff would remain in the Northern Adriatic to protect or to overawe Venice. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
French and Austrian armies manoeuvred for a position from which to overawe the electoral body. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Afghanistan as will show that we are masters of the situation, and will overawe disaffection. '. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
This has been here since the last insurrection of Negroes, and has been continued, to overawe them. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Precedents did not overawe him, the mysterious authority of distant powers had no effect on his feelings. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Atkins should overawe the village mutineers, and bring grist to the proprietor of the Couleur de Rose Hotel. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
The tent, wherein Basil had kept up state in order to overawe the simple natives, was packed away into a canoe. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
He would frequently overawe and sometimes browbeat others, but he was never imperious in dealing with Mr. Lincoln. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
Meanwhile Ruprecht in a hide, with glowing eyes and a long red tongue, stands at the door to overawe the young people. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
That he could be cruel on occasion I had no doubt, and he had certainly managed to overawe my little stock of courage. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
We see the names of many posts and forts intended to keep up communications between Canada and Louisiana, and overawe the. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
For that government, strong as it was, did not so overawe me as to make me commit an unjust action; but when we came out from the. From Wordnik.com. [Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates] Reference
His six feet of muscular body, his courage and his fierce passions fitted him to lead men and to overawe his enemies, red or white. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
Their combined forces, though able to cope with them so far as defensive measures were necessary, was utterly powerless to overawe them. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
Matilda, had built his nest on high, perchance to overawe the Saxon churls around him, perhaps to set at defiance the royal power itself. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
The power to overawe courts of justice, proverbially corrupt, and the facilities with which assassinations are procured, are now the most dreaded weapons of the. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
They were probably among the settlers planted there to overawe the Welsh, and it is recorded of one of them that he slew 'twenty-six men of Kemaes and one wolf.'. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
They judged that the safest course for them was the establishment of an empire upon the subversion of the vice-kingdom, which would be so weak a power that they could overawe it. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
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