Pyrrhus in the air of his face had something more of the terrors, than of the Augustness of kingly power; he had not a regular set of upper teeth, but in the place of them one continued bone, with small lines marked on it, resembling the divisions of a row of teeth.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
While others were content with the mere enunciation of maxims and precepts, he breathed into them the spirit of life, and enforced them with a vividness of faith that clothed education with the Augustness and unction of religion.
"Rousseau Volumes I. and II."
John Morley
By the power of his eloquence, the Augustness of the assembly is lost in the dignity of the orator; and the importance of the subject, for awhile, superseded by the admiration of his talents.
"The American Union Speaker"
John D. Philbrick