The face was rigid and unresponsive, but there was an awesome, chilling sorrow in every line.
"In Wild Rose Time"
Amanda M. Douglas
Through the murk of cavernous passages he paced, pausing before a pit in which reposed a sarcophagus of huge dimensions; and when the dim company and he had paid tribute to that which lay there, all ascended to a temple, lofty and awesome, its dizzy roof upheld by aisles of monstrous granite.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
For there was no fine Castle waiting for them at the end of their journey; on the contrary, as the shadows began to lengthen, they came to a dark, deep glen, which was so gloomy and so awesome-looking that the poor Princess felt her courage sinking as they approached it.
"The Scottish Fairy Book"
Elizabeth W. Grierson