Either their beauty overawes you or they, by conversation or bearing, so completely satisfy you of their right to your respect, that indifference takes the place of curiosity, and you yield your regard as if you have already yielded your admiration, without question and without stint.
"Hand and Ring"
Anna Katharine Green
When I think what her life is - the endless struggle to make both ends meet - work morning, noon, and night - and on the top of it all the brother she adores a helpless, suffering invalid, it quite overawes me.
"Winding Paths"
Gertrude Page
Yet the impression so made upon Moses far exceeds anything previous and completely overawes and melts him down.
"Quiet Talks about Jesus"
S. D. Gordon