2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, inAmerican Scientist[1], volume100, number 2, archived fromthe original on19 February 2013, page172:
Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspiredawe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome byawe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.
2025 October 1, Richard Evans, “The value of the railway effect”, inRAIL, number1045, page58:
In 1825, the first public railway carried passengers across the English countryside, setting in motion not just an engineering revolution, but an industrial one too. Imagine theawe and excitement of those first passengers as they boarded the train, unaware that they were witnessing the dawn of a new era.
1922,Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[2]:
That large room had alwaysawed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.
1982 August 21, Bob Nelson, “Harnessing Our Anger”, inGay Community News, volume10, number 6, page 5:
While a sense of outrage is the only rational response to atrocity, if that outrage is maintained at too high a level over too long a time it can generate feelings of impotence, as we permit ourselves to beawed by this irrational act of violence.
Edward A. Kotynski (1988), “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, inWork Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume32, Summer Institute of Linguistics
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