hold in awe
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Christians too hold in awe this place where Jesus walked.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the tanker market became swamped, Ludwig last year subleased the yard, but Japanese aides still hold in awe the thrusting man who, as one says, "knew every detail and kept our brains spinning."
From Time Magazine Archive
I have seen one of this kind of fellows hold in awe a mob of cowboys and plainsmen when passions were aroused and blows had already been struck.
From The Young Man and the World by Albert Jeremiah Beveridge
About two hundred soldiers had accompanied the Archbishop, from Salzburg, and formed an escort sufficiently numerous to hold in awe the most desperate highwaymen.
From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden
Disturbing truth and righteous law, It scorns the bitter tear, And laughs at all we hold in awe, And all that causes fear.
From Canada and Other Poems by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Young
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