Agaze

Then the talk stopped dead as Istra Nash stood agaze in the doorway — pale and intolerant, her red hair twisted high on her head, tall and slim and uncorseted in a gray tight-fitting gown. ❋ Unknown (2004)

His host, however, at this, but continued to stand agaze; and he had the next thing repeated his question of ❋ Unknown (2003)

Softly lighted, the whole colour of the place, with its vague values, was in cool fusion — an effect that made the visitor stand for a little agaze. ❋ Unknown (2003)

She couldn't stand long agaze, she had work to do. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1994)

She lay back among her pillows, trembling in the dark, afraid of she knew not what, her wide eyes agaze at the ceiling's shadows. ❋ Zoe Anderson Norris (N/A)

Smith heeded her voice, and for another unnoted interval they stood agaze upon their little eminence. ❋ Alden Charles Noble (N/A)

As I stood there agaze at the strangeness and wonder of her, a voice at my shoulder made me whirl in surprise. ❋ Lee Tarbell (N/A)

Then the talk stopped dead as Istra Nash stood agaze in the doorway -- pale and intolerant, her red hair twisted high on her head, tall and slim and uncorseted in a gray tight-fitting gown. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)

_Modern Painters_, they will be no lamps at all, but a new constellation -- seven bright stars, for whose rising the reading world ought to be anxiously agaze. ❋ Edwin Watts Chubb (1912)

As the harbour was entered all eyes were agaze at this first contact with the civilisation of the Old World. ❋ Herbert Brayley Collett (1912)

"The jungles blare, the glebe-lands low and bleat for Thee; the generations rage and go, agaze for Thee; creation travaileth in woe, with groans for Thee, agaze for Thee." ❋ Unknown (1906)

Mr. Canning stood agaze; it was to be seen that he was taken considerably by surprise. ❋ Henry Sydnor Harrison (1905)

Hawss wistfully agaze at them across the old log fence. ❋ Edward Marshall (1901)

To see them forever forward and agaze at the lit shores of Spain and the Islands of Desire, roused in him the faint savour of expectation. ❋ Mary Hunter Austin (1901)

Even the rough laborers stopped delving at their tasks for a few minutes, to straighten from their work and stand, with curious eyes agaze down-track. ❋ Edward Marshall (1901)

That were indeed distinction enough for one man, well calculated to cause the world to stand agaze! ❋ Unknown (1898)

Why should the world stand agaze for nineteen centuries at one miracle, when sixty, full as great, as incomprehensible, are happening every minute? ❋ Unknown (1898)

When the North and South blend in one homogeneous people, as blend they must, when the blood of the stern Puritan mingles with that of the dashing Cavalier, then indeed will be a nation and a people at which the world will stand agaze; for Northern vigor wedded to Southern blood will ❋ Unknown (1898)