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Agaze

adjective
1.
(used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder.  Synonym: staring.






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"Agaze" Quotes from Famous Books



... entered all eyes were agaze at this first contact with the civilisation of the Old World. Comments were made on the obvious fertility of the soil, on the apparent prosperity of the community, and on the magnitude of the engineering undertakings, as disclosed by the ...
— The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I • Herbert Brayley Collett

... is comin' here to see you?" she inquired, as they left Little Hawss wistfully agaze at them across ...
— In Old Kentucky • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey

... agaze at the strangeness and wonder of her, a voice at my shoulder made me whirl in surprise. A soft, silky ...
— Valley of the Croen • Lee Tarbell

... their high Roman casques. The sweet storm of music has been passing by while we were gazing, and is now somewhat deadened by the retiring distance and by that mass of buildings (how the windows are alive, and agaze with faces!) while troop after troop comes on, still moving, it is felt by all, to the motion of the warlike tune, though now across the Waterloo Bridge sounding like an echo, till the glorious war-pageant is all gone by, and the dull day is deadened down again into the stillness ...
— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson

... unnaturally still. In all the time he stared at her simple bonnet and decently clothed shoulders, the silhouette she made against the silver band of the river did not change by an iota. He had been agaze upon the landscape too, but he was sure that he had not sat as still as this, and when, after an interval during which he had turned to see what kind of man it was who had spoken so vigorously, he wheeled back into place and glanced out again through his ...
— The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow • Anna Katharine Green



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