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august
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Definition:respected and impressive
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in reference to the Sperm Whale's hump. This august hump, if I mistake not, rises over one of the larger vertebrae,
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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I am possessed with the pomps of being, and know proud passions and inspirations. I have ten thousand august connotations.
Jack London. John Barleycorn
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I hoped my late master’s apprehensions would appear to be groundless; for I already found my spirits revive, by the influence of her most august presence.”
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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Recall the august yet harmonious lineaments, the Grecian neck and bust;
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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'Yes, sir?' repeated Jules, and this time there was a shade of august disapproval in his voice: it was not usual for him to have to address a customer twice.
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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two august friends had pledged themselves in an indissoluble alliance to uphold the cause of justice
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devestated by his prolonged vigil and by the wrath of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them:
"The earth is round, like and orange."
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.5 (1970)
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In the widest and noblest sense, he was a poet. He comprehended, moreover, the true character, the august aims, the supreme majesty and dignity of the poetic sentiment.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The Landscape Garden (1842)
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The only people who knew how rich he was were employees of the Bureau of Internal Revenue and of the august accounting firm of Clough and Higgins.
Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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