1591, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, part 1:None doe you like, but an effeminate Prince, Whom like a Schoole-boy you may ouer-awe.
1849, Herman Melville, Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Volume I, ch. 57:His free and easy carriage evinced, that though acknowledging my assumptions, he was no way overawed by them; treating me as familiarly, indeed, as if I were a mere mortal, one of the abject generation of mushrooms.
2000, Alasdair Gray, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, p. 61:He kept the biggest estates, and where he lacked troops to overawe the natives he evicted the natives and made a game reserve.
