There is nothing imposing about them nor severe; the beauty here is serene, and the pleasure pure.
Against the wide blue of the open heaven his figure took on an imposingsplendor of mien and an unmodern impressiveness of action.
It was the only imposing structure we could boast of, and was by consequence the harder to hit, albeit some creditable tries were made to hit it.
The Square itself was an exceptionally spacious one, and the Hall added an ornament to the city, which was the more imposing and conspicuous in that it practically stood alone as such.
The procession was an imposing one; at least the Boers encamped at Scholtz's Nek appeared to think so; they made no attempt to interfere with it, and thus debarred the procession from interfering with them.
The general aspect of this mighty river is, however, rather sombre than gay, although doubtless there is something imposing in the rapidity of its waters, which run like a torrent.
Two hundred metres from the bridge rise, amidst the forest, the imposing ruins of Prea sat Keo, to reach which you have to cross a deep moat.
In Dame Street Trinity College and the Irish Houses of Parliament, the latter having been built in 1729 on the site of Chichester House, gave the thoroughfare an imposing appearance.
Poland, separating Germany from Russia, besides imposing on Germany the territorial outrage of the Danzig corridor, cuts her off from any possibility of expansion and development in the east.
The imposing tower at the back of the Palazzo Tolomei, at the beginning of the Via dei Termini, is the Torre Miganelli or Castelli, in which the public bells were hung.
On the left is the imposing Torre Pratellesi, originally the tower of the Palazzo Paltoncini in which the Podesta occasionally held his court in the first half of the thirteenth century.
Harry rode immediately behind, surrounded by a little group consisting of the two priests and the nobles who had come out to meet him, and followed by Umu, who led his glittering and imposing regiment.
The home-coming of the fleet was a most imposing sight.
My dear," said Miss Thompson, very handsome andimposing in a gray silk dress, "I am happy to be the one to hand you these two prizes.
The social state is the institution of a public power, stronger than all individuals, capable of making peace succeed war, and imposing on all the accomplishment of whatever it shall have judged to be useful, that is, just.
Service--but one hesitated to point it out to him, because of his black broad-cloth suit and his imposing appearance, and the money he had put up to pay for the hall.
Mr. Matthison's first drawing shews the College as seen from Merton Street, with the imposing tower of the Chapel in the background.
Seen from the garden (as in the second illustration) it certainly has, with its fivefold frontage and its extensive iron palisade, a most imposing appearance.
This Don Rafael was a man of imposing gravity; a saint with a large family of children, who wore a frock-coat as if it were a cassock and spoke with the suavity of a friar through his white beard that covered his thin, pink cheeks.
That great room, so silent and imposing with its massive, superb decorations, different from anything she had seen, frightened her.
The cemetery seemed larger, more imposing in the silence of the bright, quiet morning.
Miss Blake left Nan to order whatever she pleased, and they dawdled over their meal luxuriously, the color in the girl's cheeks deepening with the warmth and excitement until it almost matched the velvet in her imposing hat.
Oh, I assure you it was very imposing and well worth taking some trouble to see.
Therefore until comparatively recent times it was generally supposed that Adams was an insignificant mountain in comparison with Hood, which looms up with such imposing grandeur from every point along the chief highways of commerce.
Six miles west of Vancouver is one of those imposing scenes in which our River so abounds.
That spot is now marked with a marble crypt in which the bones of the martyrs rest, and a plain but imposing granite shaft stands upon the crest of the hill just above.
The dictators would be those who, by one means or another, succeeded in imposing themselves on society.
So they make out of intelligent and impassionate teachers mere politicians, who become useless parasites, entirely absorbed in imposing their own hobbies, and in maintaining themselves in power.
As he arose before his savage audiences, his imposing manner created a feeling of awe; but when he kindled with his great subject, he seemed like one inspired.
I believe there are imposing Etruscan fortifications still to be seen up there on the hill.
The temples, with the background of hills, were less imposing from the other side.
Those popes of the Middle Ages were wise in their day, especially after Nicholas V, in 1450, who decided to make the Vatican the most imposing palace in the world by bringing under one roof all the papal offices.
The different counsels of Piedmont, conveyed by Count Balbo, weighed little against so imposing an array of opinion, backed as it was by the Power which still stabled its horses in the Convent of San Marco.
Henceforth North and South will meet as equals, neither finding or fancying in their intimate relations any reason for imposing a profession of faith on the other.
He is tall, with a broad chest, and a mostimposing presence.
A firm and imposing figure on horseback, General Jackson was perfectly at home in the saddle.
I caught my companion's arm, imposingsilence on him by a look.
I cannot imagine anything more imposing than it must have been when, with its lofty roof supported by all its columns, it stood at the gate of the city, its doors wide open, inviting the Greeks to worship.
The commodore surveyed this apparition silently, puzzled to make out who this imposing personage was, until, with a smirk, the bedizened Sicilian announced himself as the new surgeon's mate.
It is said that Bainbridge never looked handsomer or more imposing than when he appeared at the head of his officers before the barbaric prince.
