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Example sentences for "impressed"

Lexicographically close words:
imprescriptible; impress; impressa; impressario; impresse; impresses; impressibility; impressible; impressing; impression
  1. It was a close race between the car bearing the two crooks and that which Kennedy had impressed into service, but we kept on up through the city and out across the country, into Connecticut.

  2. Elaine seemed quite impressed with our new friend, Del Mar, as we made our way to the library, though I am not sure but that it was a pose on her part.

  3. Those two had been brought up by an infidel father, who had impressed on his children the absurdity of all such ideas as immortality.

  4. Burke might well have been impressed by such a passage.

  5. The frightened butler and the corps of other servants are impressed into the search.

  6. I, however, was favorably impressed with her.

  7. They did not all use the napkins, but they enjoyed having them there beside their plates, and the subdued light, the freedom from insects impressed them almost to decorum.

  8. He was deeply impressed the first time he saw her, I could see that.

  9. Indeed, so impressed were most of the party with the quiet in which their night had been passed, that they boldly declared my storm to have been the creature of my dreams.

  10. And upon the beautiful parquet, or inlaid floor which ran round the room, were still impressed the footsteps of the murderer.

  11. A new suspicion filled my mind, or rather, let me say, a distinct shape was impressed upon many fluctuating suspicions.

  12. In the summer-time, I often rise very early, and repair to my room to do a day's work before breakfast, and I am always on those occasions deeply impressed by the stillness and solitude around me.

  13. Articulate sounds vibrated on the ears of the disciples; but the image which was impressed on their optic nerve eluded the more stubborn evidence of the touch; and they enjoyed the spiritual, not the corporeal, presence of the Son of God.

  14. Battle scenes and incidents, we think, are indelibly impressed upon the memory.

  15. His friends, he said, had impressed upon him that his function in life was to climb the Educational Ladder.

  16. He was so favorably impressed with the country and its prospects that he decided to remain and make his home.

  17. The city of Salem, Oregon, was their objective point but on reaching Walla Walla, Judge Sharpstein was so favorably impressed with the opportunities of this section that he determined to make his home here.

  18. He became impressed with this branch of the service, and with the hope of later securing a commission, he joined the service and was assigned to the First Artillery at Davids Island, New York, there remaining for almost two years.

  19. I cannot say that I ever knew him intimately, that I can claim to have been his friend; but I used at one time to see a good deal of him, and I was very much impressed by his genius.

  20. But none could fail to be impressed by her relief when the boat was afloat and traveling east.

  21. England, who spent eight days at Uraniburg on the occasion of his marriage with Anne of Denmark in 1590, and seems to have been deeply impressed by his visit.

  22. Those who study the stars have impressed upon them the existence of the most immeasurable distances, which yet are swallowed up as nothing in the infinitude of space.

  23. His great military talents, together with his extreme inflexibility of temper, had firmly impressed the allied monarchs with the belief, that no lasting peace could be made in Europe while he remained at the head of the French nation.

  24. Perhaps the governor may be in this case rather censured as having given up a point impressed upon him by his original instructions, than blamed for executing them too strictly against the remarkable person who was his prisoner.

  25. All down that side of the orchard the fence corners were filled with long grass and wild flowers, a few alder bushes left to furnish berries for the birds, and wild roses for us, to keep their beauty impressed on us, father said.

  26. A visit made during her stay in Ferrara, Italy, to the home of the poet Ariosto so impressed Madame Le Vert that it was productive of a notable result after her return to America.

  27. He was a widower with two sons when he met Adele Cutts, and, like many a less fortunate man, he was instantly impressed with her absolute loveliness.

  28. Josiah Quincy, who met her at dinner at her grandfather's in 1826, recorded in his journal that he had been much impressed with her air of high breeding.

  29. Any one who has looked into the inner life of the small towns of Florida could not fail to be impressed by the situation of the boys and young men.

  30. Trading expeditions up the coast took them occasionally to Metlakahtla, and the peace and prosperity they saw there deeply impressed their minds.

  31. Virago, he had been much impressed by the spiritual destitution of the Indians of the Pacific coast of British North America and the adjacent islands.

  32. He was considerably more impressed with the substantial masonry of the manor house, with the size of the timber, the appointments of the stables, and the acreage of the park.

  33. I'm not favourably impressed with that doctor; an officious bumpkin, he seems to me.

  34. During the week that followed, Captain Oliphant impressed the whole family with his chastened good-humour.

  35. Before the house was reached he had impressed Tom with the conviction that there was a considerable possibility of "larks" in his father's visitor.

  36. If so, I was not sufficiently impressed sir, to remember you now.

  37. It had become apparent, too, that even Greece had been impressed by the success of the Germans.

  38. The leaders in Congress were so impressed by this uncompromising declaration of the President that they set about allaying the revolt against the Administration's policy, which, it was feared, was drawing the United States into war.

  39. The pleasure and fishing craft which had been impressed into service were equipped with all sorts of guns, some of them very old ones, but thoroughly capable of sinking a submarine.

  40. Those who knew Miss Cavell were impressed by her strength of character and unflinching devotion.

  41. While engaged upon his novel work, an idea impressed itself upon his ingenious brain.

  42. Impressed with this sublime work of his Creator, the martyred priest christened it St. Sacrement.

  43. Newspaper reading had impressed upon me a belief that the citizens of the city which played so important a part in the late civil war might not treat kindly a Massachusetts man.

  44. How have the recently expressed opinions of our local clergy impressed you?

  45. I do not know that Guiteau impressed me in any way.

  46. Only the ignorant and unthinking can hereafter be impressed by hearing the orthodox creed.

  47. They are apparently not executed by means of the chisel, but formed in some hard paste or composition [gesso] laid upon the sculptured stone and impressed with a stamp.

  48. As Wellesley's understanding of democracy developed, the faculty realized that a rule of this kind, however wise in itself, cannot be impressed from without; the demand for it must come from the students themselves.

  49. Meantime I had had not a little conversation with her and her father, and had been impressed with her high intelligence.


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