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Example sentences for "impressible"

Lexicographically close words:
impressario; impresse; impressed; impresses; impressibility; impressing; impression; impressionability; impressionable; impressionism
  1. I acknowledge it, and that is why your impressible nature has been taken by surprise and received a lasting impression.

  2. The bowels are generally inactive, though naturally impressible to cathartic drugs.

  3. Had all the clergymen who visited the parsonage been as true to their profession as his own dear father, the thoughtful, impressible boy might, very possibly, have devoted his brilliant talents to the ministry.

  4. For impressible youth such biography should be as easy of access as possible.

  5. To this impressible period of human life, few parents give any thought; yet here we must begin to cultivate virtues that can alone redeem the world.

  6. My own experience proves to me that it is a grave mistake to send boys and girls to separate institutions of learning, especially at the most impressible age.

  7. The education of Agnes had been one which rendered her whole system peculiarly sensitive and impressible to all influences from the invisible and unseen.

  8. Of the three kingdoms Sweden, the strongest, was also the most impressible owing to the further bond of fellowship supplied by a common object of distrust--the Russian empire.

  9. All his self-interest laid in and with the woman; but need for money was pressing, and there were a million other women as impressible to his charms as she had been.

  10. There is no one fact of our human existence that has a stronger influence upon us than the house we dwell in, especially that in which our earlier and more impressible years are spent.

  11. She is still romantic, but has learned something from experience,--is not so impressible as when you knew her.

  12. It is only one of many instances we have seen of the overpowering influence of works of art on the impressible nervous system of the negro.

  13. The most unromantic and least impressible speak of it with enthusiasm.

  14. For, if a sudden and powerful emotion of the mind can so disturb the stomach and heart as to cause vomiting and fainting, is it not probable that it can affect the womb and the impressible being within it?

  15. But there was Mrs Boffin to part from, and, in the full flush of her dignity, the impressible little soul collapsed again.

  16. Mortimer Lightwood was not an extraordinarily impressible man, but this face impressed him.

  17. How near he stood, impressible Tom, at that moment, to the eternal mystery!

  18. And yet scarcely a woman--rather a vision of a girl, impressible still to all the influences of such a scene and to the most delicate suggestions of unfolding life.

  19. Yet so impressible was his sensitive nature, that I doubt not, if he had given himself up to the enchantment of these coasts in his lifetime, it would have led him by a spell he could not break.

  20. Vailed from external perceptions, that powerful operator shaped the speech, the actions, and the sufferings of all the impressible ones, whether accused or accusers, at his sole pleasure.

  21. Her own fears bespeak the probability that Mrs. Nurse was very impressible by mind not her own--that she was highly mediumistic; and we ascribe her persecution to her impressibility.

  22. This girl, Ann, was one of the excessively bewitched; that is, was one of the most impressible and mediumistic members of The Circle.

  23. All such are impressible more by virtue of their organisms and native properties, external and internal, than by any intellectual and moral acquisitions, whether good or bad.

  24. This occurrence through the impressible girl was left unnoticed by Calef; his silence approximates to concession that the main facts here stated were not refutable in his day.

  25. Whether this impressible and unfolded woman was literally aided in any of her marvelous operations by invisible intelligences may be debatable.

  26. Extreme curiosity will excite some people as much as fear, or what resembles fear, acts on some other less impressible natures.

  27. The trouble is that they are so impressible and imaginative that they are at the mercy of all sorts of fancy systems.

  28. She must be more impressible than most of us; yet I thought Number Five also looked as if she were having a struggle with herself to keep down some rebellious signs of emotion.

  29. But all this series of nervous disturbances left her in a very impressible and excitable condition.

  30. Besides, I have not been among hospital beds for many a year, and my sensibilities are almost as impressible as they were before daily habit had rendered them comparatively callous.

  31. He, knew the nature of the nervous disturbances through which she had been passing, and that she must be in a singularly impressible condition.

  32. But then observe this: if the sense of the ridiculous is one side of an impressible nature, it is very well; but if that is all there is in a man, he had better have been an ape at once, and so have stood at the head of his profession.

  33. I think I have said enough to show that Johnnyboy was hopelessly worshiped by an impressible and illogical sex.

  34. But, my dear Mrs. Churton, we know the reason of this; Miss Affleck is too young, too ignorant and impressible not to fall completely under the influence of your daughter.

  35. Impressible subjects may be selected by the development of the organs of Impressibility, and the general predominance of the frontal and coronal regions of the brain over the occipital.

  36. If impressible he will perceive a cooling sensation as the fingers pass.

  37. We can not always secure the impressible condition by producing the quiescence of the large brain.

  38. But if we understand the theory of hypnotism we shall be able to put the cerebrum at rest and secure the passive impressible state of the cerebellum; that is, an introverted condition of the mind.

  39. But when the morrow came she was better able to disentangle her thoughts of healing from such phrases as "the passive impressible state" and "interior perception.

  40. The impressible character, on the contrary, is changed in every line, as well as in every hue, by that with which it comes in contact.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impressible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.