This must be George Sand's: "Some of them create such vivid impressions that the shades of dead monks seem to rise and pass before the hearer in solemn and gloomy funereal pomp.
You know, papa spent only one night there and his thoughts were turned backward, so that he naturally kept only vague impressions of the place.
But presently, before impressions had time to repeat themselves, and objects dimly discerned to become familiar, a voice from the leading boat started a song.
Such impressions are too delicate for reproduction, even if I had the mind to try.
She had only been a week amongst them, and her mind had been in a state of passive receptivity the whole time, subject to the impressions which might be made upon it, but not itself producing any.
First impressionsare very precious for many reasons.
Among those who appeared to have left the strongest impressions of interest and admiration on his mind was (as easily will be believed by all who know this distinguished person) Sir James Mackintosh.
So far we have used "phantasy" only of real or imaginary impressions of sense.
Just as Hume made the difference between sense-impressions and ideas to lie in the greater vividness of the former, so did they; only Hume saw no necessity to go beyond the impression, whereas the Stoics did.
The earliest characters inscribed upon it were the impressionsof sense, which the Greeks called "phantasies.
Goes-Ahead tells for us a most graphic story of his share in the Custer fight and his impressions of General Custer in the chapter on “The Indians’ Story of the Custer Fight.
These impressions have been strengthened by this council.
I sat next Sir William Robinson at breakfast, and found him most kind and courteous, and he interested himself in my impressions of the native States.
I grudge the hours that I am obliged to spend in sleep; a week has gone like half a day, each hour heightening my impressions of the fascination and interest of Canton, and of the singular force and importance of the Chinese.
Indeed, boats are my earliest and strongestimpressions of what on my arrival I was hasty enough to think a mean city.
But it is more especially the fault of those other 'graphic' reporters, who write their lurid impressions of the debates.
I found the same impressions made on them which their successors have received.
She chattered snatches of Venetian caught from the gondoliers, she was like a delicate cup of crystal brimming with the beauty of the place, and making one of them drink in all his impressions through her.
An inspection of the ruins of Pompeii deepens upon the mind its impressions of the sublimity and terror of Vesuvius.
We give some of his impressions of St. Petersburg, beginning his journey at the fortress and city of Cronstadt, the strongly-defended port of the capital of Russia.
The specimen exhibits theimpressions of four rows of oblong rectangular scales.
It indicates further, that in at least three localities in the range there occur in the grits and shales, scales and impressions of fish.
Inner organs, such as the heart and stomach, might have been attached to the shell along impressions a and b.
My own explanation would be that impressions e, f, and g correspond to the glabellar furrows, h the neck furrow, and all four show the places of attachment of the appendifers.
In front of and just outside this pair are the exceedingly faint impressions of the anterior pair of furrows, these, as said above, being but seldom seen.
The first six pairs of impressions are longer and deeper than the four behind.
The chief obstacle to a clearer understanding of the muscular system lies in the difficulty of getting at the inner surface of the test without obscuring the faint impressions in the process.
The impressions of fourteen pairs of coxopodites are readily counted on the pygidium, and as Doctor Walcott noted sixteen pairs on the actual specimens, his number was probably correct.
The transverse furrows are the impressions left by the gnathobases of the basal joints of the legs.
In that case, the six pairs of strong impressions may represent the last six pairs of thoracic segments, and the pygidium might begin with the first of the fainter ones.
That the markings which radiate from the eyes of Ptychoparia and Solenopleura are not impressions made by nerves is obvious.
In Isotelus gigas the hypostoma normally extends back to the posterior margin of the cephalon, so that it seems that in this specimen the impressions of the first two pairs of gnathobases under the thorax may not have been preserved.
These were scattered broadcast over the country in cheap editions and the result was the creation of false impressions of the West, and at the same time inflamed the imagination and corrupted the minds of many of the then rising generation.
We may be tolerably sure that these early impressions of Erasmus were not without their effect upon his conception of the meaning of the Reformation.
Thus his earliest impressions of Hutten were not favourable.
This was the year before Luther's journey to Rome, and Erasmus himself was just fresh from the impressions of an Italian residence.
Only one or two scattered expressions give us any reason to think that his impressions of Rome were at all of the kind they ought in all reason to have been.
But whatever her own feelings as to the new home were, she watched keenly for Guy's impressions of it.
All the different impressionsconnected with negligence or foulness depend, in like manner, on the degree of insensibility implied.
But the West held an esthetic fascination for the untutored and less talented as well, and not a few soldiers, miners, stage drivers, and just plain adventurers recorded their impressions on paper and canvas.
Unfortunately for posterity, Stieffel did not record hisimpressions of this little-known sideshow of the Civil War.
It would be narrowness to suppose that an artist can only care for the impressions of those who know the methods of his art as well as feel its effects.
It is a fresh proof of the fallibility of our impressions as to our own doings, that I would have confidently affirmed the name to be spelled Fedalma (as it ought to be) in my manuscript.
Here I am only putting down some of my own personal impressions or recollections, which must be taken for what they are worth.
It is like your kindness to write me your encouraging impressions on reading the third book.
But I will not dwell now on what it cost you, I fear, too much pain to recall so as to give me the vivid impressions I felt in reading your letter.
But my impressionsfell below the lowest judgment I ever heard passed upon him.
What I had been doing was this: I had been inventing tales in which and by which I had tried to realise my boyish impressions of that wonderful magic Gwent.
The words of the sermon deepened and expanded the impressions of the afternoon, and left an abiding influence on the current of her life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impressions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
