But soon Reflection's hand imprest A stiller sadness on my breast; And sickly Hope with waning eye Was well content to droop and die: I yielded to the stern decree, Yet heav'd the languid Sigh for thee!
The departed soul dwells either in spiritual or elemental sphere of the sky, and views itself and all other things in the same state as they are imprest in it, in their relation to time, place and form.
Seeing the God Rudra he thought himself to be so, and the figure of the God was immediatelyimprest upon his mind, like the reflexion of an outward object in the mirror.
Any one who has seen Irving's masterly representation of the dying Louis cannot but be imprest by the verisimilitude of Northcote's presentation.
Murray's 'New English Dictionary,' now in course of publication, gives instances of the confusion between imprestand impress.
Professor Laughton tells us that 'A prest or imprest was an earnest or advance paid on account.
I own belief may be imprest on the mind otherwise than by the force of reason.
Priestley any reason to suppose gravity, elasticity and electricity to have been imprest on bodies by a superior Being, and not originally inherent in matter, unless to favour his own hypothesis of a Deity.
Your iudgments my graue Lords Must giue this Curre the Lye: and his owne Notion, Who weares my stripes imprest vpon him, that Must beare my beating to his Graue, shall ioyne To thrust the Lye vnto him 1 Lord.
When I went to lunch at noon it was still raining very hard, but as I had no umbrella this simply imprestthe subject on my mind.
This statement sounded a little singular at first, but the more he read it over the more favorably he became imprest with it, and finally concluded to adopt it.
This was forcibly imprestupon my mind at a political gathering.
This imprest the subject of umbrellas very vividly on my mind, so I did not fail to leave the five umbrellas to be repaired, stating I would call for them on my way home in the evening.
It will amply repay you to read this extract aloud at least once a day for a week or more, so that its superior elements of thought and style may be deeply imprest on your mind.
Note how each sentence is rounded out into fulness, until it is imprest upon your memory.
As we examine the lives and records of eminent speakers of other days, we are imprest with the fact that they were sincere and earnest students of the art in which they ultimately excelled.
The judge was very much imprest with the perspicacity of this man; not only did he give him his liberty, but he engaged him in his personal service and in due time enabled him to make his fortune.
He whose thoughts are imprest vividly on the surface is always placed at a glaring disadvantage.
In order to foresee disasters it is necessary that the perception--visual or auditory--of said disasters should already have imprest us.
It is but too true that our hearts--instead of being imprest by these truths, in proportion to their discussion--become more obdurate.
Knowledge and perfect holiness were imprest upon the very nature and faculties of his soul.
Consider, in the next place, in what manner you are imprest by the sense of your sins.
The imagination may be strongly imprest with such things; but this is not spiritual light.
So home, mightily pleased in mind that I have got my bills of imprest cleared by bills signed this day, to my good satisfaction.
So to the Wardrobe and got my Lord to order Mr. Creed to imprest so much upon me to be paid by Alderman Backwell.
Imprest by her words, Ina acted as she advised, and later endowed a school in Rome in which Anglo-Saxon children might become acquainted with the customs of foreign countries.
All the awe, and pathos, and awakened consciousness of a Divine approach, imprest upon the ancients by the procession of solemnities, is to worldly men without a substitute.
So deeply was He thus imprest that, again and again, in speaking of His future glories, He announced that in these His true followers were to share.
Gratitude not only expressing itself in proper terms, but possessing the mind with one abiding and over-mastering mood, under which it shall sit imprest the whole duration of the interview.
And as our eye ranged over the broad shoulders of the mountain, over ice hills and valleys, plateaux and far-stretching slopes of snow, the conception of its magnitude grew upon us, and imprest us more and more.
She looked at Bazarov--and stood still in the doorway; so greatly was she imprest by the inflamed and at the same time deathly face, with its dim eyes fastened upon her.
Our young man, however, did not seem to be imprest either with this spectacle of destruction or with the beauty of the sky, tinged with the rosy colors of the dawning day.
Preeminent above all other suggestions, I am imprest with his vivid sense of the reality of the redemptive work of Christ.
I look abroad again over the record of this man's life and teachings, if perchance I may discover the secrets of his abiding optimism, and I am profoundly imprest by his living sense of the reality and greatness of his present resources.
If I had been going into a real engagement I could not have been more deeply imprest by the importance of the occasion.
Before them is the vacant space which was filled by the stage, with the line of the proscenium distinct, marked by a deep groove, imprest upon slabs of stone, which looks as if the bottom of a high screen had been intended to fit into it.
All this, and much more than I can say, or have time to say, the reader must enter into before he can comprehend the unimaginable horror which these dreams of Oriental imagery and mythological tortures imprest upon me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imprest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
