Prepossess by your air, address, and manners; persuade by your tongue; and you will easily execute what your head has contrived.
And reflect, on the other hand, how much the opposites of all these things prepossess you, at first sight, in favor of those who enjoy them.
In fact, my appearance was by no means calculated to prepossess people in my favour.
Moreover, not only did the facility of conquering the French prepossess him in favour of this journal; but also the circumstance that it--cost him nothing.
Perhaps he felt, unknown to himself some inclination to prepossess them in favour of his connections; to stretch his complaisance a little, as a precaution against the prejudices with which he knew Mrs Grey would attempt to occupy their minds.
I am not going to prepossess you against even our village scold, by telling her name.
The neighbourhood of Badajoz did not prepossess me much in favour of the country which I had just entered.
There was but one mode of conquering his abhorrence of this man,--to prepossess my friend with the belief of the innocence of Clithero, or to soothe him into pity by a picture of remorse and suffering.
But I own the articles signed in the name of Pierre Firmin do not prepossess me in favour of their author.
With infinitely more merit than almost ever fell to one man's share, he manifests such diffidence of his own qualifications, as cannot fail to prepossess every company in his favour.
Moreover, not only did the facility of conquering the French prepossess him in favor of this journal; but also the circumstance that it--cost him nothing.
He was by no means ill-looking, and yet there was a certain degree of shrewd cunning in the expression of his face, especially about the small black twinkling eyes, which did not prepossess a beholder in his favour.
I do not wish to prepossess my reader in favour of my book, nor to imbue him with my own peculiar ideas in order to gain his assent to what is to come after.
