Impressible

Examples

• All these things do I now think over, adding, He had his faults, yet scarce ever was a finer nature; liberal, suave, impressible. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She was not nervous or impressible; but the solemn, heart-felt manner struck her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Mortimer Lightwood was not an extraordinarily impressible man, but this face impressed him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It would be hard to say what place she held in the soft, impressible heart of her faithful attendant. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• His brain is first-rate, I should think not impressible, but vigorous. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Yet some striking exceptions there are among us, from the fact that the negro is naturally more impressible to religious sentiment than the white. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Miss Fanshawe, with her usual ripeness of judgment, pronounced Dr. Bretton a serious, impassioned man, too grave and too impressible. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Paraffined paper appears also to have been experimented with as an impressible material. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Will, too, was made of very impressible stuff. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He is a little gay, a thing Society is accustomed to in young men, and he is very impressible. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Yet he whom it describes scarcely impressed one with the idea of a gentle, a yielding, an impressible, or even of a placid nature. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The power of a simple and characteristic melody on the impressible mind of the Greek is more than we can easily appreciate. Plato. The Republic.
• I am very impressible myself, by nature. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But there was Mrs Boffin to part from, and, in the full flush of her dignity, the impressible little soul collapsed again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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