Impressed

Examples

• I told Catherine and Ferguson about him and Ferguson was very impressed. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• A vague feeling of impending misfortune impressed me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was modestly impressed by Mr. Kenge's professional eminence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In following the final assembly line from the point where the chain conveyor engages the frame and axles, the visitor is impressed with the dispatch with which every movement is executed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Then Hubbard discovered a young man in Washington who impressed him as having remarkable executive ability. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• His punishment had impressed him with no sense of shame, and he did not experience that feeling on encountering his chastiser. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It impressed her in his favour, for she nodded aside to Mr Boffin, 'I like him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The indefinable feeling with which Lady Dedlock had impressed me may have had some influence in keeping me from the house even when she was absent. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It really did seem to impress him, to the utmost extent of his capacity of being impressed. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The gunsmith was so impressed by the boy and his accomplishment that, after rifling the barrel, he fitted it with a lock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I impressed it on my heart, that it might remain there to serve me as aid in the time of trial. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Gudrun was very much impressed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• That impressed even Maria. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I have started up so vividly impressed by it, that its fury has yet seemed raging in my quiet room, in the still night. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• By this means the marks may be impressed on the paper at distances of 400 miles or more apart. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• You appear, however, to have been disagreeably impressed by it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I have no doubt that this sight impressed General Buell with the idea that a line of retreat would be a good thing just then. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She had not felt so stunned--so impressed as she did now, when echoes of Mr. Thornton's voice yet lingered about the room. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Not showing himself much impressed by this remarkable confirmation of the informer's evidence, Lightwood inquired what other business they had there? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I have impressed upon Amy during many years, that I must have my meals (for instance) punctually. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But its color was what had impressed me most. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• A vigorous official himself, Airy was deeply impressed by the calm decisiveness and definite directions of the French mathematician. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He took the hint at once, for the fist had been too often impressed upon his body not to be deeply impressed upon his recollection. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The sheets of paper are held on to the cylinders at their edges by means of tapes, and are so laid on by the workmen, that the type may be impressed on them with an equal margin all round. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• There was that strange light in her eyes that always impressed Legree with uneasiness. 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.
• Fanny seemed deeply impressed with what I had said. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The image thus impressed was what is termed a negative, the dark parts which excluded the light being left white on the paper, and the parts through which the light passed being darkened. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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