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Example sentences for "impression upon"

  • Even the jolting of the starting coach made no impression upon him.

  • The scurrility of his new assailant produced no impression upon him.

  • But this despairing pleading in behalf of a bad cause produced no impression upon Marie-Anne's loyal heart.

  • But these gloomy words produced no impression upon Maurice; he was wild with joy.

  • Martial came running after them, anxious for another chance of seeing this young girl whose beauty had made such an impression upon him.

  • The flowers group themselves in all sorts of pretty ways, showing just above the long Grass, and possessing great variety of colour.

  • The dying words of our poor friend Mary Anne have made an impression upon me which I can never forget.

  • It was your conversation," she added, in a loving whisper, "that first made an impression upon my heart.

  • You--the only person living that could have made such an impression upon me--are afraid to enter my cell.

  • No one on earth save yourself could have made such an impression upon my mind, and in so short a time.

  • This song seems to have made as great an impression upon you as upon Doctor Stein," said Sophie.

  • Helen seemed to him almost a stranger; he had to become once more familiar with her beauty; and yet, it did not make the same overwhelming impression upon him as before.

  • Did the temporal and eternal miseries of six hundred millions of your fellow men make no impression upon you?

  • Did then the command of our ascended Lord, his last command, delivered under the most solemn circumstances, make no impression upon you?

  • Did their groans and sighs, which came over the waters like the voice of seven thunders, peal after peal, make no impression upon you?

  • How often have I been soothed by the waveless waters of the Charles river, its whispering ripples scarcely reaching the shores and making no impression upon it.

  • I only learned that people in Boston dressed every day in the week in their best clothes; that was what made the deepest impression upon me; for our best clothes hung in the closet until Sunday.

  • The only scene that made an impression upon me was that where Shylock is about to take his pound of flesh.

  • The encounter in the morning had made no impression upon him, but now.

  • The dreariness and emptiness of his house made no impression upon him.

  • Where the innate capacity is good, education may make an impression upon it; but no furbisher knows how to give a polish to iron which is of a bad temper.

  • Above the bridge begins the island upon which Calinicus built his new city, connecting it with five great viaducts so solid time has made no impression upon them, nor floods nor earthquakes.

  • Still the suffering made no impression upon him.

  • I had seen that glance a thousand times, without suspecting it had ever made so strong an impression upon me that in a case like this I should accept its evidence without other testimony.

  • She had not made quite so strong an impression upon me as had the elder woman, perhaps because I was so preoccupied with, and interested in watching the latter's meeting with Elodia.

  • No, I think him a superficial man who, flattered by having made an impression upon a woman of rank, is trying to better his condition.

  • Frau von Strachinsky had grown very pale; the child's agitated story had evidently made an impression upon her, but she did her best to preserve a severe demeanour.

  • The old Englishman's proposal was an utter surprise to her, but, oddly enough, it did not produce so disagreeable an impression upon her as upon her grandmother.

  • For a moment the young man's misery made an impression upon him, but then his invincible loquacity burst forth.

  • He did not in the least agree with Froude, who made no impression upon him in argument.

  • He had observed in his own day an event which made much the same impression upon him as study of the French Revolution had made upon Carlyle.

  • The goodness of Madam de Broglie had besides made an impression upon me, and rendered her interesting in my eyes.

  • Long and frequent meditations, and which were often involuntary, and made such an impression upon my mind that I resolved to attempt both words and music.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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