Those grim guns that bore upon them, and the angry faces of Jerry, Frank, yes, and Andy, impressed them deeply.

Up to now, Inkston had not impressed Cynthia Walford very favorably.

The dining-room, when she went down to it, did not impress her any more favourably; for here, too, the furniture was new and shiny with a sticky kind of shininess, as if the treacly varnish had not yet dried; there was not a comfortable chair in the room; the pictures were the most gruesome ones of Doré's, and there was a text over the mantel-piece as aggressive and as hideous in colouring as those in her room.

An order was issued by the military authorities requesting the tender of men and teams for this purpose, but the owners of draft horses did not respond with sufficient alacrity to supply the pressing necessities of the army, and it was necessary for the authorities to issue another order forcibly impressing into service of the government any and all teams that could be found on the streets or in stables.

The close of the previous holidays had witnessed a general parliamentary election, and with the details of contests which had taken place in their native towns vividly impressed upon their minds, the younger boys, from the Lower Fourth downwards, threw themselves into the present conflict with an amount of energy and spirit which was not to be found in the more sober and deliberate action of their seniors.

"Baby as she thinks and I call you, Eveena, you are fast unteaching me the lesson which, before you were born and ever since, the women of the Earth have done their utmost to impress indelibly upon my mindthe lesson that woman is but a less lovable, more petulant, more deeply and incurably spoilt child.

His imagination was profoundly impressed by the existence of Christianity as a revealed religion with a founder of its own.

The most solemn act of worship, that of public supplication, so powerfully impressed my mind, that I believed it right to yield to the motion, which I humbly trust was done in due reverence and humility of soul.

"But you know as well as I do how the attitude of the young prisoner impressed the magistrate and police so unfavourably that, with every new witness brought forward, his position became more and more unfortunate.

She had helped "fix up" the house for the new owner and her appreciative soul had been duly impressed by the display of wealth demonstrated by the fine furniture sent down from the city.

" The scene was so rude and at the same time so picturesque that it impressed them all very agreeably.

The story impressed Hubert strangely.

The countenance of the latter immediately impressed a beholder disagreeably, but it required some examination to discover that the cause was a very slight distortion of the mouth, and the irregular, broken line and near approach of the eyebrows.

Consequently the chief was greatly impressed by Masoy's great wealth.

Two of the later Elizabethan poets, Ben Jonson and John Donne (1573-1631), specially impress us by their efforts to secure ingenious effects in verse.

Personally, he impressed me rather favourably, which is more than the other man did.

He seemed to be in the suburbs, too, in a locality the surroundings of which impressed him unpleasantly.

"by twos and threes," wonderfully impressed the inhabitants with their "gravity and magnificence."

It seems that you must have been impressed with it considerably, Steve, to have it on your mind so?" "I was, Max, and I am right now," admitted the other, frankly.

This was his first visit to California, and he was mightily impressed by the skill and vigour of the vaqueroes.

What are some of the great truths which have gradually impressed themselves upon his mind?

Then Nature began paying attention to George Henry Harrison personally, in a manner which, however flattering in a general way, did not impress him pleasantly.

But there was something in the majesty of their language and the solemn roll of their poetical development that irresistibly impressed and attracted him.

Whether or not Miss Caroline was rightly impressed by the furniture exhibit was a question not easy to determine.

I remember being distinctly impressed by the comic opera setting; the gay costumed soldiers in a crowded French cafe, the big American and the little heroine.