2 Metaphors for impress

The light leaped into the air with the motion of the naphtha, and, in an instant was gone, but the impress of a single detail remained on his retinaof a side ladder, lowered, no doubt, for the woman, and not yet hoisted into place on the big boat.

A later Times report is that: 'The impress on Saturday, both above and below the bridge, was the hottest that has been for some time.

2 Metaphors for  impress