209 examples of prepossesses in sentences

"Since you can't expect, Sergeant, to prepossess the judge and jury in your favor, the instant you make your appearance in the box" "Here, what are you on to, sir?"

Most of them are so prepossessed against Friday, that they never settle any important business, or conclude a bargain on that day; in some places they do not even dress their children.

He directed his course to that part of the kingdom, in hopes that the Welsh, who regarded him as their countryman, and who had been already prepossessed in favor of his cause by means of the Duke of Buckingham, would join his standard, and enable him to make head against the established government.

He willingly and fully ratified the treaty which had been made by his sons with the white strangers, whose appearance and manners seemed to prepossess him much in their favor; and after detaining them for some days in his lodge, and entertaining him with the greatest hospitality and kindness, he dismissed them with presents of native manufacture, in return for the European arms and ornaments which they had offered to his acceptance.

I thought mebbe you might 'a' seen her in York?" Mark replied, that he did meet her in Broadway late one afternoon, and that she looked as if she would speak; but that he hurried on, for the flaunting style of her dress was not calculated to prepossess the passers by.

Some even of the princes who had originally striven to prepossess the king against him either changed their minds or feared to show their disagreement with the common feeling.

He had with him several negroes, who were his body servants; and the coarse epithets he applied to them during the operation did not prepossess me in his favour, or, I thought, reflect much credit on his refinement.

Character of widow Bevis. Prepossesses the women against Miss Howe.

Thou art a very good sort of woman, Mrs. Moore, thought I. As Miss Howe has actually detected our mother, and might possibly find some way still to acquaint her friend with her discoveries, I thought it proper to prepossess them in favour of Mrs. Sinclair and her two nieces.

prender, to seize, take, arrest. preocupar, to preoccupy, prepossess.

The native dignity which characterizes their demeanor prepossesses me very strongly in their favor.

"There is a sweet simplicity about that little story which prepossesses me in favor of these New Zealanders, although they were once such horrible cannibals.

It naturally makes the Beholders inquisitive into the Person who is the Owner of it, and generally prepossesses them in his Favour.

His first behaviour under the prosecution, how accurately was it calculated to prepossess one in his favour!

The accounts of Joseph's bravery and good qualities, his voice too musical to halloa to the dogs, his bravery in riding races for the gentlemen of the county, and his constancy in refusing bribes and temptation, have something refreshing in their naïveté and freshness, and prepossess one in favor of that handsome young hero.

The Brandenburger or Prussian is vivacious, talkative, ceremonious, often dogmatical; the Saxon considerate, reserved, poorer in words; the former, prepossessed with what is new, feels delight in public places, loves to shine, and is the man of the world; the Saxon rather hates what is new, wishes to enjoy in silence in the circle of his own, and loves rural nature.

Nor did he fail to avail himself of his access to the great, whose applause was often cheaply secured by a perusal of the piece, previous to its being presented to the public; and thus it afterwards came forth with all the support of a party eminent for rank and literature, already prepossessed in its favour.

It will, however, not be amiss to prepossess our readers a little by the judgments that have been passed upon him by the criticks of our own time, without forgetting one of the ancients that deserves great respect.

It naturally makes the Beholders inquisitive into the Person who is the Owner of it, and generally prepossesses them in his Favour.

" These offers, made freely, could only prepossess in favor of the American, who immediately continued, addressing Mrs. Weldon: "These blacks are your slaves?"

Remember always what I have told you a thousand times, that all the talents in the world will want all their lustre, and some part of their use, too, if they are not advanced with that easy good-breeding, that engaging manner, and those graces, which seduce and prepossess people in your favour at first sight.

"What will she study, Miss Warren?" Aunt Mercy's recollections of my studies were dim, and her knowledge of my school days was not calculated to prepossess a teacher in my favor; but after a moment's delay, she said: "What you think best.

The manners and conversation of Arthur Myrvin were such as to prepossess both Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton very much in his favour, and strengthened the opinion they had already formed concerning him, on the word of their son.

Good manners have an undue value for Englishmen, generally speaking; and whatever departs from their peculiar standard of breeding is apt to prejudice them, as whatever approaches it prepossesses them, far more than is reasonable.

Moreover, without in the least suspecting it, he will be bribed insidiously and incessantly by the extreme desire and endeavour to please and prepossess him which the whole white population of the slave States will exhibitas long as he goes only as a 'candid observer,' with a mind not yet made up upon the subject of slavery, and open to conviction as to its virtues.

209 examples of  prepossesses  in sentences