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The last accusation--that of Jesus causing himself to be called king--made some impression upon Pilate; he became a little thoughtful, left the terrace and, casting a scrutinising glance on Jesus, went into the adjoining apartment, and ordered the guards to bring him alone into his presence.

Oritz Konig spoke cleanly and clearly, but gave the DB1impression that his thoughts were racing faster than he could speak.

And Curlydown put his finger upon the impression--10th May, 1873.

He paused to adjust his glasses, which were in the very act of falling from his nose, and hitch up his gown, while he took a leisurely survey of the jury, as though he were estimating their impressionability.

To the 'Grandes Tours,' performed as a matter of course by our young nobility in the most impressionable period of their lives we owe most of our noble private collections.

It was with the new sight of man's maturity and soberness that he now saw his mother, feeling the intangible and indestructible feminine majesty of her; feeling her fragility which had brought forth her living soul in its beauty and impressionableness as a link with the cause of his Odyssey; believing that she was rejoicing in his strength and understanding gloriously that it had only brought him nearer to her.

Of his own accord Mr. QUARITCH offered to subscribe for one third of the impression,--an offer which I gratefully accepted.

demanda l'homme d'affaires.--Je suis dans le commerce depuis cinq ans, et je m'occupe toujours de mon affaire, repondit le jeune homme, qui comptait ainsi faire une bonne impression.--En ce cas, nous ne pouvons nous entendre, repliqua l'autre.

Mr. Bernard's look was riveted on this creature,--not fascinated certainly, for its eyes looked like white beads, being clouded by the action of the spirits in which it had been long kept,--but fixed by some indefinite sense of the renewal of a previous impression;--everybody knows the feeling, with its suggestion of some past state of existence.

He had a few years before given some political speeches in Boston and the adjacent towns, which were well received, but made no deep impression,--from no fault of his, but simply because he had not the right material to work upon, where culture was more in demand than vigor of intellect.

We only cited it as a monosyllabic word, having the air of being formed by the imitative process, while its original tiuhan makes quite another impression.--Had the word ramose been a word of English slang-origin, (and it might easily have been imported, like so many more foreign phrases, by sailors,) we have as little doubt that a derivation of it from the Spanish vamos would have failed to convince the majority of etymologists.

It has always seemed to me that with all the differences inherent in the antagonism of the characters of the two men, the essential features of the art of Rousseau and Turner were the same; pure impressionism based on the most intimate and largest knowledge of the facts of nature, but without direct copying of them--rather working from memoranda or memories, for neither ever painted directly from nature; the same conception of the subject as a whole, its rhythmic and harmonic unity as opposed to the fragmentary manner of treatment of most of their contemporaries; the lyric passion in line and tint; the same originality which often became waywardness in the conception of subject in itself; the same revolt from all precedent; and the same passion for subtle gradation and infinite space, air, and light--and some of Rousseau's skies were the most vaporous I have ever seen.

Those were the great days of John, the days before the Post Impressionist outbreak.

Edith was not a vain woman, not even much interested in dress, though she had a quick eye and a sure impressionistic gift for it.

I have only been able to suggest very impressionistically what they are and the lessons to be drawn from them.

And since these writers, who may, in the slang of the hour, be called "impressionists" in literature, follow their own bad taste in the manufacture of dainty phrases, devoid of all nerve, and generally with some quite commonplace meaning, it is all the more necessary to discriminate carefully between artifice and art.

"True, philosopher, but would you call the work of these padres impressionless, when it has permeated all California?

SENSIBLE, impressionnable.

Vous m'avez donne le privilege de contempler l'un des plus impressionnants des spectacles; de voir un grand noble anglais vivant a l'etat patriarcal dans son domaine hereditaire."

L'Ambassadeur d'Allemagne, tres impressionne par ces divulgations, a visite aujourd'hui le Gerant du Departement Politique pour lui dire que ses paroles n'avaient nullement eu le caractere de menace qu'on leur attribue.

In his personal appearance he made a fine impression,--over six feet in height, with a frank and open countenance, but not expressive of intellectual acumen.

The Bishop of London himself was so impressed by these unexpected accounts, that he asked me if Falconbridge, whose pamphlet had been previously sent by the committee to every member of the council, was worthy of belief, and if he would substantiate publicly what he had thus written: but these impressions unfortunately were not confined to those who had been present at the examinations.

And Vincent's impressions--" she said to herself as she went in to dress.

Where severity is used, as it still is on many estates, and the new system is moulded as nearly as possible on the old, the minds of the apprentices are apparently closed against all impressions,--but where they are treated with kindness, they are warm in their affections, and solicitous to be taught.

Cleopatra's perplexity.--She resolves To go to Alexandria.--Cleopatra's message to Caesar.--Caesar's reply.--Apollodorus's stratagem.--Cleopatra and Caesar--First impressions.--Caesar's attachment.--Caesar's wife.--His fondness for Cleopatra.--Cleopatra's foes.--She commits her cause to Caesar.--Caesar's pretensions.--He sends for Ptolemy.--Ptolemy's indignation.--His complaints against Caesar.--Great tumult in the city.--Excitement of the populace.--Caesar's forces--Ptolemy made prisoner.--Caesar's address to the people.--Its effects.--The mob dispersed.--Caesar convenes an assembly.--Caesar's decision.

"--Broken Vase.--Closed Shutters in Midsummer.--Opened Shutters.--Absent Man's Hat in Front Hall.--When Concealment is Proper.--When Concealment is Wrong.--Contagious Diseases.--Selling a Horse or Cow.--Covering Pit.--Wearing Wig.--God's Method with Man.--Delicate Distinction.-- Truthful Statements Resulting in False Impressions.--Concealing Family Trouble.--Physician and Inquiring Patient.--Illustrations Explain Principle, not Define it.

Strength is needed as well for the taking as the making of an impression,--something more than mere ductility.

What were my first impressions?--That is a difficult question.

There can be no doubt but that the horse feels the ground upon which he is treading, and that he regulates his action in consonance with such feeling, so as to render his step the least jarring and fatiguing to himself, and therefore the easiest and pleasantest to his rider.... Such impressions'--those of touch--'being in the neurotomized subject, so far as regards the feeling of the foot, altogether wanting, a bold, fearless projection of the limb in action will be the consequence, followed by a putting down of the hoof flat upon the ground, as though it were a block, creating a sensation alike unpleasant both to horse and rider.'

Impression.--The long mild twilight which like a silver clasp unites to-day with yesterday; when morning and evening sit together hand in hand beneath the starless sky of midnight.

He was tall and beautifully dressed,--at least that was the first impression,--though, as a matter of fact, the clothes were of the cheapest ready-made variety.

Christianity, while it chastens and amends the heart, leaves the natural powers unaltered; and it cannot be doubted that its operation is, or ought to be, proportionate to the abilities and opportunities of the subject of its holy impression--"Unto whomsoever much is given, much will be required."

"We want a little variety," said one of the group, a good-looking young man, upon whom the wine had evidently made some impression--"we are tired of drinking and play, and may as well listen to a sermon, especially an original one.

It soars aloft with such grandeur, that in gazing upon it my brain actually grew dizzy with the sight: never was I conscious in an equal degree of such a feeling of awe from a work of art, and my mind really ached with the intensity of the impression.--We seemed to view this sublime object with mutual wonder and admiration--gazing upon it in one position, then in another--walking about--stopping--excited as it were by the same impulse.

My own impression----" He paused for a moment and Spargo waited silently.

To maintain his liberty against extreme opinions generally is one of Dr. Newman's objects in writing his letter; the other is to state distinctly what he holds and what he does not hold, as regards the subject on which Dr. Pusey's appeal has naturally made so deep an impression:-- I do so, because you say, as I myself have said in former years, that "That vast system as to the Blessed Virgin ... to all of us has been the special crux of the Roman system" (p. 101).

Many a child grows up a hard, unimpressionable, unloving man or woman simply from the uncheered silence in which the first ten years of life were passed.

Pendant un entretien prolonge, que j'ai eu aujourd'hui avec Macchio, j'ai, en termes tout a fait amicaux, attire son attention sur l'impression defavorable qu'a produite en Russie la presentation par l'Autriche a la Serbie de demandes absolument inacceptables pour chaque etat independant, bien que petit.

As it is, I travel with my mind too much at home, and, perhaps, miss many things worthy of observation, or pass them with transient notice; so that the images, for want of that reimpression which discussion and comparison produce, easily fade away; but I keep a book of remarks, and Boswell writes a regular journal of our travels, which, I think, contains as much of what I say and do, as of all other occurrences together; "for such a faithful chronicler as Griffith."

bien incorrecte quant an texte (comme les reimpressions: f. l. 1534, in 8vo.

Why, euen in that was Heauen ordinate; Sidenote: ordinant, I had my fathers Signet in my Purse, Which was the Modell of that Danish Seale: Folded the Writ vp in forme of the other, Sidenote: in the forme of th' Subscrib'd it, gau't th'impression, plac't it safely, Sidenote: Subscribe it, The changeling neuer knowne: Now, the next day Was our Sea Fight, and what to this was sement, Sidenote: was sequent Thou know'st already.

Since when the princess hath entomb'd her lord, Her late deceased husband of renown; Brother, I see, and very well perceive, She hath not clos'd together in his grave All sparks of nature, kindness, nor of love: But as she lives, so living may she feel Such passions as our tender hearts oppress, Subject unto th'impressions of desire: For well I wot my niece was never wrought Of steel, nor carved from the stony rock: Such stern hardness we ought not to expect In her, whose princely heart and springing years Yet flow'ring in the chiefest heat of youth, Is led of force to feed on such conceits, As easily befalls that age, which asketh ruth Of them, whom nature bindeth by foresight Of their grave years and careful love to reach The things that are above their feeble force: And for that cause, dread lord, although-- TANCRED.