Every eye was on the face of this young girl, whose story bore such an impress of truth, and yet was so contradictory of all former evidence.

The next rule is social: the direction of personal energy that shall leave a distinct impress on other lives.

The pith of the elder, when pressed with the fingers, "doth pit and receive the impress of them thereon, as the legs and feet of dropsical persons do," Therefore the juice of this tree was reckoned a cure for dropsy.

It is impossible for one who leads an existence of royal luxury and coddles himself like a woman to think any valorous thoughts or do valorous deeds, because it is quite inevitable that a person takes the impress of the practices with which he comes in contact.

But the unfading artificial retina which has looked upon them retains their impress, and a fresh sunbeam lays this on the living nerve as if it were radiated from the breathing shape.

England became the mistress of all the domain stretching along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Acadie, and westward across the entire continent; but in New Netherland, in that brief space of half a century, the Dutch had stamped the impress of their institutions, their social and religious habits, their modes of thought and peculiarities of character, so that they remained unconquered in the loftier aspect of the case.

And he who brought these armies into life, And on them set the impress of his will Could he be moved by sound of mortal strife, There where he lies, their Captain, cold and still Under the shrouding tide, How would his great heart stir and glow with pride!

And many a soul that with him strove in fight, And his great merit grudged to recognize, Now feels the impress of his wondrous might, And in his magic fetters gladly lies; E'en to the highest hath he winged his flight, In close communion linked with all we prize.

"The king," says Marmontel, "appeared with simple dignity, without pride, without timidity, wearing on his features the impress of the goodness which he had in his heart, a little affected by the spectacle and by the feelings with which the deputies of a faithful nation ought to inspire in its king."

And beneath the worldly mask of her face, I saw a fanatical martyr's smile impress itself like handwriting.

Historians of continental literature find his powerful impress on the thought of that time.

But though Milton does not unveil the "face like lightning"; and though the angel Raphael is made to hold converse with man, and the "severe in youthful beauty" gives even the individual impress to Zephon, and Michael and Abdiel are set apart in their prowess; there is not one he names that does not breathe of Heaven, that is not encompassed with the glory of the Infinite.

Word had been sent that a considerable number of beasts among those yarded bore the impress of the Bossier brand on their hides; so on Sunday afternoon uncle Jay-Jay had also proceeded thither to be in readiness for the final drafting early on Monday morning.

PLUM KNOEDEL (HUNGARIAN) Boil several potatoes, mash, mix with one egg yolk, a little salt and enough flour to make a dough soft enough to hold the impress of the finger.

I longed for action whereon to imprint my new impress of resolution.

He had had such a little share in her life after all, her real life in the cities, which laid its impress with such certainty on those who were its children.

Lady Huntingdon made the college in a very real sense her home, and the institution has never lost the impress of her own fervent piety and the saintly benediction bestowed upon it by Fletcher.

The simple name of a man who has performed noble actions impresses on us more respect than all the epithets that can be invented.

For these children bore in their countenance, in their name, and in their disposition, too plain an impress of the great past, which they could never entirely ignore while Bonaparte still lived to testify to it.

On the Canadian body politic the impress of the Loyalist migration is so deep that it would be difficult to overestimate it.

They will just produce an impress of their own minds; but this is a print of which everyone possesses the original.

The conservative trend, however, could not wholly remove the Revolution's impress of philosophical liberalism from the minds of men.

During the past season, (1878) the plow brought up another fragment of one of these moulds, revealing the impress of a plump human arm.

An' then he said he was goin' to motor through that wheat-belt an' talk to what Americans he could find, an' impress upon them that they could do as much as soldiers to win the war.

Nevertheless, although everything in the room looked old except the white and gleaming stove, Vera Michailovna spread over the place the impress of her strong and active personality.