Then the noble trees are hushed in the hazy light, and drip with balsam; the cones are ripe, and the seeds, with their ample purple wings, mottle the air like flocks of butterflies; while deer feeding in the flowery openings between the groves, and birds and squirrels in the branches, make a pleasant stir which enriches the deep, brooding calm of the wilderness, and gives a peculiar impressiveness to every tree.

This fact confers on each individual man a strange impressiveness and power.

Mr. WELLS also contrives a wonderful impressiveness in certain passages of the bishop's three visions.

No words of mine can convey the impressiveness of the wonderful panorama displayed to our eyes.

Alas! the watchman on his way Calls and lets intruth, terror, and the day!" Allowing for a certain melodramatic climax here led up to, we cannot deny the impressiveness of this picturethe first-hand quality of its observation, and an eye for beauty, which his critics are rarely disposed to allow to Crabbe.

Though somewhat stiff and formal, the general design derives a certain impressiveness from the lofty clerestory, the immense display of windows, and a profusion of flying buttresses.

"I really feel the impressiveness of Rome.

This simple young man actually found impressiveness, glamour, even beauty, in this eye-filling canvas; the crowding of crashing lights and interwoven shadows, massed, innumerable, bewildering; the turmoil of confused and broken line, sprawled with tremendous carelessness for a giant's delight.

Along with this egotism went a too susceptible impressiveness in the presence of beautiful women of soft, delicate ways.

Hauteville measured the prisoner for a moment in grim silence, then, throwing into his voice and manner all the impressiveness of his office and his stern personality he said: "And why did you start from your seat and tremble nervously and wait nine and four fifths seconds before you were able to answer 'salad' to the word 'potato'?" Groener stared stolidly at the judge and did not speak.

The Doge and the Signoria all took part in this tragic confession of wrong, doing penance unflinchingly for the sins of their predecessors; for Venice could be munificent in reparation, not shrinking from her own humiliation to appease outraged justice and confirm her power, and there was nothing lacking that might add impressiveness to the pageant.

It needed heft, it needed impressiveness, and most of all, it needed rarity.