英语词汇“impressible”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Yet he whom it describes scarcely impressed one with the idea of a gentle, a yielding, an impressible, or even of a placid nature. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“He talks little, sir: what he does say is ever to the point. His brain is first-rate, I should think not impressible, but vigorous.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some players use it to pay utility bills or help out family members, and there are coaches and administrators who feel it helps ward off the temptation to accept impressible benefits. ACC players: Cost of attendance stipend helps in many ways 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

However, the boy’s demeanor when he is effectively kidnapped by Nils strikes as both impressibly mature and exactly right given his home circumstances and his lack of illusions about his father. ‘In Order of Disappearance’ is a Norwegian revenge gangster drama that borrows from many genres 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

The laws creating the commissions constitute “an impressible commingling of the legislative power and executive power and an impressible encroachment by the legislative branch of government on the executive branch of government,” the judges said. NC judges side with McCrory in fight with legislature 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Then will the Oriental mind be brought into an impressible state, in which argument and persuasion can act upon it; and it may yield to the combined influence of civilization and Christianity. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z

The bowels are generally inactive, though naturally impressible to cathartic drugs. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z

Eight miles of country, beheld for the first time, though its landscape was only of an ordinary and monotonous character, presented a world of objects for reflection to Joe's impressible spirit. Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) 2012-03-12T03:00:23.003Z

The hymns of a congregation of “impassioned and impressible worshippers” have been “full of unpremeditated and irresistible dramatic power.” Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes 2012-03-09T03:00:17.743Z

He was impressible, sensitive, quick to appreciate and honor the sentiments of another man. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z

His impressible nature realises with extraordinary vividness of pleasure and pain experiences which by most people are scarcely noticed. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z

Snuff boxes and ladies’ knick-knacks exhibit the loveliest miniatures in an impressible medium. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z

But, though she had grieved bitterly, as well she might, for Edward’s loss, her nature was not impressible, and the catastrophe which had fallen upon her had left her unaltered. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z

From the family of his mother, Mary Aspull, he derived the quick impressible temperament of genius and that love of humour which so conspicuously marks the Lancashire character. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z

I have shown, or should have shown, that Emily was somewhat of an impressible character, and the brightness and the pleasant character of the scene had its usual effect in cheering. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z

I tell you it was not so pleasant for a little boy of impressible nature to go up to bed in an old gambrel-roofed house, with untenanted, locked upper chambers, and a most ghostly garret; ... Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z

This is the point on which this country is most impressible. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z

These East Frieslanders are, as I have already remarked, a brave, healthy, practical people; in them is lacking that morbid imagination which makes us so impressible to the ghostly and supernatural. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z

Others believe that the enthusiasm of His teaching and the charm of His presence conveyed healing efficacy to the impressible and the nervous. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z

With Valentine she often and earnestly expostulated; and the impressible boy, for boy he continued to be to the day of his death, would promise with tears in his eyes, to amend. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z

Had all the clergymen who visited the parsonage been as true to their profession as his own dear father, the thoughtful, impressible boy might, very possibly, have devoted his brilliant talents to the ministry. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z

A man, I think, would have yielded to her then and there; a quiet person of her own sex was not likely to be so impressible. Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z

I was young, enthusiastic, and impressible; and the senses, educated first, prolonged their sway over the rational faculties. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z

This occurrence through the impressible girl was left unnoticed by Calef; his silence approximates to concession that the main facts here stated were not refutable in his day. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z

Ah, but he is beautiful—your husband!" sighed a girlish voice with the accent of France; "so impressibly charming! Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z

It is these—the weak, the plastic, the impressible—whom your earth-born morality is corrupting, whose possibilities of happiness and self-respect your enervating woman’s-sphere-ism is destroying. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z

There is a state of mind and body known as sensitive, or impressible, in which it receives impressions from other minds. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z

The more impressible a child is, the more important is the mother's or kindergartner's providential care of his affections during this irresponsible, pre-intellectual period of his life. Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School 2011-03-27T02:00:15.947Z

All such are impressible more by virtue of their organisms and native properties, external and internal, than by any intellectual and moral acquisitions, whether good or bad. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z

His austere nature could not enter into Zinka's soft and impressible susceptibility. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z

When my aunt heard what Madame de Trafford had said, she felt the injury it might do to my sister's impressible nature, and she was very angry. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z

The mind in this highly sensitive condition is impressible to the thought waves in the psychic-ether. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z

The Whig party of England, like the Democratic party of America, is eminently pathological, active, observant and impressible. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z

No cotemporary of the boy, excepting impressible, wayward Powell, seems ever to have suspected the little one as being the giant rogue. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z

His seeming inconsistencies are reconciled to apprehension, not by a formula of the intellect, but by the many-sidedness of a highly impressible nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z

The Irishman being of lively sensibility and impressible through sight has never seen the power which really governs him. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z

Remember, also, that in this most impressible period of character-formation servants and others can do the child great injury by teaching it to be deceitful and untruthful. What a Young Husband Ought to Know

These deeds of violence and lamentable struggles continued quite into the sixteenth century, till the Reformation gave a new bent to this lively and impressible race, and brought with it new sufferings. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I.

Whether this impressible and unfolded woman was literally aided in any of her marvelous operations by invisible intelligences may be debatable. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z

But the plastic and impressible temperament of a gifted speaker does not favour tenacity of will in danger. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus

With every new chord that he touched, he struck a rich store of thought and found her gifted with an impressible and receptive mind. On the Heights A Novel

Poor fellow, what a sensitive nature,—how impressible. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience

It needed just this humble acknowledgment of human need and human love to make Frank Darry irresistible, and my impressible fancy responded to the spell. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865

Vailed from external perceptions, that powerful operator shaped the speech, the actions, and the sufferings of all the impressible ones, whether accused or accusers, at his sole pleasure. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z

Is not the retina impressible to the faintest gleam of light? Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches.

The Owassee stretches like a silver ribbon across the picture, and there is not a human being in sight save these two tricyclers who take all this summer beauty into their impressible young hearts. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks

The material of which these last were made was a very impressible jean, and marked the number of his journeys, could one but decipher them, in stains and intricate creases. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865

All his self-interest laid in and with the woman; but need for money was pressing, and there were a million other women as impressible to his charms as she had been. The Spiritualists and the Detectives

It is the most impressible of all known plants, and is appropriately named. The Pearl of India

My sturdy second officer, not naturally impressible, and long accustomed to the vicissitudes of whaling life, shed tears at the prospect. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1

I know you abhor mercenary considerations; but I know also that you are a young man, lively, ardent, impressible. Coelebs In Search of a Wife

Mr. Ferris, who was by no means of an impressible organization, flashed a look of somewhat uneasy doubt at Mr. Byrd, and hesitated slightly before proceeding. Hand and Ring

For though the Greek character was most impressible and combustible, it was so only to the finest finger and fire. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2)

Oh, but you are only the more beautiful, the more impressible, for this fiery rage of yours! La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages

The only trouble with him was, in common parlance, that he was too clever a fellow; he was too social, too impressible, too versatile, too attractive, and too much in demand for his own good. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings

Judge then how I must have been affected, in a state when sorrow and disappointment had made my mind peculiarly impressible, with the conversation and example of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley! Coelebs In Search of a Wife

There is no one fact of our human existence that has a stronger influence upon us than the house we dwell in, especially that in which our earlier and more impressible years are spent. Household Papers and Stories

When the digestive organs are highly impressible or diseased, it is very important to adopt a nutritious, unstimulating, vegetable diet, as soon as the warm season commences. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition)

Even to one who hates the most brutalising of amusements, the spirit of the writer is impressibly contagious. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)

Sydney flattered himself that he was not impressible, or at least that the outward trappings of wealth and rank did not impress him. Name and Fame A Novel

If it was an attempt made by some helper to avert the threatened doom, it seems strange that no one who was sufficiently impressible could be found nearer than Cornwall. Clairvoyance

Although chivalrous and highly impressible to everything that can appeal to a high-minded people, they are also practical and far-sighted and are not to be lured by a will-o’-the-wisp. England and Germany

In the evenings of the warm season, a chill upon the impressible skin, that suppresses the perspiration, is frequently followed by a diarrhœa, dysentery, or cholera morbus. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition)

I know he goes very often to Mrs. Wishart's; and you know Tom is impressible; and before we know it he might do something he would be sorry for. Nobody

"Ai! ai!" cried the impressible and lively Shmul, holding his head with both hands. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story

For impressible youth such biography should be as easy of access as possible. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century

Of the three kingdoms Sweden, the strongest, was also the most impressible owing to the further bond of fellowship supplied by a common object of distrust—the Russian empire. England and Germany

After the system is relieved, the skin is more impressible to cold, and consequently requires careful protection by clothing. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition)

No compliments about your impressible temperaments from me. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905

If impressible he will perceive a cooling sensation as the fingers pass. Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12

For Farragut it is interesting to notice that, in his tender youth and most impressible years, he had before him, both in his captain and in his ship, most admirable models. Admiral Farragut

It contains every human emotion and passion, which we may stimulate in the impressible, or suspend instantly by a slight pressure on the brain. Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9

The large number of sensitive nervous filaments renders the visual organ very impressible to bodies that cause irritation, as dust, or intense light. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition)

To those who are very impressible, the contagion of vice, bad temper, profanity, turbulence, lying, obscenity, sullenness, melancholy, etc., is as inevitable as the contagion of small pox. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6

We find individuals occasionally, of the highest tone of health and bodily vigor, who are highly impressible. Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12

Somehow Millard had reached Miss Bowyer's interior perception and put her into the conscious, impressible, passive state, in which his will was hers. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York

In impressible persons the touch upon this locality produces nothing but a dreamy influence, and a disposition to close the eyes. Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9

In persons who are impressible this produces a quiet dreamy feeling, and a disposition to close the eyes. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5

He was an impressible young man, and he had been unconsciously falling deeper in love with Lady Mabel every day during the last three months. Vixen, Volume III.

Both of these qualities are, I hope, more impressible for good than for evil, and I trust in God for the rest. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870

So, while Miss Bowyer was seeking to induce in little Tommy the impressible conscious state—or, to be precise, the conscious, passive, impressible state—Mrs. Martin offered to hold him in her arms. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York

A vivacious impressible manner effectually masked a certain selfishness and rigour of temperament which became plain in after years. Emily Brontë

The majority of the southern population are impressible, and there are some who would even maintain that a majority are, in the North; and certainly magnetic healers have been very successful in New England. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5

All this is injurious to young and impressible minds. Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865

Through their lectures, books, and speeches, they influenced college students at an impressible age; they appealed to young and to middle-aged men; and they furnished comfort and entertainment for the old. Historical Essays

We can not always secure the impressible condition by producing the quiescence of the large brain. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York

She had come to Rome in search of health, and possessing talents, accomplishments and charms, and being withal a "fanatic Catholic," she won the affections of the impressible painter. Overbeck

There is no one fact of our human existence that has a stronger influence upon us than the house we dwell in,—especially that in which our earlier and more impressible years are spent. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864

Where is the key to the principle underlying the gramophone, the phonograph and the telephone, if it be not in this self-same atomic and easily impressible medium? Aether and Gravitation

For he ought to get, while at an impressible age, a superficial knowledge of the methods of scientific men, as a basis for his future reading. Historical Essays

But when the morrow came she was better able to disentangle her thoughts of healing from such phrases as "the passive impressible state" and "interior perception." The Faith Doctor A Story of New York

Beautiful weather dilates the heart and renders it more impressible, while bad weather contracts it. Hortense Makers of History Series

About the same time, or a little later, he performed a pilgrimage of a kind that could hardly help making a mark upon a character so deeply impressible. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet

The woman is rendered more susceptible, more impressible. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother

Dighton was impressible, you were quite accessible— The bachelor who marries late is apt to lose his head. The Book of Humorous Verse

Here the delight of the impressible young foreigner deepened into awe. Cruel As The Grave

The Southern female mind is precocious, brilliant, impressible, ardent, impulsive, fanciful. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

Their hearts had long ago ceased to be impressible by horrid fancies. Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters

Dante Gabriel, the Nestor of the group, twenty-two and wise, was not to be swept off his feet by the young and impressible enthusiasm of Deverell, aged nineteen. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers

His grave, tender manner touched Constance’s impressible heart. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time

He was not very impressible by fine scenery. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851

All these three influences left their mark on a soul which was always impressible towards everything great and noble. The Books of the New Testament

I supposed there was some impressible spot in his heart which might have been reached through the act we had just done. Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student

The impressible visitor declares that he felt disposed to fall upon his knees before this grand and simple human being, but refrained. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873

However, this impressible young man is most concerned with feminine traits. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898

I saw that his impressible nature had taken a thoughtful, if not a religious tone, from the scene. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851

So very impressible a fellow as you are, cannot inspire a very deep passion. The Lady of the Ice A Novel

He is as impressible as a schoolboy let loose for the long vacation. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

Possessed of an impressible nature, a discriminating sense of the beautiful, and a deep, pure taste for music, his progress has been phenomenal. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens

His heart was a union of highly inflammable oil and deeply impressible butter, with something remarkably tough in the centre of it. Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan

The contemplation of the mews and the chimney-pots through the back-windows of the nursery will not elevate even the most impressible child. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography

Throughout these colonial stations there has been, and there will be, a fearful depletion, among the numbers of these brave but too impressible men. The Lady of the Ice A Novel

His whole character will be impressible, and will respond to the most delicate touches of nature. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power

She is still romantic, but has learned something from experience,—is not so impressible as when you knew her. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858

The most sedate communities become mercurial and impressible in time of deep excitement. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860

My local memory has always been good and very impressible by scenery. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859

In the impressible and passive state of the brain left by any illness which produces nervous exhaustion, such imaginations often become very troublesome. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852

But the artist is ever excitable, receptive, impressible—the ready prey of the dealer in illusion and trickery. Art in England Notes and Studies

"Ain't he sweet, though!" she murmured, and then glancing at the butler, giggled impressibly as the strained attitudes of the circle struck her. While Caroline Was Growing

His heart was not very impressible, and he cared for no one except himself. Frank and Fearless or The Fortunes of Jasper Kent

Instead of an ardent, impressible, romantic and even demonstrative girl, bubbling over with warmth and vivacity, here she was, as cold and formal as a charity school matron of forty summers. The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family

He was so frank, so clear, so lively, so impressible, and, in a certain way, so humorous, that he carried the people away with him. Life of Father Hecker

To his impressible nervous nature it seemed that he had suddenly entered a place far removed in time and space from the every-day life with which he was so familiar. A Dozen Ways Of Love

Mrs. Heron, with the instinct of a delicate, impressible woman, had written to her husband to have this room prepared for Caterina. Scenes of Clerical Life

O'Flaherty felt himself passing under the chill and dismal shadow of death once more, such was the eloquence of Puddock, and so impressible his own nature, as he followed the appeal of his second. The House by the Church-Yard

Oh, I don't know that there is anything very serious the matter with them, but Maria is at an age when she is very impressible, and there are many who are not exactly desirable. By the Light of the Soul A Novel

She was different from other women, more candid, less impressible. Princess

The stories told of the Liszt craze among the ladies of Germany and Russia are highly amusing, and have a value as registering the degree of the effect he produced on impressible minds. Great Violinists And Pianists

It was different with the sister Nellie; her nature was more impressible, and it was only by a strong effort that she kept her self-control so long. Through Forest and Fire Wild-Woods Series No. 1

He was impressible by omens, though he scorned his own weakness, and sneered at, and quizzed it sometimes in the monologues of his ugly solitude. The House by the Church-Yard

She is but an infant,—open and impressible, warm and sanguine! Idolatry A Romance

But, in the subsequent few days, this emotion was altered to one of impressible satiric mirth; and, subsequently still, it was changed again to an emotion of wondering and humble admiration. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3

She is very young, very impressible, and some think very eccentric, very passionate and romantic to frenzy. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest

A wasted sorrow—that is, a sorrow which does not drive us to God—leaves us less impressible than it found us. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII

When enjoying his German pipe he felt impressibly serene, and did not care to be disturbed. Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific

But France, impressible, sympathetic, ardent for pleasure, generous, amiable and vain, was capable of comprehending the Italian spirit. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots

From the family of his mother, Mary Aspall, he derived the quick, impressible temperament of genius, and the love of humour which so conspicuously marks the Lancashire character. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1

Passing along with them to a little lobby, where he could inspect them more conveniently, he left Jim behind, as that personage did not prove to be so interesting and impressible as he had hoped. Sevenoaks

With a decided originality, he was so impressible that there are in his writings traces of the authors whom he was reading, if he did not mean to make them models of style. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction

"Only to you impressible chaps!" the Secretary confided. The Cab of the Sleeping Horse

The youth comes forth educated, and at a most impressible age he reads for the first time the history of his country, and burns with indignant desire to avenge her many wrongs. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800

They are primitive beings impressible mainly to concrete motives of the barest kind. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference

I caught him looking very impressibly at you this morning, and I am quite sure, if he sees anything more of you, he will be falling head over ears in love. The Sorcery Club

The shallow and fiery nature of the fair White Devil herself is a notable example of the difference so accurately distinguished by Charlotte Brontë between an impressionable and an impressible character. The Age of Shakespeare

Possibly we should never have had him as a nature writer at all, had he spent his impressible youthful years in a less favored locality. In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs

As I grew in strength, my nerves ceased to be impressible to such annoyances. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862

But, alas! for the uncertainty even of the presentiments of one of Nature's most impressible children. Romance of California Life

I was extremely susceptible and impressible, moved by beauty of any kind, but never at all ambitious or in any way creative. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion

"Oh, yes," exclaimed the impressible Fritz Schmidt, "we have a few things besides pigs and potatoes." Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans"

This is intended as a place to educate and restrain men who would return to earth and incite impressible beings to evil. Strange Visitors

A thoughtless youth, gay, tender, and impressible, struck with your beauty, in violation of all the most sacred laws of hospitality carries you off, and obstinately refuses to restore you to your husband. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4

Antonyms: insentient, insusceptible. sentiment, n. thought, feeling; judgment, notion, opinion; maxim, saying, toast; sensibility, susceptibility. sentimental, a. romantic, impressible, emotional, lackadaisical. Putnam's Word Book

She was at once impressible and creative, impulsive and deliberate, pliant in sympathy yet firmly self-centred, confidingly responsive while commanding in originality. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II

He finally discredited his advice by adding impressibly, 'You needn't go into the instance at all, you know. The Philanderers

Don't waste your sarcasm on me," she said, cheerily; "keep your weapons for more impressible subjects. Four Girls at Chautauqua

But she was impressible; and the handsome young English Lieutenant was too much for her monastic tendencies, and she eloped. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5

A less impressible man than I would have felt moved at the sight of that throng of bruised and broken creatures. California Sketches, Second Series

Hungarians, Poles, Italians, are too demonstrative for them, too fiery, too impressible. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II

That is to say, he has not a very impressible nervous organization, is not imaginative, nor very liable to accept results on insufficient or partial evidence. Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885

Miss Pillbody turned with a feeling of relief from her dull elderly pupils, stiff in manners, and firmly set in their habits, to this fresh, impressible young creature. Round the Block

To this impressible period of human life, few parents give any thought; yet here we must begin to cultivate virtues that can alone redeem the world. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

It is an unusual thing to see a colored Quaker; for the African temperament is fervid and impressible, and requires more exciting forms of religion. Isaac T. Hopper

Marian Evans was surrounded at the most impressible period of her life by this group of intellectual, free-thinking people, who seem to have fully indoctrinated her with their own opinions. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy

The education of Agnes had been one which rendered her whole system peculiarly sensitive and impressible to all influences from the invisible and unseen. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator

But water, the feminine element, is so mobile and impressible that it must protect itself by much that seems caprice and fickleness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862

My own experience proves to me that it is a grave mistake to send boys and girls to separate institutions of learning, especially at the most impressible age. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

Isaac was at an impressible age, and on those occasions his thirsty soul drank eagerly from the fountain of living water. Isaac T. Hopper

But it is also probable that Savage had a strong influence upon Johnson's mind at a very impressible part of his career. Samuel Johnson

It always affected his imagination as wrathful, mysterious, and sad; and his imagination was sufficiently impressible to see the whole neighbourhood under some tinge of its dark shadow. Little Dorrit

At that impressible time of life, it must sometimes produce a fixed impression. The Uncommercial Traveller

But there was Mrs Boffin to part from, and, in the full flush of her dignity, the impressible little soul collapsed again. Our Mutual Friend

Still, the porter of that institution is of an obese habit, and, according to the best of my observation of him, not very impressible. Speeches: Literary and Social

Paraffined paper appears also to have been experimented with as an impressible material. Edison, His Life and Inventions

He is a little gay, a thing Society is accustomed to in young men, and he is very impressible. Little Dorrit

Also forcible, impressibly forcible—with the force of a squirt of tobacco juice. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10

Mortimer Lightwood was not an extraordinarily impressible man, but this face impressed him. Our Mutual Friend

But whatever blemishes others might discern in William, to his friend's mind he was faultless; for Marner had one of those impressible self-doubting natures which, at an inexperienced age, admire imperativeness and lean on contradiction. Silas Marner

"What a fine-looking pair they are," whispered the impressible Mrs. Rachel to Marilla. Anne of the Island

The Collegians as a body were not easily impressible, but even they, according to their various ways of wondering, appeared to find in the two brothers a sight to wonder at. Little Dorrit

The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. Walden

It would be hard to say what place she held in the soft, impressible heart of her faithful attendant. Uncle Tom's Cabin

Will, too, was made of very impressible stuff. Middlemarch

Captain Lake put it in his paletot pocket, looked in her face gently, and smiled, and thanked her in his graceful way—and, in fact, left an enduring impression upon that impressible nature. Wylder's Hand

All these things do I now think over, adding, "He had his faults, yet scarce ever was a finer nature; liberal, suave, impressible." Villette

A good dinner produces a good mood,—at least, it produces an impressible mood. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays

She was not nervous or impressible; but the solemn, heart-felt manner struck her. Uncle Tom's Cabin

The discrepancies in analyses of woman's milk are easily explained by the mobile and impressible character of woman. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883

Rachel was one of those persons who, no matter what may be upon their minds, are quickly impressible by the scenes in which they find themselves. Wylder's Hand

When he returned to the world, and to the residence assigned him, he seemed no longer the impressible, ardent boy who was once my bright, ambitious scholar. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

He was, perhaps, too sensitive and impressible; too easily thrown off his guard by qualities in a writer for which he had an aversion. Sketches from Concord and Appledore

Tom, who had the soft, impressible nature of his kindly race, ever yearning toward the simple and childlike, watched the little creature with daily increasing interest. Uncle Tom's Cabin

So impressible was he as to say that he "had no nature," meaning character. Among My Books Second Series

Here was a man of abundant physical strength and vigor, no doubt, but carrying within him a nature more than commonly alert and impressible. Confessions and Criticisms

Here, as elsewhere, the blended force and gentleness of her character wrought marvels in the impressible and grateful minds to which she had access. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

Besides, I have not been among hospital beds for many a year, and my sensibilities are almost as impressible as they were before daily habit had rendered them comparatively callous. Our Hundred Days in Europe

But the seed from which any of these conflicting natures may develop lies in more fertile soil, within her impassioned and impressible soil, than in man's. Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates

"I knew, long ago, a bright and impressible boy," said he. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance

Nerve tissue is impressible and everything that touches it leaves an ineradicable trace. How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study

But, volatile as he was impressible, the next week saw him the gayest of the gay in parties at Savannah, where his pretty little bride was quite the fashion. A Romance of the Republic

Lesser grandeurs do not find us very impressible. Our Hundred Days in Europe

Both were beautiful, bright, witty, and intellectual; but the Frenchwoman was immeasurably more cultivated, and was impressible by grand sentiments. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women

The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the Eastern nations makes them much more impressible by these appeals to the fancy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858

All were therefore properly impressed with the importance of the occurrence, and none more so than the excitable, impressible, enthusiastic Poet. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 35, November 26, 1870

All this was terrible to the impressible, imaginative, and naturally buoyant temper of Mildred. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858

And besides, it was the moment of victory, when, of all moments, the difference between the man born and reared under Christian influences and the savage is most impressible. The Prince of India — Volume 02

She was one of those strong-minded women who are impressible by grand sentiments. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women

Labor is pain to the soft fibers and unknit limbs of childhood, and to the impressible minds of the young, danger conveys a thousand fears not felt by the firmer natures of older persons. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic"

Certainly no thoughtful or sensitive person, no person impressible either through the senses or the religious feelings, can fail to feel it deeply. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe

The spectacle of two hundred men at arms, who advanced to meet him at the gates of The Mural Inclosure, drove all else from the still youthful and impressible mind of Lothaw. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers

In the most impressible period of his life he had received instruction, advice and discipline in abundance, but love and sympathy had been denied. His Sombre Rivals

In the impressible period of infancy and early childhood, Lottie and her brother, and an invalid sister older than herself, had been left chiefly to the charge of servants. From Jest to Earnest

Mrs. H. was an impressible woman with poetic tastes, and a strong admiration for the beautiful in nature; and as she gazed upon the glorious expanse her whole face lighted up and glowed with pleasure. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic"

But I persuaded him out of that, seeing how perilous it would be for a young fellow of his inexperience and impressible disposition to go rambling alone over the Continent. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel

You will find me as quiet and impressible as the oysters over which we'll have our talk, but only on this condition. Without a Home

A child of the South in nature as in aspect, ardent, impressible, and proud; fitfully aspiring and despairing; without the native energy which moulds character and ennobles life. On Picket Duty, and Other Tales

Its recital enlisted his sympathies; and being of an ardent and impressible temper, he determined to carry out a design for her relief. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter

Mrs. H. had preserved her courage and energy till now, but her impressible nature began to yield before the onset of this new danger. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic"

In the presence of that fair and pure-minded girl he was as a child, impressible, and ready to follow her simplest instructions. The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast

I would not give this officer's name if I could remember it, but he was a fine fellow, and was exceedingly impressible. Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story

Through Rosa, Paul realized this beautiful truth, and earnestly strove to impart truth to the tender and impressible minds of his children; he presented it to them in the most beautiful and attractive forms. The Wedding Guest

My eye was caught by "Initial,"—a love-story which I had always avoided because I had heard impressible young ladies rave about it; but now I picked it up and dropped into an easy chair. Helen's Babies

This wore off quickly; the new scene took effect on his impressible mind, and the actual sights and sounds drove out all the rest. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1

The central interest of his own youth—of his profoundly impressible youth—as happens always with natures of real capacity, gives law and pattern to all that succeeds it. Plato and Platonism

The sky in its unity and its variety,—the sea in its unity and its variety,—mirrored themselves respectively in these simple, but profoundly impressible spirits, as Zeus, as Glaucus or Poseidon. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays

Doubt, despair, and apprehension held unimpeded sway over his impressible but inactive faculties. Antonina

She still felt in her heart some of the wild love of romance and adventure of the little Louise; she was the same daring, dreamy, impressible Louise, only now she was less innocent. Frederick the Great and His Family

She did not suspect how fatal her sojourn in the strongly Romish city of Dublin had been to the easily impressible mind of her early playmate, and how much it had transformed her whole being. Henry VIII and His Court

He was a big, dark-haired fellow, sensitive, emotional, extraordinarily impressible. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters

And yet scarcely a woman—rather a vision of a girl, impressible still to all the influences of such a scene and to the most delicate suggestions of unfolding life. That Fortune

I think I have said enough to show that Johnnyboy was hopelessly worshiped by an impressible and illogical sex. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's

No, she loves him not; but who then—who? she is young, ardent, and, it appears to me, impressible; she cannot live without love. Frederick the Great and His Family

When at last the day came for the doctor's arrival, he was duly met by Hoskins, and as duly informed by that impressible subordinate of the great change in Liberty's appearance. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation

His strong imagination rendered him peculiarly impressible on such subjects; while his judgment, seldom exercised or fortified by severe thought, could not prevent his continually recurring to it. Doom of the Griffiths

Poor Markham, I fear the world does not do justice to his gentle, impressible nature. The Crusade of the Excelsior

He did not look alarmed, but then he was not of an impressible nature. The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair

I almost wonder, seeing she is so impressible, that she can give no account of his whereabouts. David Elginbrod

The spectacle of two hundred men at arms who advanced to meet him at the gates of The Mural Enclosure drove all else from the still youthful and impressible mind of Lothaw. Condensed Novels

Indeed, I am convinced there is not one of my impressible sex, who, looking in those pleading eyes, would not have perjured himself on the spot rather than have disappointed their fair owner. Thankful Blossom

"I am afraid you are angry with me!" repeated Priscilla sadly; for, while she seemed as impressible as wax, the girl often showed a persistency in her own ideas as stubborn as it was gentle. The Blithedale Romance

With all his supernatural dignity, he appears to us far more attractive when we consider him as impressible by circumstances,—as moved by human sympathies. The Crown of Thorns : a token for the sorrowing

His impressible nature recoiled as from some sudden shock. Armadale

Though very nervous and impressible, the king did not quiver, albeit, under the circumstances in which he then stood, this apparition had a certain air of mystery and horror. Catherine De Medici

Thus they will become softer and more impressible; and when a man's heart is warm within him, he will be more ready to charm himself and others with song. Laws

By a sort of sympathetic impulse that often controlled me in those more impressible days of my life, I was induced to approach this old man in a mode as undemonstrative as his own. The Blithedale Romance

By this we see that Christ's was a spirit liable to trial,—impressible by suffering; and from this fact does the victory appear greater and more real. The Crown of Thorns : a token for the sorrowing

He had a nature not deeply impressible by events; twenty-four hours consoled him for the worst catastrophes, and he soon forgot the severest lessons of life. The Mystery of Orcival

The power of a simple and characteristic melody on the impressible mind of the Greek is more than we can easily appreciate. The Republic

The heart and the blood are less impressible than the nerves. Sons of the Soil

If the inversion be not precisely of the kind he expected, it is none the less striking, and impressibly more real. The Soul of the Far East

Yet he whom it describes scarcely impressed one with the idea of a gentle, a yielding, an impressible, or even of a placid nature. Jane Eyre

For the temper of later life follows the mind of childhood; nor do the traces easily fade of vices which have been stamped upon the character in the impressible age. The Danish History, Books I-IX

His brain is first-rate, I should think not impressible, but vigorous.” Jane Eyre

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例句	impressible Yet he whom it describes scarcely impressed one with the idea of a gentle, a yielding, an impressible, or even of a placid nature. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “He talks little, sir: what he does say is ever to the point. His brain is first-rate, I should think not impressible, but vigorous.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Some players use it to pay utility bills or help out family members, and there are coaches and administrators who feel it helps ward off the temptation to accept impressible benefits. ACC players: Cost of attendance stipend helps in many ways 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z However, the boy’s demeanor when he is effectively kidnapped by Nils strikes as both impressibly mature and exactly right given his home circumstances and his lack of illusions about his father. ‘In Order of Disappearance’ is a Norwegian revenge gangster drama that borrows from many genres 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The laws creating the commissions constitute “an impressible commingling of the legislative power and executive power and an impressible encroachment by the legislative branch of government on the executive branch of government,” the judges said. NC judges side with McCrory in fight with legislature 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Then will the Oriental mind be brought into an impressible state, in which argument and persuasion can act upon it; and it may yield to the combined influence of civilization and Christianity. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z The bowels are generally inactive, though naturally impressible to cathartic drugs. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Eight miles of country, beheld for the first time, though its landscape was only of an ordinary and monotonous character, presented a world of objects for reflection to Joe's impressible spirit. Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) 2012-03-12T03:00:23.003Z The hymns of a congregation of “impassioned and impressible worshippers” have been “full of unpremeditated and irresistible dramatic power.” Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes 2012-03-09T03:00:17.743Z He was impressible, sensitive, quick to appreciate and honor the sentiments of another man. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z His impressible nature realises with extraordinary vividness of pleasure and pain experiences which by most people are scarcely noticed. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Snuff boxes and ladies’ knick-knacks exhibit the loveliest miniatures in an impressible medium. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z But, though she had grieved bitterly, as well she might, for Edward’s loss, her nature was not impressible, and the catastrophe which had fallen upon her had left her unaltered. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z From the family of his mother, Mary Aspull, he derived the quick impressible temperament of genius and that love of humour which so conspicuously marks the Lancashire character. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z I have shown, or should have shown, that Emily was somewhat of an impressible character, and the brightness and the pleasant character of the scene had its usual effect in cheering. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z I tell you it was not so pleasant for a little boy of impressible nature to go up to bed in an old gambrel-roofed house, with untenanted, locked upper chambers, and a most ghostly garret; ... Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z This is the point on which this country is most impressible. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z These East Frieslanders are, as I have already remarked, a brave, healthy, practical people; in them is lacking that morbid imagination which makes us so impressible to the ghostly and supernatural. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Others believe that the enthusiasm of His teaching and the charm of His presence conveyed healing efficacy to the impressible and the nervous. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z With Valentine she often and earnestly expostulated; and the impressible boy, for boy he continued to be to the day of his death, would promise with tears in his eyes, to amend. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z Had all the clergymen who visited the parsonage been as true to their profession as his own dear father, the thoughtful, impressible boy might, very possibly, have devoted his brilliant talents to the ministry. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z A man, I think, would have yielded to her then and there; a quiet person of her own sex was not likely to be so impressible. Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z I was young, enthusiastic, and impressible; and the senses, educated first, prolonged their sway over the rational faculties. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z This occurrence through the impressible girl was left unnoticed by Calef; his silence approximates to concession that the main facts here stated were not refutable in his day. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z Ah, but he is beautiful—your husband!" sighed a girlish voice with the accent of France; "so impressibly charming! Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z It is these—the weak, the plastic, the impressible—whom your earth-born morality is corrupting, whose possibilities of happiness and self-respect your enervating woman’s-sphere-ism is destroying. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z There is a state of mind and body known as sensitive, or impressible, in which it receives impressions from other minds. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z The more impressible a child is, the more important is the mother's or kindergartner's providential care of his affections during this irresponsible, pre-intellectual period of his life. Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School 2011-03-27T02:00:15.947Z All such are impressible more by virtue of their organisms and native properties, external and internal, than by any intellectual and moral acquisitions, whether good or bad. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z His austere nature could not enter into Zinka's soft and impressible susceptibility. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z When my aunt heard what Madame de Trafford had said, she felt the injury it might do to my sister's impressible nature, and she was very angry. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z The mind in this highly sensitive condition is impressible to the thought waves in the psychic-ether. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z The Whig party of England, like the Democratic party of America, is eminently pathological, active, observant and impressible. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z No cotemporary of the boy, excepting impressible, wayward Powell, seems ever to have suspected the little one as being the giant rogue. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z His seeming inconsistencies are reconciled to apprehension, not by a formula of the intellect, but by the many-sidedness of a highly impressible nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z The Irishman being of lively sensibility and impressible through sight has never seen the power which really governs him. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z Remember, also, that in this most impressible period of character-formation servants and others can do the child great injury by teaching it to be deceitful and untruthful. What a Young Husband Ought to Know These deeds of violence and lamentable struggles continued quite into the sixteenth century, till the Reformation gave a new bent to this lively and impressible race, and brought with it new sufferings. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. Whether this impressible and unfolded woman was literally aided in any of her marvelous operations by invisible intelligences may be debatable. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z But the plastic and impressible temperament of a gifted speaker does not favour tenacity of will in danger. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus With every new chord that he touched, he struck a rich store of thought and found her gifted with an impressible and receptive mind. On the Heights A Novel Poor fellow, what a sensitive nature,—how impressible. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience It needed just this humble acknowledgment of human need and human love to make Frank Darry irresistible, and my impressible fancy responded to the spell. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 Vailed from external perceptions, that powerful operator shaped the speech, the actions, and the sufferings of all the impressible ones, whether accused or accusers, at his sole pleasure. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z Is not the retina impressible to the faintest gleam of light? Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. The Owassee stretches like a silver ribbon across the picture, and there is not a human being in sight save these two tricyclers who take all this summer beauty into their impressible young hearts. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks The material of which these last were made was a very impressible jean, and marked the number of his journeys, could one but decipher them, in stains and intricate creases. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 All his self-interest laid in and with the woman; but need for money was pressing, and there were a million other women as impressible to his charms as she had been. The Spiritualists and the Detectives It is the most impressible of all known plants, and is appropriately named. The Pearl of India My sturdy second officer, not naturally impressible, and long accustomed to the vicissitudes of whaling life, shed tears at the prospect. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 I know you abhor mercenary considerations; but I know also that you are a young man, lively, ardent, impressible. Coelebs In Search of a Wife Mr. Ferris, who was by no means of an impressible organization, flashed a look of somewhat uneasy doubt at Mr. Byrd, and hesitated slightly before proceeding. Hand and Ring For though the Greek character was most impressible and combustible, it was so only to the finest finger and fire. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Oh, but you are only the more beautiful, the more impressible, for this fiery rage of yours! La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages The only trouble with him was, in common parlance, that he was too clever a fellow; he was too social, too impressible, too versatile, too attractive, and too much in demand for his own good. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings Judge then how I must have been affected, in a state when sorrow and disappointment had made my mind peculiarly impressible, with the conversation and example of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley! Coelebs In Search of a Wife There is no one fact of our human existence that has a stronger influence upon us than the house we dwell in, especially that in which our earlier and more impressible years are spent. Household Papers and Stories When the digestive organs are highly impressible or diseased, it is very important to adopt a nutritious, unstimulating, vegetable diet, as soon as the warm season commences. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Even to one who hates the most brutalising of amusements, the spirit of the writer is impressibly contagious. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Sydney flattered himself that he was not impressible, or at least that the outward trappings of wealth and rank did not impress him. Name and Fame A Novel If it was an attempt made by some helper to avert the threatened doom, it seems strange that no one who was sufficiently impressible could be found nearer than Cornwall. Clairvoyance Although chivalrous and highly impressible to everything that can appeal to a high-minded people, they are also practical and far-sighted and are not to be lured by a will-o’-the-wisp. England and Germany In the evenings of the warm season, a chill upon the impressible skin, that suppresses the perspiration, is frequently followed by a diarrhœa, dysentery, or cholera morbus. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) I know he goes very often to Mrs. Wishart's; and you know Tom is impressible; and before we know it he might do something he would be sorry for. Nobody "Ai! ai!" cried the impressible and lively Shmul, holding his head with both hands. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story For impressible youth such biography should be as easy of access as possible. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Of the three kingdoms Sweden, the strongest, was also the most impressible owing to the further bond of fellowship supplied by a common object of distrust—the Russian empire. England and Germany After the system is relieved, the skin is more impressible to cold, and consequently requires careful protection by clothing. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) No compliments about your impressible temperaments from me. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 If impressible he will perceive a cooling sensation as the fingers pass. Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 For Farragut it is interesting to notice that, in his tender youth and most impressible years, he had before him, both in his captain and in his ship, most admirable models. Admiral Farragut It contains every human emotion and passion, which we may stimulate in the impressible, or suspend instantly by a slight pressure on the brain. Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 The large number of sensitive nervous filaments renders the visual organ very impressible to bodies that cause irritation, as dust, or intense light. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) To those who are very impressible, the contagion of vice, bad temper, profanity, turbulence, lying, obscenity, sullenness, melancholy, etc., is as inevitable as the contagion of small pox. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6 We find individuals occasionally, of the highest tone of health and bodily vigor, who are highly impressible. Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 Somehow Millard had reached Miss Bowyer's interior perception and put her into the conscious, impressible, passive state, in which his will was hers. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York In impressible persons the touch upon this locality produces nothing but a dreamy influence, and a disposition to close the eyes. Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 In persons who are impressible this produces a quiet dreamy feeling, and a disposition to close the eyes. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5 He was an impressible young man, and he had been unconsciously falling deeper in love with Lady Mabel every day during the last three months. Vixen, Volume III. Both of these qualities are, I hope, more impressible for good than for evil, and I trust in God for the rest. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870 So, while Miss Bowyer was seeking to induce in little Tommy the impressible conscious state—or, to be precise, the conscious, passive, impressible state—Mrs. Martin offered to hold him in her arms. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York A vivacious impressible manner effectually masked a certain selfishness and rigour of temperament which became plain in after years. Emily Brontë The majority of the southern population are impressible, and there are some who would even maintain that a majority are, in the North; and certainly magnetic healers have been very successful in New England. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5 All this is injurious to young and impressible minds. Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 Through their lectures, books, and speeches, they influenced college students at an impressible age; they appealed to young and to middle-aged men; and they furnished comfort and entertainment for the old. Historical Essays We can not always secure the impressible condition by producing the quiescence of the large brain. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York She had come to Rome in search of health, and possessing talents, accomplishments and charms, and being withal a "fanatic Catholic," she won the affections of the impressible painter. Overbeck There is no one fact of our human existence that has a stronger influence upon us than the house we dwell in,—especially that in which our earlier and more impressible years are spent. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Where is the key to the principle underlying the gramophone, the phonograph and the telephone, if it be not in this self-same atomic and easily impressible medium? Aether and Gravitation For he ought to get, while at an impressible age, a superficial knowledge of the methods of scientific men, as a basis for his future reading. Historical Essays But when the morrow came she was better able to disentangle her thoughts of healing from such phrases as "the passive impressible state" and "interior perception." The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Beautiful weather dilates the heart and renders it more impressible, while bad weather contracts it. Hortense Makers of History Series About the same time, or a little later, he performed a pilgrimage of a kind that could hardly help making a mark upon a character so deeply impressible. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet The woman is rendered more susceptible, more impressible. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother Dighton was impressible, you were quite accessible— The bachelor who marries late is apt to lose his head. The Book of Humorous Verse Here the delight of the impressible young foreigner deepened into awe. Cruel As The Grave The Southern female mind is precocious, brilliant, impressible, ardent, impulsive, fanciful. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Their hearts had long ago ceased to be impressible by horrid fancies. Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters Dante Gabriel, the Nestor of the group, twenty-two and wise, was not to be swept off his feet by the young and impressible enthusiasm of Deverell, aged nineteen. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers His grave, tender manner touched Constance’s impressible heart. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time He was not very impressible by fine scenery. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 All these three influences left their mark on a soul which was always impressible towards everything great and noble. The Books of the New Testament I supposed there was some impressible spot in his heart which might have been reached through the act we had just done. Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student The impressible visitor declares that he felt disposed to fall upon his knees before this grand and simple human being, but refrained. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 However, this impressible young man is most concerned with feminine traits. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 I saw that his impressible nature had taken a thoughtful, if not a religious tone, from the scene. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 So very impressible a fellow as you are, cannot inspire a very deep passion. The Lady of the Ice A Novel He is as impressible as a schoolboy let loose for the long vacation. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Possessed of an impressible nature, a discriminating sense of the beautiful, and a deep, pure taste for music, his progress has been phenomenal. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens His heart was a union of highly inflammable oil and deeply impressible butter, with something remarkably tough in the centre of it. Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan The contemplation of the mews and the chimney-pots through the back-windows of the nursery will not elevate even the most impressible child. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography Throughout these colonial stations there has been, and there will be, a fearful depletion, among the numbers of these brave but too impressible men. The Lady of the Ice A Novel His whole character will be impressible, and will respond to the most delicate touches of nature. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power She is still romantic, but has learned something from experience,—is not so impressible as when you knew her. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 The most sedate communities become mercurial and impressible in time of deep excitement. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 My local memory has always been good and very impressible by scenery. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 In the impressible and passive state of the brain left by any illness which produces nervous exhaustion, such imaginations often become very troublesome. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852 But the artist is ever excitable, receptive, impressible—the ready prey of the dealer in illusion and trickery. Art in England Notes and Studies "Ain't he sweet, though!" she murmured, and then glancing at the butler, giggled impressibly as the strained attitudes of the circle struck her. While Caroline Was Growing His heart was not very impressible, and he cared for no one except himself. Frank and Fearless or The Fortunes of Jasper Kent Instead of an ardent, impressible, romantic and even demonstrative girl, bubbling over with warmth and vivacity, here she was, as cold and formal as a charity school matron of forty summers. The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family He was so frank, so clear, so lively, so impressible, and, in a certain way, so humorous, that he carried the people away with him. Life of Father Hecker To his impressible nervous nature it seemed that he had suddenly entered a place far removed in time and space from the every-day life with which he was so familiar. A Dozen Ways Of Love Mrs. Heron, with the instinct of a delicate, impressible woman, had written to her husband to have this room prepared for Caterina. Scenes of Clerical Life O'Flaherty felt himself passing under the chill and dismal shadow of death once more, such was the eloquence of Puddock, and so impressible his own nature, as he followed the appeal of his second. The House by the Church-Yard Oh, I don't know that there is anything very serious the matter with them, but Maria is at an age when she is very impressible, and there are many who are not exactly desirable. By the Light of the Soul A Novel She was different from other women, more candid, less impressible. Princess The stories told of the Liszt craze among the ladies of Germany and Russia are highly amusing, and have a value as registering the degree of the effect he produced on impressible minds. Great Violinists And Pianists It was different with the sister Nellie; her nature was more impressible, and it was only by a strong effort that she kept her self-control so long. Through Forest and Fire Wild-Woods Series No. 1 He was impressible by omens, though he scorned his own weakness, and sneered at, and quizzed it sometimes in the monologues of his ugly solitude. The House by the Church-Yard She is but an infant,—open and impressible, warm and sanguine! Idolatry A Romance But, in the subsequent few days, this emotion was altered to one of impressible satiric mirth; and, subsequently still, it was changed again to an emotion of wondering and humble admiration. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 She is very young, very impressible, and some think very eccentric, very passionate and romantic to frenzy. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest A wasted sorrow—that is, a sorrow which does not drive us to God—leaves us less impressible than it found us. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII When enjoying his German pipe he felt impressibly serene, and did not care to be disturbed. Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific But France, impressible, sympathetic, ardent for pleasure, generous, amiable and vain, was capable of comprehending the Italian spirit. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots From the family of his mother, Mary Aspall, he derived the quick, impressible temperament of genius, and the love of humour which so conspicuously marks the Lancashire character. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Passing along with them to a little lobby, where he could inspect them more conveniently, he left Jim behind, as that personage did not prove to be so interesting and impressible as he had hoped. Sevenoaks With a decided originality, he was so impressible that there are in his writings traces of the authors whom he was reading, if he did not mean to make them models of style. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction "Only to you impressible chaps!" the Secretary confided. The Cab of the Sleeping Horse The youth comes forth educated, and at a most impressible age he reads for the first time the history of his country, and burns with indignant desire to avenge her many wrongs. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 They are primitive beings impressible mainly to concrete motives of the barest kind. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference I caught him looking very impressibly at you this morning, and I am quite sure, if he sees anything more of you, he will be falling head over ears in love. The Sorcery Club The shallow and fiery nature of the fair White Devil herself is a notable example of the difference so accurately distinguished by Charlotte Brontë between an impressionable and an impressible character. The Age of Shakespeare Possibly we should never have had him as a nature writer at all, had he spent his impressible youthful years in a less favored locality. In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs As I grew in strength, my nerves ceased to be impressible to such annoyances. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 But, alas! for the uncertainty even of the presentiments of one of Nature's most impressible children. Romance of California Life I was extremely susceptible and impressible, moved by beauty of any kind, but never at all ambitious or in any way creative. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion "Oh, yes," exclaimed the impressible Fritz Schmidt, "we have a few things besides pigs and potatoes." Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" This is intended as a place to educate and restrain men who would return to earth and incite impressible beings to evil. Strange Visitors A thoughtless youth, gay, tender, and impressible, struck with your beauty, in violation of all the most sacred laws of hospitality carries you off, and obstinately refuses to restore you to your husband. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Antonyms: insentient, insusceptible. sentiment, n. thought, feeling; judgment, notion, opinion; maxim, saying, toast; sensibility, susceptibility. sentimental, a. romantic, impressible, emotional, lackadaisical. Putnam's Word Book She was at once impressible and creative, impulsive and deliberate, pliant in sympathy yet firmly self-centred, confidingly responsive while commanding in originality. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II He finally discredited his advice by adding impressibly, 'You needn't go into the instance at all, you know. The Philanderers Don't waste your sarcasm on me," she said, cheerily; "keep your weapons for more impressible subjects. Four Girls at Chautauqua But she was impressible; and the handsome young English Lieutenant was too much for her monastic tendencies, and she eloped. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 A less impressible man than I would have felt moved at the sight of that throng of bruised and broken creatures. California Sketches, Second Series Hungarians, Poles, Italians, are too demonstrative for them, too fiery, too impressible. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II That is to say, he has not a very impressible nervous organization, is not imaginative, nor very liable to accept results on insufficient or partial evidence. Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 Miss Pillbody turned with a feeling of relief from her dull elderly pupils, stiff in manners, and firmly set in their habits, to this fresh, impressible young creature. Round the Block To this impressible period of human life, few parents give any thought; yet here we must begin to cultivate virtues that can alone redeem the world. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 It is an unusual thing to see a colored Quaker; for the African temperament is fervid and impressible, and requires more exciting forms of religion. Isaac T. Hopper Marian Evans was surrounded at the most impressible period of her life by this group of intellectual, free-thinking people, who seem to have fully indoctrinated her with their own opinions. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy The education of Agnes had been one which rendered her whole system peculiarly sensitive and impressible to all influences from the invisible and unseen. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator But water, the feminine element, is so mobile and impressible that it must protect itself by much that seems caprice and fickleness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 My own experience proves to me that it is a grave mistake to send boys and girls to separate institutions of learning, especially at the most impressible age. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 Isaac was at an impressible age, and on those occasions his thirsty soul drank eagerly from the fountain of living water. Isaac T. Hopper But it is also probable that Savage had a strong influence upon Johnson's mind at a very impressible part of his career. Samuel Johnson It always affected his imagination as wrathful, mysterious, and sad; and his imagination was sufficiently impressible to see the whole neighbourhood under some tinge of its dark shadow. Little Dorrit At that impressible time of life, it must sometimes produce a fixed impression. The Uncommercial Traveller But there was Mrs Boffin to part from, and, in the full flush of her dignity, the impressible little soul collapsed again. Our Mutual Friend Still, the porter of that institution is of an obese habit, and, according to the best of my observation of him, not very impressible. Speeches: Literary and Social Paraffined paper appears also to have been experimented with as an impressible material. Edison, His Life and Inventions He is a little gay, a thing Society is accustomed to in young men, and he is very impressible. Little Dorrit Also forcible, impressibly forcible—with the force of a squirt of tobacco juice. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 Mortimer Lightwood was not an extraordinarily impressible man, but this face impressed him. Our Mutual Friend But whatever blemishes others might discern in William, to his friend's mind he was faultless; for Marner had one of those impressible self-doubting natures which, at an inexperienced age, admire imperativeness and lean on contradiction. Silas Marner "What a fine-looking pair they are," whispered the impressible Mrs. Rachel to Marilla. Anne of the Island The Collegians as a body were not easily impressible, but even they, according to their various ways of wondering, appeared to find in the two brothers a sight to wonder at. Little Dorrit The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. Walden It would be hard to say what place she held in the soft, impressible heart of her faithful attendant. Uncle Tom's Cabin Will, too, was made of very impressible stuff. Middlemarch Captain Lake put it in his paletot pocket, looked in her face gently, and smiled, and thanked her in his graceful way—and, in fact, left an enduring impression upon that impressible nature. Wylder's Hand All these things do I now think over, adding, "He had his faults, yet scarce ever was a finer nature; liberal, suave, impressible." Villette A good dinner produces a good mood,—at least, it produces an impressible mood. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays She was not nervous or impressible; but the solemn, heart-felt manner struck her. Uncle Tom's Cabin The discrepancies in analyses of woman's milk are easily explained by the mobile and impressible character of woman. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Rachel was one of those persons who, no matter what may be upon their minds, are quickly impressible by the scenes in which they find themselves. Wylder's Hand When he returned to the world, and to the residence assigned him, he seemed no longer the impressible, ardent boy who was once my bright, ambitious scholar. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok He was, perhaps, too sensitive and impressible; too easily thrown off his guard by qualities in a writer for which he had an aversion. Sketches from Concord and Appledore Tom, who had the soft, impressible nature of his kindly race, ever yearning toward the simple and childlike, watched the little creature with daily increasing interest. Uncle Tom's Cabin So impressible was he as to say that he "had no nature," meaning character. Among My Books Second Series Here was a man of abundant physical strength and vigor, no doubt, but carrying within him a nature more than commonly alert and impressible. Confessions and Criticisms Here, as elsewhere, the blended force and gentleness of her character wrought marvels in the impressible and grateful minds to which she had access. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Besides, I have not been among hospital beds for many a year, and my sensibilities are almost as impressible as they were before daily habit had rendered them comparatively callous. Our Hundred Days in Europe But the seed from which any of these conflicting natures may develop lies in more fertile soil, within her impassioned and impressible soil, than in man's. Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates "I knew, long ago, a bright and impressible boy," said he. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance Nerve tissue is impressible and everything that touches it leaves an ineradicable trace. How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study But, volatile as he was impressible, the next week saw him the gayest of the gay in parties at Savannah, where his pretty little bride was quite the fashion. A Romance of the Republic Lesser grandeurs do not find us very impressible. Our Hundred Days in Europe Both were beautiful, bright, witty, and intellectual; but the Frenchwoman was immeasurably more cultivated, and was impressible by grand sentiments. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the Eastern nations makes them much more impressible by these appeals to the fancy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 All were therefore properly impressed with the importance of the occurrence, and none more so than the excitable, impressible, enthusiastic Poet. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 35, November 26, 1870 All this was terrible to the impressible, imaginative, and naturally buoyant temper of Mildred. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 And besides, it was the moment of victory, when, of all moments, the difference between the man born and reared under Christian influences and the savage is most impressible. The Prince of India — Volume 02 She was one of those strong-minded women who are impressible by grand sentiments. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women Labor is pain to the soft fibers and unknit limbs of childhood, and to the impressible minds of the young, danger conveys a thousand fears not felt by the firmer natures of older persons. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" Certainly no thoughtful or sensitive person, no person impressible either through the senses or the religious feelings, can fail to feel it deeply. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe The spectacle of two hundred men at arms, who advanced to meet him at the gates of The Mural Inclosure, drove all else from the still youthful and impressible mind of Lothaw. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers In the most impressible period of his life he had received instruction, advice and discipline in abundance, but love and sympathy had been denied. His Sombre Rivals In the impressible period of infancy and early childhood, Lottie and her brother, and an invalid sister older than herself, had been left chiefly to the charge of servants. From Jest to Earnest Mrs. H. was an impressible woman with poetic tastes, and a strong admiration for the beautiful in nature; and as she gazed upon the glorious expanse her whole face lighted up and glowed with pleasure. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" But I persuaded him out of that, seeing how perilous it would be for a young fellow of his inexperience and impressible disposition to go rambling alone over the Continent. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel You will find me as quiet and impressible as the oysters over which we'll have our talk, but only on this condition. Without a Home A child of the South in nature as in aspect, ardent, impressible, and proud; fitfully aspiring and despairing; without the native energy which moulds character and ennobles life. On Picket Duty, and Other Tales Its recital enlisted his sympathies; and being of an ardent and impressible temper, he determined to carry out a design for her relief. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter Mrs. H. had preserved her courage and energy till now, but her impressible nature began to yield before the onset of this new danger. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" In the presence of that fair and pure-minded girl he was as a child, impressible, and ready to follow her simplest instructions. The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast I would not give this officer's name if I could remember it, but he was a fine fellow, and was exceedingly impressible. Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story Through Rosa, Paul realized this beautiful truth, and earnestly strove to impart truth to the tender and impressible minds of his children; he presented it to them in the most beautiful and attractive forms. The Wedding Guest My eye was caught by "Initial,"—a love-story which I had always avoided because I had heard impressible young ladies rave about it; but now I picked it up and dropped into an easy chair. Helen's Babies This wore off quickly; the new scene took effect on his impressible mind, and the actual sights and sounds drove out all the rest. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 The central interest of his own youth—of his profoundly impressible youth—as happens always with natures of real capacity, gives law and pattern to all that succeeds it. Plato and Platonism The sky in its unity and its variety,—the sea in its unity and its variety,—mirrored themselves respectively in these simple, but profoundly impressible spirits, as Zeus, as Glaucus or Poseidon. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Doubt, despair, and apprehension held unimpeded sway over his impressible but inactive faculties. Antonina She still felt in her heart some of the wild love of romance and adventure of the little Louise; she was the same daring, dreamy, impressible Louise, only now she was less innocent. Frederick the Great and His Family She did not suspect how fatal her sojourn in the strongly Romish city of Dublin had been to the easily impressible mind of her early playmate, and how much it had transformed her whole being. Henry VIII and His Court He was a big, dark-haired fellow, sensitive, emotional, extraordinarily impressible. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters And yet scarcely a woman—rather a vision of a girl, impressible still to all the influences of such a scene and to the most delicate suggestions of unfolding life. That Fortune I think I have said enough to show that Johnnyboy was hopelessly worshiped by an impressible and illogical sex. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's No, she loves him not; but who then—who? she is young, ardent, and, it appears to me, impressible; she cannot live without love. Frederick the Great and His Family When at last the day came for the doctor's arrival, he was duly met by Hoskins, and as duly informed by that impressible subordinate of the great change in Liberty's appearance. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation His strong imagination rendered him peculiarly impressible on such subjects; while his judgment, seldom exercised or fortified by severe thought, could not prevent his continually recurring to it. Doom of the Griffiths Poor Markham, I fear the world does not do justice to his gentle, impressible nature. The Crusade of the Excelsior He did not look alarmed, but then he was not of an impressible nature. The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair I almost wonder, seeing she is so impressible, that she can give no account of his whereabouts. David Elginbrod The spectacle of two hundred men at arms who advanced to meet him at the gates of The Mural Enclosure drove all else from the still youthful and impressible mind of Lothaw. Condensed Novels Indeed, I am convinced there is not one of my impressible sex, who, looking in those pleading eyes, would not have perjured himself on the spot rather than have disappointed their fair owner. Thankful Blossom "I am afraid you are angry with me!" repeated Priscilla sadly; for, while she seemed as impressible as wax, the girl often showed a persistency in her own ideas as stubborn as it was gentle. The Blithedale Romance With all his supernatural dignity, he appears to us far more attractive when we consider him as impressible by circumstances,—as moved by human sympathies. The Crown of Thorns : a token for the sorrowing His impressible nature recoiled as from some sudden shock. Armadale Though very nervous and impressible, the king did not quiver, albeit, under the circumstances in which he then stood, this apparition had a certain air of mystery and horror. Catherine De Medici Thus they will become softer and more impressible; and when a man's heart is warm within him, he will be more ready to charm himself and others with song. Laws By a sort of sympathetic impulse that often controlled me in those more impressible days of my life, I was induced to approach this old man in a mode as undemonstrative as his own. The Blithedale Romance By this we see that Christ's was a spirit liable to trial,—impressible by suffering; and from this fact does the victory appear greater and more real. The Crown of Thorns : a token for the sorrowing He had a nature not deeply impressible by events; twenty-four hours consoled him for the worst catastrophes, and he soon forgot the severest lessons of life. The Mystery of Orcival The power of a simple and characteristic melody on the impressible mind of the Greek is more than we can easily appreciate. The Republic The heart and the blood are less impressible than the nerves. Sons of the Soil If the inversion be not precisely of the kind he expected, it is none the less striking, and impressibly more real. The Soul of the Far East Yet he whom it describes scarcely impressed one with the idea of a gentle, a yielding, an impressible, or even of a placid nature. Jane Eyre For the temper of later life follows the mind of childhood; nor do the traces easily fade of vices which have been stamped upon the character in the impressible age. The Danish History, Books I-IX His brain is first-rate, I should think not impressible, but vigorous.” Jane Eyre
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