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Sentences starting with imposing

Imposing as the modern glaciers are, they are not so huge as were some that once existed. [5]

Sentences ending with imposing

Upstairs, the bedrooms were quite as unusual, the plumbing of the new pattern, heavy and imposing. [9]
It is all very pleasant, unpretending, unceremonious, cheerful, well ordered, commendable, but not imposing. [6]
If we are a little older, however, and more sophisticated, we shall suspect the owner of Stafford Park and his architect of a design to make it appear imposing. [9]

Sentences containing imposing two or more times

It was a brick building on a corner opposite the common, imposing for Brampton, and very imposing to Wetherell. [9]

More example sentences with the word imposing in them

It is quite within the probabilities that a century hence she will be the most imposing figure that has cast its shadow across the globe since the inauguration of our era. [5]
The old horse-cars with the clanging chains had disappeared, and you could take an electric to within a block of the imposing grille that surrounded the Dwyer grounds. [9]
Its precipitous sides were powdered over with snow, and the upper half hidden in thick clouds which now and then dissolved to cobweb films and gave brief glimpses of the imposing tower as through a veil. [5]
Somers and I went out to supper with a classmate who lives in Washington, in that house over there," and he pointed casually to one of the imposing mansions fronting on the park. [9]
These two grandees went at their imposing "improvement" with the air of men who had been charged with the work of altering the foundations of the globe. [5]
Thus as the weeks rolled on Washington grew up, into an imposing lion once more, but a lion that roamed the peaceful fields of religion and temperance, and revisited the glittering domain of fashion no more. [5]
We took our way carefully and cautiously across the great Glacier des Bossons, over yawning and terrific crevices and among imposing crags and buttresses of ice which were fringed with icicles of gigantic proportions. [5]
Tall Maude Catherwood was most imposing as Rebecca; and her brother George made a towering Friar Tuck, Even little fifteen-year-old Spencer Catherwood, the contradiction of the family, was there. [9]
The long facade was imposing, dignified, with a touch of conventionality and solidity in keeping with my standing in the city. [9]
And although it was before the days of swimming-pools and gymnasiums and a la carte cafes on ocean liners, the Atlantic was imposing enough. [9]
It was a very imposing spectacle. [5]
The twin stone towers of the unfinished cathedral loom up large in the fading light, and the bishop's palace on the hill--the home of the Bishop of Arichat--appears to be an imposing white barn with many staring windows. [4]
Nature is apt to be belittled by this sort of display, but the noble dignity of the vast arch of stone was superior to this trifling, and even had a sort of mystery added to its imposing grandeur. [4]
The burial of those who had fallen during the night of the revolution was one of the most imposing ceremonies ever witnessed in Berlin. [10]
So he laid them with their majestic kin in the Cholmondeley church, with imposing state and ceremony, and added the supreme touch by officiating as chief mourner himself. [5]
Their way brought them down Brampton Street, past a house with great iron dogs on the lawn, so imposing and cityfied that he hung back and asked who lived there. [9]
The "Sunday blood," the super-superb sartorial equestrian of our annual Fast-day, is not imposing or dangerous. [6]
The view from the summit of those steps has ever struck me as grand and imposing Nelson Column included the fountains I could dispense with. [14]
The legislation of the last session of Congress has beneficially affected the revenues, although sufficient time has not yet elapsed to experience the full effect of several of the provisions of the acts of Congress imposing increased taxation. [7]
Next, they will take you to the scaffold, with great eclat, at the head of an imposing procession composed of clergymen, officials, citizens generally, and young ladies walking pensively two and two, and bearing bouquets and immortelles. [5]
Joan was as sweetly self-possessed and tranquil before this grim tribunal, with its robed celebrities, its solemn state and imposing ceremonials, as if she were but a spectator and not herself on trial. [5]
About that other stone misfortune, cruelly reminding us of the "Boston Massacre," we will not discourse; it is not imposing, and is rarely spoken of. [6]
As he did so his eyes sought his sister's, and his expressive features told her that he was imposing this sacrifice upon himself for her sake. [10]
I even went so far as to indulge in, a fling at the State House, which, as we all know, is in truth a very imposing structure, covering less ground than St. Peter's, but of similar general effect. [6]
The room I slept in was imposing with the ensigns armorial of the Harcourts and others which ornamented its walls. [6]
The place was rather pretty and even imposing at first glance, and it took several joint ballots for March and his wife to make sure that with the kitchen there were only six rooms. [8]
His luggage was put on mules, and when the party of travellers started, it formed an imposing caravan. [10]
Princess Kuragina, a portly imposing woman who had once been handsome, was sitting at the head of the table. [2]
Judged by results, Patay's place is with the few supremely great and imposing battles that have been fought since the peoples of the world first resorted to arms for the settlement of their quarrels. [5]
Most of the Parthenon's imposing columns are still standing, but the roof is gone. [5]
Every expectation held out in the handbills is realised to the utmost, and the whole forms an effect of imposing brilliancy hitherto unrivalled in this kingdom. [12]
It is the only country that has a monopoly of grand and imposing specialties. [5]
Let us privileged ones hurry to the great banqueting-room and have a glance at matters there whilst Tom is being made ready for the imposing occasion. [5]
We had taken one of the common people and set him up there, creating for the moment also a sort of royal family and a court for a background, in a splendor just as imposing for the passing hour as an imperial spectacle. [4]
When we are on the march, it is an imposing sight --there's nothing like it anywhere. [5]
It lives largely on its traditions, of which, leaving out Franklin and Independence Hall, the most imposing must be considered its famous water-works. [6]
Unlike the mansions of vast and imposing facades that were beginning everywhere to catch the eye on Fifth Avenue, and that followed mostly the continental styles of architecture, the house of the Cecil Graingers had a substantial, "middle of-the-eighties" appearance. [9]
He reminded them of the imposing secret, and raised a ray of cheer. [5]
In the midst of such imposing company the little dwelling which became the home of our heroine sat well back in a plot that might almost be called a garden. [9]
The European citizens of a town in the neighborhood of Bangkok had a prodigy among them by the name of Eckert, an Englishman--a person famous for the number, ingenuity and imposing magnitude of his lies. [5]
At the end of a short half hour we descended into Gold Hill with drums beating and colors flying, and enveloped in imposing clouds of dust. [5]
At the distance of a few miles the Pyramids rising above the palms, looked very clean-cut, very grand and imposing, and very soft and filmy, as well. [5]
In point of numbers and spectacular effect, it was the most imposing expedition that had ever marched from Zermatt. [5]
This ruin had nothing very imposing or picturesque about it, and there was no great deal of it, yet it was called the "Spectacular Ruin. [5]
Her physiognomy is not distinguished; nez camus, as a Frenchman would say; no illustrious steeple, no imposing tower; the water-edge of the town looking bedraggled, like the flounce of a vulgar rich woman's dress that trails on the sidewalk. [6]
He had the never-failing predilection for showy switch-tailed horses that step high, and sidle about, and act as if they were going to do something fearful the next minute, in the face of awed and admiring multitudes gathered at mighty musters or imposing cattle-shows. [6]
It was the most imposing enterprise of the kind the nation had ever embarked in. [5]
B. P. The more one thinks of the assassination, the more imposing and tremendous the event becomes. [5]
At that imposing moment the bang of a door was heard, then the shuffle of approaching feet, and then a sort of surging and swaying disorder among the heads at the entrance from the jury-room told them that the Twelve were coming. [5]
How imposing the Louvre is, and yet how small! [5]
It is scarce larger or more imposing than our own assembly room in the Stadt House in Annapolis. [9]
I tell you it's imposing to have a private war, as you say, fought out this way, in the heart of New York, and New York not minding, it a bit. [8]
Holder invariably found it difficult to reconcile the unassuming man, whose conversation was so commonplace, with the titanic genius who had created Ferguson's; nor indeed with the owner of the imposing marble mansion at Number 5, Park Street. [9]
Nearer and nearer it came, and more and more sublimely imposing became its aspect; yes, all England was there, apparently. [5]
She was remarkable in her way; she had one of the most imposing intelligences I have ever known. [11]
Its facade is imposing, with a row of stately columns, high above which a broad sign impends, like a crag over the brow of a lofty precipice. [6]
Amidst all the imposing recollections of the ancient edifice, one impressed me in the inverse ratio of its importance. [6]
It takes its imposing place among the world's unforgettable things. [5]
It is an imposing monarch of the forest in exquisite miniature, is the "sage-brush. [5]
There was something imposing in the person of the man who sat before him; for this very reason, however, his pride stood on tiptoe, and he asked in a tone of swaggering dignity, though not so sharply and abruptly as he had intended. [10]
He was an imposing figure as he stood in the windy vestibule, confronting the deputy. [9]
They made an imposing adventure of it, saying, "Hist! [5]
This man and his life were now his highest goal, and he had never yet repented his foolish eccentricity of imposing discomforts upon himself to help the suffering. [10]
Terrible stories of his Draconian severity were in circulation, and his first address gave us reason to fear the worst, for the tall man of forty in the professor's chair was very imposing in his appearance. [10]
It is not hard to see that one of these grand towers is somewhat larger than the other, but the difference does not interfere with the effect of the imposing front of the cathedral. [6]
No man ever had such a monument as this before; the most imposing of the world's other monuments are but atoms compared to it; and they will perish, and their places will pass from memory, but this will remain. [5]
The Sphynx is grand in its loneliness; it is imposing in its magnitude; it is impressive in the mystery that hangs over its story. [5]
Why the people gave him a towering, illustrious position, a grand, imposing position. [5]
They were in front of a rather imposing house of brick, flanked on one side by a house just like it, and on the other by a series of dreary vacant lots where the rain had collected in pools. [9]
Janet was speechless for sheer lack of words to describe what she felt.... At length he brought the car to a halt opposite an imposing doorway in front of which a glass roof extended over the pavement, and Janet demanded where they were. [9]
Little was said, for it was plain that her thoughts were driven by the imposing view before her to penetrate forwards to the regions of unfading glory. [14]
It was the first time that any of us youngsters had ever seen an army, and it was a most stately and imposing spectacle to us. [5]
He had no fear of what he could do with men: he had measured himself a few times with English gentlemen as he travelled, and he knew where his power lay--not in making himself agreeable, but in imposing his personality. [11]
A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. [5]
Then he flew downstairs, and presently appeared again, backing into the room, and bowing to the ground with every step, in front of four imposing and austere bishops and their train of servants. [5]
His whole short corpulent figure with broad thick shoulders, and chest and stomach involuntarily protruding, had that imposing and stately appearance one sees in men of forty who live in comfort. [2]
The other carriages contained the Common Council, the editors and reporters, and other people of imposing consequence. [5]
Nowhere on this coast are the rocks more imposing, and nowhere do they offer so many studies in color. [4]
But how to choose between fifty severe and imposing mansions? [9]
She might be called impressive and imposing in her grand-costume, which she wore for this visit. [6]
The event was by long odds the most imposing in the town's history. [5]
Indeed, those mighty bars of alternate light and shadow streaming up from behind that dark and prodigious form and occupying the half of the dull and opaque heavens, was the most imposing and impressive marvel I had ever looked upon. [5]
The doctor smiled at his own imposing classical allusions and pictorial imagery. [6]
And there is another thing that has happened, perhaps the most imposing event of them all: the institution called the Daughters of the--Crown--the Daughters of the Royal Crown--has established itself and gone into business. [5]
The latter is an imposing peak, but being only ten thousand feet high is seldom mentioned or heard of. [5]
It made quite an imposing mountain in the corner of the room--fifty-four pieces. [5]
He was not an imposing figure in his nightrail, and by the light of the carefully shaded candle he held in his hand I saw that he had hitherto deceived me in the matter of his calves. [9]
This made him an imposing and uncanny wonder to the town. [5]
This table was against one end of the room; the chair was on it; Sherlock Holmes, stately, imposing, impressive, sat in the chair. [5]
The officer was admitted and immediately saw all the chief generals of the army together, and among them Ermolov's big imposing figure. [2]
Military commanders will abstain from imposing similar obligations in future, and will in lieu thereof adopt such other restraints of the character indicated as they shall find necessary, convenient, and effectual for the public safety. [7]
No, this was a modern city, with wide streets, compactly built; with fine homes everywhere, embowered in foliage and flowers, and with imposing masses of public buildings nobly grouped and architecturally beautiful. [5]
Everything is on a large scale; the public buildings, for instance--and they are architecturally imposing, too, as well as large. [5]
Our coach was a great swinging and swaying stage, of the most sumptuous description--an imposing cradle on wheels. [5]
And so imposing a front did the captain wear as he picked this and recommended the other that he got credit for me for all he chose, and might have had more besides. [9]

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