Use impression in a sentence
Sentences ending with impression
- And she is worth--even at this belated stage in our chronicle an attempted sketch, or at least an attempted impression. [9]
- A time came when the occurrence appeared to me in the light of prescience, but that was when I began to understand that all ideas, all reason and philosophy, are the result of outer impression. [11]
- The council of war, at which Prince Andrew had not been able to express his opinion as he had hoped to, left on him a vague and uneasy impression. [2]
- The soldiers without turning their heads glanced at one another, curious to see their comrades' impression. [2]
- Westminster Abbey is too crowded with monuments to the illustrious dead and those who have been considered so in their day to produce any other than a confused impression. [6]
- It seems somewhat too broad for its height, but may be familiarity with it might dissipate this impression. [5]
- We were forbidden to go on the platform in front of the Neuenkirche where they were placed, but the spectacle must have produced a strange yet deeply pathetic impression. [10]
- To the ear the procession seemed endless, and the eye soon confirmed the impression. [10]
- He may describe the features, the manner, mention certain traits and sayings, all literally true, but absolutely misleading as to the total impression. [4]
- Whatever may be the cause, it is well known that the announcement at any private rural entertainment that there is to be ice-cream produces an immediate and profound impression. [6]
Short sentences using impression
- This impression would be misleading. [9]
Sentences containing impression two or more times
- Yet the impression was instantaneous, when I set forth in the streets of New York, that we had not fully measured the magnitude of our task--an impression that has been amply confirmed as the weeks have passed. [9]
- I have, therefore, taken great pains to advise other persons laboring under the impression that they were gifted beings, destined to soar in the atmosphere of song above the vulgar realities of earth, not to neglect any homely duty under the influence of that impression. [6]
- This much as preliminary to this remark: some day people will be able to call each other up from any part of the world and talk by mental telegraph--and not merely by impression, the impression will be articulated into words. [5]
- If once the path is opened by the track of some profound impression, that same impression, if repeated, or a similar one, is likely to find the old footmarks and follow them. [6]
- Because the impression left, was that these tales were full of incident and imagination--a pleasant impression which would be promptly dissipated if the tales were told. [5]
- If a mere instantaneous impression can produce effects like these, such an impression might of course be followed by consequences less fatal or formidable, but yet serious in their nature. [6]
- If, in your frequent mention of responsibility, you have the impression that I blame you for not doing more than you can, please be relieved of such impression. [7]
More example sentences with the word impression in them
- Some one person--some young woman, it must be--had produced a singular impression upon him since those earlier perilous experiences through which he had passed. [6]
- I believe, if you were to see her, your impression would be that there is no hope. [14]
- He saw the work of his hands, the things he had made with adze and plane, with chisel and hammer, but nothing seemed familiar save the smell of the glue pot, which brought back in a cloudy impression curious unfamiliar feelings. [11]
- His recent interview with the Doctor, certain remarks which had been dropped in his hearing, but above all an unaccountable impression upon his spirits, all combined to fill his mind with a foreboding conviction that he was very near some overshadowing danger. [6]
- As often occurs with old men, it was only after some seconds that the impression produced by Prince Andrew's face linked itself up with Kutuzov's remembrance of his personality. [2]
- A partition, covered with ill-wrought images and a few gilt ornaments, divided it from the main body of the church, and the whole edifice produced an impression that was neither splendid nor particularly edifying. [10]
- Innumerable boarding-houses swarmed with city and country clergymen, who have a well-founded impression that the waters of the springs have a beneficent relation to the bilious secretions of the year, but the resort had not an oppressive air of sanctity. [4]
- Therefore if you will print this paragraph somewhere, it may remove the impression that I say unjust things which I do not think, merely for the pleasure of talking. [5]
- One of them, who had been unable to make the least impression on her heart, resolved to win her by a stratagem. [4]
- Only a little while before he had had one of those vivid dreams of Virginia which left their impression, but not their substance, to haunt him. [9]
- These social qualities, which Miss Sally first discovered by accident, gradually made such an impression upon her, that she would entreat Mr Swiveller to relax as though she were not by, which Mr Swiveller, nothing loth, would readily consent to do. [12]
- The kindness with which I had been welcomed, when I first arrived at Liverpool, had left a deep impression upon my mind. [6]
- The actress Crelinger, when she came to see my mother, made a great impression on me, at this time, by her majestic appearance and her deep, musical voice. [10]
- Only the hypercritical, when Mrs. Dallam was dressed, had the impression of a performed miracle. [9]
- We compare the weakened impression of a past temptation with the ever present social instincts, or with habits, gained in early youth and strengthened during our whole lives, until they have become almost as strong as instincts. [1]
- She had a way of carrying her head, of throwing it back at times, that was not exactly imperious, and conveyed the impression of spirit rather than of mere vivacity. [4]
- And yet--so I was told afterwards--my delivery was not mechanical, and I actually achieved more emphasis, gave a greater impression of conviction than at any time since the night I had lost my control and violently denounced the reformers. [9]
- Such, at least, was the impression to which Alison startlingly awoke. [9]
- A similar impression was that which I received when I found myself in the company of the bearer of an old historic name. [6]
- Moreover, Mr. Spence was plainly under the impression that she too "came up" from New York, and it was impossible not to be a little pleased. [9]
- His first impression was one of admiration, but suspicion was quickly added. [11]
- And, somehow, she was not stimulated, for the impression seemed to prevail that now Steele was disposed of. [4]
- This desirable impression was not lost on Mrs Jarley, who, lest Nell should become too cheap, soon sent the Brigand out alone again, and kept her in the exhibition room, where she described the figures every half-hour to the great satisfaction of admiring audiences. [12]
- Old Fuller's schoolmaster was Master Arthur Smith, a kinsman of John, who told him that John was born in Lincolnshire, and it is probable that Fuller received from his teacher some impression about the adventurer. [4]
- Scarcely any impression was left on Pierre's mind by all that happened to him from the time of his rescue till his illness. [2]
- If this revelation was believed, it made no sort of impression in the country. [4]
- The new Charley was as dead as the old had been of late, and this clarifying moment left the grim impression behind that the old law was not obsolete. [11]
- Honora has a vivid remembrance of the impression the house made on her, with its polished floors and spacious rooms filled with a new and mysterious and altogether inspiring fashion of things. [9]
- You are the vile scum of the earth,"--he determined to take a strong line now, since he had made a powerful impression on the creature before him--"and you will do what the Baas likes, not what you like. [11]
- It is a very hard thing to say, and I did not say it even to my wife, but I had a painful impression that she was valuing people by the money they had, by the social position they had attained. [4]
- I am not very fresh in my geology; but it is my impression that Switzerland was created especially for the English, about the year of the Magna Charta, or a little later. [4]
- You handle yourself very carefully, all the time, under the silly impression that if it is not falling, your trifling weight will start it unless you are particular not to "bear down" on it. [5]
- She saw Prince Vasili's face, serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression "Marie" produced on the visitors. [2]
- She was, as usual, elaborately dressed, and gave one the impression of being lost, so anxiously was she scanning the face of every new arrival. [9]
- As he sat upon the veranda, King could not rid himself of the impression that this must be a mocking dream, this appearance of emptiness and solitude. [4]
- The impression left upon the party was, however, characteristic. [11]
- But the impression upon her mind and body had been too profound to be dissipated by a few days' rest. [6]
- Nor was it until she presently looked up into his face with a smile that this impression was, if not at once wholly dissipated, at least contradicted. [9]
- The impression of unreality in the face of visual evidence persisted into the night when, after an afternoon at anchor, we glided up the river, our decks and ports ablaze across the land. [9]
- He was still under this impression when he woke, streaming with perspiration, and opened his eyes. [10]
- I have been under the impression all along that I had an unpleasant paragraph about the Boers somewhere in my notebook, and also a pleasant one. [5]
- He had only two pupils in attendance, and I did not get a very favorable impression of this high school. [4]
- A sentence or two may serve to give an impression of the epigrammatic wisdom of his counsel. [6]
- There is a tremendous impression of isolation and lonesomeness in our situation. [4]
- Features a little too sharp, a keen, gray eye, a quick and restless glance, which rather avoided being met, gave the impression that she was a wide-awake, cautious, suspicious, and, very possibly, crafty person. [6]
- Fulkerson was able to wear off the disagreeable impression the affair left during the course of the fore-noon, and he met Miss Woodburn with all a lover's buoyancy when he went to lunch. [8]
- If one begins to watch the swirling flakes and crystals, he soon gets an impression of infinity of resources that he can have from nothing else so powerfully, except it be from Adirondack gnats. [4]
- A person accustomed to watch the faces of those who were ailing in body or mind, and to search in every line and tint for some underlying source of disorder, could hardly help analyzing the impression such a face produced upon him. [6]
- The article, sent to the Mercury, was distinctly of the Comstock variety; it was accepted, but it apparently made no impression, and he did not follow it up. [5]
- His effort is to make the impression that his enemies first made the charge of toryism and he drove them from that, then Sampson's ghost, he drove them from that, then finally the assignment charge was manufactured just before election. [7]
- It isn't fair to leave you with the impression that this is a sudden determination. [9]
- We shall hope to leave a good impression of America behind us in every nation we visit, from Venus to Uranus. [5]
- I should like to know how much food it took at one time to make an impression on him; I should like to know what effect an idea of ordinary size had in his capacious head. [4]
- These qualities, added to her peculiar style of beauty, which excited his admiration from its rare novelty, half Egyptian half Greek, (her mother having been a Greek), had not failed to make a deep impression on him. [10]
- His rule appears to have been to state just so much of the truth as would leave on the mind of his readers a correct impression, at the least cost of pain to the sensitive folks he was writing about. [5]
- Thinking it better to give the impression that she had had a successful interview, she shook her head mysteriously when asked about M'sieu', and murmured, "He is quite the gentleman! [11]
- Under the impression thus made I gave the vote before mentioned. [7]
- The gallery was thronged with spectators, clustering like bees about the large windows, and the notes of the band came floating out over the lawn, bringing to the groups there the lulling impression that life is all a summer holiday. [4]
- At first I thought there were about ten pillars to support the roof, but my impression before I left was that there were about ten thousand. [11]
- The cause of this indisposition was the strong impression made on his sensitive mind by the sight of the killed and wounded. [2]
- How I got this impression, and how it may possibly be remedied, I will now try to show. [7]
- Perhaps it was this impression that made her assent readily to a walk next morning with Mr. King along the bay. [4]
- It was under this impression that Irene passed the last evening at Saratoga with Stanhope on the piazza of the hotel--an evening that the latter long remembered as giving him the sweetest and the most contradictory and perplexing glimpses of a woman's heart. [4]
- To be sure, this gave a general impression that Henderson was an inscrutable man to deal with, but at the same time it was confessed that his spoken word could be depended on. [4]
- I confess that this failure of the annual graduating class to make its expected impression on the world has its pathetic side. [4]
- Upon Quilp, however, this circumstance made no impression, farther than as it moved him to snap his fingers close to his wife's eyes, with divers grins of triumph and derision. [12]
- The impression of these photographs is that these people abandon themselves soberly to the pleasures of the sea and of this packed, gregarious life, and get solid enjoyment out of their recreation. [4]
- In spite of these known facts, the impression of popularity, of repudiation of reform by a large majority of level-headed inhabitants had reassuring and reenforcing effects. [9]
- His joy was therefore great at perceiving, that his words made a deep impression on the newly-awakened mind of the king. [10]
- I have read there hours together, and hardly made an impression on it. [5]
- Can I wonder then that my presence is not enough to enable a friend of my husband's to forget a little annoyance--the impression left by some slight misunderstanding? [10]
- He had beaten the sweat-stained horse (temporarily--such was the impression Honora received), but she knew that he would like to have killed it for its opposition. [9]
- The legends of the Sunday Schools do him great injustice; they give one the impression that he was poor. [5]
- The beauty of the scene was but a mechanical impression, to be remembered afterward when thousands of miles away, for the American Correspondent now at last lit his cigar and took up the strain. [11]
- The impression, when the room was dark once more, was of sternness and sadness,--and of strength. [9]
- And this is the reason why extreme, unrelieved realism is apt to give a false impression of persons and scenes. [4]
- This is not the place to enter upon the politico-social question, but the writer may note one impression gathered from much friendly and agreeable conversation. [4]
- He gave Janet the odd impression that he understood her. [9]
- At first all the New York streets looked to them ill-paved, dirty, and repulsive; the general infamy imparted itself in their casual impression to streets in no wise guilty. [8]
- At a distance the mass of the Russian people seem as monotonous as their steppes and their commune villages, but the Russian novelists find characters in this mass perfectly individualized, and, indeed, give us the impression that all Russians are irregular polygons. [4]
- Boris belonged to the latter and no one else, while showing servile respect to Kutuzov, could so create an impression that the old fellow was not much good and that Bennigsen managed everything. [2]
- They give you the impression that they just run over to the States occasionally. [4]
- I am under the impression that everything that was to have been done has been done. [4]
- It was all the impression of the moment, while the phrases in his mind had been wonderfully logical things which, from an intellectual standpoint, would have delighted the man whose cause he was now engaged in defending. [11]
- Randolph Leffingwell gave the impression of conferring a favour when he borrowed money. [9]
- Will words describe the impression it made on a certain young man from Boston! [9]
- This predominance of the imagination over the judgment gave that appearance of exaggeration to his conversation and to his communications with regard to himself, which sometimes conveyed the impression that he was not speaking the truth. [5]
- The spire of the great cathedral had been with me as a frequent presence during the last fifty years of my life, and this second visit has deepened every line of the impression, as Old Mortality refreshed the inscriptions on the tombstones of the Covenanters. [6]
- I mean, in the effects produced and the impression left behind. [5]
- The return of the drunken chair-maker made a deep impression on him--almost as deep as the waking dreams he had had of his uncle calling him. [11]
- The impression in the court was that both men had been drinking; that they had quarrelled, and that without a duel being fought Dyck had killed his enemy. [11]
- The world and the books are so accustomed to use, and over-use, the word 'new' in connection with our country, that we early get and permanently retain the impression that there is nothing old about it. [5]
- It was already the beginning of June when on his return journey he drove into the birch forest where the gnarled old oak had made so strange and memorable an impression on him. [2]
- The strongest and the ablest men have found it impossible to resist the impression produced by the most insignificant object, by the most harmless sight or sound to which they had a congenital or acquired antipathy. [6]
- Do you mean that you know a way to--" "Washington, have you the impression that I have no resources but those I allow the public and my intimate friends to know about? [5]
- It's my impression that you haven't taken sulphur water enough. [4]
- She heard again that voice, she saw again that inspired face; but the impression most indelible with her was the prostrate form, the pallid countenance, the helplessness of this man whose will had before been strong enough to compel the obedience of his despised body. [4]
- This it is that truly touches the chords of sympathy; and those who heard Mr. Clay never failed to be moved by it, or ever afterward forgot the impression. [7]
- Had an impression that the late Lord Byron had some malformation of this kind. [6]
- Myrtle's silence showed that the impression his verses had made was deep. [6]
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