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"This Deliverance impress'd me strongly with the Utility of Lighthouses, and made me resolve to encourage the building more of them in America."
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"This Deliverance impress'd me strongly with the Utility of Lighthouses, and made me resolve to encourage the building more of them in America."
The Road to the Monument John Wilmerding 2008
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His heart like an agate with your print impress'd.
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It was by a private person, the late Mr. John Clifton, his giving a sample of the utility of lamps, by placing one at his door, that the people were first impress'd with the idea of enlighting all the city.
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I had shown an obliging readiness to do her some little services, which impress'd her I suppose with a degree of good will toward me; therefore, when she saw a daily growing familiarity between me and the two young women, which they appear'd to encourage, she took me aside, and said:
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Try thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently impress'd.
Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library 1884
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Thersday sennite with that distingwish'd riter, Dr. Johnson, -- whose admir'd story of _Raselass_ I sent you new from ye press, but who I am bound to confesse is less admirable as a fine gentlemann than as an orther, his linning siled and his kravatt twisted ary, and his manners wot in a more obskure personn wou'd be thort ungenteel, -- he made a remark wich impress'd me much.
Birds of Prey 1875
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His wing stole way; when Pallas straight impress'd
Eighth Book 1857
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Thus far, impress'd by New England writers and schoolmasters, we tacitly abandon ourselves to the notion that our United States have been fashion'd from the British Islands only, and essentially form a second England only -- which is a very great mistake.
November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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Brother impress'd, deserted, died; now no folks, left alone in the world, is in a singularly nervous state; came in hospital with intermittent fever.
November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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