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  • I've smelled the scent, and it evoked Catholic churchs for me...an ancient church, made of yet older wood and stone, and as the years passed the walls have become inbued with the scent.

    Perfume Review: Olivier Durbano Black Tourmaline Marina Geigert 2007

  • Those who have been for keeping the national power within narrow limits have undoubtedly been from time to time firmly inbued with a laisser faire doctrine, and some presumably have been sincerely seeking to think what the Framers and the Ratifiers would have thought in the late eighteenth century.

    Balkinization 2004

  • It is such persons who become inbued with the idea that they have the attributes of the

    The Lair of the White Worm 2003

  • In that book he describes how thus inbued with French ideas he come over to England and he reveals to one, as perhaps only one so circumstanced could reveal, what it is that makes the English race an exceptional race in history, and what is that peculiar quality which has enabled it to spread its dominions so far over the face of the world.

    The Drama as a Factor in Social Progress 1914

  • Although profoundly religious he was inbued like many men of his generation with the errors of Liberalism, and he wrongly regarded these liberties as of natural right, and defended this opinion in his commentary on the Constitution (1844).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • It is such persons who become inbued with the idea that they have the attributes of the Almighty -- even that they themselves are the Almighty.

    Lair of the White Worm Bram Stoker 1879

  • He seemed so bright and smiling that I was inbued with renewed hope; and when he addressed the sheriff with "Good morning Sir."

    From the Darkness Cometh the Light or Struggles for Freedom Lucy Ann 1828

  • Often singing in a lilting falsetto, the melodies soar, inbued with the kind of passion found in Cuban son and Portuguese fado, while the music takes you not only north and south of the border, but across the Atlantic and back.

    World Music Central WMC_News_Dept. 2010

  • We may not all agree but let’s at least talk about the implications inbued.

    Sticking to the Bit? Yale’s Abortion Artist - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • We may not all agree but let’s at least talk about the implications inbued.

    Sticking to the Bit? Yale’s Abortion Artist - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

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