"Only to you impressible chaps!" the Secretary confided. From Wordnik.com. [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference
No compliments about your impressible temperaments from me. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
But this was in front of young, wonderful, impressible ladies. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 25, 2007] Reference
I saw that his impressible nature had taken a thoughtful, if not. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
He is as impressible as a schoolboy let loose for the long vacation. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
However, this impressible young man is most concerned with feminine traits. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
So very impressible a fellow as you are, cannot inspire a very deep passion. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
Many blondes are very gentle, yielding in character, impressible, unelastic. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference
As I grew in strength, my nerves ceased to be impressible to such annoyances. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
The power of a simple and characteristic melody on the impressible mind of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference
A good dinner produces a good mood, -- at least, it produces an impressible mood. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Some things, e.g. copper and wax, are impressible, others, e.g. pottery and water, are not. From Wordnik.com. [Meteorology] Reference
Mortimer Lightwood was not an extraordinarily impressible man, but this face impressed him. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
The music, the crowd, the brilliant lights, the incessant motion are all intoxication to this impressible being. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
Spanish ladies were there, whose dark eyes produced an instantaneous effect upon the impressible heart of Buttons. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
The discrepancies in analyses of woman's milk are easily explained by the mobile and impressible character of woman. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883] Reference
I would not give this officer's name if I could remember it, but he was a fine fellow, and was exceedingly impressible. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference
This is intended as a place to educate and restrain men who would return to earth and incite impressible beings to evil. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Visitors] Reference
But there was Mrs Boffin to part from, and, in the full flush of her dignity, the impressible little soul collapsed again. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
Extreme curiosity will excite some people as much as fear, or what resembles fear, acts on some other less impressible natures. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
They are clever fellows generally, being sure to get on the kind side of credulous mothers with very impressible-headed daughters. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Mrs.H. had preserved her courage and energy till now, but her impressible nature began to yield before the onset of this new danger. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
But water, the feminine element, is so mobile and impressible that it must protect itself by much that seems caprice and fickleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
He said, however, that Zoellner was a peculiarly impressible person, and one who had entire confidence in his (the Medium's) ability. From Wordnik.com. [Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert] Reference
The impressible visitor declares that he felt disposed to fall upon his knees before this grand and simple human being, but refrained. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
Still, the porter of that institution is of an obese habit, and, according to the best of my observation of him, not very impressible. From Wordnik.com. [Speeches: Literary and Social] Reference
All malleable bodies are impressible, but not all impressible bodies are malleable, e.g. wood, though on the whole the two go together. From Wordnik.com. [Meteorology] Reference
All these things do I now think over, adding, “He had his faults, yet scarce ever was a finer nature; liberal, suave, impressible.”. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
What kind of homes do we find among these people, where the children with their impressible minds are receiving their first instruction?. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 12, December, 1888] Reference
I found them more difficult to manage than any of the rest of my companions, being much less reasonable and impressible than the others. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
I twine everything in impressible bags, meet for safety's sake, so you strength poverty whatever of those handy, too. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
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