The king's prepossession in my favor is very valuable. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Mr. Solmes (that the prepossession which is charged upon me may not be supposed to influence me against him) I do absolutely declare. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
And yet, such was the fanatical prepossession of these. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Where there is a double prepossession; no comparisons!. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
Lily did not feel a strong prepossession in favour of Sir. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
‘Is there any fatal bar — has any prepossession —’. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
In the present case, how great was the prepossession against us?. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
She was then pleased to charge me with prepossession and prejudice. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The notice was too short after so long a prepossession the other way. From Wordnik.com. [David Copperfield] Reference
Apart from any natural prepossession in my own favour, I believed I was. From Wordnik.com. [Barnaby Rudge] Reference
He had in the first place no prepossession in favor of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
There is always danger in giving way to a sudden prepossession in favour of a stranger. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side] Reference
Both judgments show how far prepossession is capable of misleading the most learned men. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Aaron, for, to tell you the truth, Mortimer, I doubt he may have a prepossession against me. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
It remain'd to dissolve another still more irrational prepossession, that a Taylor cannot be a Poet. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects] Reference
What prepossession, what blindness, must it be to compare the son of Sophroniscus to the Son of Mary!. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
I am very glad to find, that she knew not how to get over my prepossession in favour of ano-ther man. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
This I think so plain that nothing but prepossession or stupidity can hinder people from comprehending it. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
But this only subjected me to reproach, as having a prepossession in his favour which I would not own. —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
However, with all his foibles, he is a charming creature, and prepossession only can blind you to his merit. '. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
The fairest observers misconstrue all motives to action, where any received prepossession has found an hypothesis. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
Another incident, microscopic, and almost too ludicrous to mention, had no less its weight in the scale of prepossession. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference
The unpleasant sensation that is produced by modesty, is amply compensated by the prepossession it creates in our favour. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 532, February 4, 1832] Reference
And, despite the prepossession and prejudices of the multitude, they shouted unanimously as the knight rode into the tilt-yard. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
This insinuating prepossession whispers, to my secret soul, and in very opposition to my reason and understanding, that Malcolm. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Dangerous] Reference
After this prepossession, all that she had next to do, was to make sallies to our end of the town, and find out who it is her fate to have. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
It is not to be imagined how far prepossession will run away with people's understandings, in cases wherein they are under present uneasiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
A prepossession directed towards a virtuous and deserving object wears, in its first approach, the appearance of a mere tribute of justice to merit. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
Edgar, starting and amazed, with great emotion exclaimed: 'What do you mean, my good Doctor? do you suspect any prior engagement? any fatal prepossession?'. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
It is the prepossession of the hearer that gives authenticity to fiction; and such atrocities would neither be imputed to, nor believed of, men not already bad. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
In spite of the substance of her speech, and the circumstances under which Delmé saw her, he could not avoid feeling an involuntary prepossession in her favour. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
Yet his early writings show no trace of such a prepossession; they are wholly void of offence, without even a suggestion of coarseness, as pure indeed as his talk. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
“It was a very lucky cheat for me, Sir Jacob; for it gave you a prepossession in my favour under so advantageous a character, that I could never have expected otherwise.”. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
He seemed to be an exceedingly good-tempered and intelligent man; and I felt in this short time a prepossession in his favour one does not easily form for an ordinary person. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in England in 1782] Reference
Nevertheless, the female who, upon the softening blandishment of an undisguised prepossession, builds her expectation of its reciprocity, is, in common, most cruelly deceived. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
His mien and deportment produced a prepossession in his favour; and the air of affliction, so remarkable in his visage, did not fail to attract their sympathy and observation. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom] Reference
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