prepossess
Example Sentences
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His aim is to explore the Antarctic coast south of Australia and prepossess it for his dominion.
From Time Magazine Archive
From this company, most of whom conduct themselves in manner which fails to prepossess us, Mrs. Beauchamp Brown alone emerges with a distinct identity.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various
This was a measure which I could not but approve, and endeavoured by some small presents to prepossess our couriers in our favour.
From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II by Mackenzie, Alexander
The two known traits, which largely comprehend the private life of Churchill, do not prepossess one in his favour.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
I saw him again, as you shall hear, but he failed to prepossess me in his favour.
From Captain Macedoine's Daughter by McFee, William
