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prepossessed



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Tho’ I am extremely prepossessed in Favour of England and Englishmen; yet I cannot help agreeing with many others, that they are more amiable, and more sociable Abroad, than they are at Home.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

Notwithstanding this, there prevailed in all that he said, and in his whole behaviour, a cheerfulness and good humour, by which every one must be attracted, and prepossessed in his favour.

From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

Did not their prepossessed imaginations make them see what did not exist?

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach

Also she was very evidently prepossessed in favor of the man who had saved her from the river.

From On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents by William Nelson Taft

There was a grace in her appearance, and a dignity in her manner, which prepossessed strangers in her favor whenever they happened to meet her; but this was rarely.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper




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