imprest

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I welcome thy spray As the prairie-bound hunter The dawning of day; No shackles have bound thee, No tyrant imprest The mark of the Pale face On torrent and crest.

From Indian Legends and Other Poems by Horsford, Mary Gardiner

Note how each sentence is rounded out into fulness, until it is imprest upon your memory.

From Successful Methods of Public Speaking by Kleiser, Grenville

In order to foresee disasters it is necessary that the perception—visual or auditory—of said disasters should already have imprest us.

From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Yoritomo-Tashi, Mme. Blanchard

So spoke, so wish'd much humbled Eve, but Subscrib'd not; Nature first gave Signs, imprest On Bird, Beast, Air; Air suddenly eclips'd After short blush of Morn.——————

From Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by Benson, William

A heart where dread was never so imprest To hide the thought that might the truth advance; In neither fortune lost, nor yet represt, To swell in wealth, or yield unto mischance.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James