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

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

“But still there have been great acts of cruelty committed; quite enough to prepossess us against you as a body.”

From Newton Forster The Merchant Service by Marryat, Frederick

Neither did the puff preliminary, which heralded the appearance of this volume, prepossess us strongly in its favour.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

I am not going to prepossess you against even our village scold, by telling her name.

From Deerbrook by Martineau, Harriet