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

In this Disguise you take a full Aim, and by presenting your Readers with a Prologue to your own Praise, you would prepossess them with Applause, and fondly surfeit on the Eccho.

From Pamela Censured by Anonymous

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

She presented me, with great formality, to a youth, whose appearance did not greatly prepossess me in favour of his judgement.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

It was a type he was by no means fond of, and he was quite aware that circumstances were scarcely likely to prepossess a man of that description in his favour.

From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold