Example Sentences

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I see him, methinks, in life, Premier of England, Lord Privy Seal, Earl Beaconsfield of Beaconsfield, Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden, sitting in his knightly stall, listening impassibly to the country parson's sermon.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel

"I wish to talk with reasonable men," returned Morlet, impassibly.

From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Sue, Eug?ne

Miss Aldclyffe stopped, and closed her lips impassibly.

From Desperate Remedies by Hardy, Thomas

Ali had impassibly resumed the driver's seat and, at a nod from his adored master, started the spirited horses down the immense avenue.

From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Flagg, Edmund

And the great Gizune dominated impassibly everything, with its cold and spectral air, in all this white radiance of midnight.

From Ramuntcho by Loti, Pierre