impressure
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of impressure
Example Sentences
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To the unknown beloved, this, and my good wishes: her very phrases!—By your leave, wax.—Soft!—and the impressure her Lucrece, with which she uses to seal: 'tis my lady: To whom should this be?
From Twelfth Night or, What You Will by J P Kemble
It is usually, indeed, the minor poetry of an age which keeps most distinctly the "cicatrice and capable impressure" of a passing literary fashion.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Her very phrases!—By your leave, wax.—Soft!—and the impressure her Lucrece, with which she uses to seal: 'tis my lady.
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with which she uses to seal; 't is my lady.
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Lean but on a Rush, The cicatrice and capable impressure Thy palm some moment keeps.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
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