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
Those who have nothing particular about them, excepting being noblemen--and it does prepossess people--have married the most beautiful girls.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall
The curb-chain will probably be too tight, also the throat-lash; if so, loosen both, and with your own hands; it is a pleasant way of making acquaintance, and may perhaps prepossess him in your favour.
From Riding Recollections, 5th ed. by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
The effect of it steals into his manner, and gait, and gives him an air of presenting himself, that is sure to prepossess in his favor.
From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini
This was so contrived, that he might gain time to prepossess the Bishop for his purposes.
From The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
