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
Moreover, not only did the facility of conquering the French prepossess him in favour of this journal; but also the circumstance that it—cost him nothing.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
I am not going to prepossess you against even our village scold, by telling her name.
From Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau
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
His countenance wore a reckless look that did not serve to prepossess him with the people at whose mercy he stood.
From That Affair Next Door by Anna Katharine Green
