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“He talks little, sir: what he does say is ever to the point. His brain is first-rate, I should think not impressible, but vigorous.”

Some players use it to pay utility bills or help out family members, and there are coaches and administrators who feel it helps ward off the temptation to accept impressible benefits.

However, the boy’s demeanor when he is effectively kidnapped by Nils strikes as both impressibly mature and exactly right given his home circumstances and his lack of illusions about his father.

The laws creating the commissions constitute “an impressible commingling of the legislative power and executive power and an impressible encroachment by the legislative branch of government on the executive branch of government,” the judges said.

Then will the Oriental mind be brought into an impressible state, in which argument and persuasion can act upon it; and it may yield to the combined influence of civilization and Christianity.