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Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
1998, “That Don't Impress Me Much”, in Come On Over, performed by Shania Twain:
Okay, so you're a rocket scientist / That don't impress me much
2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.
2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin, published 2009, page 187:
Such admonitions, in the English of the Authorized Version, left an indelible impress on imaginations nurtured on the Bible […]
Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: J Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer,, published 1727, →OCLC:
we have God surveying the works of the creation, and leaving this general impress or character upon them
1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practive and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 260:
As he himself [Sir Nigel Gresley] would doubtless have wished, he died in harness; only a few weeks previously he had been present at the first public view of his latest design, the Bantam Cock, which, like most of his products, bore all over it the impress of his personality.
It commonly occurred that Knights who , on entering the Lists , wished to conceal their identity , would assume a Device with an allusive Motto , which was designated an IMPRESS
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