prepossesses

She is lively and obliging: she is young; not more than twenty; yet looks rather younger, by reason of a country bloom, which, however, misbecomes her not; and gives a modesty to her first appearance, that prepossesses one in her favour.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

His stay was not very long; not one of us divined the object of his visit, and he did not prepossesses us favourably.

Uncle Silas 2003

The general appearance of Edinburgh prepossesses one in its favour.

Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met William Wells Brown

The very consciousness that one prepossesses and pleases people, makes most persons feel more respect for themselves, just as the knowledge of being well dressed makes them feel more respectable.

Choice Readings for the Home Circle Anonymous

Gentleness prepossesses at first sight; it insinuates itself into the vantage ground, and gains the best position by surprise.

The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies An American Lady

I like to know people whose appearance prepossesses me.

With Edged Tools Henry Seton Merriman 1882

Byron countersigns the opinion of Bolingbroke that he knew the sex well; but testimony of that kind hardly prepossesses us in his favour.

Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868

The representative of the Fifteenth Curia is Herr von Eisendecher, a man whose ready sociability, united with wit and vivacity in conversation, prepossesses one in his favor.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

The general appearance of Edinburgh prepossesses one in its favor.

The American Fugitive in Europe. Sketches of Places and People Abroad. By Wm. Wells Brown. With a Memoir of the Author. 1855

The general appearance of Edinburgh prepossesses one in its favour.

Three Years in Europe Brown, William Wells, 1815-1884 1852