Adverb
In an impressing manner.
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So ſhall he always hit the right and touching ſenſibility of tone, and move his auditors, impreſſingly: […]
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In impressing upon his audience, that it was not the amount of worldly contributions, but the sacrifice made by the individual from his means, which found favor in the eye of heaven; the preacher impressingly referred his hearers to the history of the poor widow who cast in her two mites into the treasury, and the sublime sacrifice of all that was dear to human nature, which the Patriarch Abraham offered to make.
I then shook hands with him as impressingly as I could manage to, and advised him, as he wished to avoid an ignominious death, to make all possible speed to Boston, and then out of it, without stopping so much as to see whether I made an edifying death.
Moses went to make known this encouragement to the people; but, and the observation is impressingly suggestive, “they hearkened not unto Moses, for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage.”
His sentences were exceedingly short, and his style impressingly simple.
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(Impressingly,) I am content with my lot, sir.
The poor husband bit his lip to refrain from an angry retort, and then said impressingly, “whatever course you pursue, in one thing I am determined to be obeyed, Hannah shall remain with the children.”
Nothing could be more perfect than the form of this city, which after sleeping for sixteen centuries, has now risen from its tomb to teach the modern nations how the ancient inhabitants of a Roman city lived; how they ate and drank, and rode and walked; how they were lodged at home; how they appeared when abroad; to tell us of their trades, their toils, their arts, their religion and their amusements; even more impressingly and perfectly, than all the books that have come down to us from antiquity.
Impressingly, the BMW brand value represents over 25% of the enterprise market cap.