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Khosrul continued in softer, more melancholy accents, that, while plaintive, were still singularly impressive.

One highly impressive exhibit of early state legislative power is afforded by the ferocious catalogue of legislation directed against the Tories, embracing acts of confiscation, bills of pains and penalties, even acts of attainder.

Before entering the forest, we saw an impressive cell of mini thunderheads, gorgeously mauve and dimly aflicker from within, standing on the phony horizon like purple-robed clerics of Doom.

He was a most impressive figure of a an whose plummy upper-class English accent and classical features belied his Afrikaner origins.

He had an impressive Afro that signaled some new level of forthrightness between black and white.

Today Herbert Marcuse, whose theories have gained new attention as a result of the impressive events of 1968 in France and the nearly universal antiwar and antipollution movements in the United States, feels confronted with the same demand.

One pubescent boy spat at Apolline, who promptly spat back with impressive accuracy.

Sherwood came upon some exotic trinkets, simple but impressive carvings of bears, in bone and walrus ivory.

Other sights were equally impressive, though Gavin made sure they were belowdecks when the Helena passed Gibbet Island, where the dry bones of four convicted pirates rattled in iron cages.

Duc de Bercy will not forbid the presence of his cousin, Detricand de Tournay, at this impressive ceremony?

The Bianchi also ended their journey in Rome, where Boniface listened to their spiritual concerns and did his best to send them on their way while diluting their impressive but dangerous religious fervor.

Any stray travelers who might wander by, such as curious tourists on a camelback tour of the forbidding desert, would perceive only yet another colorful old fort, neither as well preserved nor as impressive as, say, the more famous citadels at Jodhpur and Bikaner.

Colombo Cricket Grounds, where the game was played, was indeed a novelty, and the crowds of Cingalese that surrounded us as we left the hotel and looked on in open-eyed wonder were by no means the least impressive part of the circus.

Near an enormous clothespress she saw a narrow staircase leading downstairs, probably the staircase that was original to the dwelling, before the more impressive entrance hall was added.

The statue was impressive, showing a woman of extreme beauty in a toga-like Dardanian garment, a diadem on her short curly hair.