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  • This is no good, this is for nutters like Hagrid who want to keep them healthy...."Dragons are extremely difficult to slay, owing to the ancient magic that imbues their thick hides, which none but the most powerful spells can penetrate....'†   (source)
  • The trick was to somehow imbue the stock phrases and anticipated responses with part of her personality.†   (source)
  • Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.†   (source)
  • Imbued with new meaning.†   (source)
  • I'd felt so brazen tonight, like the Halloween costume had imbued me with a new personality, one more worthy of Adam, of my family.†   (source)
  • Once it was within his grasp, he said, "Thverr stenr un atra eka horna!" and imbued the words with his will.†   (source)
  • She had been Awakened, and the Witch of Endor had imbued her with all her knowledge.†   (source)
  • Even today, Hinduism and Buddhism are strongly imbued with philosophical reflection.†   (source)
  • Ooh, a tomb imbued with evil magic?†   (source)
  • —and protect us also from rebellious daughters imbued with the willfulness of the Wicked One—†   (source)
  • This coincidence imbued the ceremony with special solemnity, and everyone of any significance in the life of the city was present.†   (source)
  • Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism.†   (source)
  • She had just finished reading The Diary of Anne Frank in sophomore English class, and like all the other girls, she was imbued with a sense that she too was different, an innocent on a path to tragedy that would make her posthumously admired.†   (source)
  • Admittedly, she does not at any point in her letter state explicitly her desire to return; but that is the unmistakable message conveyed by the general nuance of many of the passages, imbued as they are with a deep nostalgia for her days at Darlington Hall.†   (source)
  • How natural she looked, how deeply imbued with the idea of a sweeping disaster.†   (source)
  • He'd had no reason to call, and though he hadn't known what he would say, he'd hoped that something would strike him, a bolt from the sky that would imbue him with wit and charisma.†   (source)
  • No, it was not superstition, it was a sense of beauty that cured her of her depression and imbued her with a new will to live.†   (source)
  • Yossarian was alone in a ponderous, primeval lull in which everything green looked black and everything else was imbued with the color of pus.†   (source)
  • His maturity was an asset, imbuing him with an air of authority.†   (source)
  • As she played, each hand's dual thumbs deftly flicked beads up or down the many strings, altering their tension and imbuing the instrument with a range far beyond anything Max had ever heard.†   (source)
  • Some of her beliefs weren't stated all that differently from the scuttlebutt I had heard from the holy rollers in the Camp, but their protestations of faith were imbued with the need for redemption—Jesus loves me even if I'm a bad person, even if no one else does.†   (source)
  • My mother had on her Donna Reed face, which was a particularly sickly smile imbued with positive thinking, dredged up from I never understood where.†   (source)
  • The birdsong trailed off, leaving a charged silence in its wake, as if the music had seeped into the stillness, imbuing the air with melody.†   (source)
  • These are all thought to be imbued with magic derived from the alignment of the earth and the stars,' " I read with a yawn.†   (source)
  • Imbued with a pleasant aroma.†   (source)
  • His words had imbued millions of South Africans and people around the world with the hope that a new South Africa was about to be born.†   (source)
  • A former corporal in the Foreign Legion was imbued with an automatic reflex where orders were concerned; he followed them blind drunk or blind sober.†   (source)
  • To his surprise, Bruenor found that the stone here was hard and pure, deeply imbued with the strength of the earth and would serve his small temple well.†   (source)
  • She prayed it was true, that the magick she'd imbued into the copper sign would hold even against this form.†   (source)
  • The imbued photograph is usually enough.†   (source)
  • One of those wishes results in the clasp of my bracelet coming undone, causing it to fly off into the fountain along with my wish-imbued pennies.†   (source)
  • She had forgotten that she had always been imbued with the idea of freedom, magic in the very sound of the word, and he had always been indifferent to it, perhaps because he possessed it himself.†   (source)
  • I wanted to burst out laughing at the way she had imbued that dumb Navy camouflage paint with such joy and warmth.†   (source)
  • And the troubles of the 1980s had destabilized the community and imbued longtime residents with a sense of futility when it came to resisting change.   (source)
    imbued = filled
  • In fact, his duties at home had imbued him with a sense of responsibility and self-reliance that belied his age and set him apart from his peers.   (source)
  • With you, my life felt indeed like a fantastic adventure—despite our ordinary circumstances, your love imbued everything we did with secret riches.   (source)
    imbued = instilled (filled)
  • …after becoming imbued with poetic sentiment at Longfellow's hearthstone—   (source)
    imbued = filled
  • were imbued with...   (source)
    imbued = filled with
  • Here, one would suppose, might have been sorrow enough to imbue the sunniest disposition through and through with a sable tinge.   (source)
    imbue = fill
  • You, sir, of all men whom I have known, are he whose body is the closest conjoined, and imbued, and identified, so to speak, with the spirit whereof it is the instrument.   (source)
    imbued = filled
  • Pearl's aspect was imbued with a spell of infinite variety; in this one child there were many children, comprehending the full scope between the wild-flower prettiness of a peasant-baby, and the pomp, in little, of an infant princess.   (source)
  • The virgins of his church grew pale around him, victims of a passion so imbued with religious sentiment, that they imagined it to be all religion, and brought it openly, in their white bosoms, as their most acceptable sacrifice before the altar.   (source)
  • I was told it can imbue its possessor with the ability to bring order from chaos.†   (source)
  • Probably because ...you know, it's imbued with evil magic.†   (source)
  • The wide-set green eyes, though, hid beneath their over-casting of spice-imbued blue.†   (source)
  • Arya answered,He must have imbued the item with a spell of healing beforehand .†   (source)
  • 'Surely is,' replied a woman's voice imbued with magnolia.†   (source)
  • It would require a clay or wax figure that has already been imbued with a spirit.†   (source)
  • And tomorrow she'd imbue and recharge what was now hers.†   (source)
  • If I imbued it with enough spells, could I kill a soldier with this?†   (source)
  • Oromis devoted long hours to the craft of imbuing matter with energy, either to be released at a later time or to give an object certain attributes.†   (source)
  • It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him; nor horror, even while he fancied her spirit to be imbued with the same baneful essence that seemed to pervade her physical frame; but a wild offspring of both love and horror that had each parent in it, and burned like one and shivered like the other.... Blessed are all simple emotions, be they dark or bright!†   (source)
  • I mean to say, it is not a traveling cloak imbued with a Disillusionment Charm, or carrying a Bedazzling Hex, or else woven from Demiguise hair, which will hide one initially but fade with the years until it turns opaque.†   (source)
  • It was crafted in Vroengard and imbued with many spells so that it will never fail you in time of need.†   (source)
  • "Mr. Bellamy," Langdon said politely, "this idea that there exists some kind of ancient knowledge that can imbue men with great power ....I simply can't take it seriously."†   (source)
  • Dee ground his teeth in frustration; all his research indicated that Hekate had brought the tree to life by imbuing it with a little of her own life force.†   (source)
  • The question was not whether God had imbued man with great powers ....but rather how we liberate those powers.†   (source)
  • Virtually every mystical tradition on earth revolved around the idea that there existed arcane knowledge capable of imbuing humans with mystical, almost godlike, powers: tarot and I Ching gave men the ability to see the future; alchemy gave men immortality through the fabled Philosopher's Stone; Wicca permitted advanced practitioners to cast powerful spells.†   (source)
  • A sheaf of centuries ago he imbued me with my duty, although there were errands in between my youth and my apotheosis.†   (source)
  • Our most skilled smiths and spellcasters crafted them out of materials we no longer understand, imbued them with enchantments whose wordings we no longer remember, and named them, all twelve of them, after the most beautiful of flowers—as ugly a mismatch as ever there was—for we made them with but one purpose in mind: we made them to kill dragons.†   (source)
  • He had no idea of this special power Bruenor had imbued upon the weapon, and he had no time now to pause and ponder.†   (source)
  • As the echoes faded to dusky silence within the high presence chamber, the figure upon the throne stirred, as if waking from sleep, and then a voice—a voice such as Eragon had never heard before: deep and rich and imbued with authority greater than that of Ajihad or Oromis or Hrothgar, a voice that made even the elves' seem harsh and discordant—rang forth from the far side of the throne room.†   (source)
  • This energy in the Post photograph is similar but different—not left in passing by Nina but imbued in the newsprint by an act of will.†   (source)
  • I could play it a hundred ways, imbue it with a different emotion every time and try to find the truth of it.†   (source)
  • But the years swinging a hammer and chopping stone in the dwarven mines had imbued the barbarian with the strength of iron.†   (source)
  • It seems fitting that the imbued image should be of a headstone, that these grim memorials of bronze and granite should become doorways through which the recipients of the pictures will learn that Death is not mighty and dreadful, that beyond this bitter phase, Death himself dies.†   (source)
  • As he had hoped, the spells of countermagic with which Rhunon had imbued Brisingr were more than sufficient to defeat the enchantments.†   (source)
  • Imbued?†   (source)
  • By imbuing the phrase with energy, as he would the words of a spell, he ensured that it would shape the course of events and thereby improve the woman's lot in life.†   (source)
  • Therefore, Eragon said, "Orik Konungr," and he imbued the ancient language word forking with energy, that it would capture the attention of everyone present.†   (source)
  • One is that because you were involved with the forging, you imbued the blade with a portion of your personality and therefore it has become attuned to your wishes.†   (source)
  • With their voices two, Rhunon sang of the metal that lay on the anvil, describing its properties-altering them in ways that exceeded Eragon's understanding-and imbuing the brightsteel with a complex web of enchantments designed to give it strength and resilience beyond that of any ordinary metal.†   (source)
  • To imbue everyone with the impression that there was work to be done!†   (source)
  • They took it for granted that she was imbued with their own patriotic fervor and would have been shocked to know how slight an interest in the war she had.†   (source)
  • 3' During the long and peaceful Tokugawa period (1603-1868), before the arrival of Commodore Perry in 1854, the texture of Japanese life became so imbued with significant formalization that existence to the slightest detail was a conscious expression of eternity, the landscape itself a shrine.†   (source)
  • All of it tends to impress upon man his essential insignificance, to crush him by sheer magnitude, to imbue him with that sacred terror which leads to the meekness of virtue.†   (source)
  • He said then that he had denied the Catholic church a year ago for the sake of his son's soul; almost as soon as the boy was born, he set about to imbue the child with the religion of his New England forebears.†   (source)
  • But the legend of Sutpen's wild negroes was not to begin at once, because the wagon went on as though even the wood and iron which composed it, as well as the mules which drew it, had become imbued by sheer association with him with that quality of gaunt and tireless driving, that conviction for haste and of fleeing time; later Sutpen told Quentin's grandfather that on that afternoon when the wagon passed through Jefferson they had been without food since the previous night and that he was trying to reach Sutpen's Hundred and the river bottom to try to kill a deer before dark, so he and the architect and the negroes would not have to spend another night without food.†   (source)
  • There indeed, only a few paces off, stood one of them, in Panama hat and yellow boots, seriously, softly, absorbedly, for all that he was watched by ten little boys, with an air of profound contentment on his round red face gazing, and then, when he had gazed, dipping; imbuing the tip of his brush in some soft mound of green or pink.†   (source)
  • I cannot seat myself in some sordid eating-house and order the same glass day after day and imbue myself entirely in one fluid—this life.†   (source)
  • Some of them plague had imbued with a skepticism so thorough that it was now a second nature; they had become allergic to hope in any form.†   (source)
  • An act, ordained, foreseen, inevitable as this very moment, a channel of expertness, imbued for ages, reiterated for ages, familiar as breath.†   (source)
  • spurious humility slept on a pallet on the floor, the child lying there between them unasleep in some hiatus of passive and hopeless despair aware of this, aware of the woman on the bed whose every look and action toward him, whose every touch of the capable hands seemed at the moment of touching his body to lose all warmth and become imbued with cold implacable antipathy, and the woman on the pallet upon whom he had already come to look as might some delicate talonless and fangless wild beast crouched in its cage in some hopeless and desperate similitude of ferocity (and your grandfather said, 'Suffer little children to come unto Me': and what did He mean by that?†   (source)
  • The general European atmosphere was imbued with ideas of peace and plans for disarmament.†   (source)
  • You, who are imbued with modern ideas—no doubt you can.†   (source)
  • The criminal was as imbued with guilt as he was with self.†   (source)
  • I have never been able to imbue my poor boy with that part of his art.†   (source)
  • * * * * * The ship and all in it are imbued with the spirit of Eld.†   (source)
  • From his infancy, he had been imbued with the judgments of the party of 1814, on Bonaparte.†   (source)
  • He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for their son.†   (source)
  • He was an uncouth man, but deeply imbued in the secrets of his science.†   (source)
  • It imbues all classes with a respect for the thing judged, and with the notion of right.†   (source)
  • From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition; but how am I sunk!†   (source)
  • What his stand ought to be was hard to define, unless he answered to impulse; and here in the wilds he had become imbued with the idea that his impulses and instincts were no longer false.†   (source)
  • It was known that Merlin had been busy whole days and nights together, imbuing Sir Sagramor's arms and armor with supernal powers of offense and defense, and that he had procured for him from the spirits of the air a fleecy veil which would render the wearer invisible to his antagonist while still visible to other men.†   (source)
  • That was the land of his heart; and by now he was imbued with its spirit, its romance and colour and history and grandeur; he felt that it had a message for him in particular which no other country could give.†   (source)
  • How or why it came about that everyone at the Epanchins' became imbued with one conviction—that something very important had happened to Aglaya, and that her fate was in process of settlement—it would be very difficult to explain.†   (source)
  • Marguerite must suddenly have been imbued with her husband's slowness of intellect, for she had perforce to read the few simple lines over and over again, before she could fully grasp their meaning.†   (source)
  • To get there and live there, to move among the churches and halls and become imbued with the genius loci, had seemed to his dreaming youth, as the spot shaped its charms to him from its halo on the horizon, the obvious and ideal thing to do.†   (source)
  • It was a tender and heart-dissolving prayer, full of sorrow, yet so imbued with celestial hopes, that the music of a heavenly harp, swept by the fingers of the dead, seemed faintly to be heard among the saddest accents of the minister.†   (source)
  • Those who live in this aristocratic state of society never, therefore, conceive very general ideas respecting themselves, and that is enough to imbue them with an habitual distrust of such ideas, and an instinctive aversion of them.†   (source)
  • —with mortal pangs The mimes become its food, And the seraphs sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued.†   (source)
  • But when they spoke of the future prospects of Cora and Uncas, he shook his head, like one who knew the error of their simple creed, and resuming his reclining attitude, he maintained it until the ceremony, if that might be called a ceremony, in which feeling was so deeply imbued, was finished.†   (source)
  • Akakiy Akakievitch, who was already imbued with a due amount of fear, became somewhat confused: and as well as his tongue would permit, explained, with a rather more frequent addition than usual of the word "that," that his cloak was quite new, and had been stolen in the most inhuman manner; that he had applied to him in order that he might, in some way, by his intermediation—that he might enter into correspondence with the chief of police, and find the cloak.†   (source)
  • Let every man be fully imbued with the thought that we must defeat these hirelings of England, inspired by such hatred of our nation!†   (source)
  • I became imbued with the notion on that first occasion before we sat down to dinner, but I cannot define by what means.†   (source)
  • No sooner was Guasconti alone in his chamber than the image of Beatrice came back to his passionate musings, invested with all the witchery that had been gathering around it ever since his first glimpse of her, and now likewise imbued with a tender warmth of girlish womanhood.†   (source)
  • Near midnight the sea suddenly resumed its usual hue, but behind us all the way to the horizon, the skies kept mirroring the whiteness of those waves and for a good while seemed imbued with the hazy glow of an aurora borealis.†   (source)
  • Imbued from her very infancy with the superstitions of the Bohemian tribe, her first thought was that she had caught the strange beings peculiar to the night, in their deeds of witchcraft.†   (source)
  • It was my intention, now, to put my scheme in operation, and I resolved to make him feel the whole extent of the malice with which I was imbued.†   (source)
  • But, imbued from her childhood with a brooding sense of wrong, and an inveterate hatred of a class, opportunity had developed her into a tigress.†   (source)
  • *e The principles of New England spread at first to the neighboring states; they then passed successively to the more distant ones; and at length they imbued the whole Confederation.†   (source)
  • I have described myself as always having been imbued with a fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature.†   (source)
  • I therefore, though with great prudence, commenced early to ascertain their views and feelings in regard to their condition, and to imbue their minds with thoughts of freedom.†   (source)
  • Well, the manuscript must serve to light lamps with;—if, indeed, being so imbued with my gentle dulness, it is any longer capable of flame!†   (source)
  • Again Giovanni sent forth a breath, deeper, longer, and imbued with a venomous feeling out of his heart: he knew not whether he were wicked, or only desperate.†   (source)
  • "To be a soldier, just a soldier!" thought Pierre as he fell asleep, "to enter communal life completely, to be imbued by what makes them what they are.†   (source)
  • Two things must here be accurately distinguished: equality inclines men to wish to form their own opinions; but, on the other hand, it imbues them with the taste and the idea of unity, simplicity, and impartiality in the power which governs society.†   (source)
  • We went to Newman Street two or three times, where preparations were in progress too—a good many, I observed, for enhancing the comforts of old Mr. Turveydrop, and a few for putting the newly married couple away cheaply at the top of the house—but our great point was to make the furnished lodging decent for the wedding-breakfast and to imbue Mrs. Jellyby beforehand with some faint sense of the occasion.†   (source)
  • But ancient superstitions, after being steeped in human hearts and embodied in human breath, and passing from lip to ear in manifold repetition, through a series of generations, become imbued with an effect of homely truth.†   (source)
  • She imbued herself thoroughly with every word of the manuscript: "Oh yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that!†   (source)
  • Admitting the view of Barclay and others that a defensive battle at Fili was impossible, but imbued with Russian patriotism and the love of Moscow, he proposed to move troops from the right to the left flank during the night and attack the French right flank the following day.†   (source)
  • In the Middle Ages, the tie of religion was sufficiently powerful to imbue all the different populations of Europe with the same civilization.†   (source)
  • "Ay; but my sober imagination does not often play such tricks," said Baglioni; "and, were I to fancy any kind of odor, it would be that of some vile apothecary drug, wherewith my fingers are likely enough to be imbued.†   (source)
  • "That this lovely woman," continued Baglioni, with emphasis, "had been nourished with poisons from her birth upward, until her whole nature was so imbued with them that she herself had become the deadliest poison in existence.†   (source)
  • The patriarchal lives of my protectors caused these impressions to take a firm hold on my mind; perhaps, if my first introduction to humanity had been made by a young soldier, burning for glory and slaughter, I should have been imbued with different sensations.†   (source)
  • It is more especially by means of the jury in civil causes that the American magistrates imbue all classes of society with the spirit of their profession.†   (source)
  • And the more imbued he became with that principle of love, the more he renounced life and the more completely he destroyed that dreadful barrier which—in the absence of such love—stands between life and death.†   (source)
  • In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and grandmothers, displayed at their doors fresh groups of children in disguise, Clowns of seven years of age, Columbines of six, ravishing little creatures, who felt that they formed an official part of the public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, and who possessed the gravity of functionaries.†   (source)
  • The time will therefore come when one hundred and fifty millions of men will be living in North America, *q equal in condition, the progeny of one race, owing their origin to the same cause, and preserving the same civilization, the same language, the same religion, the same habits, the same manners, and imbued with the same opinions, propagated under the same forms.†   (source)
  • It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him; nor horror, even while he fancied her spirit to be imbued with the same baneful essence that seemed to pervade her physical frame; but a wild offspring of both love and horror that had each parent in it, and burned like one and shivered like the other.†   (source)
  • That's just the spirit I want to imbue them with!   (source)
    imbue = fill or infuse
  • Because they are imbued with the proper spirit.†   (source)
  • I accept Reality and dare not question it,
    Materialism first and last imbuing.†   (source)
  • The earth does not withhold, it is generous enough,
    The truths of the earth continually wait, they are not so conceal'd either,
    They are calm, subtle, untransmissible by print,
    They are imbued through all things conveying themselves willingly,
    Conveying a sentiment and invitation, I utter and utter,
    I speak not, yet if you hear me not of what avail am I to you?†   (source)
  • Me Imperturbe
    Me imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,
    Master of all or mistress of all, aplomb in the midst of irrational things,
    Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they,
    Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less
    important than I thought,
    Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee,
    or far north or inland,
    A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm-life of these
    States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada,
    Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies,
    To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as
    the trees and animals do.†   (source)
  • Well-pleased America thou beholdest,
    Over the fields of the West those crawling monsters,
    The human-divine inventions, the labor-saving implements;
    Beholdest moving in every direction imbued as with life the
    revolving hay-rakes,
    The steam-power reaping-machines and the horse-power machines
    The engines, thrashers of grain and cleaners of grain, well
    separating the straw, the nimble work of the patent pitchfork,
    Beholdest the newer saw-mill, the southern cotton-gin, and the
    rice-cleanser.†   (source)
  • I'm sure that a holy zeal has imbued His soul, and I can't begin to believe That he would be willing to cheat or deceive.†   (source)
  • But I care little for his journey to Brundusium, and his account of a bad dinner, or of his low quarrel between one Rupilius whose words he says were full of poisonous filth, and another whose language was imbued with vinegar.†   (source)
  • were it not in hope of thy reply:
    For, while I sit with thee, I seem in Heaven;
    And sweeter thy discourse is to my ear
    Than fruits of palm-tree pleasantest to thirst
    And hunger both, from labour, at the hour
    Of sweet repast; they satiate, and soon fill,
    Though pleasant; but thy words, with grace divine
    Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety.†   (source)
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