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Definition of Impregning
1. impregn [v] - See also: impregn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impregning
Literary usage of Impregning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb by Maurice Henry Hewlett, Laurence Binyon, Edward James Hewlett, William Randolph Hearst, Jonathan Swift, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Edward Verrall Lucas, Frederick Madison Smith, Mariano Tomás (1905)
"Or did the wizard wand Of Merlin wave, impregning vacant air, And kindle up the
vision of a smile In those blue eyes, that seem'd to speak Despair To drop ..."
2. The Life of Charles Lamb by Edward Verrall Lucas (1907)
"Have these things been ? or what rare witchery, impregning with delights the
charmed air, Enlighted up the semblance of a smile In those fine eyes ..."
3. The Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb, Alfred Ainger (1904)
"In the 1796 edition of Coleridge's Poems the passage had run thus :— " Or did
the wizard wand Of Merlin wave, impregning vacant air, And kindle up the ..."
4. The Works of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb (1852)
"... And fancied wanderings with a fair-hair'd maid 1 Have these things been ?
or what rare witchery, impregning with delights the charmed air, ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1817)
"... impregning all the balmy air. Sweet Flowers, farewell! to you be giren.
Each kindly gift of favouring Heaven. Oh ! may it ever shed on you Its softest ..."
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