prepossess

"You want to prepossess him in your favour?

Yet there was a kind of sharp cunning apparent in her face which did not prepossess the two men favourably towards her.

Now take the time, while stagg'ring yet they stand With feet unfirm, and prepossess the strand: Fortune befriends the bold."

These offers, made freely, could only prepossess in favor of the American, who immediately continued, addressing Mrs. Weldon: "These blacks are your slaves?"

M. Krempe was a little squat man, with a gruff voice and a repulsive countenance the teacher, therefore, did not prepossess me in favour of his pursuits.