Seems

Examples

• He never seems to have made the mistake of confusing democracy with demolatry. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There seems to be a _limit of growth_ for every kind of living thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She really seems to have a very good influence on young men. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He does not flatter women, but he is patient with them, and he seems to be easy in their presence, and to find their company genial. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Probably the chief cause of devotion to rigidity of method is, however, that it seems to promise speedy, accurately measurable, correct results. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He seems a very bright pleasant little fellow. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Marshall says this one seems perfect. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It seems to me that she might, by merely sitting quietly at his side, saying little and looking less, get nigher his heart. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Certainly; she is fonder of geraniums, and seems more docile, though not so fine a figure. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort and the deaths of the old. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• And this lawful use of them seems likely to be often needed in the regulations of marriages and births. Plato. The Republic.
• Although many statements may be found in works on natural history to this effect, I cannot find even one which seems to me of any weight. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It seems as if half the house was gone, added Meg forlornly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• But some sense that perhaps the economic man is not a self-evident creature seems to have touched our author. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• That is true, Socrates; but so little seems to be known as yet about these subjects. Plato. The Republic.
• I am afraid to think so; it seems too bold. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The moving of passengers and freight seems to be directly related to the progress of civilization, and the factor whose influence has been most felt in this field is the steam locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It seems to be a bee that buzzes loudly in Rupert's bonnet. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• For this seems to me nothing but the resuscitation of the devil: when things go wrong it is somebody else's fault. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Jim, he said to his man, seems to me we met a boy something like this, up at Beman's, didn't we? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• An old woman who seems to have been flying into town on a broomstick, every now and then. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Mr. Weevle reverts from this intelligence to the Galaxy portraits implicated, and seems to know the originals, and to be known of them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It seems more humble-- Rawdy goes, of course? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The enemy now seems to be looking for an attack on his left flank. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Liberty, it seems, thrives best in the woods. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Seems you're not accustomed to this kind of work? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Fanny's interest seems in safer hands with you than with me. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• They have her in prison and it seems they do not mistreat her much. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Doomsday-book seems to have been the result of a very accurate survey of this kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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