Seem

Examples

• It would seem to be always the same question, for, it is always followed by a press of people towards the third cart. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But in spite of their efforts to be as cheery as larks, the flutelike voices did not seem to chord as well as usual, and all felt out of tune. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The singing arrows that destroyed the army of Crassus came, it would seem, originally from the Altai and the Tian Shan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Much of their theory must seem to the modern mind merely fanciful and unsupported speculation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• So it would seem it happened to Gautama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I seem to have been doing that ever since I knew you, judging from your frequent mention of the fact. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• You never seem old. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The wind, indeed, seemed made for the scene, as the scene seemed made for the hour. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Miss Havisham sat listening (or it seemed so, for I could not see her face), but still made no answer. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapor-walled landscape. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Our fair client seemed a little confused. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Every vestige of the gentler thoughts which had filled her mind hardly a minute since seemed to be swept from it now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It seemed all at once to take the shape of an impertinence on her part; she read this meaning too in the man's eyes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• So far it seemed clear enough. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• 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.
• At these latter words the girl shivered again, and for a moment paused in her rowing, seeming to turn deadly faint. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She went on directing her conversation to the past, and seeming to recall its incidents, scenes, and personageswith singular vividness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Nor trust the seeming lifeless snake, Beware! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Otherwise, his seeming attention, his docility, his memorizings and reproductions, will partake of intellectual servility. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He looked at them slightly, without seeming to know who they were, and merely nodded to Mrs. Jennings from the other side of the room. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• To you, perhaps, observed Worcester, trying to laugh, from a fear of seeming ridiculous. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He looked up and saw it high and tiny and silver in the sun, seeming hardly to move in the high sky. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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