Seeming

Examples

• 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.
• The sense of walls, dry, thin, flimsy-seeming walls, and a flimsy flooring, pale with its artificial black edges, was neutralising to the mind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Thus the Bosom; accomplished in the art of seeming to make things of small account, and really enhancing them in the process. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Henry Crawford, who meanwhile had taken up the play, and with seeming carelessness was turning over the first act, soon settled the business. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The seeming antisocial philosophy was a somewhat transparent mask for an impetus toward a wider and freer society--toward cosmopolitanism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Few have been able to withstand the seeming evidence of this argument; and yet nothing in the world is more easy than to refute it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He came back, had had his hair cut, and laughed at himself with a very good grace, but without seeming really at all ashamed of what he had done. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Among the many wild changes observable on familiar things which made this wild ride unreal, not the least was the seeming rarity of sleep. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• You hear how pitilessly many ladies of seeming rank and wealth are excluded from this society. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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