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Example sentences for "really seemed"

  • It really seemed quite a stroke of business, this, on the part of a Superior Power, which had left building materials and gravitation, after creating them, to their own wayward impulses.

  • As for the achievement which had been postponed, it really seemed a'most ridiculous when you come to think of it.

  • Tom's taciturnity abated in conversation with Mrs. Lamprey, and he really seemed to come out of his Trappist seclusion to hear what she had to tell about this mystery at the Cottage.

  • Miss Slome was so kind to Maria, in those days, that it really seemed to her that she ought to love her.

  • It really seemed to her as if she were stung by a swarm of platitudes like bees.

  • It really seemed to her that she was called upon to marry the Ellridge girls, and that was the main issue.

  • It really seemed a pity, taking into consideration Ida's tremendous strength of character, that she had not some great national purpose upon which to exert herself, instead of such trivial domestic ones.

  • Our road was almost a dead level, generally free from sand, along which our teams trotted gaily, and it really seemed, as if specially designed for a natural highway here forever.

  • And yet, when properly irrigated, it really seemed to produce about everything abundantly.

  • All united in pronouncing the climate simply perfect, though a little warm in summer; and, I must say, it really seemed so, when we were there.

  • This reckless buying of pepper and salt made the grocer's bill an eternal irritation, for it really seemed absurd to be spending all one's money on pepper and salt.

  • It really seemed a pity to fall asleep; it was like falling asleep when music was being played.

  • Involuntarily I held my breath every time that the ship rolled to windward; for then the strain on canvas and spar and rigging was at its heaviest, and it really seemed to me as though nothing made by mortal hands could withstand it.

  • It really seemed as though she had nothing to fear from the explanation.

  • The words were spoken in the calmest manner; and it really seemed as if those who heard them regarded them merely as the sensible conclusion of a very ordinary state of affairs.

  • It really seemed as if the case was coming to an end for him and as if everything was turning out perfectly.

  • It really seemed to, for soon the aged man was able to sit up again.

  • He really seemed so, and was able now to walk slowly about the cabin.

  • He really seemed quite a different man now.

  • It really seemed as if the old man, at the last moment, had not the heart to part with his property, or to trust it out of his sight.

  • Hazard, who was near at hand, succeeded in restraining his own people, but it really seemed as if the Vineyard-men were mad.

  • A single wave would extend a quarter of a mile from trough to trough, and as it passed beneath the schooner, lifting her high in the air, it really seemed as if the glancing water would sweep her away in its force.

  • It really seemed as if all positions which might have been in some keeping with the man and his antecedents were absolutely out of his reach.

  • However, his muscles were still good and supple; it really seemed to him that he might dig or pick away at rocks, as he had seen men doing in that apparently aimless and hopeless and never-ending fashion.

  • It really seemed to the girl an incredible supposition of disaster that that train could pass by and her father not appear, and that in the face of her morbid and pessimistic conclusions.

  • It really seemed as though the tinctures of the shield had been fixed in the crown of splendor that covered the head of Judith.

  • I mean ever since she came into my house, and we have talked together about you, and upon my word it really seemed as if you were to her as a brother.

  • It really seemed as if leathery, rusty Aunt Dionysia, from being a dry Gideon's fleece, were about to be turned into a wet and wringable fleece.

  • It really seemed a pity to fall asleep: it was like falling asleep when music was being played.

  • It really seemed as though the girls could never recover from the shock.

  • The locks were only just large enough to admit our steamer, and it really seemed as if but a few inches at either end and at the sides were to spare.

  • So for a time it really seemed as if it would be impossible to find a king, and that they must either put up with their mad sovereign or go without one altogether.

  • Everything turned out just the reverse way to that which they had hoped, and it really seemed as if some evil spell had been cast upon them.

  • For greater security, she gave him a small piece of bread and jam immediately after luncheon, and he really seemed to require no more in order to keep him perfectly submissive and obedient to the will of his mistress.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    amused smile; blue grass; critical moment; essential oils; far too; good life; head and; now used; reading from; really believe; really couldn; really doesn; really felt; really fine; really know; really like; really loved; really must; really only; really think; really very; really want; ride away; take the; travelled over; voice cried