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Example sentences for "seemed that"

  • It seemed that I was breakfasting with Mr. Davies.

  • We got talking, and it seemed that we had much in common in our lives.

  • It seemed that with an almost superhuman effort Gordon gripped himself.

  • Exactly what had caused the original breach I never learned; but it had widened with time, until it seemed that no peacemaker could build a bridge large enough to span it.

  • To me it seemed that we were entering heaven.

  • In these final hours it seemed that not a single sacrifice or service, however small, had been forgotten by the dying leader.

  • But it seemed that, when on the wharf, Queequeg had not at all noticed what I now alluded to; hence I would have thought myself to have been optically deceived in that matter, were it not for Elijah's otherwise inexplicable question.

  • Many spare hours he spent, in carving the lid with all manner of grotesque figures and drawings; and it seemed that hereby he was striving, in his rude way, to copy parts of the twisted tattooing on his body.

  • Of course they had heard Lucy speak of me, and it seemed that Dr.

  • How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away.

  • It also gave me a lesson, for it seemed that before me was a child, only a child, though the features were worn, and the stubble on the jaws was white.

  • It seemed that maybe it was trying to tell us something, so we listened, and we stopped muzzleloading our guns.

  • During my first two semesters, it seemed that I got very little help from my teachers.

  • It seemed that we should be eating something in the light of the campfire, but there was nothing to eat.

  • She had said that if Hugh would do so, Trevelyan would soon become used to the presence of his old friend, and it seemed that he had already done so.

  • It seemed that of late Trevelyan had taken to drink freely, but only of the wine of the country.

  • To Philip, intoxicated with the beauty of the scene, it seemed that it was the whole world which was spread before him, and he was eager to step down and enjoy it.

  • The boys, fresh and buoyant, were doing the same things that he had done, it seemed that not a day had passed since he left the school, and yet in that place where at least by name he had known everybody now he knew not a soul.

  • It seemed that it was an interminable process to get the poor body safely hidden away under ground: papers had to be obtained in one place and signed in another; officials had to be seen.

  • Lucy had never before seen him look tired, and it seemed that some of the healthy brown of his cheeks had thinned out.

  • It seemed that Holley's mind must have found an obstacle to thought.

  • It seemed that he no longer tried to free himself.

  • It seemed that foot by foot Wildfire was gaining on the King.

  • But he was handicapped here because it seemed that, though he could meet Bostil face to face, he could not fight him.

  • So, after all, it seemed that we were not to see the great Parthenon face to face.

  • Then it seemed that I fell down at His feet and wept bitterly, and as I did so the look of reproach passed away, and only an expression of love and forgiveness remained.

  • He was now given a vantage-point from which it seemed that he could climb rapidly, and his heart was light as he thought of what he would be able to do for his mother and sisters.

  • Even the servants in distant rooms said that it seemed that an angel was singing.

  • The last I remember, we were surrounded by fire, you were despairing, and it seemed that I died.

  • It seemed that at length this hard fight had been won.

  • It seemed that it was no light thing to have secured the cooperation of the greatest living master of the English language.

  • Sometimes, however, it seemed that he had a strange pleasure in venturing his person.

  • It seemed that he had never understood his need of her, his love for her, until now that he had brought her to this supreme test of self-revelation.

  • And now it seemed that he had made it hers also.

  • And it seemed that Lise, even in the place where she was, must have heard that cry and heeded it.

  • It seemed that of late he had been keeping all the money for the sprinklers, and spending a good deal of it on Lise.

  • It seemed that everybody of mark had been earlier than they.

  • It seemed that a new and engrossing idea had taken possession of his mind, and when he turned his eyes again to Chayne and spoke, he appeared to be speaking with reference to that idea rather than to any remarks of his companion.

  • It seemed that a spasm of pain or revolt shook him.

  • It seemed that fear as well as surprise came to him in the knowledge that Garratt Skinner was a friend of Walter Hine.

  • It seemed that an actual comradeship had sprung up between them.

  • But it seemed that he at all events did not remember that he had not come alone down to La Grave.

  • But it seemed that ill-health was not all to blame.

  • It seemed that he was content, for he continued: 'How should I know what the word means?

  • It seemed that Linforth's animosity against Shere Ali had died out.

  • It seemed that he had been watching for the couple to stop dancing.

  • Nevertheless, Bui the Thick still pressed the Norwegians back with heavy blows and a ceaseless rain of arrows and spears, and it seemed that at this point the vikings were quickly gaining the victory.

  • But suddenly it seemed that a new light came into his clear blue eyes, and a fuller vigour into his strong young limbs.

  • It seemed that, like all the other vikings who had spoken so boldly at that feast, Vagn was to be cheated of his vow, yet he resolved to meet his death bravely.

  • Then Klerkon's stallion took hold of the jawbone of Sleipner, and held on until it seemed that he would never yield his hold.

  • Often it seemed that he would be swept overboard by the wild rush of water, but his great strength endured the strain, and though nearly blinded by the pelting hail he still held on.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another hour; beau monde; dispute about; established church; fairy tales; haired gentleman; here are; illustrious friend; inner nature; made for; might get; much older; remember anything; sailing from; seemed good; seemed incredible; seemed like; seemed likely; seemed much; seemed natural; seemed quite; seemed strange; seemed suddenly; seemed very; supper time; three wire