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Sentences starting with seemed

Seemed to be in love . [5]
Seemed like I'd die if I couldn't scratch. [5]

Sentences ending with seemed

On the evening when Charley Steele met with his mishap he was a river-driver--or so it seemed. [11]
You remember when we were in the depths of the woods last summer how difficult it was to get up any interest in the files of late papers that reached us, and how unreal all the struggle and turmoil of the world seemed. [4]
It were almost too dramatic to say that he required darkness to make his effect, but so it seemed. [9]
John experienced all the thrill of this conspicuous authority, and I daresay that nothing in his later life has so exalted him in his own esteem; certainly nothing has since happened that was so important as the events of that parade day seemed. [4]
The friends of the slain dervishes were come to take revenge, it seemed. [11]
How long ago that seemed! [9]
But was the song so pointless to the occasion, after all, and was the man so abstracted and indifferent as he seemed? [11]
Like months it seemed. [11]
Smoke came in placid puffs from the cheroot--Rawley was smoking very hard, but with a judicial meditation, as it seemed. [11]
How queer the place seemed! [9]

Short sentences using seemed

She seemed reposeful, yet alert. [11]
Her troubles seemed very real. [9]
Lem Hallowell seemed unperturbed. [9]
Ingolby seemed to understand. [11]
He seemed almost transformed. [11]
That seemed to touch him. [9]
The terms seemed too severe. [5]
So it seemed to Rostov. [2]
It seemed so to me. [8]
So it seemed to her. [11]

Sentences containing seemed two or more times

We have recognized you," he now seemed to hear the words she had uttered and to see before him her eyes, her smile, her traveling hood, and a stray lock of her hair... and there seemed to him something pathetic and touching in all this. [2]
Their point of view was singularly unchanged, and their impressions of New York remained the same that they had been fifteen years before: huge, noisy, ugly, kindly, it seemed to them now as it seemed then. [8]
The week seemed very short that he passed in Hawkeye, and when he bade Laura good by, he seemed to have known her a year. [5]
As Philip went up the steps of the Mavick house at the appointed hour, he met coming out of the door--and it seemed a bad omen--Lord Montague, who seemed in high spirits, stared at Philip without recognition, whistled for his cab, and drove away. [4]
The sandy path, trodden by their naked feet, gave no sound, the mountains seemed to withhold their shade, the light of clay was a torment--every thing far and near seemed inimical to the living. [10]
He had found, too, in the past that when he seemed to be really speaking to his uncle, when it seemed as though the distance between them had been annihilated, that soon afterwards there came a letter from him. [11]
They all seemed to tell; the swords always bent over the opponents' heads, from the forehead back over the crown, and seemed to touch, all the way; but it was not so--a protecting blade, invisible to me, was always interposed between. [5]
Presently Orion seemed to rise out of the clouds, as a diver comes up from the water, and make for the shore of the island on which George and the other two seemed to be standing. [10]
Hardly anybody seemed to know her, and she seemed not at all disposed to make acquaintances. [6]
It seemed strange to him that his long-felt wish, which had seemed unattainable, had at last been realized. [2]

More example sentences with the word seemed in them

It had no Zulu clicks in it; and it seemed to have no angles or corners, no roughness, no vile s's or other hissing sounds, but was very, very mellow and rounded and flowing. [5]
When I read your letter first, a flood of fire seemed to run through my veins; then I became as though I had been dipped in ether, and all the winds of an arctic sea were blowing over me. [11]
The woman was young, good looking, she seemed intelligent. [11]
She seemed still young, but poverty had marked her with unmistakable signs. [9]
She was so young, and so exquisite, that Fate seemed harsh and cruel in darkening her vision, making pitfalls for her feet. [11]
And after the young woman had told with great simplicity and earnestness of the struggle to support herself and lead an honest and self-respecting existence, it seemed to Honora that at last she had opened the book of life at the proper page. [9]
For such a young man, seemingly destined for the inner life of contemplation, to be a soldier seemed almost unnatural. [6]
Thus the ingenuous young man argued with himself, until it seemed plain to him that if Evelyn loved him, and the conviction grew that she did, all obstacles must give way to this overmastering passion of his life. [4]
Well, what think you--" He paused, rose, walked up and down the room, caught his moustache between his teeth once or twice, and seemed buried in thought. [11]
My doll... Mimi... You see..." was all Natasha managed to utter (to her everything seemed funny). [2]
To go while yet there was time, and smooth for ever the way for others by an eternal silence--that seemed well. [11]
Musical it was, yet there seemed no pleasure in it: rather irony, and a great weariness of the amusements of this world: and a note, too, from a vanity never ruffled. [9]
And a joyful yet pathetic expression which seemed to beg forgiveness for her joy settled on Natasha's face. [2]
She could not yet obtain a clear insight into the result of the promise which she had given her son; it seemed as though a veil was drawn over her active mind. [10]
He had not yet made his fortune, but he had been successful in the game of buying and selling lands, and luck seemed to dog his path. [11]
Only five, and yet it seemed twenty. [11]
David had not yet been fortunate with his own business--the settlement of his Uncle Benn's estate--though the last stages of negotiation with the Prince Pasha seemed to have been reached. [11]
It seemed but yesterday since she had watched with amused eyes the sherbet-sellers clanking their brass saucers, the carriers streaming the water from the bulging goatskins into the earthen bottles, crying, "Allah be praised, here is coolness for thy throat for ever! [11]
His life, which yesterday had appeared so immeasurably long, now seemed brief, pitifully brief. [10]
She seemed five years older in the minute. [11]
For in the years in which Fellowes had been Byng's secretary his relations with Krool seemed amiable and he had made light of Jasmine's prejudices. [11]
After all the years he had disapproved of Austen's deeds it seemed strange indeed to be called to account by the prodigal for his own. [9]
For a few yards Silver Tassel was going strong, then his pace slackened, he seemed to sink lower in the water, and his stroke became splashing and irregular. [11]
He seemed to Xanthe lost, utterly lost. [10]
One of them wrote home to his people, and in his letter he said, "It seemed something divine to see her and hear her. [5]
Now I never wrote a "good" line in my life, but the moment after it was written it seemed a hundred years old. [6]
An invisible web woven of wailing and tears seemed to envelope the assembly. [10]
His religion seemed woven all of austerity, contained no shining threads to catch my eye. [9]
Often Mr. Carvel would run across one which seemed to bring some incident to his mind; for he would drop it absently on his desk, his hand seeking his chin, and remain for half an hour lost in thought. [9]
My best possession would not have seemed too dear a price to pay for some magic spell that would have brought you to us when, at the festal games, I danced and sang to the tambourine while the loudest shouts of applause greeted me. [10]
Millions upon millions would not have seemed to him too large a price for this object. [10]
But this he would not allow, and as he seemed pleased to have her there, she remained, busying herself with her work. [12]
As the phaeton would make the distance to the station in less time than the car, this seemed the sensible thing to do, and Denzil's spirits fell. [11]
That, he knew, would make Edith happy, and to make her happy seemed now very much like a worthy object in life. [4]
In politics he would have told you--with some vehemence, if you seemed to doubt--that he was a Republican. [9]
Nature, too, it would have seemed, had forged a mood in keeping with the time, for there was no air stirring when we came in, and a strange stillness had come upon the landscape. [11]
Perhaps, however, he would have hesitated to carry his purposes to immediate conclusions, were it not that the very gods seemed to play his game with him. [11]
The 'last bells' would begin to clang, all down the line, and then the powwow seemed to double; in a moment or two the final warning came,--a simultaneous din of Chinese gongs, with the cry, 'All dat ain't goin', please to git asho'! [5]
Of what small worth would she have seemed to him, and to herself!--When this tyranny should be overpast, when he should be gone to some other part of his immense empire, if those she loved were spared she could be happy--ah! [10]
Everything in the world seemed small. [11]
Last night's good work seemed to have gone for naught. [11]
He saw the work of his hands, the things he had made with adze and plane, with chisel and hammer, but nothing seemed familiar save the smell of the glue pot, which brought back in a cloudy impression curious unfamiliar feelings. [11]
It is another work of art in this room that I wish to have, and which has hitherto seemed to you scarcely worth notice. [10]
As the evening wore on, the probability of Frank's appearance seemed less; and the Armours began to breathe more freely. [11]
And Sally Grower's words, apropos of the woman in the flat, seemed but an energetic driving home of the severe lessons of his recent experiences. [9]
Not a single word unconnected with his trade, the weather, or an accident, had ever reached the friends' ears from Chello's thick lips, and this circumstance seemed to warrant Hermon in the expectation of learning from him the pure, unadulterated truth. [10]
The changeful, impetuous wooing of youth lies far behind him, but his homage, which the Ephebi of today would perhaps term antiquated, has always seemed to me as if a mountain were bending before a star. [10]
Flying bits of wood struck Venters, and the hot, stinging pain seemed to lift him in one leap. [13]
It seemed too wonderful to be true--a free hand in Egypt, and under Imshi Pasha, the one able Minister of them all, who had, it was said, always before resisted the irrigation schemes of the foreigners, who believed only in the corroee and fate! [11]
He seemed to wonder that I was goin' to Pipi Valley; and when I had finished my tale he said: 'Well, I must tell you that I am not good company for you. [11]
It was a woman, and this other woman, this Mrs. Falchion knows, and she would try to ruin you, or"--here she seemed to be moved suddenly by a new thought--"or have you love her. [11]
When yonder sick woman seemed to be drawing near her end she asked for the sacrament, which was administered by the Dominican. [10]
However, as the woman seemed likely to die with the convulsions that were tearing her, they concluded that the third could do no more than put her out of her misery with a happy dispatch. [5]
We call the woman from the field, and give her money, which she seemed not to expect, and for which she shows no gratitude. [4]
To-day his other wives seemed hateful, even loathsome, to him. [10]
And now my wits came back to me, my purposes, the power to act, which for a couple of hours had seemed to be in abeyance. [11]
A great many witnesses were introduced and examined, but I shall only mention those whose testimony seemed most important. [7]
The stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as it seemed to Pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. [2]
The Speaker, not without some difficulty, recognized Mr. Harper amidst what seemed the beginning of an exodus--and Mr. Harper read his motion. [9]
Then we passed within the great doors, and it seemed that the riches of the world were before us! [5]
Her soul seemed withered, parched, torpid, like a corn-field on which a poisonous mildew has fallen; yet it had once been green and blooming. [10]
It seemed to wither and shrivel up all his joy on its hot, tearing way to his heart. [13]
The powerful hand with which his servant had promptly controlled the fiery spirit of the animals excited his approbation, and seemed to inspire him to put a clog boldly on the wheels of speeding fate. [10]
Her heart beat with tumult, and again seemed to stop. [9]
Melissa seemed satisfied with this assurance, for she walked on for some time in silence. [10]
The White Guard, with their faces turned homeward, and the man they had sought for in their care, seemed to have acquired new strength. [11]
She was familiar with the way they were going, but its length seemed to have stretched tenfold. [10]
He seemed pleased with the question. [11]
The slender figure with the narrow head, long, delicate nose, small chin, and pointed fingers, seemed to her like a long, sharp thorn. [10]
To me, preoccupied with the knowledge that the tug would soon be upon us, there seemed nothing strange in the attitude of these two, but Miss Trevor remarked something out of the common at once. [9]
He seemed pleased with the finery of his garments, which exhaled a subtle odor of spikenard new to his senses; for the eyes in his handsome face sparkled brilliantly. [10]
It was brilliant with sunshine, and the vast smooth bulge seemed hardly five hundred yards away. [5]
When she was with Stanhope such a sacrifice seemed as impossible as it would be cruel, but when she was with Mrs. Bartlett Glow, or alone, the subject took another aspect. [4]
The pheasant stuffed with snails and the truffle sauce with it seemed delicious to the sovereign, who called the dish a triumph of the culinary art of the Netherlands. [10]
She received him with quite the old Hawkeye openness and cordiality, and fell to talking at once of their little acquaintance there; and it seemed impossible that he could ever say to her what he had come determined to say. [5]
Dressed in molleton, with no adornment save the glow of a perfect health, she seemed at this moment, as on the Ecrehos, the one being on earth worth living and caring for. [11]
He received me with much cordiality, and seemed interested in a long account which I gave him of our affairs. [6]
It was flooded with level, yellow rays of light that seemed to be searching the corners in vain for dust. [9]
Barbara was radiant with joy, for all seemed well between Maria and her brother. [10]
Her dryad-like face, with its sweet, elusive smile, seemed to peer at him now wistfully out of the forest, and suddenly a new and startling thought rose up within him--after six and thirty years. [9]
Incidentally, in common with his neighbours, he had taken no interest in the war, which had seemed as remote to him as though he had lived in North Dakota. [9]
Poor Tom ate with his fingers mainly; but no one smiled at it, or even seemed to observe it. [5]
But when alone with him he conversed in the old way, and his faults of memory seemed at times to disappear. [6]
When I sat with her on deck at night, I seemed to feel Boyd Madras's face looking at me from the half-darkness of the after-deck; and Mrs. Falchion, whose keen eyes missed little, remarked once on my gaze in that direction. [11]
We came along with good winds, having no check, though twice we sighted French sloops, which, however, seemed most concerned to leave us to ourselves. [11]
She seemed dead with fear--yes, she was under his compulsion. [5]
To be again with Eva under the protection of her uncle and aunt now seemed the highest goal of her longing. [10]
It was furnished with delightful old-fashioned things that seemed to express, at every turn, the aristocratic and uncompromising personality of the owner who had lived so long in their midst. [9]
The abbess watched with delight the influence of her words upon the soul of her darling, who, gazing thoughtfully at the floor, now seemed to be pondering over what she had urged. [10]
Ruth had listened with an occasional change of colour, but also with an outward pride to which she seemed suddenly to have grown. [11]
Carnac stood waiting with a smile on his face, for it seemed good acting. [11]
He greeted me with a look that was not wholly surprise at my early return, that seemed to have in it something of gladness. [9]
I was pleased with a kind of truth which it seemed to me to wrap up in its rather startling affirmation. [6]
She received him with a gentleness which touched him, she let her hand rest in his, she seemed glad to have him with her. [11]
I was driving with a friend, the other day, through a somewhat dreary stretch of country, where there seemed to be very little to attract notice or deserve remark. [6]
Suddenly I discovered with a flush that she was looking at me intently, without embarrassment, but with an expression that seemed to hint of humor in the situation. [9]
This power, combined with a fine intellectual and indomitable energy, and a taste altogether military, constituted in him, as seemed to me, the best natural talent in that department I ever knew. [7]
And when she wished to pray, then it seemed as though the demon in her look was mightier than ever. [10]
She seemed to wish, but to be unable, to diminish its effect. [2]
She seemed to wish to speak, to be unable to. [9]

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