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Sentences starting with seems

Seems to know what is going on, --reads books, old and new,--has many recent publications sent him, they tell me, but, what is more curious, keeps up with the everyday affairs of the world, too. [6]
Seems to me we had a man from there eight or nine hundred years ago--but people from that system very seldom enter by this gate. [5]
Seems to me, though, that you are educating the colored brother all on top. [4]
Seems but little the worse for wear. [6]
Seems to consider that a sufficient justification for chancing any dangerous thing. [5]
Seems as if she was tryin' to make up to fawther for Coonrod as much as she could. [8]
Seems 's if people stopped wanting 'em such weather. [4]
Seems a kind of pity we were the right ones. [5]
Seems to me I heerd somethin' about it. [9]
Seems to me I heard about some cutting up at Andover--eh, Bob? [9]

Sentences ending with seems

And as the years went on we'd realise how every form of success was offset by something undone in another direction, something which would have given us joy and memory and content--so it seems. [11]
That is not so paradoxical as it seems. [11]
Too cheaply, it seems. [9]
Her husband had quite a brilliant situation here till he refused to partake 'dans une afaire onereuse', so it seems. [5]
And the hell of it is that in spite of her innocence and charm she's--she's not what she seems! [13]
They have got Ham there, it seems. [9]
Dear old friend, great man, I am going to quote a verse Tynie read to me last night--oh, how strange that seems! [11]
Nothing's as bad as what it seems. [11]
It seems. [4]

Short sentences using seems

But it seems wholly useless. [9]
He seems broken up to-day. [11]
It seems an unwise idea. [5]
It seems so unreal. [9]
So it seems today. [9]
It never seems to stop. [9]
He never seems to sleep. [11]
So it seems to me. [2]
And that seems the real. [11]
Nothing seems to stop him. [9]

Sentences containing seems two or more times

There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice--the demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. [7]
And this seems to be the old moral which we draw from our fable, read it how or where you will, that we cannot make one good stroke until we can make every possible stroke; and when we can one, every one seems superfluous. [6]
He seems to--to--he seems to breathe so regularly. [5]
After all, it seems to be a law of Providence, that progress should be by a spiral movement; so that when it seems most tortuous, we may perhaps be going ahead. [6]
And to each of these persons what is outside of his world seems of secondary importance; he is absorbed in his own, which seems to him all-embracing. [4]
But he seems he seems more tranquil and contented than I hoped to find him. [9]

More example sentences with the word seems in them

This fact of yours, which seems so strange to you, belongs to a great series of similar facts familiarly known now to many persons, and before long to be recognized as generally as those relating to the electric telegraph and the slaving `dynamo. [6]
I can read your soul through your eyes, and it seems to me that things have gone wrong with you since the keeper of your stud arrived here. [10]
It seems that your man, Prescott, doesn't come from Brampton, in the first place, and Grant says that while he likes soldiers, he hasn't any use for the kind that want to lie down and make the government support 'em. [9]
The rewards of your long and patient industry are on their way, and their arrival safe in port, presently, seems assured. [5]
You boldly drive your boat right into what seems to be a solid, straight wall (you knowing very well that in reality there is a curve there), and that wall falls back and makes way for you. [5]
I say two young people, for the one who counts most years seems to me to be really the younger of the pair. [6]
Moreover, of the young birds hatched from the eggs of the common geese, only four were pure, the other eighteen proving hybrids; so that the Chinese gander seems to have had prepotent charms over the common gander. [1]
But no doubt you, who are old, have long since grown accustomed and reconciled to what seems to me such a disagreeable novelty. [5]
I would advise you to drop in there some time when you have nothing to do for--five minutes--if you have never been there: It seems to me the noblest monument that this nation has yet erected to her greatness. [5]
It seems to you that mainly what you want is to get away; get away from the same old tedious things you're so used to seeing and so tired of, and set something new. [5]
In your estimate you take no account, it seems to me, of the growth of charity. [4]
When I hear you speak I want to shut my eyes, I am so happy; and every word of mine seems clumsy when you talk to me; and I feel of how little account I am beside you. [11]
They swarm about you at every step; no single foot of ground in all Jerusalem or within its neighborhood seems to be without a stirring and important history of its own. [5]
You are right, you are right--do what seems good to you. [10]
The sight of yonder shining steeples and roofs seems to make your heart laugh, Sir Wolf, and, by Our Lady, you have good reason to bestow one or more candles upon her, for, besides other delightful things, a goodly heritage is awaiting you in Ratisbon. [10]
Although we struggle, yet by habit, by self-indulgence, by lack of a sustained purpose, we have formed a character from which escape seems hopeless. [9]
It seems only yesterday when we brought her home, Tom. [9]
It seems only yesterday that, for the first time, on a farm "over the border," from the French province, I saw him standing by a log outside the wood-house door, splitting maple knots. [11]
Possibly he contemplated writing a story with this idea as the theme, but He seems never to have done so. [5]
And as I write these words, after the Italian retreat, a second revolution seems possible. [9]
You know I would like to oblige you, but it seems to me my duty in this case is the other way. [7]
He wants the world to move, and to move unencumbered; and Europe seems to him to carry too much baggage. [4]
When a man works alone he always has a certain set of reflections which as it seems to him directed his past activity, justify his present activity, and guide him in planning his future actions. [2]
And apparently the workers can only improve their condition by strikes, by suffering--it seems to be the only manner in which they can convince the employers that the conditions are bad. [9]
He does not work, except when people are looking, and only then when the observer has a green, naturalistic look, and seems to be taking notes. [5]
This argument seems wonderful to me. [7]
Bulow is a wonderful conductor, a little man, all nerve and fire, and he seems to inspire every instrument. [4]
Those who come within its irresistible influence are drawn so close that it seems as if they must become one with her sooner or later. [6]
When people plead with you at this late day to quit that vice, that old callous place seems to enlarge and cover me all over like a shirt of mail. [5]
All seems well with us, and everything is quiet just now. [7]
I cannot close with the familiar 'Rejoice'--the 'Fresh Courage' placed on many a tombstone seems more appropriate. [10]
Brave Winthrop, marching with the city elegants, seems to have been a little startled to find how wonderfully human were the hard-handed men of the Eighth Massachusetts. [6]
His early experience with it, however, seems interesting. [5]
I am perplexed with it only because there seems to be pertinacity about it. [7]
You find fault with his history because it seems to be lies. [5]
Just here I will mention something that seems curious to me. [5]
The devoted daughter, wife, mother, whose life has been given to unselfish labors, who has filled a place which it seems to others only an angel would make good, reproaches herself with incompetence and neglect of duty. [6]
We can see why it is that aborigines, who have long inhabited islands, and who must have been long exposed to nearly uniform conditions, should be specially affected by any change in their habits, as seems to be the case. [1]
Why he, whose whole life was a crucifixion, should not love to look on that divine image of blameless suffering, I cannot see; on the contrary, it seems to me the most natural thing in the world that he should. [6]
It seems a whole century since I saw him. [5]
Of his father, who died in the fourth or fifth year of Henry's age, little seems to be known, except that he was a respectable man and a preacher of the Baptist persuasion. [7]
It is individual, which the ocean, with all its gulfs and inlets and multitudinous shores, hardly seems to be. [6]
May I ask which seems to you the most desirable? [10]
If these powers, which differ much in different animals, are capable of improvement, there seems no great improbability in more complex faculties, such as the higher forms of abstraction, and self- consciousness, etc., having been evolved through the development and combination of the simpler ones. [1]
There are dinners where the object seems to be to pocket all the balls as speedily as possible. [4]
It is only when a moment, a moment like this comes that the quality of what we have lived seems so tarnished, that the atmosphere which we ourselves have helped to make is so sordid. [9]
I can't understand what you are contriving--but it seems to entertain you--so please, go on. [5]
I don't know what there is about her, except that she seems to take my life out of me when she looks at me. [6]
No one knew what Lindau's religion was, and in default they had had the Anglican burial service read over him; it seems so often the refuge of the homeless dead. [8]
With folks goin' West, and all that, nobody seems to want it much. [9]
He yielded, but went out to learn whether Herr Casper was still in the office, and in a short time returned, exclaiming angrily: "The old Eysvogel seems to be building his nest here! [10]
Independently of the well-known causes which raise or depress the standard of vitality, there seems to be,--I think I may venture to say there is,--a rhythmic undulation in the flow of the vital force. [6]
If this is well managed, the listener is always eager to believe a great deal more than the romancer seems willing to tell, and always resents the assumed reservations and doubts of the latter. [4]
But she seems well and fairly happy. [9]
Here's only three weeks of the three months gone, and it seems like three years. [5]
Remember, I have wealth more than wit can number; I have had power more than kings could emcompass; yet the world seems a desert; all nature appears an afflictive spectacle of warring passions. [5]
With all their wealth and opportunities, it seems to him that these select people have no higher object than the pleasures of the senses, and he is taught daily by reiterated example that this is the end and aim of life. [4]
In the piazza we pick up a donkey and his driver for use in case of accident; and, mounting the driver on the donkey,--an arrangement that seems entirely satisfactory to him,--we set forward. [4]
It seems that we must trust Jonathan. [9]
Meditating on this, we hailed at sundown the spires of Abingdon, and regretted the end of a journey that seems to have been undertaken for no purpose. [4]
Orion, by the way, was acquiring "feet" on his own account, and in one instance, at least, seems to have won his brother's commendation. [5]
It seems Oldrin' wasn't all bad, en' he sure loved you. [13]
But here she was, an Indian, with few signs of civilisation or of that breeding which seems to white people the only breeding fit for earth or heaven. [11]
Onion Clemens, meantime, was forwarding his manuscript, and for once seems to have won his brother's approval, so much so that Mark Twain was willing, indeed anxious, that Howells should run the "autobiography" in the Atlantic. [5]
Already the air was dissipated of its choking weight, and the vast solitude was filling with that sense of freedom which night seems to shut in as with four walls, and day to widen gloriously. [11]
I think it was an eleemosynary smile, for my pleasantry seems to me a particularly basso rilievo, as I look upon it in cold blood. [6]
At Genoa there was a delightful society, and Irving seems to have been more attracted by that than by the historical curiosities. [4]
By Charles Dudley Warner The problem of dealing with the criminal class seems insolvable, and it undoubtedly is with present methods. [4]
Something seems to warn me that if we take--what we want, we shan't get it. [9]
The Athenian was warmly welcomed by many of the group, a fact which seems strange when we remember that courtiers are of all men the most prone to envy, and a royal favorite always the most likely object to excite their ill will. [10]
Now, when I want a thing, it seems to me that I want it all through. [8]
Restrained by the walls of stone from being destructive, it seems to rave at its own impotence, and when it reaches the whirlpool it is like a hungry animal, returning and licking the shore for the prey it has missed. [4]
After Shelley's (conjectured) visit to Harriet at Bath--8th of June to 18th--"it seems to have been arranged that Shelley should henceforth join the Skinner Street household each day at dinner. [5]
I practise political virtue: it embarrasses the world, it fogs them, it seems original, because so unnecessary. [11]
Sterling and the villages north, where there's universal gun-packing and fights every day--where there are more men like him, it seems to me they would attract him most. [13]
Outside of Melbourne, Victoria seems to be owned by a handful of squatters, each with a Rhode Island for a sheep farm. [5]
It seems a very strange proceeding for such an agreeable and polite man as the Vicomte, although he had his drawbacks, as all Continentals have. [9]
There is something very simple and pleasant about the following, which, in Philadelphia, seems to be the usual form for consumptives of long standing. [5]
I would give very much to feel confident one way or the other--forgive me, for what seems incredible egotism. [11]
She is a very handsome woman --perhaps you would expect me to say handsome still; but that seems a sort of treason to her mature beauty. [4]
It all seems very fair, but we must not forget that this is a mortal world, and that it is liable to various accidents. [4]
Your diploma seems very broad to-day with your list of accomplishments, but it begins to shrink from this hour like the Peau de Chagrin of Balzac's story. [3]
The building seems very airily situated. [5]
It seems to us that people will judge us from what we think and feel. [8]
The Daily Hurrah urges the measure with ability, and seems confident of ultimate success. [5]
He's been sitting up and talking to us--of course he's pale and weak and wasted, but in spite of that, Asher, he seems to have a strength, a force that he didn't have before he went away. [9]
In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. [2]
Yet it seems unreasonable that a series of successes, extending through half a year, and clearing more than 100,000 square miles of country, should help us so little, while a single half-defeat should hurt us so much. [7]
This, however, seems unlikely, because any statements elicited by fear or force could not be evidence in law or could be so explained as to have no force. [5]
It seems quite unlikely that that problem could have offered difficulties to any but a trained philosopher. [5]
You mustn't be unjust because he seems odd to you and of limited intelligence. [4]
Thus we can understand--and in no other way as it seems to me--the present condition and origin of the ornaments on the wing-feathers of the Argus pheasant. [1]
Pulcheria seems to understand all that as well as my poor dead sister did. [10]
I will indeed try to deserve your love and kindness; and you--you will be to me all that your loving countenance seems to promise? [10]
The result seems trustworthy, and shows that during the fourteen years, previous to 1858, the decrease was 19.42 per cent. [1]
My cough still troubles me a good deal, especially in the night, and, what seems worse than all, I am subject to great shortness of breath on going up-stairs or any slight exertion. [14]
It seems there's trouble in the shops,--in our shops, of all places,--it's been going on for some time, grumbling, dissatisfaction, and they're getting higher wages than ever before--ruinous wages. [9]
But that wretch treats all laughter and the most innocent fun as a crime, or so interprets it that it seems so. [10]
But this legal training seems to me to stand on a different footing. [5]
In 1620 it took a new start and grew fast until 1714 then for the most part slowly until 1786, when it started again and grew pretty well and uniformly until within the last dozen years, when it seems to have got on sluggishly. [6]

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