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Sentences ending with semblance

He refused to recognise the rather malicious adroitness with which Marion turned his remarks again upon himself, twisted out of all semblance. [11]

More example sentences with the word semblance in them

Both were masterly weapons, an armament so complete that it controlled the face and eyes and outward man into a fair semblance of honesty. [11]
Life was always war with him, or some semblance of a struggle. [9]
A sentence framed under the auspices of the Second could have a kind of meaning--a sort of deceptive semblance of it --whereas it is only under the magic of the Third that that defect would disappear. [5]
A smaller stream trickled over the cliff and built up an isolated pyramid about thirty feet high, which has the semblance of a mass of large gnarled and knotted vines and roots and stems intricately twisted and woven together. [5]
He wished them to look upon the semblance of that protecting spirit who had been faithful to her in her gravest hours of trial and danger. [6]
The estate seemed to be the visible semblance of a power which troubled him. [9]
The words were those of Master Walther von der Vogelweirde, and were as follows: "True love is neither man nor maid, No body hath nor yet a soul, Nor any semblance here below, Its name we hear, itself unknown. [10]
Now they waited there like fabled monsters of Arab story ready for the magician's touch, tractable, reckless, will-less--organized lifelessness full of a strange semblance of life. [8]
It already wore the semblance of an angel in the gracious Virgin's train, and it should be dedicated to her and her divine Son. [10]
It bore no semblance to a town, and had nothing about it to suggest that it had ever been a town. [5]
It bore no semblance to a statue or an idol or a godhead or a sphinx. [13]
Anything in the semblance of a town lot, no matter how situated, was salable, and at a figure which would still have been high if the ground had been sodded with greenbacks. [5]
All about us rose gigantic masses, crags, and ramparts of bare and dreary rock, with not a vestige or semblance of plant or tree or flower anywhere, or glimpse of any creature that had life. [5]
His purpose, however poorly accomplished, was to give some semblance of reality to this part of the story. [9]
Although we were perched so strangely upon boxes, trunks and beds, and so strangely attired, too, we were too earnestly distressed and too genuinely miserable to see any fun about it, and there was not the semblance of a smile anywhere visible. [5]
If what the old woman believed was true,--and it had too much semblance of probability,--what became of his theory of ingrained moral obliquity applied to such a case? [6]
In this flight of fancy, Mr Swiveller was assisted by a deceptive piece of furniture, in reality a bedstead, but in semblance a bookcase, which occupied a prominent situation in his chamber and seemed to defy suspicion and challenge inquiry. [12]
There was absolutely no semblance of law there. [5]
If she could mitigate his hatred of Mormons, or at least keep him from killing more of them, not only would she be saving her people, but also be leading back this bloodspiller to some semblance of the human. [13]
By a seeming miracle he got a semblance of order, recognized his man, and his great voice rang through the hall and drowned all other sounds. [9]
It was a man who tramped into her presence without removing his hat, who had no greeting for her, who had no semblance of courtesy. [13]
Victoria longed to let in the light, to take this strange, dried-up housekeeper and shake her into some semblance of natural feeling. [9]
His mouth wore its usual semblance of a smile. [2]
There was interest in this beetling border, too, for it was honey-combed with quaint caves and arches and tunnels, and had a rude semblance of the dilapidated architecture of ruined keeps and castles rising out of the restless sea. [5]
Perhaps it was his unlimited control over the weal and woe of the world, over the life and death of millions, which raised a mortal, not otherwise formed for greatness, so far above common humanity to a semblance of divinity. [10]
It was a handsome stool, looted perhaps from some chateau in the Old World, and over it was thrown a dark-red cloth which gave a semblance of dignity to the seat of authority, which it was meant to be. [11]
If the city had been searched, it is doubtful whether a more striking contrast to the man who had just left could have been found than Cecil Grainger in the braided, grey cutaway that clung to the semblance of a waist he still possessed. [9]
Perhaps, after these gloomy days and years, a semblance of sunlight may return. [10]
At last, by forms of earthly semblance led, They found the crowded inn, the oxen's shed. [6]
I shall never forget the scene, though I had but the one glimpse of it,--the raving, yellowed woman in the bed, not a spectre nor yet even a semblance of the beauty of Temple Bow. [9]
All prepared--every emotion, every semblance of excitement--was smothered--only a calm, thoughtful seriousness appeared in the eyes that were lately so wild. [5]
When the doctor came, together we made him into the semblance of a man again. [11]
People not paupers are all eager to take what is theirs of right; but anything in the semblance of charity is a bitter pill to swallow until self-respect is a little broken down. [4]
So exquisitely clear and pure is this wonderful atmosphere that every column of the noble structure was discernible through the telescope, and even the smaller ruins about it assumed some semblance of shape. [5]
Clement had placed a red curtain so as to throw a rose-bloom on his marble, and give it an aspect which his fancy turned to the semblance of life. [6]
No semblance of a house remains in such as these. [5]

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