The orderly room seemed to be deserted.

The staircase itself seemed still to be echoing the heavy footfalls of many men.

He seemed to be fighting not one man but a dozen.

The author of the anonymous notes seemed to be all-knowing.

I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.

Everything was burnished with sweat and grease so that all of the objects seemed to have been carved from the same material and to be ageless.

Since attack serves to stimulate interest in broadcasts, I added to my opening statement a sentence in which I claimed that German youth seemed to lack the enthusiasm which is a necessary ingredient of anger, and might be classified as uninterested and bored rather than angry.

As things turned out, however, we have not profited greatly from the lesson: instead of persistently following a national program of our own we have often been satisfied to be against whatever Soviet policy seemed to be at the moment.

It purported to be a reasonably serious attempt at a treatment of jazz musicians, their aims, their problems -- the tug-of-war between the `` pure '' and the `` commercial '' -- and seemed a promising vehicle, for the two men shared a common interest in jazz.

This rather detached attitude toward life's encumbrances has seemed to be the dominant trait in Mercer's personality ever since.

They seemed to be at the White House half the time.

The next day he seemed to be in fairly good shape and still in excellent spirits.

Meantime, however, this same General Smallwood seemed to be serving chivalry as well as the American army.

And Lilly's whole family seemed to be an apology for Mr. Banks.

The brother and sister seemed to be a sort of mutual-aid society, a little fortress of kindness for each other in a hard world.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

The prevailing official attitude then seemed to be that fallout, if not exactly good for you, might not be much worse than a bad cold.

F. L. Lucas's article in SR's April 1 issue seemed to be a very fair and objective analysis of the New English Bible.

He seemed to be muttering, his voice surprisingly clear.

Flanked by marble urns and alabaster lamps, they seemed to be posing for a tribal portrait.

One of the drawing-room shutters was partly open and he made out the shapes of chairs and sofas, which seemed to be upholstered in brown or russet velvet.

Though, taken individually, the big rooms were, or seemed to be, square, the apartment as a whole formed a triangle.

It had always seemed strange to Ramey that to disguise himself as a tourist, an ex-truck driver like Horsely would merely pick something outlandish and put it on his head.

The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.

Wilson again went downtown to a different banker, an intelligent young white man who seemed rather sympathetic, but he shook his head.

Though Bob Carroll seemed to have had his head practically blown off by the exploding grenade, he lived.

Chief Moore shook his big head, seemed lost in thought as he stared at the nude body.

Richard M. Forbes's Paget, which had what seemed to be a substantial lead in the early stages, tired rapidly nearing the wire and was able to save place money only a head in front of Glen T. Hallowell's Milties Miss.

Another photo seemed to depict a horned " gargoyle head ", consistent to that of several sightings of the monster.

Meanwhile, it seemed that the Chiefs, led by head coach Hank Stram, and especially quarterback Len Dawson, were jinxed throughout the year.

The monster lifted its head so high that it seemed to be higher than the crow's nest on the mainmast.

His large head seemed suitably matched to his great intellect.

He looked weak, both in health and character ; his head seemed to be very heavy for him: He walked on one side.

Although Simon initially considered calling this character Hot Fudge, the cherry on top seemed like an exposed skull as its head and he decided that the Red Skull was a more appropriate moniker.

Wisden recorded that " The sun scarcely graced the English cricket scene with its presence in 1978, but when it did it seemed to adorn the blond head of David Gower.

Reportedly, in the instant before the gendarmerie opened fire Mesrine's eyes were described as being so shocked they seemed to be bursting from his head as he realized he was trapped.

He bases it on the passage in which Lady Chatterley feels disengaged from Mellors and thinks disparagingly about the sex act: " And this time the sharp ecstasy of her own passion did not overcome her ; she lay with hands inert on his striving body, and do what she might, her spirit seemed to look on from the top of her head, and the butting of his haunches seemed ridiculous to her, and the sort of anxiety of his penis to come to its little evacuating crisis seemed farcical.

He said that when he was shot, his hands were over his head, and the bullet hole in his coat — four inches below the exit wound in his back — seemed to support this claim.

The very dark hair on its head fell to just below the shoulder-blades or even almost to the waist ... Had it been standing, its arms would have reached to a little above its knees ; they were therefore long, but its legs seemed to me rather short.

Eleanor introduced a new type of wimple to England, which was high, " into which the head receded until the face seemed like a flower in an enveloping spathe ".

" Copley's personal appearance was thus described by his uncharitable comrade: " Very thin, a little pock-marked a souvenir of the Boston smallpox epidemic described by Copley in a letter of January 24, 1764, prominent eyebrows, small eyes, which after fatigue seemed a day's march in his head.

The monster lifted its head so high that it seemed to be higher than the crow's nest on the mainmast.

The resulting pinheaded character seemed to have an immensely wide mouth and a highly mobile head.