She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

His face took on a sudden pallor, became beaded with sweat, and he seemed to have trouble with his breathing.

But suddenly those hot-honey eyes seemed to have everything but swarms of bees in them.

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.

Travelers entering from the desert were confounded by what must have seemed an illusion: a great garden filled with nightingales and roses, cut by canals and terraced promenades, studded with water tanks of turquoise tile in which were reflected the glistening blue curves of a hundred domes.

They are in general those fears that once seemed to have been amenable to prayer or ritual.

He seemed a little surprised that it should have caused any particular trouble anywhere.

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.

I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.

To almost two generations of Americans it must have seemed as though the existence of Mr. Sam coincided with that of the House.

This was something on which K. himself seemed to have some doubts ; ;

He always seemed to have money in his pocket.

Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.

They seemed then to have had a single mind and body, a mutuality which had been accepted with the fact of their youth, casually.

It all seemed -- if one could have peeked in at him through one of his windows -- as though this broken-nosed man with the muscular arms and wrestler's neck was merely the caretaker trying his hand at the boss's work.

And she was made to fall in love with him again there in the rutted dirt driveway standing in the cold fog, mad as she was at his going away when he really didn't have to, mad at their both having got older in a life that seemed to have taken no more than a week to go by.

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.

Although it had seemed a good reason, to begin with: no couple could afford to have children.

`` If I have seemed to emphasize the structure of the composition, I mean to project equal concern for color.

I sighed, thinking that among other things, people here seemed to be those who would have to cut down if they earned less than $85,000 yearly ; ;

She ascribed her delight with both experiences to the effect they seemed to have of temporarily removing from her the controls which she felt so compulsively necessary to maintain even when it might seem appropriate to relax these controls.

Also war-time propaganda and cooperation had `` obscured the differences between Russian and Western ideas of democracy '', and it seemed better to have them covered by verbal formulae than to imperil the military victories over Germany and Japan.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

" In his book, Sins of the Scripture, Spong claims that " Jesus seemed to understand that no one can finally fit the holy God into his or her creeds or doctrines.

On 13 December, he seemed to have finally died.

When Caraffa's replacement, Count Caprara, was himself transferred in 1694, it seemed that Eugene's chance for command and decisive action had finally arrived.

Despite the fact that Parsons only contributed two new songs to the album (" In My Hour of Darkness ", " Return of the Grievous Angel "), Parsons was highly enthused with his new sound and seemed to have finally adopted a serious, diligent mindset to his musical career, eschewing most drugs and alcohol during the sessions.

The completion of the story seemed also to signal an end to his problems: he was no longer troubled by nightmares, divorced Germaine in 1977 ( they had separated in 1960 ), and finally married Fanny Vlamynck on 20 May of the same year.

In his memoir, he recalled that the war seemed to drag on " with leaden feet ", and that he was relieved when it finally ended.

After several years of bloody war, victory finally seemed within the grasp of Frederick, who was strongly supported by his brother Leopold.

Combining these forces with the undead armies he could raise, the final victory of Balor seemed imminent ; the Leveler would finally succeed in scouring all life from the face of the earth.

Parklife continued the fiercely British nature of its predecessor, and coupled with the death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in April of that year it seemed that British alternative rock had finally turned back the tide of grunge dominance.

After the capture and execution of Wallace in 1305, Scotland seemed to have been finally conquered and the revolt calmed for a period.

When Mantle finally fell short, finishing with 52, there seemed to be a collective sigh of relief from the New York traditionalists.

Russia finally seemed to have gotten what the Russian Empire had been wanting in its quest to become a global power since the reign of Peter the Great.

Some hold them to be marks of erasure ; others believe them to indicate that in some collated manuscripts the stigmatized words were missing, hence that the reading is doubtful ; still others contend that they are merely a mnemonic device to indicate homiletical explanations which the ancients had connected with those words ; finally, some maintain that the dots were designed to guard against the omission by copyists of text-elements which, at first glance or after comparison with parallel passages, seemed to be superfluous.

With new ownership and Iverson in place, and the 76ers moving into the CoreStates Center, things seemed to finally be heading in a positive direction.

The fact that we found this marker in such high concentrations in one of the Lemba subclans, the Buba — much higher, incidentally, than the general Lemba population — seemed finally to provide a real, usable link between the Lemba and Jews.

Dead at last, it seemed like the threat of the Red Skull had finally ended and The Avengers were able to restore Rogers ' youth.

In round fifteen, Hearns seemed to think he had the decision secured, and Benitez seemed to imagine he needed a knockout to win, so Hearns proceeded to use his jab for three more minutes and Benitez tried to avoid defeat by throwing quick combinations onto Hearns ' face to see if he could find the punch that would finally lay down The Hitman for good.

Neither side deserved to lose but when Zico finally came on in the second half ( with the score 1 – 1 ), and Brazil were awarded a penalty late in the game, Brazil seemed set to win.

Hank Jones said, " When I finally met him and got a chance to hear him play in person, it seemed as if he wasn ’ t really exerting much effort, he had an effortless way of playing.

Even though success finally had seemed to come with " The Majesty of Love ", Francis was informed by MGM Records that her contract would be discontinued after her last solo single.

When liberalism seemed to finally find the opportunity to implement its noblest principles, after a long process of integration as ideological tendency, as a political group and as a power option, the liberal regime was unable to achieve cohesion within the Central American society.

"... every citizen should quietly consider each point, then talk it over with his friends, and, finally, bring forward for public discussion any additions or subtractions which seemed desirable.

The story, soon published by Martini in the " Additamentum " to his Atlas of China, seemed to have finally convinced most European scholars that China and Cathay were the same.