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Coming over the wall he had seemed like a hideous devil.
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.
With shout and slow dance, with tears and song, with scream and contortion, the corner group was beset by hysteria and shivering, wailing, shouting, possession of something that seemed like an alien and outside force.
Only afterwards did an act like that become meaningless, so that he would puzzle over it for days, whereas at the time it had seemed quite real.
He was tired, he had his business worries, and the sight of his wife arranging pork chops in the broiler only seemed like an extension of a boring day.
At the same time he watched carefully to see how one attached pegboards to stone walls, but Mr. Blatz was usually standing in his line of vision and it all seemed so simple that he didn't like to disclose his ignorance.
To everyone's astonishment he seemed no more like the run-of-the-mine Russian ambassador than George Babbitt was like Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov.
You've not seemed like them, but maybe you are.
his nerves seemed frost-bitten down to the tips of his tingling fingers and his spine felt stiff and glass-like, liable to break like an icicle at any moment.
They leaned into the wind and seemed like one thousand-legged monster hurtling and plunging until suddenly they rose straight in their saddles and in one terrifying voice shouted, ejaculated their grotesque cry of war.
This vacation had seemed like a good idea last week, when his doctor had prescribed it.
Meanwhile, he had this miserable cold, and as he leaned against the refrigerator, watching the rain make sandy puddles at his feet, the doctor's prescription for lots of sun seemed like a hollow mockery.
He had been commissioned by The Strand Magazine to write an article on fairies for their Christmas issue, and the fairy photographs " must have seemed like a godsend " according to broadcaster and historian Magnus Magnusson.
In 1992, the production of the A600 seemed like a backward move ; it replaced the A500, yet it removed the numeric keypad, Zorro expansion slot, SCSI capability, and other functionality in favor of PCMCIA and a theoretically cost-reduced design.
The harder it became to export customer data to EDIF, the more the vendors seemed to like it.
To his opponents in Parliament this seemed like a prelude to arbitrary rule, so James prorogued Parliament without gaining Parliament's consent.
While it seemed like a good move, her subsequent producers did not seem to match Gaynor's vocal approach and style as well.
' I especially liked Robert Moreton, although no one else seemed to like him very much.
Napoleon III suffered stronger and stronger criticism from Republicans like Jules Favre, and his position seemed more fragile with the passage of time.
The studio was famous for its socially-realistic, urban, low-budget action pictures ; the play seemed like the perfect property for it, especially since the public was entranced by real-life criminals like John Dillinger ( whom Bogart resembled ) and Dutch Schultz.
The Army had set what seemed like an impossible deadline of 49 days to supply a working prototype.
At the moment when she met the gaze of the judge, the beckoning of her arms seemed to hold the promise that if he preferred her over the other goddesses, she would present Paris with a bride of unmatched beauty, one like herself.

seemed and good
He was right, and Peter Marshall could not help but recall Andrew Cordier's words on the subject, `` Well, it seemed as good a place as any to do the job ''.
The next day he seemed to be in fairly good shape and still in excellent spirits.
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.
Although it had seemed a good reason, to begin with: no couple could afford to have children.
By the time Barco reached the count of three, the situation seemed to Welch almost too good to be true.
What bits of Brumidi and Costaggini could be reached at either end seemed in good order, though the roughish sandy surface was thick with dust.
When Palmer hit a good straight drive up the fairway on the 72nd hole, he seemed to have the championship won.
Jenny's aversion to having Dr. Dunne, a former admirer, seemed silly to him, but he would humor her, get anybody she wanted, the best never being too good for her.
The blustering Bullmoose, who seemed to own and control nearly everything, justified his far-reaching and mercenary excesses by saying " What's good for General Bullmoose is good for everybody!
While he was " slender and mild-mannered ", she had dark good looks that " must have seemed to him exotic ", writes Easton.
But Kidd seemed unconcerned, later explaining to his surgeon that he had " good friends in England, that will bring me off for that.
Albert Speer notes that though Himmler seemed pedantic and insignificant on the surface, he was a good decision maker, had a talent for selecting highly competent staff, and successfully inserted the SS into every aspect of daily life.
In particular, some of the analysis seemed to indicate that similar technology applied to a pure rocket approach would give at least as good performance at lower cost.
In an interview, she said: " A male name seemed like good camouflage.
Godwin was a gradualist anarchist rather than a revolutionary anarchist ; he differed from most later anarchists in preferring above revolutionary action the gradual and, as it seemed to him, more natural process of discussion among men of good will, by which he hoped truth would eventually triumph through its own power.
A related and more controversial proposal often made is that he described how to do things in politics in a way which seemed neutral concerning who used the advice-tyrants or good rulers.
Moreover, having lived with two such godless persons as Ahab and Jezebel without learning to act as they did, he seemed the most suitable person to prophesy against Esau ( Edom ), who, having been brought up by two pious persons, Isaac and Rebekah, had not learned to imitate their good deeds.
Despite the charge against him, he seemed to have remained in good standing amongst his peers.
He warded off the evil hour that seemed approaching, he infused vigour into our arms, he taught the nation to speak again as England used to speak to foreign powers ... Pitt, on entering upon administration, had found the nation at the lowest ebb in point of power and reputation ... France, who meant to be feared, was feared heartily ... They were willing to trust that France would be so good as to ruin us by inches.
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