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.

It seemed like a good time for officials to use a recently-passed law empowering the post office department to contract for the transport of first class mail by air.

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.

The excesses of nationalism had brought down upon Europe a generation of tyranny and war, and a return to the old order of things seemed unthinkable.

the crupper under his tail seemed to be old stuff.

And Judy sang the lovely old familiar things which seemed, at times, a blessed relief from the way-out compositions of the progressive jazzmen who have dominated these proceedings.

After the spate of female vocalists we have been having, all of whom took Sarah as a point of departure and then tried to see what they could do that might make her seem old hat, it seemed that all that has happened is to make the real thing seem better than ever.

New gods did not at once replace the old ; they initially joined the ever growing family of deities or were merged with existing ones that seemed to share similar characteristics or responsibilities.

Phrenology was introduced at a time when the old theological and philosophical understanding of the mind was being questioned and no longer seemed adequate in a society that was experiencing rapid social and demographic changes.

In his autobiography, Darwin wrote that " The old argument of design in nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered ".

His sardonic sense of humour is evident throughout, as when, during his description of the Athenian plague, he remarks that old Athenians seemed to remember a rhyme which said that with the Dorian War would come a " great death ".

Shehhi shaved his beard and seemed to his old friends like he had become less religious.

Though it didn't do well commercially ( many critics felt Burton, at 33, looked too old for the part ) and Burton's Hollywood box office aura seemed to be diminishing, Burton was proud of the effort and wrote to his mentor Philip Burton, " I promise you that there isn't a shred of self-pity in my performance.

Napoleon set out to reform the French legal system in accordance with the ideas of the French Revolution, because the old feudal and royal laws seemed confusing and contradictory to the people.

He turned up again, however, before the walls of Erebor disguised as an old man, revealing himself when it seemed the Men of Esgaroth and the Elves of Mirkwood would fight Thorin and the Dwarves over Smaug's treasure.

Both the single ( No. 62 Pop, No. 33 AC ) and the album ( No. 67 Pop ) fizzled as the nearly 40-year-old Newton-John seemed " old " when compared with the teen queens Debbie Gibson and Tiffany ruling the Pop charts at that time.

* When asked why he seemed so incredibly cheerful all the time: " Well, old bean, life is really so bloody awful that I feel it ’ s my absolute duty to be chirpy and try and make everybody else happy too.

The horrifying events of World War II seemed to bring the composer — who had grown old, tired, and a little jaded — into focus.

To the Romans themselves there was little in this behaviour which seemed worthy of censure ; it was respected rather as a traditional example of the old Roman manners.

" Or so it seemed to modern scholars until the recent discovery of papyrus P. Oxy. 3965 in which Simonides is glimpsed in a sympotic context, speaking for example as an old man rejuvenated in the company of his homo-erotic lover, couched on a bed of flowers.

:" but when loathsome old age pressed full upon him, and he could not move nor lift his limbs, this seemed to her in her heart the best counsel: she laid him in a room and put to the shining doors.

Although this story seemed far-fetched the University of Southern Mississippi has proven that old maps from 16th-century French explorers show that they labeled the D ’ Lo area around the Strong River with the words “ De l ' eau sans potable ”.

The old economic underpinnings were gone and nothing new seemed to be on the horizon.

However, people liked his prices, and seemed to genuinely like old ' Flopeye.

The old atheism, which seemed to many of us -- including me -- valid in terms of our experiences, or rather lack of experiences, would have to step momentarily aside.

He was now elected a member of the Académie française, and everything seemed to promise a quiet and peaceful old age spent in the bosom of his family and occupied with scientific and literary pursuits, when the king in his difficulties wished for the support of his name, and summoned him back to the ministry in 1787.

As at Eylau, the approach of night seemed to preclude a decisive success, but in June and on firm ground the old mobility of the French reasserted its value.