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.

Against all expectation, Carmer was inside, clearly enjoying himself to the hilt and already so tipsy that it seemed unlikely he was bothering to note anything or anyone about him.

The ceiling stayed solid above them at about eight hundred feet, and at times the sheer cliffs seemed about to close in.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

Where their sharp edges seemed restless as sea waves thrusting themselves upward in angry motion, Papa-san sat glacier-like, his smooth solidity, his very immobility defying all the turmoil about him.

The remarks she made about the sufferings of a lonely woman seemed so broad at first that he didn't know what to make of them, but after the sixth drink he put his arm around her and suggested that they go upstairs and look for her checkbook there.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.

It suddenly seemed very important to me that Mary Jane Brennan should know the truth about me -- that I was not the confused, sick, irresponsible person she believed me to be.

It seemed the most important thing in my life at this moment that she should know the real truth about me.

There was something phony about all this gun waving -- something not quite what it seemed in the detailed directions for finding the police.

When the Plymouth neared, it veered toward him and seemed about to run him down.

A teenage girl, Abigail Williams, is being sharply questioned by her minister uncle, the Reverend Samuel Parris, about a wild night affair in the woods in which she and some other girls had seemed to have had contact with these evil beings.

The crisis later on when debts seemed about to overwhelm me.

There was something not nice about triplets, though their father seemed pleased, showing no disappointment that they hadn't been the son he wanted, saying, `` You don't see triplets trippin' down the pike ever' day, Miss Jen, hon.

The most unbelievable thing about the chance meeting was that he seemed interested in me, too.

She seemed to work to grow close to her son in the few days he spent at home, talking to him about some of the more pleasant moments of his childhood and then trying to talk to him about those things in which he alone was interested.

The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.

In addition, after several years at the IHÉS Grothendieck seemed to cast about for new intellectual interests.

Dunn seemed quite positive about being traded to a ball club in first place in its division in August.

Bostock also claimed that Teach had questioned him about the movements of local ships, but also that he had seemed unsurprised when Bostock told him of an expected royal pardon from London for all pirates.

The idea recurred in Classicist Michael Grant's 1977 review of the evidence for Jesus, who compared modern scepticism about an historical Jesus to the ancient docetic idea that Jesus only seemed to come into the world " in the flesh ".

According to local West Memphis police officers, on the evening of May 5, 1993, at 8: 42 p. m., workers in the Bojangles ' restaurant about a mile from the crime scene in Robin Hood Hills reported seeing a black male who seemed " mentally disoriented " inside the ladies ' room of the restaurant.