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.

He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.

Even strange names seemed to make them feel closer to some kind of civilization when stumbled across out here in this wilderness.

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

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

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 there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

To save time, some clarification seemed necessary.

She seemed so anxious to go on the stage that some of her friends in the cocktail circuit set up a practical joke.

Late that afternoon, it seemed, he had fallen off the roof while on some obscure errand or inspection.

But there seemed to be some difference of opinion as to how far the board should go, and whose advice it should follow.

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.

At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.

Whereas the primary meanings of the Lo Shu diagram seemed to have been based on its inner mathematical properties -- and we shall see that even its secondary meanings rested on some mathematical bases -- the urgent desire to place everything into categories of fives led to other groupings based on other numbers, until an exaggerated emphasis on mere numerology pervaded Chinese thought.

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.

He had nothing much to say to her but that he said anything seemed to please her and he accompanied her on some of her unusually searching tours of Tokyo.

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.

It seemed almost a magnification of the Galaxy itself, of the Milky Way, blown up by some master photographer.

In the 6th century BC, the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras wanted to know why some musical intervals seemed more beautiful than others, and he found answers in terms of numerical ratios representing the harmonic overtone series on a string.

But all of them seemed to agree that, " There is some body or other that is of its own nature supremely cold and by participation of which all other bodies obtain that quality.

To this end he " added some touches where surviving tradition seemed to contain trustworthy additional particulars ," such as the statement that Paul taught in the lecture-room of Tyrannus " from the fifth to the tenth hour " ( added to Acts 19: 9 ).

Modern aestheticians have asserted that will and desire were almost dormant in aesthetic experience, yet preference and choice have seemed important aesthetics to some 20th-century thinkers.

Nevertheless most armies seemed to have retained it within firing batteries and some duplicated the technical fire control teams in a battery to give operational resilience and tactical flexibility.

He knew this to be the only policy that would be supported by the Afghan nation ; and although for some time a rupture with Russia seemed imminent, while the Government of India made ready for that contingency, the Amir's reserved and circumspect tone in the consultations with him helped to turn the balance between peace and war, and substantially conduced towards a pacific solution.

The party seemed finished and during this period some Liberals, such as Churchill, went over to the Conservatives, while others went over to Labour.

In the early stages of the industrial revolution, it seemed to be totally opposed to a process that seemed to undermine some of these bulwarks.