`` He works for my father '', the girl said, and then seemed to change her mind.

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.

and the author, who seemed the embodiment of France's rising spirit of resistance to her conquerors, was much complimented for his daring military action.

The failure of Greece to reach the imperial destiny that Periclean Athens had seemed to promise was almost directly attributable to her physical conformation.

These trumps were more touching than they were anything else, and seemed to imply that the nights were long, her children ungrateful, and her marriage bewilderingly threadbare.

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.

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.

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.

She enjoyed great parties when she would sit up talking and dancing and drinking all night, but it always seemed to her that being alone, especially alone in her house, was the realest part of life.

Bobby Joe had been sitting close to her, touching her actually, and holding her hand from time to time, but it seemed at once that Howard sat much closer.

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.

She was just another freighter from the States, and she seemed as commonplace as her name.

But she seemed to have underestimated the number of her `` boy friends ''.

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

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.

the days seemed short, perhaps because his routine was, each day, almost the same.

The difficulty was that each day seemed to produce its quota of details which must be cleaned up immediately.

Verdi and Wagner, who were the leaders of their respective schools of music, seemed to resent each other greatly.

" He seemed to approach each commission thinking only of it and then develop a way to make something beautiful.

Since the soul is a spiritual substance it is not brought into being through transformation of matter, but directly by God, whence the special uniqueness of each person .." Fifty years later, Pope John Paul II, stating that scientific evidence now seemed to favour the evolutionary theory, upheld the distinction of Pius XII regarding the human soul.

As the number of known aperiodic sets of tiles grew, each set seemed to contain even fewer tiles than the previous one.

In both cases, the exact relationship between the partners was left ambiguous, although they seemed to have carte blanche to visit each other's homes whenever they pleased and it was not uncommon for scenes to suggest Steed had spent the night at Gale's or Peel's home, or vice-versa.

It seemed to indicate that frogs and salamanders are more closely related to each other than they are to caecilians.

Mendes is indecisive, saying the script seemed to be about something different each time he read it: " a mystery story, a kaleidoscopic journey through American suburbia, a series of love stories ... it was about imprisonment ... loneliness beauty.

The " Puffin ' Billy " theme played as the opening of each episode, with the music continuing until the Captain hung his large ring of keys on a nail ( which seemed to act as a switch to turn off the music ).

The semiconservative model seemed most reasonable since it would allow each daughter strand to remain associated with its template strand.

" Lê promised the Vietnamese people in 1976 that each family would own a radio set, refrigerator and TV within ten years ; he seemed to believe he could easily integrate the South Vietnamese consumer society with industrial North Vietnam.

McCann says: " TW3 ... did its research, thought its arguments through and seemed unafraid of anything or anyone ... Every hypocrisy was highlighted and each contradiction was held up for sardonic inspection.

A significant amount of time passed between the filming of each season, accounting for the speed at which the kids in the cast seemed to age.

During the moments of silence, it seemed to me that from each heart a spark would burst forth, and the sparks would unite in one great flame penetrating the heavens ….

Each also expanded to some extent into each other's territory, though this never seemed to seriously affect the sales of any brand's core series.

The group seemed destined for stardom after the release of their second album, Dreamer, which featured the soulful title track, the hit " Take Me For a Little While " and their cover of The Impressions ' " I'm Still Waiting ", which each gave them moderate chart success.

Originally, his hair was simply very greasy and unkempt, but another cast member joked offstage that the height of the hair seemed to increase with each performance.

Critics point out that Scargill's policy of letting each region decide seemed inconsistent with the threatened expulsion of the Nottinghamshire branch after 20, 000 out of 27, 000 miners in the county voted against the strike.

Unpainted, rusting, jagged wire fences along the tracks barred the city from its waterfront ... The engines that pulled trains along the tracks burned coal or oil ; from their smokestacks a dense black smog rose toward the apartment houses, coating windowsills with grit ... stench seemed to hang over Riverside Drive endlessly after each passage of a train carrying south to the slaughterhouses in downtown Manhattan carload after carload of cattle and pigs.

Some say that the original proverb should actually be " 狗咬呂洞賓 ， 不識好人心 ," stemming from a story about the friendship between Gou Miao ( 狗咬 ) and Lü Dongbin, who both did for the other great favors, each of which seemed like a disservice initially, signifying the importance of having faith in one's friends.

"... 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.

although we didn't expect the attack before dawn, the long cloudy night, filled with the sounds of the industrious insects, seemed endless.

With the metal shutters closed, the dining room was so dark that it seemed still night in there.

Yet a moment did come that night when the adventurous letter writer and fantasist seemed to stride off my flashy pages, out of my mind, and plant himself in reality.

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.

Herzog would later say of Smith's contributions that, " If he saved two runs a game on defense, which he did many a night, it seemed to me that was just as valuable to the team as a player who drove in two runs a game on offense.

The renewal moved the show from Wednesday night to Friday night, a move that seemed to replicate the third season renewal of the original Star Trek, when it was moved from Thursday night to the Friday night " death slot ".

That night there were no riotous first night celebrations and most of the cast seemed to go home stunned.

The opening night of Iolanthe was an occasion for what must have seemed a truly magical event in 1882.

He opined that Lerner and Loewe's score for The Day Before Spring the previous year was better than theirs for Brigadoon, explaining that, " If my first emotion last night was admiration rather than sheer enjoyment, it was because the proceedings seemed to me more marked by taste and style than by emotional warmth in book and music, but there is no denying that the authors have matured as theatrical craftsmen ".

It seemed really strange ... I was experiencing such fear ... it was just ... terrible ... During these days I would take naps in the afternoon because I'd be so tired playing at night, staying up till 4 in the morning, getting up early and napping again in the afternoon.

Since " Life " wanted a perfect Saturday night, and one they considered typical, the photographer did not select a town still blighted by the Depression ... What " Life's "' readers wanted, it seemed, was a stereotyped village that confirmed their nostalgic beliefs about small towns in which no one is bored, poor, or lonely ; and the magazine's photographers and editors-like Norman Rockwell in his " Saturday Evening Post " covers-gave them exactly that kind of town.

The small room seemed to me like an accommodation for one night during my voyage in the Universe.

The 2000 film ends with a quote from a Walt Whitman poem entitled " On The Beach at Night ", strikingly appropriate, describing how frightening an approaching cloud bank seemed at night to the poet's child, blotting the stars out one by one, as the father and child stood on the beach on Massachusetts ' North Shore.

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.

A month has often seemed less to me than this half night of longing ( the three nights before Freyr can meet his love ).

In order to cover their living expenses, the Trio was forced to go on the road, completing what seemed to be an endless stream of one night stands.

" Sunday night with Fred Allen seemed incomplete on any night listeners didn't hear the DeMarco Sisters – whose breezy, harmonious style became as familiar as their cheerfully sung " Mr. Al-len, Mr. Alll-llennnn " in the show's opening theme.