Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse" ¶ 21
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

seemed and him
It seemed to Barton that the green eyes mocked him, the thin-lipped smile held insolence, but he had no time to waste now.
Even as he became widely known as a professional killer, nearly every cowboy and rancher in Wyoming seemed proud to call him a friend.
Suddenly it seemed to him insane that they might hope to locate Gyp Carmer so casually, even were he to prove the thief.
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.
He considered himself handsome and seemed to think all the girls were after him.
Shy, actually, he avoided feminine overtures and seemed truly ignorant of the girls' desires when they sought to make liaisons with him in the open fields, in carriages and in boathouses.
It was our hope to educate him and to give him his freedom when the right time came, for he was a bright and friendly youth who seemed worthy of our interest.
No one seemed to hear him, no one heeded.
Very much the political man, Helion felt himself deeply affected by the increasingly pessimistic atmosphere of France and all Europe, whose foundations seemed to him more and more shaky.
The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.
The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.
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.
Wilson was told that it was a sort of hotel for white people, which seemed to him rather queer.
The Skopas people seemed to him of that breed of human beings whose insularity frees them from tragedy.
This seemed right to him.
It all seemed -- if one could have peeked in at him through one of his windows -- as though this broken-nosed man with the muscular arms and wrestler's neck was merely the caretaker trying his hand at the boss's work.
And she was made to fall in love with him again there in the rutted dirt driveway standing in the cold fog, mad as she was at his going away when he really didn't have to, mad at their both having got older in a life that seemed to have taken no more than a week to go by.
Roleplaying was offered as a solution -- and the procedure worked as follows: all candidates were invited to a hotel conference room, where the president explained the difficulty he had, and how unnecessary it seemed to him to hire people who just did not work out.
Despite the fact that he was regarded as an outstanding engineer, he seemed to be a very poor administrator, although no one quite knew what was wrong with him.
For he seemed to sense at once that before him was no South Sea, but the solid bulk of the North American continent.
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.
She whirled and faced him, roaring terribly, and Ulyate, watching through the leaves, could not understand why she did not charge and obliterate him, because he wouldn't have much of a chance of getting away, in that thick growth, but she seemed just a trace uncertain ; ;
When the Plymouth neared, it veered toward him and seemed about to run him down.

seemed and be
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.

0.072 seconds.