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.

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

Published well after the restaurants ' founding in 1971, this new cookbook from the restaurant seemed to perfect the idea and philosophy that had developed over the years.

Flourens experiment, while not perfect seemed to indicated that Gall's supposed organs were imaginary.

Gregory XIII's character seemed to be perfect for the needs of the church at the time.

On June 27, 1978, Gell-Mann wrote a private letter to the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, in which he related that he had been influenced by Joyce's words: " The allusion to three quarks seemed perfect.

Seeing the success of how television, in its early years, allowed movie studios to unload a backlog of short films thought unmarketable, the Stooge films seemed perfect for the burgeoning genre.

Catherine O ' Leary seemed the perfect scapegoat: she was an Irish Catholic immigrant, who were unpopular because of their high numbers in the city.

* To immigrants in the early 19th century, the land in the United States seemed pristine, edenic and undefiled – " the perfect place to recover pure, uncorrupted and original Christianity " – and the tradition-bound European churches seemed out of place in this new setting.

She seemed to be in perfect health.

Beauregard seemed the perfect combination of military engineer and charismatic Southern leader needed at that time and place.

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.

Ali's camp seemed to have overlooked the fact that Frazier's smothering fighting style, which employed great numbers of left hooks, was in many ways, the perfect foil for Ali.

It seemed like the perfect title to help sell their new system.

Vladimir Lenin viewed Poland as a bridge to bring communism to Central and Western Europe, and the Polish – Soviet War seemed the perfect way to test Red Army strength.

Surprisingly their military abilities seemed to have left them, and the Hau Hau had an almost perfect record for losing every skirmish, fight and battle they got into.

* To immigrants in the early 19th century, the land in America seemed pristine, edenic and undefiled-" the perfect place to recover pure, uncorrupted and original Christianity "-and the tradition-bound European churches seemed out of place in this new setting.

" I only varied one assumption – the assumption concerning perfect information – and in ways which seemed highly plausible.

In the Aristotelian worldview, the celestial world tended towards perfection — bodies in the sky seemed to be perfect spheres moving in perfectly circular orbits — while the earthly world seemed destined to imperfection ; these two realms were not seen as related.

In On the Origin of Species, Darwin had admitted that to use natural selection to explain something as complicated as a human eye, " with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration " might at first appear " absurd in the highest possible degree ," but nevertheless, if " numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist ", then it seemed quite possible to account for within his theory.

" He also noted that Ballamy has composed music for and performed in circuses before, and that " e just seemed to be perfect for it.