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Example sentences for "dimly seen"

  • The smoke was gone, and now a dark figure could be dimly seen high up on the mill-side.

  • Presently a man could be dimly seen clinging to a cross-piece in an alcove made for an air-shaft from the main working.

  • Hugh made one quick step backward and shut the door; then he turned about on Drayton, whose cruel face could be dimly seen in the hazy red light that came through the blinds.

  • The great clock of Westminster was striking three; the sky was a dun gray behind the clocktower, and the dark mass of the abbey could be dimly seen.

  • Five minutes after, his door was softly opened, a figure glided through the gloom to his bedside, and bent over him, like a dimly seen shadow, to catch him by the shoulder.

  • Lady Gowan blew out the light, and Frank quickly drew the heavy curtain aside, and uttered a groan, for the garden was full of armed men, dimly seen in the gloom amid the shrubs.

  • On his side, Frank sat in his saddle watching his father's dimly seen face, but ready to start and glance in any direction from which a fresh sound was heard.

  • There are many laws regulating variation, some few of which can be dimly seen, and will be hereafter briefly mentioned.

  • The result of the various, quite unknown, or dimly seen laws of variation is infinitely complex and diversified.

  • Leoni, earning the chamberlain's term of the man "with the strange eye" by the peculiarly fixed look which was dimly seen.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bearing date; became lord; came upon; camp fire; dimly seen; dress suit; gallinaceous birds; great heap; her family; human sympathy; looking out; may observe; more certain; next winter; nothing against; readily propagated; remembered that; she would have liked; since last; that night; total wreck; white person