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Example sentences for "had seemed"

  • Have you not gladly approved his saying that the leech should never despair so long as the sick man's heart still throbs?

  • How could I ever find peace and comfort in so perverse a world, and amid this feigning which had turned upside down all that heretofore had seemed upright?

  • He had seemed to ignore her hurt, and she forgave him, understanding his helplessness.

  • When Alexey Alexandrovitch had made up his mind that he must talk to his wife about it, it had seemed a very easy and simple matter.

  • The minutes passed very slowly for him in the hotel's vestibule, where he had seemed to have taken up a definite residence.

  • But he soon bad to turn away his head in order not to see the use the table was put to that stood in the center of the room, where it had seemed to serve no purpose.

  • It had seemed a comparatively simple one at first, but as he turned it over in his mind its possibilities increased and multiplied.

  • At first it had seemed to promise quite sufficient tragedy in itself--beginning as it did in unforgettable massacre.

  • For a time it had seemed that, by virtue of machines, and scientific civilisation, Europe was to be lifted out of this perpetual round of animal drudgery, and that America was to evade it very largely from the outset.

  • It had seemed a great thing then, and had disturbed her very much, but now, after all she had recently gone through, it seemed a very trivial matter.

  • For the last two or three days he had seemed so much better; but this morning after breakfasting he coughed violently for a long time, and seemed so shaken after it that we tried to persuade him not to go out.

  • She remembered now only all that had seemed good in him, his sweet courteous manner, his innumerable acts and words of kindness, and the goodness was no longer a mask and a sham, but a reality.

  • A little further on was the summit whence Christminster, or what he had taken for that city, had seemed to be visible.

  • To get there and live there, to move among the churches and halls and become imbued with the genius loci, had seemed to his dreaming youth, as the spot shaped its charms to him from its halo on the horizon, the obvious and ideal thing to do.

  • For though it had seemed to have an ecclesiastical basis during the service, and he had persuaded himself that such was the case, he could not altogether be blind to the real nature of the magnetism.

  • They started off down the hill almost at a trot; but on gaining level ground at the bottom, and walking a mile, they found that the spot of the fire was much further off than it had seemed.

  • It had seemed to him then that his own mistake was not irreparable, and that the way was open to peace, if not to happiness.

  • He had seemed a pagan to all of his class, had acted as a pagan.

  • It had seemed to me that your soul was mingling with mine; and it was so delightful to have been saved together, together.

  • On several occasions it had seemed to Pierre that the prelate's keen blue eyes were steadily fixed upon him, though all the while he pretended to be attentively listening to the drawling chatter of Celia's aunt.

  • It had seemed to him that the Commander was now fixing his bright eyes upon Marie.

  • The salon in her momentary glance round it had seemed to her all splendour.

  • It had seemed to her mere good manners to assume that he did not want the trouble of her acquaintance, and be done with it.

  • Those two men grappling each other, and then the fall--the tall figure crashing down with the force of a descending giant, as it had seemed to that terror-stricken spectator.

  • She could not forget what George Fairfax had said to her about her brother's ways, nor the fact that her remittances had seemed of so little use to him.

  • The golden countries, so much vaunted, had seemed to fly before them as they advanced; and the little gold they had been fortunate enough to glean had all been sent back to Panama to entice other fools to follow their example.

  • He had now penetrated nine degrees farther than any former navigator in these southern seas, and, instead of the blight which, up to this hour, had seemed to hang over his fortunes, he could now return in triumph to his countrymen.

  • This meant so much more than it had seemed to mean.

  • That thing--that gray thing that she, too, had seemed to see for a moment in the fields beside the river!

  • And only two months back they had seemed to have everything they wanted in this world.

  • Winton, whose night had been almost as sleepless--to play like a beggar in the street, under his windows, had seemed to him the limit!

  • When he was a boy it had seemed to him that the Cathedral was like a giant lying down behind the hill and leaning his face on the hill-side.

  • When she had been little he had seemed to be so infinitely above her as to be in another world, and now that they seemed almost of an age he was strange to her like some one of foreign blood.

  • It had seemed to him as if she stood at his elbow while he wrote, as Pallas stood beside Achilles at the council, invisible to all but her favourite.

  • His promised wife, his redeeming angel, she for whose affection he had first learned to render thanks to his God, had seemed to be slipping away from him.

  • Until this moment no one had ever seen him shed a tear for the son he had put away from his home--and, as it had seemed, from his heart.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    first heard; had before; had brought from the; had enough; had ever; had ever been before; had gained; had killed; had known; had lived; had married; had much; had nothing; had picked; had put; had rather; had received; had resolved; had scarcely; had seen; had taken; had the good fortune; had thought; score strong; sometimes found; une petite