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Example sentences for "might appear"

  • It would give credibility to every other act of violence stated in the evidence, however enormous it might appear.

  • In discoursing with these, however strenuous he might appear, he seems never to have departed from a calm, modest, and yet dignified and even friendly demeanour.

  • We were then commanded to array ourselves in our sacred vestments, that we might appear in them before his lord.

  • That, however unfashionable and obstinate it might appear, he still believed that the embargo and non-importation laws, if faithfully executed, were capable of reaching farther than our cannon.

  • I could have wished to have avoided these references, lest I might excite party feeling in others; lest I might appear to be governed by them myself.

  • She desired that her subjects of both kingdoms should from henceforward behave with all possible respect and kindness towards one another, that so it might appear to all the world they had hearts disposed to become one people.

  • The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, however unstable or inglorious it might appear to those few who understood the interests, and felt for the honour of their country, was nevertheless not unwelcome to the nation in general.

  • Ascalon, which for fifty years had mocked the efforts of successive kings, and by this stroke he might appear to have closed for Nureddin the route to Egypt, and to have opened a path for its conquest by the Franks.

  • But Washington felt that there was no time for driving a hard bargain, for he expected that the British fleet and the land force from New York would arrive on the scene of action, and he could not tell how soon they might appear.

  • His Discourse, which follows the gentle Rebuke he received from the Angel, shews that his Love, however violent it might appear, was still founded in Reason, and consequently not improper for Paradise.

  • Below me was a narrow, and, as it might appear, a little-frequented street, at the end of which a sentry was doing his monotonous spell of duty.

  • I took his advice and held my peace, all the more willingly as there was something in Carmen's manner which implied that he did not think our case quite so desperate as might appear.

  • A dozen horsemen had detached themselves from the main body with the intention, as might appear, of intercepting our retreat in every direction.

  • Politics and religion he equally ignored, and, so far as might appear, had neither foibles nor fads.

  • And, as the feeling of its mysteriousness grows on him, he ventures to say that "it might appear to have been before God.

  • The author does not say that it was before God, but that "it might appear" to have been so.

  • It might appear to have been before God (Ti).

  • The communication would then probably be referred to a select committee, and such parts of it published as might appear proper.

  • Though the argument of the gentleman last up might appear specious, that a bank note was the representative of specie, it was not very solid; it was the representative of the credit of the bank, and circulated for its interest.

  • It might appear better to read would; but all is right.

  • As he elsewhere, it might appear, calls him brach, Hanmer's reading harlot would seem to have been the poet's word.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    attend school; external soul; little ball; might become; might believe; might come; might happen; might haue; might have been the; might here; might live; might obtain; might require; might take; might well; mightily pleased; mighty arms; mighty army; mighty effort; mighty good; mighty great; mighty hero; mighty hunter; mighty nice; mighty warrior; turn over