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Example sentences for "outward appearance"

  • The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp.

  • I wore my very oldest Persian clothes, and in every respect made myself as much as possible in outward appearance like my beggarly companions.

  • As the day of his death drew nigh he was still more and more drowned in stupidity and lost to all thought or concern for this world or that to come, at least as to outward appearance.

  • Nevertheless one would be justified in the assertion if the irrefutability were more than an outward appearance.

  • The whole country, to outward appearance, stood in much the same frame of mind.

  • For the moment, therefore, the situation was saved, at least in outward appearance, and Adams could go back to his own pursuits which were slowly taking a direction.

  • It is in the Power of the General, or any Government whatever, to have those Days as strictly kept, to outward Appearance, as they please.

  • No Protestant Clergy have wrote better in Defence of the Reformation than ours; but others have certainly gone greater Lengths in it, as to Worship and Discipline in outward Appearance.

  • But the unpleasant sensation almost instantly vanished, when the coach drew up at the door of a house in excellent repair, and presenting, in outward appearance, a remarkable contrast to those dilapidated buildings.

  • Mimi was a very lovely little girl in outward appearance, her hair and eyes being of a most brilliant black, and she wore the dress of the peasants of Normandy, a province which borders close on Picardy.

  • Thus with a moderate hand this great revolution was effected, and, to outward appearance, with offence to none except the sufferers, whose misuse of power when they possessed it deprived them of all sympathy in their fall.

  • The church, to outward appearance, stood more securely than ever.

  • The cut of one's jib, one's outward appearance.

  • The St. Vincent Street tailor had done his duty by his eccentric customer, and not only given him value for his money, but converted him, so far as outward appearance goes, into a new man.

  • She was, to outward appearance, indifferent and calm, but her breast once or twice tumultuously heaved, and her brows were knit, as if she suffered either physical or mental pain.

  • Therefore, before undertaking to appear as a unit of the working-classes, it is advisable to take on a job which will put one's hands into the condition that would appear compatible to one's outward appearance.

  • On such rare occasions as I had to make it part of my business to disguise myself I selected for choice the transfiguration of my outward appearance to a younger rather than an older person whenever the circumstances so permitted.

  • Because it might have been possible that at the time in question my outward appearance equalled or surpassed his own in filth and slovenliness.

  • Gradually these meetings became more and more mere social gatherings in outward appearance, and revolutionary propagandist assemblies in reality.

  • The house exists still, though somewhat modernised in outward appearance, and is, I think, the second, after one going towards Santa Maria Maggiore has crossed the new Via Nazionale.

  • But it is impossible for one who knew him as I did to confine what he remembers of him either to traits of outward appearance or to appreciations of his genius.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always represented; compelled them; dearly loved; drive them; even when; husky whisper; left alone; little sunshine; made preparations; magic square; meeting held; military hospitals; moving from; natured fellow; outward appearance; outward circumstances; outward form; outward life; outward nature; outward objects; outward seeming; outward things; pounds weight; religious nature; that particular; time being