Methods and materials of war were the standard of advance then, as they seem to be still the measure of dominance now.
Much of this soil is worked by hand, in the good old-fashioned style, whose results always seem better than those of machinery.
It would seem that Tregeagle was a landowner in the neighbourhood of Bodmin, holding the Trevorder estate; but he won his chief notoriety as steward on the lands of the Robartes family, at Lanhydrock.
We took to them naturally--they seem to fit in wisely with the solitudes, the expanses, the superstitious character of the Cornish people, and never clashed in our minds with the Scriptural teachings which were our daily portion at home.
I am Alfred Tennyson who wrote Locksley Hall, which you seem to know by heart.
It would seem that a problem as to the provision of labour for the mines--still a vexed question in parts of the British dominions--led the Government of that day to convert Langarrow into a criminal settlement.
It may be said that this walk from Coverack along the cliffs is not easy; it is rugged, undulating, tortuous, and Cornish miles sometimes seemvery long.
There are some curious traces of former rood-lofts which seem to speak of eastward enlargements.
When we reach Cadgwith we seem to be genuinely at the Lizard.
When the object they want is close beneath, they do not seem able to reach it without fluttering and effort; whereas if they see anything from a distance they can swoop down upon it with the greatest ease.
While we talked I tried to place the reason he disturbed me, but I couldn't seem to do it.
We talked then on the various aspects of hunting and how the crisp fall air seemed to make the deer seem closer than during the heat of summer.
These questions may seem a little silly but I must have straight answers to them.
In argument and reasoning he was the equal if not the superior of Madison himself; and his grim personality made the meek one of Madison seemtender in comparison.
It is in Pennsylvania," Jefferson proceeds in his careful analysis, "that the two characters seem to meet and blend, and form a people free from the extremes both of vice and virtue.
This would seem to prove that not many other attractive books were at the boyhood hands of so eager a reader of poetry and fiction as Marshall always was.
These two John Marshalls do not seem to have been kinsmen.
With the inspiration of genius this unrivaled actor made the tempestseem a part of his own denunciation.
Indeed, upon a close study of the complicated records in the case, it would seem that Joist Hite's claim could not, by any possibility, have been defeated.
It would seem incredible if such a thing occurred.
It was possible, and yet it did not seem probable, since this man could not know who he was.
I seem destined to be forever on the trail of some criminal.
In measured tones he uttered this information, and it did not seem possible that the man was uttering a deliberate lie.
Surely it does seem as though this murder mystery might be cleared up.
It was indeed Perry Jounce, but he had changed so in the past four and twenty hours as to seem like another man.
He had thought of this himself, and yet it did not seem possible that his friend could be such a demon.
You seem capable of answering your own question," he said, with a sneer.
With the creek before, and a determined man with a cocked revolver behind, it did not seem possible for the engineer to escape.
The eye beneath the patch did not seem defective to Bordine, yet the slight view he obtained of it was not sufficient to make sure as to that.
We seem to have visitors in plenty," uttered the young engineer, as he went again to the door.
It mayseem little, but it's minutiae that will give us clues to his nature, and therefore how to fight him.
Yet the creature did not seem able to move from its knees.
The prince was kind enough to seem as if he had not noticed my confusion, and left me alone with my joy, my delirium, my wild fancies.
In Southern latitudes, where the temperament grows mercurial, and the emotional nature predominates, as in France and the Italian States, governments seem founded on volcanic strata, liable to frequent and radical eruptions.
He is not yet forty-eight, though his perfectly white hair would seemto indicate a greater age.
How like a prodigal doth natureseem When thou, with all thy gold, so common art!
All the memorials of Burns, by the way, seem to be of the same tasteless style--the same wearisome imitation of the antique.
In this confusion of events, it might seem altogether hopeless to disentangle the law which is guiding them all, and demonstrate it clearly.
Such are very much the men for which these laws seem to have been made.
It would seem that, if politics was to be discounted in the preamble, the discussion of that subject in the local union should surely be subject to restriction if not absolute taboo.
They were bitterly opposed by the Allied Printing Trades Council of the American Federation of Labor, and seem not to have reached a settlement until late in 1907.
The Shermanites seem to have had no really substantial constituency at any time.
In its final form, the preamble and constitution were not exactly shaped to the provisions of the January manifesto--at any rate they did not seem to satisfy the authors of the latter document.
As strange as it may seem to you, the skilled worker today is exploiting the laborer beneath him, the unskilled man, just as much as the capitalist is.
The gray dust settled on her uncovered hair, but she did not seem to know it.
Laurie, I think we are going to be so happy and then all at once when you talk about my being sick you seem so far away.
If I seem not to love you it is because you are sick.
You seem to have overlooked our many advertisements of the Asile des Billodes, C.
The wives of all are secluded, and inhabit the back regions and have no share in the remarkably "good time" which the men seem to have.
It is most curious to see the appurtenances of civilization in the heart of a Malay jungle, and all the more so because our long night journey up the Linggi makes it seem more remote than it is.
The Chinese seem not so much broadly patriotic as provincial or clannish, and the "Hoeys," or secret societies, belong to the different southern provinces.
The people are harassed by a vexatious and uncertain system of fees and taxes, calculated to engender ill feeling, and things connected with the administration seem somewhat "mixed.
They seem frightfully jealous of the sweet little wah-wah Eblis.
Precautions, for some occult reason, seem to be considered indispensable here, and have been increased since the murder of Mr. Lloyd at the Dindings.
The Chinese seem specially inscrutable; no one seems really to understand them.
Walk over it, and you seem to have blasted the earth with a fiery tread, leaving desolation behind.
One hundred and fourteen persons were convicted last year, which does not seem a large proportion (being less than one per cent.
The fifteen hundred men seem to be all shouting at once, and the din which comes up through the hatchways is fearful.
The half-breed descendants of the Portuguese, who kept up a splendid pomp of rule in the days of Francis Xavier, seem to take an endless siesta behind their closely covered windows.
They are in Malay clothing, and seem to have lost their vivacity, or at least it is in abeyance.
Her face wore a grey look that made herseem a full ten years older.
He puffed awhile in silence, and then went on-- "The strange part of it is, that the argument does notseem to affect Tamsin as much as I should have fancied.
You younger men of Troy seemstrangely blind to your duties--and your chances.
The brute luckily had not spied him, but neither did it seem in any hurry to move.
Neither is it clear that failure would have attended such a course had not a disturbing element been speedily introduced from without for which adequate provision does not seem to have been made.
Even at this the end of the nineteenth century we seem as far off as ever from laying hold of any saving principle, though it stares at us out of the whole panorama of our intercourse.
While fully recognising the necessity of force and urging its employment, they yet seem to have clung to the hope that in some way or another the expected treaty was to be the result of amicable negotiation.
In other respects Sir Henry Pottinger's arrangements for giving effect to the treaty seem to have been as practical as the untried circumstances would allow.
In no other port does it seem likely the same overt expression and concentration of adverse feelings will ever be experienced.
To trade as such the Chinese Government never seem to have had any objection, nor, would it appear, to foreigners as such.
His professional labours were soon diversified by an employment which could scarcely have been consistent with a large practice, though in the beginning of his surgical career it might not seem to involve much sacrifice except of time.
The Chinese quarter resembles nothing so much as a colony of busy ants, where every kind of handicraft is plied with such diligence, day in and day out, as the Chinese alone seem capable of.
And no doubt the soberness of my dress and carriage must have made it seem strange that I should be seeking the whereabouts of such a haunt.
Lest I seem to be wandering from my story, let me say here that my father had been in treaty with this Mr. Peter Walpole concerning my apprenticeship to him in Norwich.
For indeed there seem to be as many ways of pronouncing English as there are people that speak it, and even in Norfolk itself I have met with people who were not free from something like the Suffolk twang.
But later in the season, when the corn has grown and the time of harvest is near, the grain is so tall that the fences are entirely hidden, and for miles together you seem to see only a single field.
Texts which seem to imply that a right taste, disposition, affection, logically precedes both knowledge of God and obedience to God, are the following: Ps.
These passages seem to indicate that James was the pastor or president of the church at Jerusalem, an intimation which tradition corroborates.
Some Christians seem very free from sin, until you shake them,--then they get "riled.
It should in every case give to the candidate a searching examination, in order that this may not seem invidious in other cases.
Satan's cunning and daring seem to be on the increase from the first mention of him in Scripture to its end.
The recent proceedings of the English Society for Psychical Research seem to indicate the possibility of communication between two minds without physical intermediaries.
While there is no New Testament prescription in this matter, and each church may exercise its option, service for a term of years, with re-election where the office has been well discharged, would at least seemfavored by 1 Tim.
The two elements of conversion seem to be in the mind of Paul, when he writes in Rom.
They seem to have no suspicion that salvation consists in the health of the soul, and that the health of the soul consists in holiness.
What few men I have left seem to think much of me, because I stood up with them in the fight.
All attempts to express the feeling of the crowd or the soldiers seem to read stale and flat.
You'll see the citizens on the street Whispering in rotation: What do they seem to talk about?
His parents belonged to the Catholic religion, as their first names would seem to indicate.
These concessions, which seem large at first sight, were, however, not new to the colony.
All this invites you, monseigneur, and makes it seem as if God had created you above all your predecessors to do a work here more pleasing to Him than any that has yet been accomplished.
Whatever may have been the reasons for showing these tokens of honour to the remains of Michel, we know not, but the savages seem to have resented the proceedings, for they unearthed his body and gave it to the dogs.
Yet another way is to cover your retreat with buffoonery, pretending to be ignorant of the most ordinary things, so as to seem to have been playing the fool only when you made your first error.
Among very young men to seem ignorant of vice is the ruin of you, and you had better not have been born than appear doubtful of the effects of strong drink when you are in the company of Patriots.
The interest increased to £20 and then to £30 a year, but Paul was so rigorously honest, prompt and exact in paying himself the interest that Peter could not bear to be behindhand or to seem less punctual and upright than his friend.
In that landscape he has no companion; yet he cannot but be haunted, as he goes, by towers upon which he surely looked, and by the sharp memory of bugle-notes that still seem to startle his hearing.
You don't seem to have much acquaintance with Liddell and Scott.
Lung did not seem in any way interested, and declared that he had acted under directions from high authority in Corea.
The weather don't seem so willing to clear up, though," said Murry.
Whether they credited my narrative or not one cannot say, but they--perhaps wisely--did not seem actually anxious to get me away by stratagem.
Both transmitter and receiver seem now to be as complete an artificial tongue and ear as human ingenuity can make them.
Here electric lamps are made, five thousand of them in a day, in the same manner as elsewhere, except that here they are so small and dainty as toseem designed for fairy palaces.
One uncanny device, which would seem to be a mere inventor's fantasy if it had not already saved the telephone companies four million dollars or more, is known as the "phantom circuit.
Neither can it seem credible that a man in a distant city may be located as readily as though he were close at hand.
He did not seem to hear me, but tried the door, which I had already bolted, and then got into bed, yawning and shivering, for the room was cold.
I saw that you did not seem to be looking at the paper," said I, as we proceeded to the deck.
I drew my chair to his side and repeated the words in a loud voice, but he did not seem to hear me.
It was Rayel who spoke my name, but somehow his voice did not seem quite natural, and I turned to greet him.
To one like you this house will seem an uncanny place; I can only think of it as beyond the grave.
He was not yet accustomed to life in a great city, and it did not seem wise, either, to permit him to walk home alone, or to wait for me in the hotel among strangers.
He did not seem quite content to stay, however, and there was a troubled expression on his face, which was new to it, and which I could not put out of my mind after I had left the house.
This conversation may seem commonplace enough, but it stands in close relation to important events which will shortly claim our attention.
I seem to hear them, but I cannot see you--nor hear you.
I wish you would paint my portrait, Mr. Lane," said the young lady, who did not seem to appreciate the gravity of the situation.
Why, as we watch their floating wreath, / Seem they the breath of life to breathe?
The true art of being agreeable is to appear well pleased with all the company, and rather to seem well entertained with them than to bring entertainment to them.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the light of a soft moon, silvering over the evening of life.
The absent one is an ideal person; those who are present seem to one another to be quite commonplace.
Past and to come seem best; things present, worst.
They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse him at their hearts.
His virtues seem to sleep in the calm, and are called out only to combat the kindred storm.
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.
To seem and not to be, is throwing the shuttle= 35 =without weaving.
The noblest charms of music, though real and affecting, seem too confused and fluid to be collected into a distinct idea.
We should seem ignorant that we oblige, and leave the mind at full liberty to give or refuse its affections; for constraint may indeed leave the receiver still grateful but it will certainly produce disgust.
Our sorrows are like thunder-clouds, which seem black in the distance, but grow lighter as they approach.
And, Peter, I want to tell you--I seem to understand it this morning.
I can't seem to think of any time you wasn't that way.
Maybe it will seem strange to you, but here in my breast I am carrying some flowers--although they are withered--dead for a long time.
Sometimes I seemto myself so miserable and my life so empty that I rush to my prayer-desk, left by my mother.
These simple and pathetic words, in which the dying poetess pours out her heart to the one friend she had, and that one gained too late, seem as touching and as beautiful as any strain of Marceline Valmore's immortal verse.
She brought with her from Europe a store of knowledge that would have sufficed to make an English or French girl seem learned, but which in her case was simply miraculous.
The highest principles and the highest wisdom, combined, would seem to suggest the higher law as the rule of action toward the weaker, and the natural law as the rule for defense against the stronger.
Their correspondence shows this so clearly and fully that there would seem to be no need of my making any special reference to it.
There is much excitement here over the peace rumors, and it would seem there must be good foundation for it.
It is, perhaps, not strange that General Thomas had not thought of this; but it does seem remarkable that he had proposed to let a broken and dispirited enemy have several months in which to recuperate before annoying him any further.
Yet it did seem to me passing strange to sit in my office about noon, where I had been all the day before, and learn from the New York papers what orders I had issued on that previous day!
All seem to recognize the falsity of the Emperor's assumptions where he says: 'In Mexico the government founded by the will of the people is consolidating itself,' etc.
The first was too grand, and perhaps might seem too visionary, to be talked about at first, nor was any mention of it at that time necessary.
Nor am I interfering with what may still seem to you to be necessary restrictions upon trade and intercourse.
Odd ways, I often think, they had at that Cathedral, don't it seem so to you, sir?
There seem to be several things you don't like this fine morning," said her uncle, as he closed the door.
But he didn't seem to take on, not in the way of losing his temper.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seem" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
