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Example sentences for "seemed rather"

  • He seemed rather surprised, and stared at me for a bit, and then asked what suspicious sailing-vessel I meant.

  • The bandmaster, with his back to the gathering, seemed rather agitated.

  • He seemed rather proud of his superior knowledge.

  • The general opinion, however, seemed rather, to incline in favor of the presumption that he was less Kentuckian than Yankee.

  • Elinor set him right as to its situation; and it seemed rather surprising to him that anybody could live in Devonshire, without living near Dawlish.

  • I woke up, feeling a gentle moving of the raft, and, rising to my feet, found that the night wind had again come off the shore, though it seemed rather more to the northward than before.

  • Eight stout fellows undertook to carry them, and all things being ready, we bade farewell to the chief, who, however, seemed rather angry at our departure.

  • The heaps of cushions, which formed a stately bed, seemed rather to be touched than impressed by the form of a nymph of fifteen, the renowned Princess of Zulichium.

  • He seemed rather perplexed at first by my stammering little speech, and then I suppose my meaning dawned on him, for his arm pressed me more closely.

  • He seemed rather amused at the idea of the schoolroom tea, but owned that he was hungry and tired, as he had had a fourteen-mile walk that day.

  • He seemed rather disconcerted at my coldness.

  • He seemed rather at such times merely to become normally himself, as one who changes personality, apparently oblivious to the moods and deeds of yesterday.

  • He seemed rather mysteriously to have shed that personality; become an awkward, ingratiating, rather too exuberant, ordinary man with a marked German accent.

  • He seemed rather to have regained a mastery of himself, and felt as a man from whom the shackles have been struck, proclaiming his freedom.

  • It seemed rather a piece of good luck that the horses bolted; the lines held; they pulled me free of the drift on the bank and plunged out on the road.

  • Occasionally this mist would go on forming in higher and higher layers by condensation; mostly however, it seemed rather to come from below.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    base metals; being built; bronze statuette; know from; large dose; many knights; moderate length; moist heat; mule deer; only friend; public work; quoad sacra; sais pas; seemed best; seemed good; seemed impossible; seemed likely; seemed natural; seemed quite; seemed rather; seemed strange; seemed suddenly; seemed very; sterilized milk; thirty grains; yonder hill