The retail dealers, no less than the commission men, seemed to the farmer to be unjust in their dealings with him.
Nothing seemed more logical, then, than the union of all silver men to enforce the adoption of their program.
What irked the farmer most in connection with these "extortions" was that the middleman seemed to be a nonproducer, a parasite who lived by chaining the agricultural classes of the wealth which they produced.
Considerable confusion prevailed for a few months; the president and vice-president of the regular State Alliance resigned, and the whole order seemed on the verge of disruption.
To those who were anxious to have something done immediately the process of preparing the ground for a new third party seemed long and laborious.
It seemed to be impossible for any one to command the attention and respect of that tumultuous gathering.
But both the tariff and the silver bill seemed to the angry farmers of the West mere bones thrown to the dog under the table.
Then this Styles seemed to threaten Ostrello and the young man seemed to lose all his nerve and wilt.
But there seemed no help for it, and down he went, sixteen steps, to land in a small room at the bottom.
The dog halted on the edge of the bank, and then there seemed nothing for the detective to do but to swim to the other side of the river, which he did, and then disappeared into the bushes.
There seemed to be no excuse for his lingering longer.
He had been under water less than three minutes, yet the time had seemed an age.
As soon as the coastseemed clear, he ran past the bushes and got in the house by a window.
But just now such a course seemed out of the question.
The fresh air seemed to give her strength, and she pulled on and on.
Twenty feet were passed and then the force of the water seemed to drive him upward.
Tom would plead for his brother Dick, who seemed to be always wanting money.
The Englishman seemed to warm up to this subject and spoke of the many dogs he had, and of the prices some had brought him.
The babbling of ducks somewhere in the place where the water seemed a pale and wavering fire was like the sound of the upwelling of the hidden spring of life.
The lichen seemed to have complete assurance that there was time enough for new work.
Beyond the sloughing and leprous tower of Richbourg Church, where the ancient dead in the graveyard had been brought to light again, there was a house which seemed in being.
Even the shadows seemed to listen with us; they hardly moved, except when the candle-flame was nervous.
It was curious, but they all seemed awake and excited.
They had done all that was possible, and it seemed of no avail.
Yet the morning seemed the same, its sounds the familiar confidences, its light the virgin innocence of a right beginning.
Yet when challenged I could not explain why, for I was ill, and the days seemed to be biassed to the German side.
It was certainly a dreary expanse, but the sunlight there seemed strangely brilliant, I thought, and, what was more curious, appeared to be alive.
I seemed to be getting nearer to reality near Rotten Row.
A year ago the German attacks seemed near to making guns the deciding voice in the affairs of unhappy humanity.
He seemed surprised to know that a graduate would work as a common farm-hand.
No time seemed too valuable for him to give in trying to advance a student in his work.
Not only was everybody at work, but every soul seemed to be in earnest.
These seemed to me to be rather overexacting, but I resolved to try to live up to them if I should be admitted.
The people seemedalmost crazed that a Tuskegee graduate should be planning to engraft the Tuskegee Idea in that section--and this, too, in spite of Hampton.
Mr. Washington seemed to understand the situation and was kind enough to help me out by asking questions.
I registered as a night-school student and asked to be assigned to the carpenter-shop, as that seemed more in line with coopering.
This project seemed a little strange to them for the first two years, but they are now used to it.
I, too, looked at them with amazement, for it seemed next to impossible for young boys and girls to know as much as they seemed to know.
After I had been there for two days I found that the sun had no pity on, or patience with, me; it seemed to blister me through and through.
When we commenced these meetings the reports were discouraging, and from many sections the condition of the race thereabout seemed hopeless.
Immediately on learning this fact I withdrew from the contest, notwithstanding the fact that my cash earnings were almost exhausted and those who had invited me there seemed unable to guarantee me the position.
This seemed like a great humiliation, as I could hardly talk to one person, to say nothing of the thousand students and teachers then there, as I stammered so much.
All hope of future schooling seemed now at an end.
He apparently sympathized with this larger vision, but seemed to think I ought to have more education.
To them it seemed absolutely impossible for the cattle to turn aside as they must dash on through the blazing grass, such was the pressure from behind.
It seemed to young Prescott that he had no more than dropped off into slumber when Tom shook him by the shoulder.
Hardly had he uttered the words when, from the edge of the woods, there came a piercing scream, followed by a deep, bass bellow that seemed to shake the ground.
As these young campers glanced about them it seemed as though they possessed a wealth of camping material---far more than they had ever dreamed of owning.
He had never known Tag, but, after his injury, and before brain fever came on, the farmer had described his assailant, and that description had seemed to fit Tag Mosher to a dot.
I told him it seemed to me that a canoe like ours was an expensive sort of thing to put in a pond.
It seemed like a miracle as, following the bulls, the herd split, some going east, others west, and carrying the swerving cattle after them in two frantic streams.
But that great creature seemed likely soon to overcome the strength of all those combined against him.
After that he made one or two more small increases in his price, but I seemed to have lost interest in the subject of a trade and looked at my time table to see when the next train left for Gridley.
Master of every hidden path in these forests, he seemed likely enough to get away without leaving a trace of a trail.
Prescott, I've always helped myself to food, because, some way, it always seemed to me that food belongs to the fellow who needs it most.
A halt and a rest seemed to give the bull strength far greater than it had used in pulling against the rope before.
When the pair returned the deputy seemed to have lost his swagger.
Besides, this mysterious strangerseemed to prefer humor to violence.
Found they had had rather a bad time getting here, but everything seemed all right; hope it is; always like the men to start camp in a good temper.
Seemed to think a Volunteer can't possibly know anything, but considering half my men come from the railway, I'll back them against all comers for loading a truck.
Our portion of the firing line seemedto fascinate the G.
Tell us about it," said the colonel, who seemed amused at the light in which Farwell regarded his decoration.
It was a sort of argument to which he was unaccustomed, and he seemed offended at it.
One of the engineers tried it on, but he only got shot for his pains--and the results in his case seemed to discourage the others.
Now, all this time the light had been gathering strength, and though it still was too dim to enable us easily to distinguish objects at any distance, I yet could make out what seemed to be a line of skirmishers, slowly moving up towards us.
At the word he started off, and I followed him, for though death seemed inevitable I didn't have quite the courage to stay and face it alone.
But he lived high for the rest of that tour of duty, and nobody seemed to care about referring to him as a 'skate.
Our chances seemed so desperate, you see, that I didn't give even a thought to escape.
The only thing which no one seemed to expect, is what has actually happened.
At first sight it seemed to be the skeleton of a fish, but on viewing it through a peephole the creature had become a human face.
It seemed to occur to him, after a little, that even this apology left something to be desired, and he brightened up.
Our progress made a grand sensation in those drowsy streets and squares, a retinue soon gathered, and nobody seemed surprised when, after a round of Jesuit and Dominican churches, we drew up before the madhouse.
He seemed the very incarnation of childish woe and wrong.
The conventseemed a ghost land between earth and heaven.
Our latter-day pilgrims seemed well content with the measure of wealth and sanctity which Moorish sack and English piracy, French invasion and Carlist wars, had spared to the cathedral.
The proud old city seemed to fill all the horizon of thought.
Yet, had it not been for the consequences of the sufferings endured that fatal night of the flight from Schweinfurth, the aspects of the life now before them might have seemed brighter than any that had hitherto been their lot.
But God has so kept us hitherto, that we have escaped from whatseemed certain death.
A dark heavy melancholy, ever and anon blazing out in fits of savage ferocity, seemed to grow upon him from day to day.
The position seemed to be all that could be desired, if only a favourably reply were returned to one question, which Olympia immediately writes[111] back to their kind friend and patron to ask.
The making Camillo a Cardinal, moreover, seemedstill more unaccountable, when the personal qualities of the young man were considered.
Having done this much however, he seemed to be in no hurry to conclude the matter, and continued his usual dissolute life in Florence.
I have therefore introduced into this dialogue some thoughts, which seemed to me suitable to your situation.
Some folks is like porcupines," observed Uncle Ben, glancing at Indian Jake, who seemed quite unconscious of the thrust.
It was weird and lonely there in the darkness, and when Andy thought of how long it would be before he and David returned to The Jug again, it seemed still lonelier.
And thus it had been decided, and the plan seemed a good one to Doctor Joe, for it was the only solution of the problem of how to get the money that would be so necessary the following summer.
XV A DAY ON THE ICE Save on rare occasions Indian Jake was silent, and it seemed to the boys sullen.
Closer and closer the something seemed to come, stealing after them stealthily through the shadows of the forest.
Sometimes he seemed as gay and happy as ever a man could be, but there were days when he was silent and grave and troubled, like a man with a great load of sorrow upon his soul.
It seemed far away, and lying there in the snow beyond its reach he was warm and comfortable, and his eyes were heavy.
Indeed itseemed to be his wish to be left to his pipe and his thoughts, undisturbed, and they said no more to him nor he to them.
Even Indian Jake, sleeping soundly, doubtless, in some far distant camp, seemed no part of their world.
He had indulged in appetites which had seemed innocent and harmless enough at first, but which had gradually and insidiously wormed their way into his soul until they had gained possession of him and had become his master.
And so, though it seemed futile enough so far as solving their problem was concerned, they cut the necessary sticks close by the tilt door, and set about their task.
Snow had drifted against the door and clogged it, and itseemed to David that Andy would never get it open.
For if his book was no longer read his fame as an author seemed to be established on a rock.
The lit lamps in the Gray's Inn Road seemed to him a little unsteady, and the passers-by showed a disposition to blunder into him.
The very unpopularity with which his uniform endowed him seemed to him to express a severe criticism of the system of which he was an unwilling supporter.
When I got to the inn landlord had to help me shut the door; it seemed as though a dozen goats were pushing against it to come in out of the storm.
There was a lighted candle standing in a bottle on the table, and the cellar seemed full of people.
Just then it seemed the most natural thing in the world that they should be there, though afterwards, of course, I could see that that proved it was a ghost-ship.
It seemed to him that in spite of his effort to bear in mind that the whole should be greater than any part, his chapters broke up into sentences and his sentences into forlorn and ungregarious words.
The prospect alarmed me, for it seemed to me that this was not a likely world for adventures; nor was I reassured by the sight of the town, whose one long street of low, old-fashioned houses struck me as being mean and sordid.
This all seemed to rob the author's calling of its presumed distinction, and he looked at the men and women who passed him on the pavement, and wondered whether they too had written books.
I sat in an armchair, feeling like a bundle of old clothes, and looking at the cracks in the ceiling which seemed to me like roads.
She herself had taught him that any one who said bad things about his father was wicked, but now it seemed that she was trying to tell him something about father that was not nice.
It seemed that his wife had left the stage in some queer way without being seen.
Slabsides, but who, at nightfall, while nestling in the author's arms, seemed suddenly to realize that this rustic house was very different from anything he had seen before.
It was not until he gave up his work in Washington, and his later position as bank examiner in the eastern part of New York State, that he seemed to come into his own.
The air and the woods were literally blue with them, and the ground seemed a yard deep with them.
On my last voyage across the Atlantic, the only man who seemed to notice me, or to whom I felt drawn at all, was a Catholic priest.
All I can say is that the minds of these inspired invalids have not seemedto sustain so close a relation to their bodies as my mind does to my body.
The lake and the hills were, of course, the same as I had known them forty-six years ago, and the main street seemed but little altered.
Perhaps it is because I see myself in him that Hiram always seemed nearer to me than any of the rest.
Because he has been so much loved, and because his influence has been so far-reaching, it has seemed to me that a book which gives familiar and intimate glimpses of him will be welcomed by the legion who call him friend.
Whitman never hurried," Mr. Burroughs continued; "he alwaysseemed to have infinite time at his disposal.
Marcia frowned and seemed on the verge of further unpleasantness when the sound of a buzzer from the inner office sent her hurrying toward it.
The vacation which had promised so much, and which she had happily supposed would be all too short, seemed endless.
In spite of the watchful espionage of Miss Merton, whose eyes seemed riveted to her side of the room, Muriel managed to convey to Marjorie the news that the girls were dying to meet her and were so sorry they had missed her at noon.
Then she suddenly opened a door, and Marjorie found herself in an enormous square room, which contained row upon row of shining oak desks, occupied by what seemed to her hundreds of pupils.
She stood spellbound, while the wonderful voice sang on and on to the last note of the exquisite "Serenade" that seemed to end in a long-drawn sigh.
The Stevenses seemed to be very poor in everything except music.
Then with a swift return of the old, chilling reserve, which of late she had seemed to lose, "It was impossible for me to come.
She remembered only that it seemed ages since she had attended a party and she hoped fervently that someone would ask her to dance.
The first unlucky error on the part of Helen Thornton had seemed to turn the tide against them.
Muriel and Mignon, in particular, seemed so careless of other people's feelings.
To her it seemed as though the other girl's crushing weight of half-acknowledged guilt ought to make her a willing suppliant for pardon.
High-toned conversation on these topics occupied these dignified and faithful mammies, upon whom seemed to rest to a considerable extent the maintenance of the aristocratic social traditions.
It seemed also natural that Penelope should be attracted by her nobility of nature.
It belongs to both of us," said Forbes, who seemed to have some difficulty in adjusting his oars.
His only idea of recreation when away from business seemed to be sitting about on them.
He would have welcomed a Niagara of importunity and imprecations; he was bursting with impatience to express himself; it seemedas if he would die if he were silent an hour longer under that letter.
In his impatience the fifteen minutes that he waited seemed an hour.
They were always together; it seemed to happen so, and King could hardly admit to himself that Mrs. Glow was de trop as a third.
After a long sojourn abroad, it seemed becoming that he should know something of the floating life of his own country.
Fish, theyseemed to say, are not so easily caught as men.
King found no telegram from Irene, and the place seemed to him intolerable.
Mrs. Benson said she was never so surprised in her life, and the surprise seemed not exactly an agreeable one, but Mr. Benson looked a great deal more pleased than astonished.
When Mr. King and Irene walked up and down the corridor after breakfast the girl's constraint seemed to have vanished, and she let it be seen that she had sincere pleasure in renewing the acquaintance.
Indeed, this north shore seemed to all the party rather bleak even in summertime, and the quality of the sunshine thin.
When she was with Stanhope such a sacrifice seemed as impossible as it would be cruel, but when she was with Mrs. Bartlett Glow, or alone, the subject took another aspect.
Mr. King saw a good many people at this hotel who seemed to regard it as a home.
Lafontaine's smile, a thing that seemed to be jerked out by machinery.
An old lady with a million wrinkles approached me and seemed desirous of entering into conversation.
This wisdom also I have seen under the sun, and itseemed to me to be very great: 9:14.
Her voice seemed to her, in the midst of the endless space, weak as a child's; but it was heard.
At length, urged thereto by all the family, if I remember rightly by yourself as well, dear aunt, I assumed the title as well as the position which seemed mine by right.
As her face grew out of the distance towards him, a minute white patch amid the dark cloud of silk and lace that enwrapt it, it seemedas though he had known for centuries that she was thus to come to him.
Sir Adrian seemed absorbed, it is true, in grave thought, but his countenance was neither distressed nor gloomy.
As master and man peered outward as if awaiting unconsciously some imminent solution from the gliding spectre, itseemed as if the night suddenly opened on the left to shoot forth a burst of red fire.
A nervous shudder shook her from head to foot, she seemed in truth to sicken and grow faint, like one forced to face some hideous nauseating spectacle.
Madeleine, who had looked at her sister at first with repulsion, seemed moved; she placed her hands upon her shoulders, and gazed sadly into the flushed face.
The revulsion of feeling was so cruel that for a while he seemed turned to stone, even his mind becoming blank.
Remember," again addressing the woman whom hopelessness seemed for a moment to have benumbed, "that if you would yet do me a kindness, be kind to her.
Madeleine, piteously turning a dark gaze of anguish at him--it seemed as if she were going to faint.
The spirits of the captain alone seemed to rise in proportion as they drew nearer land.
A long course of relentless hostilities, lasting the span of a full-grown generation, had cultivated the predatory instinct of all men with the temperament of action, andseemed to justify it.
With the lady's departure an air of wontedness seemed to repossess the room and the two people who were left.
He seemed determined enough, but depressed and not hopeful.
Fairly," she said, not without surprise at her own calmness; and there was an instant of silence, during which the commonplace seemed to be dismissed between them.
He seemed to lean upon his own hands, pressed one on each side of him to the seat of the sofa for support, and he looked in fixed silence at the shapely white thing on his knee.
With that look in her eyes she seemed a creature who had alighted on the ship but who could not stay.
She seemed to wish to make it clear to him that it need not be, after all, so very expensive to take a wife.
It enabled Lindsay to observe that Mr. Sand seemed at present to be sufficiently engaged, at which Mr. Harris shifted one heavy limb over the other, and lapsed into silence, looking sternly at an advertisement.
He did not try; he accompanied it to the door, expanding and expanding until it seemed more than ever obvious that he found the sub-editorial sphere unreasonably contracted.
Fillimore seemed to think that if nature had not made such a nobleman a horseman, the Queen-Empress should not have made him Governor-General of India.
He seemed to be a circumstance that brought her reminiscences of how one behaved sentimentally toward a young man with whom there was no serious entanglement.
Yet Miss Filbert's first words seemedto show a slight unbending.
The silence seemed to focus itself upon the cook, who fumbled at his coat collar and cleared his voice.
He was not at all easy about the wounds which Don Belianis gave and took, because it seemed to him that, great as were the surgeons who had cured him, he must have had his face and body covered all over with seams and scars.
When he kicked the ground with one foot bells used to ring and an owl hooted, and when he kicked with the other it seemed as if a buffalo bull was there, snorting as he does when about to charge.
There was no sign of dissatisfaction with his course, and everyone seemed to be on the best of terms with him.
He seemed to be dead; but the shamans assembled and manipulated him.
Some of the people thought that they saw many stars, and there seemedto be the sound, “Tuŋ+!
Every white man at this fair seemed to be pleased and proud of the achievement of this Negro, because it was apparent that he had done something that would add to the wealth and comfort of the people of both races in that county.
To me it seemed perfectly plain that here was a condition of things that could not be met by the ordinary process of education.
As the years went by, the night seemed to grow darker, so that all seemed hopeless and lost.
He did not know how many horses or cows his father owned nor of what breeds they were, and seemed surprised that he should be asked such questions.
For the first time the awful truth of Scripture, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap," seemed to dawn upon him with a reality that it is hard for mortal to appreciate.
Within a few months the whole mistake of slavery seemed to have concentrated itself upon this household.
She had thoughts of the kind, and had them while encouraging herself to deplore the adieu to her little musk-scented sitting-room, where a modest freedom breathed, and her individuality had seemed pointing to a straighter growth.
Perfectly an English gentleman of the higher order, he seemed the effigy of a tombstone one, fixed upright, and civilly proud of his effigy bride.
The fire was lit and it flamed; it seemed a revival in the room.
For it seemed to her that Tony's intellect was weakened.
Emma gazed into the depths of the waves of crimson, where brilliancy of colour came out of central heaven preternaturally near on earth, till one shade less brilliant seemedan ebbing away to boundless remoteness.
Interesting to fathom it seemed to him from a motive of curiosity, pure and simple, was whether it was the traffic that created the route or viceversa or the two sides in fact.
And it seemed to me that I heard the voice of that Egyptian highpriest raised in a tone of like haughtiness and like pride.
Looking back now in a retrospective kind of arrangement allseemed a kind of dream.
The moment was too propitious for the display of that discursiveness which seemed the only bond of union among tempers so divergent.
He turned a long you are wrong gaze on Stephen of timorous dark pride at the soft impeachment with a glance also of entreaty for he seemed to glean in a kind of a way that it wasn't all exactly.
He fumbled out a picture postcard from his inside pocket which seemed to be in its way a species of repository and pushed it along the table.
Anyhow inspection, medical inspection, of all eatables seemed to him more than ever necessary which possibly accounted for the vogue of Dr Tibble's Vi-Cocoa on account of the medical analysis involved.
Good, good to hear: sorrow from them each seemed to from both depart when first they heard.
That book by the Belgian jesuit, Le Nombre des Élus, seemed to Father Conmee a reasonable plea.
Gerty's lips parted swiftly to frame the word but she fought back the sob that rose to her throat, so slim, so flawless, so beautifully moulded it seemed one an artist might have dreamed of.
Swindlers and murderers had no more redoubtable enemy, for he seemed to read the most secret thoughts of their minds.
And the old maids, thinner yet, opening their characteristic jaws to the wind, seemed to threaten one with their long, yellow teeth.
The two women, whose lower limbs seemed to be attached to their bodies by rubber springs, were making wonderful and surprising motions with their legs.
The coast still seemed veiled, the great white coast, perpendicular as a wall.
The sky became clearer, the shadows seemed to melt away.
An unaccountable sadnessseemed to be hanging over her.
The man regained consciousness after being inanimate for a long time, but he still seemed to be so weak and sick that the physician feared some dangerous complication.
The jolting of the wagon made them wag their heads and the shaking of the wheels seemed to stupefy them--they all looked as though they were asleep.
Soldiers in red trousers had escorted him to the tomb and men in white cravats had spoken words and shed tears that seemed to be sincere beside his grave.
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