But I marvel why your Master so inveighed against the Pharisees, transgressing the bounds of seemliness and decorum, at least in my judgment.
Seemliness of conduct, seemliness of feeling were dead.
So long as the Senate can keep its foot on the neck of the people, and so long as it can keep the seemliness of a good name, it will not envy thee this.
Instances had not been wanting in which the aristocracy of Venice sacrificed one of its body to the seemliness of justice; for when such cases were managed with discretion, they rather strengthened than weakened their ascendency.
Seemliness is a light, remote, and less important form of propriety.
In the Middle Ages very great attention was given to seemliness in the private conduct of individuals.
Seemliness is conduct which befits one's character and standards.
It is far more important to notice that this evidence proves that the Greeks did not have, and therefore could not ascribe to the gods, a standard of seemliness above what these traits of the picture disclose.
So the Emir went out from her, without having gotten a single dirham; and on this wise she delivered the Jew by the seemliness of her stratagem.
On such wise the Assessor ordered the case and carried out the forgery and feigned marriage with the woman; and thus escaped calumny and calamity by the seemliness of his stratagem.
There was a very particular seemliness in this--though I had not much time to think of it then.
You are the most civil and obliging person that ever lived, and by a free and calm air—which is in all your actions—the simplest compliments of seemliness appear, in your mouth, as protestations of friendship.
Seemliness requires this, and truth requires it also: for how can the narrator otherwise be trusted?
