He had ripped away two masks, and their erstwhile wearers could no longer hold their old semblance of law-abiding philanthropists.
With a little forcing she kept up the semblance of good spirits through breakfast and until he was off to the laboratory again.
The weather had stained its walls into the semblance of age wherever they showed through the heavy mantle of bitter-sweet that overspread even the roof.
I'll go back to the Indians," he said, with a hateful laugh, in which there was no semblance of mirth.
He still wore his clerical stock, but it had lost all semblance to its original shape.
A second glance showed him it was a man, or the semblance of one, and the thing's foot was on his chest.
He came within ten feet of the thing, and could make out that it was a man, or at least the semblance of one, all clothed in white.
It is self-evident that the image and likeness mentioned do not apply to the form and semblance of a human being because the reality of Divinity is not limited to any form or figure.
From the light and semblance of God in us may it be, indeed, proved and witnessed that God has created man after His own image and likeness.
Approach them frankly enough, and with no semblance of shamefacedness, and we needn't be afraid, I think, of any evil consequences.
Not one house had the semblance of a garden; the wilderness came up to the very door, except where cattle rendered some sort of enclosure necessary.
They gave the blacks the semblance of citizenship by the process of emancipation.
And in some measure I heeded the lecture thus delivered, but it is to mannish books that I owe my semblance of common sense.
I have set myself to the task of perfect frankness, and I must tell you that in my heart there was not the semblance of love for him, love as you know it; there was only pity and I can say that pity is not akin to love.
Arguments of this character have indeed a semblance of merit, but, when examined by the light of truth, are mere empty, worthless twaddle.
But where he finds the semblance of occasion he knows how to profit by it.
At the same time there is a death, or rather only the semblance of one, which ye must suffer because ye are yet on earth and are the descendants of Adam.
Though Daly spoke this sarcasm bitterly, it produced no semblance of irritation in the man of law, who was composedly occupied in perusing a document before him.
Forester would gladly have acknowledged his relationship to the Secretary, but the moment seemed unpropitious, and the avowal would have had the semblance of a rebuke; so he covered his confusion by a laugh, and said nothing.
Thus the difficulty of ascension, in the present case, lay more in semblance than in reality.
Behold the poniard of the king, with which I will kill you if you make the semblance of a step towards me.
Some man might come into the bank to-morrow and take even the semblance of his power from him.
In a moment there was some semblance of order, and Grant wormed his way to the top holding the ladder above him.
Political intrigue, again, has been the origin of many an act of treachery, done under the semblance of hospitality, or given rise to strange incidents.
The "body lay without any marks of corruption or decay; but the head was disengaged from the trunk, and appeared to be rapidly assuming the semblance of a fleshless skull.
Upon this she was straightway restored to her original semblance and the two women embraced and kissed each other.
We crave knowledge which is withheld more earnestly than we desire faith or hope, and we eagerly make even its semblance a foothold.
With stalwart arm and powerful chest he made his way through the surf, rode manfully from billow to billow, until with a bound he stood at last upright upon the sand, a fine stately semblance of one of the old Vikings of the northern seas.
One of these, grounded upon several others, the vast boulders of some diluvian flood, had the rude semblance of a roof.
The same image will rise into semblance of poetry if thus conveyed: Yon row of bleak and visionary pines, By twilight glimpse discerned, mark!
The sciential reason, the objects of which are purely theoretical, remains neutral, as long as its name and semblance are not usurped by the opponents of the doctrine.
Lastly, with as little semblanceof reason, could I suspect any animosity towards me from vindictive feelings as the cause.
But with no other group was Inkpaduta able to maintain even the semblanceof friendly relations.
The advanced-guard under Brigadier Anquetil moved out with some order and steadiness; but in a little while the rush of camp-followers destroyed all semblance of military array.
