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Example sentences for "semblances"

Lexicographically close words:
semblables; semblably; semblaient; semblait; semblance; semblant; semblaunt; semble; semblent; sembloit
  1. They wore, in her sight, the semblances of a man and of women--not of devils.

  2. In our day we hear of such presentations as semblances of small living animals around mediums; but personally, have not seen or felt such.

  3. By witches she meant spirits and semblances of mortals and spirits; and she said in substance none others but we who behold with our internal eyes see the hovering and operating intelligences and forms.

  4. How the Semblances of Things are to be combated.

  5. A superficial unbelieving generation only, with no eye but for the surfaces and semblances of things, could form such notions of Great Men.

  6. The struggle of men intent on the real essence of things, against men intent on the semblances and forms of things.

  7. Semblances most smooth to the touch and eye; most accursed, nevertheless, to body and soul.

  8. He thinks that we have at once missed realising it, and come to need it so pressingly, by departing far from the inner eternal Laws, and taking-up with the temporary outer semblances of Laws.

  9. You have not work otherwise; you have eye-service, greedy grasping of wages, swift and ever swifter manufacture of semblances to get hold of wages.

  10. Surveying all things with a quiet scorn, 135 Tamed himself down to living purposes, The occupations and the semblances Of ordinary men--and such he seemed!

  11. Surveying all things with a quiet scorn Tamed himself down to living purposes, The occupations and the semblances Of ordinary men--and such he seem'd.

  12. A State grounding itself on the veracities, not on the semblances and the injustices: every citizen a soldier for it.

  13. But he was very lonely now in the old house, which was a bare, blank place, peopled by no bright inanimate creations by which art fills the homes of wealthy hermits with fair semblances of life.

  14. Were there any of those Beings whose manners and customs her books described to her, but whose mortal semblances she had never seen?

  15. Thus all lower Natures find their highest Good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better.

  16. Mine eyes a load of sorrow teemed, when now I stood so near them, that their semblances Came clearly to my view.

  17. He thinks that we have at once missed realising it, and come to need it so pressingly, by departing far from the inner eternal Laws and taking up with the temporary outer semblances of Laws.

  18. You have not work otherwise; you have eye- service, greedy grasping of wages, swift and ever swifter manufacture of semblances to get hold of wages.

  19. Semblances most smooth to the touch and eye; most accursed nevertheless to body and soul.

  20. Thereafter he rode away through the same fire unto his fellows, and he and Gunnar changed semblances again, and rode unto Hlymdale, and told how it had gone with them.

  21. Thereafter she fared home, and found the witch-wife and bade her change semblances again, and she did so.

  22. A superficial, unbelieving generation only, with no eye but for the surfaces and semblances of things, could form such notions of Great Men.

  23. The man made semblances of all things in sugar.

  24. The languor and impotence of faithful souls are but illusions and semblances which they must courageously face.

  25. The arts which give to the eye semblances or representations of objects appeal to a child much more through his knowledge of things.

  26. Surprising as this early recognition of pictures undoubtedly is, it is a question whether it necessarily implies any idea of the true nature of them, as being merely semblances or representations of things.

  27. Henry Champney kept certain blocks of wood, whereon Camilla at the age of twelve had cut the semblances of faces, semblances of the vaguest, but all hinting at tragedy.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "semblances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.