Lancelot maketh semblant as though he would leap towards them, and sore great cowardize it seemeth him nor to go against them.
She humbled herself much among them and crouched on the ground and made semblant as though she would have cried them mercy, and gat herself as nigh the cross as she might.
The Queen hath much pity of the damsel, for she was of right great beauty, and well might it be seen by her cheer and her semblant that no joy had she.
But no semblant of grief durst he make other than such as might not be perceived, and right great comfort to him was it that there was an image of Our Lady at the head of the coffin.
The Knight natheless made no semblant that he was yet conquered, but turneth back toward Perceval at a right great gallop and launched his flame against his shield, but it availeth him nought, for he might not harm it.
Set forth in this bold fashion, the discourse of Faux Semblant loses all its dramatic force.
There is a dramatic art of the very highest kind in the way in which Faux Semblant draws and develops his own character, pronounces, as it were, the apology of hypocrisy.
Mendicancy, Faux Semblant acknowledges with an engaging candour, is only right when a man has not learned and cannot learn a trade.
Joab was not there when Abner made his peace with David; but when he knew it he came to Abner with a fair semblant and spake fair to him by dissimulation, and slew him for to avenge the death of Asahel his brother.
And therfore I rede, Mi Sone, that thou fle and drede 1910 This vice, and what that othre sein, Let thiSemblant be trewe and plein.
Now, fader, say what is thi dom, And hou thou wolt that I be peined For such Semblant as I have feigned.
And over that yit he hem wisseth, And seith that which of hem ferst kisseth 4730 His moder, he schal take wrieche Upon the wrong: and of that speche Thei ben withinne here hertes glade, Thogh thei outward no semblant made.
Her purpose was not such as she did feign, 2 Nor yet her person such as it was seen, 3 But under simple show and semblant plain show > appearance (cf.
But Death who call on her at nede Doth neuer with vaine semblant feed, But when them sorow paineth, So riddes their soules of all distresse Whose heauie weight did them oppresse, That not one griefe remaineth.
And then the bishop made semblant as though he would have gone to the sacring of the mass.
Then took he again his sword and put it up in his sheath, and made a cross in his forehead, and came to the lions, and they made semblant to do him harm.
Among these Faux Semblant presents himself, and, after some parley, is received.
Your goodly selfe for evermore to vew, And in my selfe, (my inward selfe I meane,) Most lively lyke behold your semblant trew.
And therewith he madesemblant to strike off his head.
Sir Tristram made semblant as he had been sorry, and better knew he how it was than the king.
But because she would not it were known, outward she kept her countenance, and made no semblant of sorrow.
Yet fals was he, but his falsnesse Ne coude he not espye, nor gesse; For semblant was so slye wrought, That falsnesse he ne espyed nought.
And Fals-Semblant had he seyn als, 7445 But he knew nat that he was fals.
The other madness is called sleeping madness, for they lie always and make semblant as if they were asleep, and so they die without meat.
So when he came with his wife Anglides, the king made them fair semblant till they had dined.
Then took he again his sword, and put it up in his sheath, and made a cross in his forehead, and came to the lions, and they made semblant to do him harm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "semblant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
