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Example sentences for "should seem"

  • The hatred which the Whig party felt towards them both ought, it should seem, to have produced a close alliance between them: but in fact each of them saw with complacency the danger which threatened the other.

  • William instantly sent him down to Edinburgh, in the hope, as it should seem, that the Presbyterians would be disposed to listen to moderate counsels proceeding from a man who was attached to their cause, and who had suffered for it.

  • James, in consequence, as it should seem, of this disaster, established a daily post between Dublin Castle and Hamilton's head quarters.

  • It should seem, that he only received an order to leave rome in so many days, and to transport himself to Tomi.

  • These fragments have furnished with several curious, and, as it should seem, authentic anecdotes.

  • It should seem, however, that he followed a large and popular estimation.

  • There was some affectation in this, it should seem, for he had read Smollett.

  • His conscience had, it should seem, been suddenly awakened.

  • But he had, it should seem, perceived that his unpopularity had injuriously affected the interests which were under his care, and therefore did not obtrude himself on the public notice.

  • It should seem that, at this time, a journey of fifty miles through the wealthiest and most populous shires of England was as dangerous as a pilgrimage across the deserts of Arabia.

  • The Lords who took the other side did not, it should seem, venture to deny that there was an evil which required a remedy; but they maintained that the proposed remedy would only aggravate the evil.

  • His 'furious purposes' should seem to have been his intention to resign the Presidency of the Academy, on finding that the place was not at once given him, and in the knowledge that in the Academy there was a party against him.

  • And, from what I can gather from him, it should seem, that Dr.

  • A brief record, it should seem, is given, ante, iii.

  • Wordsworth, it should seem, held with Johnson in this.

  • But, from our tenets it should seem to follow that it would appear before the eye at a vast distance off, so great as should in some sort surpass all sensible distance.

  • It should seem rather, that pain is something distinct from heat, and the consequence or effect of it.

  • From all which the natural consequence should seem to be, that so difficult a thing as the forming abstract ideas was not necessary for communication, which is so easy and familiar to all sorts of men.

  • He pulls his purple moustache and looks appreciatingly at Iris, who never sees him, as it should seem.

  • In those dead hours of the night which had passed over her sitting there, still and stony, as it should seem, she had had strange visitors.

  • It was a curious case, it should seem, of one beautiful limb upon a frame otherwise singularly imperfect--I have repeatedly noticed this little gentleman's use of his left arm.

  • I inform you of this fact, lest I should seem to arrogate to myself the merits which belong to others.

  • This suffering incensed, and, as it should seem, very justly incensed, the House of Commons.

  • Tis said that parity breedeth not affection, or affinity respect, of which saying this opinion of the queen's should seem a notable example.

  • There was mixed with it cries of hooting and shouts, which increased as this sort of procession (for so it should seem to be) approached.

  • From hence it should seem to follow, that the former kind of eggs are first in the oviducts, and, if impregnation be not effected within a given time, that all the worker embryos perish.

  • The most remarkable part of it are its legs, called by Latreille, but it should seem improperly, tentacula.

  • But here it should seem as if every monastery throughout Bavaria had emptied itself of its book-treasures .

  • The front of that portion of it, connected with the church, should seem to be of an extremely remote antiquity.

  • Michaelis has computed, and, as it should seem, fairly enough; that probably not more than twenty children perished by this cruel precaution.

  • We must, I think, nevertheless be permitted to doubt the contentment and happiness of the life he led, as it should seem, for the next four years, at Venice.

  • This being the case, it should seem as if that House had nothing to do with respect to the propriety of sending a Minister to Berlin, or in relation to other grades of Ministers, though they had the power of fixing their salaries.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cathode rays; find that; should attempt; should bear; should call; should consider; should kill; should know; should love; should move; should much; should not; should observe; should perhaps; should please; should proceed; should really; should say; should seek; should send; should sleep; should soon; should succeed; should suppose; should then; women and