At a distance, towards the center of the island, he beheld the stately towers of what seemed to be a palace, built of snow-white marble, and rising in the midst of a grove of lofty trees.
In so doing, she caught a glimpse of what seemed to be a woman, sitting on the brown leaves of the last autumn, a great heap of which had been swept into the cave by the wind.
At one time they landed on an island, and were reposing on the grass, when they suddenly found themselves assailed by what seemed a shower of steel-headed arrows.
He came forward to meet her as she passed the barrier at the end of the platform, his aspect full of what seemed to her an extraordinary animation, significance, as though she were expected.
Julie, Emily Lawrence is going," said the Duchess's voice, pitched in what seemed to Julie a strange and haughty note.
It appeared that being now in receipt of what seemed to himself, at any rate, a large salary as his cousin's agent, he had thought it his duty to save up and repay the sums which Lady Henry had formerly spent upon his education.
We were not destined to reach Rajgunge without adventure, for that same evening we were thinking it time for a halt when the advance-guard galloped back to announce the coming of what seemed to be a regiment of native lancers.
For it was a minute of gold drawn out into a wire of what seemed to be endless length.
Then we came to a large barn on the edge of what seemed a silver lake but was in reality a long field under the full light of the moon.
And always, at what seemed to be regular intervals, there came, from the forest, the banging of the iron door.
We waited then for our orders, looking down from the windows on to what seemed a perfect babel of disorder and confusion.
They were passing through a double row of what seemed to her stately residences, and there were few people on the sidewalks.
Some of the young pilot's friends had visited her and obtained what seemed to be satisfying results.
The gate swung open and we stood on the threshold of what seemed a limitless domed and pillared cavern, carved out of the solid darkness.
He hurried across and remained with them what seemed an infinitesimal time, a bare three weeks, and was back again in New York by the middle of April.
I had located there the autumn before, and bought a vacant old house, with a few acres of land, at what seemed a modest price.
Looking more closely, what was his astonishment and delight, when he found that this linen fabric had been transmuted to what seemed a woven texture of the purest and brightest gold!
He was not long in discovering that the cup had floated across a great part of the sea, and was approaching the shore of what seemed to be an island.
There was the perpendicular wall on his right, and a cluster of black crags on his left, and toward these the boat was rushing at what seemed to him a terrific rate.
Most reluctantly then I threw down my chosen work and devoted my time to what seemed to me to be a political duty.
Then he reached down into a belt about his waist and drew from it a small, flat flask of what seemed to be lead.
We had emerged upon an enormous platform of what seemed to be glistening ivory.
The chamber widened out from the portal in what seemedto be the arc of an immense circle.
At two miles further, arrived at what seemed to be the last water, a small shallow pond.
Changed to east, to what seemed to be large gum-trees, thinking there might be a creek; arriving there, I found them to be stunted gums on the edge of the plain.
Proceeded on another mile, and was again stopped by what seemed to be a continuation of the large marsh; we now appeared to have got right into the middle of it.
Even at that age I knew much more about architecture than my elders, being perfectly familiar with the details of the old halls, and so I was constantly losing temper at what seemed to me the evident stupidity of the masons.
A doctor named Vala was stopped by what seemed to be a nun, who asked for a place in his gig.
On one of these visits, when quite a child, I persuaded my father's groom to let me mount his saddle-horse, which I remember as a gray animal of what seemed a prodigious altitude.
Caius believed that if the first expedient failed, and he felt it could not but fail, murder was their only resource against what seemed to them intolerable evil.
What seemed to him most strange in the working out of this bit of his life's story, was that all that the letter said appeared to be true.
I took the glass and looked intently, watching through it the scene of the blacks paddling up to the schooner, and holding up what seemed to be fruit and birds for sale.
I caught at the doctor's arm to draw his attention to what seemed to be a great thickly tufted bush which was coming up the little valley towards us.
Delia's refusal to join the militant forces in London, at this most critical and desperate time, on what seemed to Gertrude the trumpery excuse of Weston's illness, had made an indelible impression on a fanatical temper.
The motor passed slowly through them, then quickened its pace, and in what seemed an incredibly short time, they were in country lanes.
The chief illumination came however from what seemed to be a large shallow waggon drawn up not far from the Crown.
And then, as he caught sight of what seemed to be a number of canceled bank checks on a table, he smilingly asked: "Have you been paying your income tax?
Joe advanced to what seemed to be an elaborate candelabra in which seven tapers were set.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what seemed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
