These dispositions and orders only seem worse than previous ones because the battle of Borodino was the first Napoleon did not win.
Strange as at first glance it may seem to suppose that the Massacre of St.
But it seems as if I couldn't help taking a peep now and then, in advance--with a Bostonian.
She is lovely to look at; she seems so modest and retiring.
The Castle.--The gray of the morning has passed, and the sun is high over the distant horizon, which seems jagged, whether with trees or hills I know not, for it is so far off that big things and little are mixed.
The time seemed interminable as we swept on our way, now in almost complete darkness, for the rolling clouds obscured the moon.
"It seems to me that I have been through so much the last fortnight." she said.
"What one would not admire in others seems natural enough in you.
"It
seems to be a cheerful sort of household," Kinsley observed.
She said nothing, but this did not
seem to strike him.
All day long it would
seem that the birds were coming thicker from all quarters.
It was of white marble, in shape something like a winged sphinx, but the wings, instead of being carried vertically at the sides, were spread so that it
seemed to hover.
His sardonic manner, his hostile aloofness, had made it difficult to know him; but it
seemed to Philip, looking back, that there had been in him a tragic force, which sought vainly to express itself in painting.
But those other men
seemed never to grow weary; they were fighting with their old speed.
The very furniture in the room
seemed to have shrunk since she saw it before: the slag in the tapestry looked more like a ghost in his ghostly blue-green world; the volumes of polite literature in the bookcase looked more like immovable imitations of books.