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The whole surface of the earth seemed changed--melting and flowing under my eyes.

I saw great and splendid architecture rising about me, more massive than any buildings of our own time, and yet, as it seemed, built of glimmer and mist.

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.

Philip, silent still, returned to the photograph of Toledo, which seemed to him the most arresting picture of them all.

She was suddenly conscious of a shiver which seemed to spread from her heart throughout her limbs.

He began to speak again, and his voice seemed pitched in lighter key.

Doubtless many were going as well as coming, but the mass seemed never to get less.

Neither song nor chirp was heard--silence seemed to have taken the place of the normal voices of bird life.

Young Herr, must you go?" She was in such an excited state that she seemed to have lost her grip of what German she knew, and mixed it all up with some other language which I did not know at all.

I did not know what to do, for, as an English Churchman, I have been taught to regard such things as in some measure idolatrous, and yet it seemed so ungracious to refuse an old lady meaning so well and in such a state of mind.

And as soon as the tone of her voice had died out, and the surprise faded from his mind, he found himself believing that she had spoken the truth, for he had but little vanity, and soon her refusal seemed a natural thing to him.

The tramp of their boots upon the dry road seemed to asseverate nothing, nothing, nothing.

Their beams of crimson seemed to get no purchase upon the bodies of their foes; the latter seemed to evade them with ease, and come through, between, around, and about with unopposed skill.

When the enemy seemed falling back before him and his fellows, he went instantly forward, like a dog who, seeing his foes lagging, turns and insists upon being pursued.