And I wanted to see if this road that once seemed as impossibly romantic as Xanadu or Shangri-La was where I had left them. |
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Mats and blankets moldered in heaps in a corner and people seemed picky about which they selected. |
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The doctor seemed to contemplate this quite seriously, his fingers coming up to tap at his chin bemusedly. |
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Large flames protruded from its claws and its tail seemed to be serpentine. |
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Ottawa isn't known for its headbangers, but it seemed that every metalhead in the city turned out for this show. |
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The voice which erupted was metallic in nature and seemed much older than Chrome herself even was. |
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Lee waved down the server behind the counter, who seemed to have been engulfed in conversation with one of the two men seated next to us. |
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Although he has seemed to stay frozen in time, Bond has actually undergone a series of very subtle metamorphoses. |
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I lived in this small town in Alaska with a ton of friends, and everything seemed perfect. |
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The show seemed oddly just a little light in tone, at least relative to the general tone of the series. |
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It seemed like every muscle in her body was perfectly toned and tanned, and she looked amazing. |
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Liza was also very fond of toast, oranges, and tonic water and her pink fluffy slippers that she never seemed to be without. |
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The whining of servos continued for what seemed like an eternity, but was likely less than a minute. |
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Thankfully, none of our senior house officers and registrars seemed to notice it during the teaching session that afternoon. |
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The theme in the house seemed to be of neutral and warm shades like tan, stone brown and beige. |
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Walking up his driveway everything seemed normal, but when he opened the door, he knew he was in for it. |
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As a result, the band seemed eager to break up the set with older tunes and covers. |
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Once I'd got on top of this job, the other priorities all seemed to slot into place. |
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But once upon a time, she was on top of the world, until her addictions seemed to get the better of her. |
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I apologize for my belatedness, but you seemed to have managed just fine on your own. |
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Slowly, my anger drained away, along with, it seemed, the blood from my face. |
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He seemed so sour that I hardly recognized him as the same friendly toper I'd been with the night before. |
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It seemed like he attempted to address it in Minority Report, but there was something overwhelming in that film's set pieces. |
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Johnny seemed to be eating up this story and believing every word that came from their surrogate mother's mouth. |
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When he spoke of a sign of personal virtue, he seemed to be belittling the importance of conservation. |
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As she walked, she heard a fleeting mew from Ruby, who seemed to be getting anxious. |
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One hundred and twenty-five Black Cats had seemed to fill the Wise Woman's hut full, and when they all spit and miauled together it was dreadful. |
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The country's belligerent veto threats seemed to signal its willingness to force grievous splits in the Security Council. |
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He seemed a black lump looming over the desk like a vulture on a high tor, waiting for his prey to walk into his clutches. |
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He seemed to be in some kind of cave, the light coming from torches carried by hooded figures in dark robes. |
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Slowly his eyes fluttered open, but the flickering torchlight that lit his cell seemed unnaturally bright. |
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For a while in the 1990s it seemed that microbrews, brew pubs and craft beers were going to overthrow the established brewing order. |
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Every woman over the age of seventy in Victoria seemed to have the same handwriting. |
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However the Bushrangers seemed set to prove that the match belonged to them. |
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The crab in the tortellini floating in it seemed loaded with intrinsic flavour even before you picked up the lemony-ginger seasoning. |
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This was quite fortunate as I seemed to belt balls in every direction apart from directly ahead. |
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The struggle to eke out a living in the mountains seemed to be so great for them that they were willing to toss it in at the first chance. |
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One of those who auditioned included a white woman who seemed not to know any single word in Bemba. |
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He seemed like a nice enough man playing a role that he wasn't totally comfortable with. |
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The room seemed to have lost all its warmth and the torch's fire seemed to be diffusing only cold, chilling to the bone. |
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Too many of the players disrespected the manager and several seemed to put money, fast cars and the procurement of totty before their football. |
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The air around them seemed to be charged with electricity as their lips touched. |
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The empty air in front of Daney shimmered slightly and seemed to bend, curve, to allow a human form to take shape. |
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Late in the 2002 season, as Miami was in the midst of one of its annual collapses, both of these cornerbacks seemed to be losing their touch. |
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Her whole body seemed to be throbbing and every millimeter of her skin was painful to the touch. |
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As he moved through the row of chairs he heard a very loud shot that seemed to be right outside the conference room. |
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Jullie looked at him, with that benevolent smile that always seemed to be on her face. |
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This mainly seemed to involve me talking too much with the actors nodding benignly. |
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Clown was sitting in the chair, again wearing his shades and a hat that seemed to look like a bucket on his head. |
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The sky seemed to look passively onward, black and dark like my pencil that had shaded it in. |
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For a rapid touring car, the 63 litre fuel tank seemed to have enough capacity, but don't ask me what my fuel consumption figures were. |
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She comes from New Caledonia near Australia and made the headlines when she seemed to show a bent for physics. |
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His hair still stuck up in odd places and the shadows beneath his eyes only seemed to have grown darker. |
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A shadow seemed to cross both of the brother's faces as Damien sat down next to Morgan. |
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A shadow seemed to cross his face as his vivid blue eyes took on a faint look of regret. |
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A shadow seemed to suddenly cross his devilish looks, and he avoided my eyes. |
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In the mid 19th century the air of cities seemed to be much fouler than their water. |
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I stopped off at Na'ama Bay, the heart of the resort, on the way, and it seemed a nice enough place, with no hassling touts to trap the unwary. |
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The front wheel seemed to be stuck on the middelmannetjie with the back wheel changing lanes over it. |
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Suzanne and her brother Matt were the middle children in the family and neither seemed to care much about doing things proper. |
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The only superpower in town seemed to be settling into what looked like a comfortably peaceful future. |
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The 35-year-old missed six weeks before returning against Lancashire last week and at once everything seemed to click into place. |
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From cards to boats to horses, the townies of Oxford seemed only too willing to indulge the students in morally questionable pastimes. |
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The walls seemed to stretch and reach forever, but the young man just dispelled the image with a shake of his head. |
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The trees that stood around us seemed to grope around, like evil spirits searching for souls. |
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There was a little boy in a beret and short trousers, and under his arm a loaf of bread that seemed as long as he was. |
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It also seemed to have been taken for granted that it was the source of the evil smell that lingered in the room. |
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His brother had fallen backwards onto the grass in the lawn losing much blood it seemed. |
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They seemed to be no better off than their subjects, with hair and teeth falling out and sores like burns on bare faces and hands. |
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For Berliners the main concern seemed to be that the excessive security threatened hundreds of local businesses. |
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They were both beautiful, popular people and their pairing had only seemed natural to everyone else despite how shallow I thought Mandy was. |
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Anyway, we went down to the beach for a midnight stroll, which seemed to cheer her up. |
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Originally, this game was played with a trackball which seemed incredibly futuristic at the time. |
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It seemed only natural for our group of four to continue with the study sessions right after class as the midterm loomed closer. |
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The ground seemed lumpy and careful observations revealed the outline of a massive shape. |
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Their shape could not be clearly defined as their outline seemed blurred in a haze of grey smoke surrounding them, but they seemed human shaped. |
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For years it seemed we were condemned to live in an age where an ability to beat time properly was the best we could hope for. |
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The prevailing ethos on No Disco seemed a bit more thoughtful, a bit more arty, making the best of an obviously limited budget. |
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Unlike most others of its kind, it seemed mildly curious, coming closer as the morning went by. |
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A simple fraud statute seemed like a good way to swat down small-time sharks and keep the field open for themselves. |
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This seemed to set the tone for the Warriors as they never trailed in the game, coming out on the winning end of a 79-74 final score. |
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It seemed as if the giant insurance behemoth had bestirred itself to face competition in a liberalised environment. |
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Superficially, he seemed at different times to be an ardent liberal or a reactionary militarist. |
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She was dressed in an overly and unnecessarily long dress that left a train that seemed to serve as an effective floor sweeper. |
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Like Brecht, he always seemed exactly three days away from a shave, a minor physiological miracle. |
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Scattered groups of tourists milled around the surrounding grassland, and nobody seemed to know how to enter. |
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However, their exertions in Yorkshire seemed to have caught up with them as Celtic put them through the mill from the kick-off. |
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He was shaven bald and was wearing gold pants which seemed to be made of a lion's skin. |
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When I left school in 1959 and joined the Merchant Navy, the cabin on a tramp steamer seemed like my first real home. |
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They seemed like a normal, homey pair until it was revealed that the 21-year-old actress was actually betrothed to this man 17 years her elder! |
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She had seemed so girlish, chattering on about clothes and gossiping about the recent betrothals. |
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The vitality of the field has transcended many of the barriers that seemed so daunting early on. |
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Still, the woman behind me seemed to think it was the funniest film she'd ever seen. |
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Ryan, in contrast to everyone else, seemed a bit uncomfortable with idea of quickly shedding his clothes in front of everyone. |
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Unless we can know everything, he seemed to argue, we're better off knowing nothing. |
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Well curiosity got the better of the Professor over the weekend, so a quick google seemed worth the effort. |
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Everything on the market seemed to turn into those bendy, rimless shards sheened with that bluish, rather offensively reflective stuff. |
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And with that his ever so silent manner seemed to return and he was headed off to the biting cold and howling winds. |
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I was curious to know what had made him who he was and why everything seemed far beneath him. |
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She was always getting stuck watching them, not that she minded much, but it seemed like it consumed her life. |
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On the other hand, the pine, ash, iron, tinplate, metal type, and tools with which we worked at Eastfield seemed very real indeed. |
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Pointless meandering in a wooded area may have, at one time, seemed like a ticket to Tinseltown respect and royalties. |
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After moving men and dunnage to the two ships, it seemed almost at the moment he was about to give the order to set sail, they were becalmed. |
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Never let the parents know, he had warned what seemed like mere glasses ago. |
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It was actually quite funny to him how the bullet weapons had seemed so advanced to him a mere seven moths ago. |
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He definitely was not drunk now, but mere moments ago, he had seemed to be as drunk as an alcoholic. |
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Cojocaru's and Kobborg's verve gave substance to what otherwise might've seemed a sweet, airy meringue of a dance. |
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Too often, it seemed to me, he was determined to discover in a literary work what was phony or meretricious rather than what was admirable. |
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The little girl he had talked to what seemed like ages ago was standing before him, holding a jug of water tipped at a dangerous angle. |
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A particularly soft blanket of green seemed to beckon, and she settled herself amid the springy blades. |
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She did always wear a becoming light blue dress that seemed to be tailor made down to the seams. |
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The water flowed over the rocks in the stream bed, and as it flowed, it seemed to sing. |
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At first glance there seemed to be nothing on the mussel beds, but closer inspection revealed a few Curlews, and about 100 Golden Plovers. |
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And the sea of tricolours bedecking all kinds of vehicles seemed to encourage others to put up their own tricolours. |
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It seemed an odd sort of voyeurism, titillation without a tittle of anything much going on, boredom elevated to a modern art form. |
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She quickly turned back to the bedlam, which, while still loud and raucous, still seemed somehow subdued. |
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And their centers had turned into brown patches where it seemed even the little toadstools I had stupidly admired had trouble growing. |
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It seemed to be an expanse of crispy brown grass, scattered with a few mesquite trees. |
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The professor hesitated for a moment, slightly confused by the question, which seemed on the face of it to be something of a non sequitur. |
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A seraglio of harem girls seemed to take unfathomable delight in passing my place of confinement. |
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Her feet seemed to take on an intelligence of their own, searching out desperate toeholds on the creek-bottom. |
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Since the June summit, the two Koreas have seemed to be moving closer together. |
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The couple who have been together for 13 months, were distraught and confused as it seemed no one could help them. |
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One might suggest that he turned away from the complexity of the serialist school where it seemed that complexity equaled meaning. |
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The country went into a tizzy when the official announcement of the visit was made and, it seemed at the time, every man, woman and child said they were going to see him. |
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Three days have passed since Megan had fallen into what seemed to be a slight coma due to the bullet that burrowed itself deep within her shoulder. |
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His indictment of the tabloid press seemed vindicated when its TV critics began falling over themselves to say how brilliant the broadcast had been. |
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In sync with the aphorism that money is the mother's milk of politics, the former Vermont governor seemed to have found a cash cow on the Internet. |
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No one seemed to expect Jon Tester to pull it out, but it was no longer a make-or-break race. |
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That may well be the case but few people inside the show at Earls Court seemed to be talking about the lingerie. |
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These milk trains must have seemed slow as they moved from town to town, picking up hundreds of milk cans, but milk was a valuable and perishable item. |
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Remote traces of their memory still seemed to exist somewhere in me. |
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Not the old, proud, quietly beautiful gold that was cherished to them, but the meretricious, cheap, glaring bright gold that seemed to try too hard at being beautiful. |
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Danger seemed to lurk around every corner, but no one expected it to lurk in our classrooms. |
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He made the vow on June 30, and I remember thinking at the time how strange it seemed. |
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Michael's gaze seemed desperate as he stood trembling from top to toe. |
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Despite her promise to Jack to live her life to the fullest, it still seemed that she would somehow betray his memory if she were to let another man touch her like that. |
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But his eclecticism has seemed a weakness, a tendency perhaps to adapt to stronger personalities, including some of his leading performers, and various social milieus. |
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Jake's dark eyes betrayed that he was in a state of worried shock in itself, but it seemed to vanish when Vivian's blessed lips spread into a infinitely joyful smile. |
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At times in Tallahassee he seemed more interested in meeting Tim Tebow or Dan Marino than in passing pieces of legislation. |
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And it seemed that alcohol and tobacco worked together in toxic synergy to produce the malignancy. |
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It seemed that as soon as I stepped foot inside I was drained of energy. |
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Through the subtleties of the film were lost on this westerner, it seemed to involve a bloke who was keen on a sheila but was having trouble with the in-laws. |
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Another set-piece saw Stoke grab their fifth and final goal for the night when Iwelumo's presence seemed to unease the City defence at Risom's free-kick. |
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With all this re-hashing of old ideas, it seemed like reality shows had run their course in '04, making reality junkies like me start to get the shakes. |
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They understood that if everybody is really shaking in their boots about this man's conflict of interest over six years, no one seemed to do anything about it. |
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She seemed more perturbed and bemused than shaking in her boots. |
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In June, Bernanke had said that the tapering could start only once gains in the labor market seemed persistent and safe. |
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By comparison, the cluttered townscape of the older centres, with its narrow streets and timber-and-thatch housing, seemed outdated and even barbarous. |
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He had opted for loose-fitting maroon pants and a dark grey T-shirt, and seemed more approachable without his robes on. |
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The cat ceased snarling and presently began a loud purring which seemed to increase in timbre as he stroked her. |
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Ernst, a lieutenant colonel in the Iowa National Guard, seemed Palinesque at times. |
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Asked why she often played somewhat unsympathetic characters like Em, or Mackenzie in The Newsroom, Mortimer seemed taken aback. |
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He seemed to be tormentedly and wholly preoccupied with his own thoughts. |
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Captain Walker had been patient with him, although he often seemed to be just on the edge of a pointed remark, and the illness had finally passed. |
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Jeanna's eye seemed to contain the savage winds of a tornado. |
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The U.S. military, meanwhile, it seemed to me was laboring under an entirely different misapprehension. |
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Instead the journalist seemed more interested in sensationalism. |
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No-one else seemed much moved by this, but I was transfixed. |
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Buffeted by violent economic crises and challenged by powerful socialist movements that seemed everywhere on the move, the system often seemed to totter. |
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From my previous trip I recalled intact bows and stern, but the already completely broken midship area seemed to have enlarged in the intervening years. |
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The new leader did very little other than regurgitate a tired old line that seemed to have been flogged to death by many a centre-right politician. |
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Beau stared at her in bedazzlement, he knew she'd gone through the hardest decision of her life, but it seemed like she'd had a personality change along with an operation. |
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Her words touched my heart and the whole world seemed to crush me then. |
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The walls seemed like a large bulletin board, strewn with everything from drawings to pictures of her friends to books, on a shelf-like thing, to movie tickets. |
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The light tinkle of Inger's laughter seemed to fill the small room. |
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Though his motion was languid, the ball seemed to explode off his fingertips, to gather speed as it crossed the diamond. |
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The most effective treatment, the programme seemed to say, was bed rest. |
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Bangladesh played well today and Australia seemed a bit out of touch. |
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The place seemed as an open tomb, an unsealed sepulcher, a deathly resting place, quietly awaiting corpses to crowd its halls and fulfill its purpose. |
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His arms seemed to have a mind of their own and embraced her. |
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But the Pakistani, the Kuwaiti, and the two Saudi fighters breaking the Ramadan fast with me seemed unperturbed. |
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The Islamist militants seemed to be terrified of these notorious female fighters. |
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It seemed clear that the Prime Minister was going to tough it out, hoping, no doubt, that the hoopla over the Olympics would quickly distract the attention of the electors. |
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It seemed almost incomprehensible how much his life had changed and all of the things that had happened since he had retired from his job as police sergeant. |
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Even as he gazed upon her fear-glazed features, a frown of recognition touched her mien, and it seemed to him then that he could hear her thoughts. |
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When the band was first formed, the idea of fusing rhythm based music from Africa and beyond with melodious trad from Ireland seemed like a curious and exciting experiment. |
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Apart from the generic excellence described above, this CD's join-free, eclectic mixture of Irish trad and dub reggae seemed to be a neat mixture of your past and present. |
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He was struck all of a heap, and never seemed to know what ailed him. |
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Gary Cooper was a movie star whose type everyone seemed to agree upon, though it allowed for many subtle and peculiar shadings in the course of his thirty-five year career. |
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The figure they had seen the night before seemed slowly and toilsomely labouring to pile the large stones one upon another, as if to form a small enclosure. |
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More than anything else, teenagers seemed to swoon over tenderness and vulnerability that the Beatles expressed in their songs. |
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This new Germany was mostly free from the trammels of the postwar system, and the Federal Republic seemed, more than ever, Europe's leading power. |
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And around 1817, Randel, who seemed to be having liver trouble, received large doses of mercury as a laxative. |
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I had been posing for you and I was tired out, yet it seemed impossible for me to sleep. |
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His eyes seemed more sunken in and dark shadows lay beneath them. |
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The warm, jovial man that had met us at the drawbridge now had solidified, becoming a cold-hearted sentinel that seemed to march metallically across the carpeted floor. |
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The two pugilists traded blows early on, and seemed fairly evenly matched. |
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It seemed to him that Tanaki's eyes always hid a shadow of coldness. |
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The new download world will hopefully see an end to those shapeless 20-track CD monsters that seemed to equate quality with amount, as if you weigh music by the kilo. |
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Somehow this bunny seemed more physical and less metaphysical. |
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Kagan seemed to be continuously looking around the courthouse, and Alito was thumbing through some papers on his desk. |
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His use of shade, tone and colour is different from many of his stylised drawings of the past, where the simplicity of line seemed to dominate over the human subject. |
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I swiftly walked over to the phone, picking it up and dialing her number, not even thinking as my fingers just seemed to have a mind of their own. |
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The tableau of five candidates on stage at first seemed more like a set of high school stereotypes than a political debate. |
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Gwen recommends a tablespoon, but that seemed like an awful lot, especially after I read about how gross it can taste. |
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A shadow seemed to cross over Billy's face and he looked down. |
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The shadow banking system took over more and more of the banking business, because the unregulated players in this system seemed to offer better deals than conventional banks. |
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A hard tonneau cover seemed the only way to ensure protection for items in the bed, but the length and weight of the cover would violate the one-person convertibility theme. |
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At least Richardson has had a chance to race through part of this summer, where all the athletes have seemed to be shadow-boxing their way to the Olympics. |
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On examination the patient seemed well, but her abdomen was distended and tender in the suprapubic, left and right iliac fossa regions. |
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A tax break of questionable merit suddenly seemed attractive. |
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Its Pure Mum to Be Stretchmark Oil, which promises to keep skin soft and supple, seemed like an essential buy. |
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Students returned to schools last week unenthusiastically, attended classes apathetically and seemed unwilling to study. |
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Prone to classroom outbursts and not bathing, both slow and fat, Finkel seemed destined for a life in the subbasement of the social high-rise. |
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Nicole, my literary agent, seemed to have trouble accepting my liberation. |
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But the two young girls, Thornton and Wilt, never seemed to lose energy. |
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The pressure against my throat seemed completely constricting. |
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Investment funds seemed a long way from the people on the streel who struggle to place the leftovers from their salaries into a savings account. |
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My brother and I expected big flags and banners but the actual moment you crossed the border, with its wee road sign, always seemed a non-event. |
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Then she opened her mouth to smile at me across the tuna casserole, and she seemed 40 years older. |
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Posh was seemed underwhelmed by the action though, for she spent the whole time talking to a female pal. |
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Back then we thought he was just a double-talking stuffed shirt who seemed kind of gay. |
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So a straight-faced expose of extraterrestrials committing date rape seemed right at home. |
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The bowler said that Lehmann seemed like a straight shooter and everyone said that he was one. |
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Last I heard, there was a whole lot of cursing and defying going on, but the appearance commissars seemed determined to stick to their guns. |
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The interval seemed to stimulate Aberdeen and stupify Rangers and the visitors came out full of intent, pushing their hosts on to the back foot. |
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To call the Six Nations an underachievement seemed pretty reckless when you consider they were only beaten by Ireland. |
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Two solitudes, or so it seemed, except for the half-dozen teens who attended church with their families. |
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The level of ability their opponents Mamelodi Sundowns showed was much higher than Rangers' players expected, or so it seemed as they were second to most things in the match. |
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These commissive speech acts portrayed Teacher L as powerful, authoritarian, and tough as well as someone who seemed always ready to use her power. |
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Tundra Swan numbers seemed to have hit a new high this year, experts say. |
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Also, the number of nonresident employees seemed to be on the rise, leaving some in the Senate wondering if Alaska could do more to encourage local hire. |
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