Yet, while on a level with males as to the offer of, and standing in grace (Ga 3: 28), their subjection in point of order, modesty, and seemliness, is to be maintained. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
My men were near and I had to keep some seemliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
CARLSON: There's a deeper seemliness question, but we can get to that later. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Spin Room: Political Ads Get Ugly - October 30, 2000] Reference
"I was thinking of seemliness, not of danger," William Pressley replied coldly. From Wordnik.com. [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference
Let us leave the morality or seemliness of this argument aside, for one moment. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
Not a faux-pas, architectural or horticultural, marred the seemliness of the prospect. From Wordnik.com. [Scales of Justice]
I speak as my father's son, and in my house I will have privacy and seclusion and seemliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawk of Egypt] Reference
This question of seemliness, too, must be considered carefully ere we add a single plate to any volume. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Some are very kind and dear; and some are not so -- only the ordinary seemliness of polite sniffle-snaffle. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishwoman's Love-Letters] Reference
Stephen Hemsley was grilled last week about the seemliness of profits with the ink barely dry on the new law. From Wordnik.com. [WellPoint Net Rises; Other Health Insurers Boost Forecasts] Reference
SPIDER; and that in the man who longed to get away from them all, and from the whole world for the sake of “seemliness!”. From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
But the temptation to overstep the bounds of seemliness is so great that it is seldom the collector stops at a mere frontispiece. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Presently they three saw one another as with a single eye, wherefore they slackened their pace and walked with seemliness to the door. From Wordnik.com. [My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People] Reference
And if I did no good, and achieved nothing, I hope, at the least, that my intentions were decent, and that my end will have some seemliness. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob's Ladder]
Mr. Justice Collins was the judge and the case was conducted at first with the outward seemliness and propriety which are so peculiarly English. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
As a matter of seemliness, if nothing else, Manny believed his parents should have thought twice before trumpeting their relief with such blatancy. From Wordnik.com. [Kalooki Nights] Reference
“Of course,” I thought in a frenzy, “from this minute I am seeking ‘seemliness,’ and they have none of it, and that is why I am leaving them.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
But this thirst for lawlessness proceeds most frequently, perhaps, from a latent craving for discipline and ‘seemliness’ — (I am using your own words). From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
Our Lord hath given so much of grace as He hath given you, for He hath given you fairness with seemliness, He hath given thee wit, discretion to know good from evil. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
In the end, even though I started out on my high horse scolding the makers about seemliness, I had to admit it was my own squeamishness that made me turn off the TV. From Wordnik.com. [Over There] Reference
The longing for “seemliness” was still there, of course, and very intense, but how it could be linked with other longings of a very different sort is a mystery to me. From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
Or shall I go to Hampton Court and look at the red walls and courtyards and the seemliness of herded yew trees making black pyramids symmetrically on the grass among flowers?. From Wordnik.com. [The Waves] Reference
The Treatise veers between the insecure pompousness and pompous insecurity of a man who dons bling on dirty fingers and then sets out to create the urtext of social seemliness. From Wordnik.com. [Caroline Hagood: Blast From the Past: Honoré de Balzac's New English Release, Treatise on Elegant Living] Reference
+ Honor, common sense, seemliness, and conscience seem to belong to the individual domain. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
And yet she had no cause to complain that his attention passed the boundary of rigid seemliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Lily and Other Stories] Reference
Under its outward seemliness a million throats are ready to take up the brazen cry of revolution. From Wordnik.com. [The Double Four] Reference
+ In the Middle Ages very great attention was given to seemliness in the private conduct of individuals. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
The gigantic hoops in which ladies had delighted had diminished, had dwindled, and gowns were of a slender seemliness. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)] Reference
Now for a fair copy, and in a hand, mind you, that gave no hint of his care for caligraphic seemliness: bold, forthright. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Exile] Reference
Even unlucky devils, such as myself, are not without a certain respect for that which is fitting, for seemliness and etiquette. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
He was always so anxious to find seemliness, happiness, and peace in everything, and I should have been proud to let him see us. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
For He hath given to you beauty, seemliness, and great strength above all other knights, and, therefore, ye are the more beholden to. From Wordnik.com. [Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries] Reference
On his return after bathing, he found the breakfast-table very carelessly laid, with knives unpolished, and other such neglects of seemliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Whirlpool] Reference
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