Thus from my low abode in seemly show. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 10] Reference
A saddle all craft-bedeck'd, seemly with treasure. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Let the occasion be made seemly, but more cheerful. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
So therewith the folk-king far'd, living full seemly. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
"Nay, that would not be seemly," answered his father, gently. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
As snow in summer, and rain in harvest, so glory is not seemly for. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
The Leader is doing so despite seemly politically dire circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Mario Solis-Marich: Mario Solis-Marich: Reid Turns on the Lights] Reference
"Yours is hardly a seemly attitude to assume before the pupils, is it?". From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
"And it does not appear seemly that an ordinary mortal should mention --". From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
As snow in summer, and rain in harvest, so glory is not seemly for a fool. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
"Aye, but it is seemly that a mother should give her daughter in marriage.". From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
Then was he ware of a seemly knight riding against him with a covered shield. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
Consequently, the manner of Christ's burial does not seem to have been seemly. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
Delicacies are not seemly for a fool: nor for a servant to have rule over princes. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
Two gentlemen came and remonstrated with me in not very seemly terms: 'It would be a. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
I spare you the picture of her fury: it was not seemly, for all it was very white and still. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
"Grant it I will," he says, "if it be right and seemly; but what is it thou wishest to ask?". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
"Silence," said the emperor; "do not mention my sons; it is not seemly for you to speak against them.". From Wordnik.com. [Roumanian Fairy Tales] Reference
A thousand hands, not half so seemly as those which already had clasped his own, were extended towards his. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
"God's in His Heaven, all's right with the world," is seemly only to minds drugged with an irrational creed. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
For thy lack of wits thou shouldst be soundly kicked where it be not seemly to apply the sting, 'and I smote him. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
You are a young man, and it is not quite seemly for you to make such a point of befriending a little music governess. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
And when the young man was ashamed (for it was not counted a seemly thing that men should speak with women) she said. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
They were both fair to look upon; but the one had a soft and gentle face, and she was clad in a seemly robe of pure white. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
One old lady told me gravely, she hardly thought it seemly that the Dean should so lend himself to the pleasures of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
No man could rank more highly the importance to a poet of an intellectual insight into all-important pursuits and "seemly arts.". From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
This offer to go look after the suffering Mr. Bennet, although of a wording hardly as respectful as she considered seemly, mollified. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
They took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom; this represents an open, intelligent, and seemly profession of faith in. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
The old English or Scandinavian term which came to us from our forefathers is more seemly to our mind than the modern Latin importation. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Among those attitudes which are true and right, we are at liberty to adopt that which is in our circumstances most convenient and seemly. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
And he passed over the bridge, that was old and feeble, and came into a great hall, where he saw lie a dead knight, that was a seemly man. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
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