meseems
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meseemed
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She turns to her companion: “Thou art a mighty warrior, O Dermot, in battle and sieges and forays, yet meseems that this drop of water is bolder than thou.”
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
Ay, but we are being surely overhauled, and meseems 'twere better to take the risk of running aground than to fall into the hands of the Spaniards.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
"It needs small consideration, meseems," said Myles Standish, impatiently.
From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Marion Ames Taggart
By the devil and all his myrmidons, citizen!" he said, as soon as he had recovered his breath, "meseems you have tumbled to my meaning as a pig into a heap of garbage.
From Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
A shadow's shadow in the glass Of sleep, my spirit saw her pass: And thinking of it now, meseems We only live within our dreams.
From Kentucky Poems by Madison J. Cawein
And, of a sudden, meseemed that day was added unto day, as though he who hath the power, had adorned heaven with a second sun.”
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. Grimm
"This," said Ralph, "that I thanked the Dry Tree heartily for its gift, but that meseemed it naught wise to leave this stronghold disgarnished of men till I can come or send back from Upmeads."
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
Ann was pale, but, meseemed fairer than ever in a dress of pomegranate- red and white brocade, sent to her from Italy by her step-father's brother, My lord Bishop, by the hand of Cardinal Branda.
From Margery — Volume 05 by Clara Bell
She, to whom, as I am an honest woman, I would have confessed myself, so spiritually minded meseemed she was!
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne
I looked; again the mournful, chords, In random rhythm lightly flung From off the wire, came shaped in words; And thus, meseemed, they sung.
From Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems by George Parsons Lathrop
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