meseems
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meseemed
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"Yet Her Majesty, meseems, will not allow her maids-of-honour to walk unattended in this part of the grounds," he added, with a slight touch of benevolent sarcasm.
From The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
I deem that hour perchance Was but a mirror To show them Earth's romance And draw them nearer: A mirror where, meseems.
From A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius
II I love within your oblong eyes the verdant rays, My sweet! but bitter everything to-day meseems: And nought--your love, the boudoir, nor the flickering blaze, Can replace the sun that o'er the screen streams.
From The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, Charles
In either case, meseems, chance is bound to favour us.
From The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
I would do all for you, meseems, But this, tho' this were happiness!
From Reincarnations by Stephens, James
Wise was that, meseemed, for words were again come into the witch’s howls, and I heard her: Ah, long may ye be playing with the chains, long! for now the house rumbleth toward its fall.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William
As soon as he saw me sitting at the door, he dismounted and coming up to me, saluted and embraced me; and meseemed I embraced the world and all that therein is.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John
All the same so jealous was I lest she should leave me, that, meseemed, I had set a collar of gold around her neck, and held her by a golden chain.
From The Decameron, Volume I by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)
"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 Morris, William
Mother dear, when that maiden came and talked of tilts and lances, meseemed that I recollected somewhat.
From The Herd Boy and His Hermit by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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