← He flung back the wings of his cape with a gesture which, had not those wings been waterproof, might have seemed to hurl defiance at things in general. 🔊
← Of "the older men," as he called them, he seemed to like only Milton. 🔊
← It seemed to me, when first I read Fungoids, that, oddly enough, the diabolistic side of him was the best. 🔊
← They seemed to fall into two classes: those who had little to say and those who had nothing. 🔊
← I had hoped that when next I met the poet I could congratulate him on having made a stir, for I fancied he was not so sure of his intrinsic greatness as he seemed. 🔊
← I was sure Soames didn't want my company; but I asked, as it would have seemed brutal not to, whether I might join him, and took the chair opposite to his. 🔊
← He seemed not to hear me or even to see me. 🔊
← "And you're so hopelessly not an artist that, so far from being able to imagine a thing and make it seem true, you're going to make even a true thing seem as if you'd made it up. 🔊
← and we had a rather heated argument, in the thick of which it suddenly seemed to me that Soames saw he was in the wrong: he had quite physically cowered. 🔊
← The more I think of it, the more detestable the devil seems to me. 🔊