Use "seemliness" in a sentence
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seemliness
1. Of course, even then I knew quite well that I should not go on a pilgrimage with Makar Ivanovitch, and that I did not know the nature of the new impulse that had taken hold of me, but I had pronounced one word, though in delirium, " There is no seemliness in their lives ! " " 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
2. And then again : they have been teaching ever since the world began, and to what good purpose have they taught, that the world might be fairer and merrier, and the abode of every sort of joy ? And another thing I must tell you : they have no seemliness, they don't even want it at all ; all are ruined, but they boast of their own destruction ; but to return to the one Truth, they never think ; and to live without God is naught but torment
3. And so I will only say one thing : let the reader remember the soul of the spider; and that in the man who longed to get away from them all, and from the whole world £01 the sake of " seemliness ! " 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