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seemly
1. He and Marsha had not brought theirs, she had only one maidservant and Delos had too many to be seemly
2. They tore past the minister himself, just coming home from the station; he, being a little less dreamy and abstracted than usual--owing to having had a talk on the train with Miss Cornelia who always wakened him up temporarily--noticed them, and thought he really must speak to Faith about it and tell her that such conduct was not seemly
3. unpunished, and he who speaks lies shall perish; delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for the servant to have rule over princes
4. 9 Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord
5. directed his seemly random flight into Midian, the name of the priest of Midian was
6. 53 Jesus said to her It is not seemly that the children's bread should be taken and thrown to the dogs; But she said Yes my Lord: the dogs also eat of the crumbs that fall from their masters' tables and live; Then said Jesus to her O woman great is your faith; It shall be to you as you have desired
7. 2 For whoever that has tarried among you has not approved your most virtuous and firm faith has not admired your sober and seemly piety in Christ has not proclaimed your splendid disposition of hospitality has not deemed blessed your perfect and unerring knowledge? 3 For you did all things without respect of persons and walked in the laws of God submitting yourselves to those who have the rule over you and giving the due honour to the presbyters that are among you
8. Nor,’ he continued, lip curled in distaste, ‘do I think it seemly for a teacher and his pupil to indulge in such close physical contact
9. 13 As they neared Jerusalem, the crowd became more demonstrative, so much so that some of the Pharisees made their way up alongside Jesus and said: "Teacher, you should rebuke your disciples and exhort them to behave more seemly
10. It wouldn’t have been seemly to start a fight at a funeral
11. “(How much more seemly) had they been content with that which Allah and His messenger had given them and had said: Allah sufficeth us
12. supposed to champion the Princess but she has not yet arrived and as I have already said, it is not seemly for a lady to walk alone this late in the evening
13. Barnes both more prudent and more seemly than a stick
14. Barnes in the middle, and the room gently echoed with seemly and strictly wholesome mirth
15. A third time he stopped; pulled up, I suppose, by the thought that it was perhaps not quite seemly to draw the attention of even the angels to an unrelated lady's bed
16. As such she was continually quoted by the vicar's wife, and Lady Shuttleworth had felt an honest pride in this ordered and seemly death-bed
17. "Is it seemly to burst in on a man like this? Have you no decency? No respect for another's privacy? Begone, I command you--begone! Begone!" And he made the same movements with his hands that persons do when they shoo away fowls or other animals in
18. "It's not seemly for a young lady to pay calls on a young gentleman alone
19. Simon ran off, leaving the two wizards to follow at a more seemly gait
20. " Life is so full of ironies! She held me so tight, so close to her, I wanted to tell her it was not seemly
21. According to Tina, the absent Streatham flatmate, Sidney Wilks wasn't the solid citizen his privet hedge proclaimed, but had used his respectability as a shield for something far from seemly
22. Pious, well-meant reproof requires a different demeanour and arguments of another sort; at any rate, to have reproved me in public, and so roughly, exceeds the bounds of proper reproof, for that comes better with gentleness than with rudeness; and it is not seemly to call the sinner roundly blockhead and booby, without knowing anything of the sin that is reproved
23. But I would have thee bear in mind, Sancho, that very often it is fitting and necessary for the authority of office to resist the humility of the heart; for the seemly array of one who is invested with grave duties should be such as they require and not measured by what his own humble tastes may lead him to prefer
24. And while her matrons all in seemly sort
25. This hoile's neither mensful nor seemly for us: we mun side out and seearch another
26. Kingsbridge: it was not considered seemly to dress richly when living in a nunnery, even for noble guests
27. He was shouting for the very course Sergey Ivanovitch had proposed; but it was evident that he hated him and all his party, and this feeling of hatred spread through the whole party and roused in opposition to it the same vindictiveness, though in a more seemly form, on the
28. He observed what he thought was a seemly period of silence, as if weighing his options
29. “Lord Ashford had a mind to grant the place to Lord Caron, or perhaps the other Ser Humfrey, the one who gave Hardyng such a splendid match, but Prince Baelor told him that it would not be seemly to remove Ser Humfrey’s shield and pavilion under the circumstances
30. I knew I had to learn them by heart, for it isn’t seemly to whip out a calculator while seducing a lady
31. This hoile’s neither mensful nor seemly for us: we mun side out and seearch another
32. Every day and every hour, every minute, walk round yourself and watch yourself, and see that your image is a seemly one
33. The latter informed him that he wished well to the unfortunate young man, and would gladly do what he could to “save him,” but that he did not think it would be seemly for him to interfere in this matter
34. We wear the “evening dress” because we have been taught that it is respectable and seemly