| 单词 | seemliness |
| 例句 | Oh, I knew it well, who had believed in grieving's seemliness; I knew it as well as she—Clytie—knew it. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z And so begins the modern mother's journey: a relentless quest for respectability, seemliness, conformity and one-dimensional perfection. Mothers, enough of the simpering please! 2013-06-29T06:29:01Z But with modern notions of seemliness, these pieces were discreetly removed from exhibition catalogues. The godmother of manga sex in Japan - BBC News 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z He was both exploitative of and deferential to them, telling their stories without regard for seemliness and without filtering out personal details – but in doing so, he achieved a collective dignity for all the afflicted. Tea with Oliver Sacks: Will Self, Andrew Solomon and Sue Halpern pay tribute 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z “There is such a thing as seemliness, decorum, respect for high office,” he wrote. Hillary Clinton’s unseemly speechifying 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z He was doubtful at first, he says, about the need for, or the seemliness of, yet another book. Willie Nelson: ‘I’ve bought a lot of pot, and now I’m selling some back’ 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z His Spirit is a spirit of seemliness and reverence. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z Let each of you, brethren, in his own rank give thanks to God, maintaining a good conscience, and not transgressing the appointed rule of his service, but acting with all seemliness. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z The spectator has no sense that these people turned out at church time, raging, leering, tottering, have deteriorated from any average or standard of human seemliness. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z The gross excessiveness of it all, vacuuming up six-figure checks well past the point of rational need or political seemliness. Hillary Clinton’s unseemly speechifying 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z They have proved themselves unfitted for their environment; they cannot act in it with any regularity or seemliness: its laws are not their laws. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z At Nantes in Bretaigne dwelt a lady who was rich in beauty and wisdom and all seemliness. Tales from the Old French 2011-07-09T02:00:12.200Z "One can never see any thing, or enjoy any thing, because of that tiresome seemliness," said Ulrica, pettishly, and followed her sister reluctantly into the ladies' apartment. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:29.790Z But all centred in an air of high-bred dignity, of graceful, polished seemliness and wit—it cost an effort to turn away one’s eyes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z In the large hall the leaders feasted and drank with little more of refinement and seemliness than the vulgar people, except that they drank wine and mead. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z To be the magnet which could draw that pattern and exemplar of seemliness from the strict orbit of virtuous custom! Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z The day had not yet dawned when a woman could, "with seemliness," said Willibald Pirkheimer, "enter the field of public disputation." Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) If she had led a gypsy life, it was not because her starved heart yearned the less tumultuously for order and the seemliness of walls. Old Crow But here it never deviated from dignity and seemliness; it only seemed new and true, and the best gift of God. The Thread of Gold The Syracusan bride leads a lioness, and these are followed by a train of maidens and wild beasts, the last reduced to a pictorial seemliness and decorative calm, very fortunate under the circumstances. Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work He must study expression and personality; he must keep his spirit sensitive to any hint of truth or beauty, any generous and ardent intuition, any grace and seemliness of thought. Beside Still Waters Now Japanese architecture is only wood, but though only wood, as regards its majestic beauty, seemliness, and adaptability to the purposes for which it is intended, it stands unique. The Empire of the East It was probable that Rendel's ambition, his determined purpose, would always be hampered by his old-fashioned, almost quixotic ideas of loyalty, his conception of the seemliness, the dignity of the relations between husband and wife. The Arbiter A Novel Now with more seemliness we may enquire, After repast, what guests we have received. The Odyssey of Homer Honor, common sense, seemliness, and conscience seem to belong to the individual domain. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Even unlucky devils, such as myself, are not without a certain respect for that which is fitting, for seemliness and etiquette. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The gigantic hoops in which ladies had delighted had diminished, had dwindled, and gowns were of a slender seemliness. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III To the bride the painter has given a face full of charm, of seemliness, of reserve. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. But the temptation to overstep the bounds of seemliness is so great that it is seldom the collector stops at a mere frontispiece. The Book-Hunter at Home As to honor and seemliness, the popular view seems to be that each one has a fountain of inspiration in himself to furnish him with guidance. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals There is no knight living now that ought to give God so great thanks as thou; for He hath given thee beauty, seemliness, and great strength, above all other knights. Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" But if we go at times to our Joyous Gard, we can bring back into common life something of the grace and seemliness and courtesy of the place. Joyous Gard But there is a seemliness about such procedure. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 This question of seemliness, too, must be considered carefully ere we add a single plate to any volume. The Book-Hunter at Home In the Middle Ages very great attention was given to seemliness in the private conduct of individuals. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Female parts were played by boys or men—a substitution lacking, from the modern point of view, in grace and seemliness. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays This meant then that their daughter had something particular to say to them, and it could not with any seemliness be put off longer. The Bridal March; One Day He had had no thought for her, no care save that the seemliness of his own absorbed life might not be disturbed. A Lost Leader Presently they three saw one another as with a single eye, wherefore they slackened their pace and walked with seemliness to the door. My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People Torture, persecution, violent measures, would all have been impossible if there had been a sense of seemliness. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals What is lost in seemliness is gained in strength. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson And seemliness complete, that sways Thy courtesies, about three plays. What Great Men Have Said About Women Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 77 There was a very particular seemliness in this—though I had not much time to think of it then. Oddsfish! Some are very kind and dear; and some are not so—only the ordinary seemliness of polite sniffle-snaffle. An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Beyond the domain of propriety lie the domains of politeness, courtesy, good manners, seemliness, breeding, and good form. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals There was nothing in his appearance which grated particularly upon Mr. Weatherley's sense of seemliness. The Lighted Way We have our faults—crime and vice flourish; but, from the Court down to the simplest middle-class society in our provincial towns, the spread of seemliness and purity is distinctly marked. Side Lights I speak as my father's son, and in my house I will have privacy and seclusion and seemliness. The Hawk of Egypt All man's seemliness and affection for the natural things of earth were absent. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance The union of intelligence, affection, and seemliness was startling to Esther's mind. David Lockwin—The People's Idol But ah! whence and why this spell, this sorcery—why this sweetness filling all her being, when, after all, duty and seemliness bade it all to end, as end it must, to-day? The Mississippi Bubble His own rough life, both before and since the war, had only increased a natural instinct for order and seemliness. Harvest To him I presented myself fearlessly as a spinster of decent family and small but assured income, intending a rural life of combined seemliness and economy. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts All Art is worthy, and can be seriously considered, so long as the intention be good and the efforts to achieve success be conducted with seemliness. The Drama But a leaven of propriety has now crept in, and the evil beings who were wont to pollute the sweet air preserve some moderate measure of seemliness. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Antonyms: undeceive, disillusionize, disabuse. deceiver, n. impostor, charlatan, mountebank, swindler, knave, cogger. decency, n. propriety, seemliness, decorum, modesty, Antonyms: See indecency. decent, a. suitable, modest, decorous, seemly, respectable. Putnam's Word Book But he is a great lord, and in seemliness he asks for a lie, and that which he asks is given to him—in seemliness. Judith, a play in three acts Founded on the Apocryphal Book of Judith The whole world is sick of that very ail, of being seen, and of seemliness. Ralph Waldo Emerson Unequal to the exercise of virtue itself, he thought he had done enough in preserving some of its seemliness. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas Pyot thought that the latter had been more reasonable, that he would have understood the weight of authority, and also of seemliness, which was of equally grave importance. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk Washington goes into this sphere with a propriety and seemliness not always observable in others of his high cast, but often signally the reverse. Washington in Domestic Life He was champion of men, if his boyhood had faults; And he ever loved honour and seemliness too. Theocritus, translated into English Verse It was of no great seemliness, but upon it were inscribed characters of magic power, and the chief wisely cherished it among his treasures. American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent The King espieth it nigh at hand, but none seeth he within nor without save one old man, ancient and bald, of right passing seemliness that held the rudder of the ship. The High History of the Holy Graal These were the only traces of luxury, of that clinging to the minute observance of personal seemliness, which showed what her other renunciations must have cost. House of Mirth And yet she had no cause to complain that his attention passed the boundary of rigid seemliness. The Indian Lily and Other Stories Nay, your honour," said Phoebe, "I scorn the old man's words, in the way of seemliness or unseemliness either. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier She was not admiring her own seemliness; far from it; she was rating and despising herself for a feather-brained waverer and good-for-nothing. Delia Blanchflower There was no seemliness in its main streets; little huckstering shops hustled larger and more pretentious shops, but all of them had an air of vivacious vulgarity. The Foolish Lovers Tidiness, seemliness, order, are taught, like everything else, by example, and from one cause and another this example has not been widely set the French peasant. The Roof of France From a sense of Christian seemliness, he feared to scandalize his brethren by imitating the desolation of the pagans and of those who die without hope. Saint Augustin I've asked my brother-in-law, I don't know how many times, why they can't do better by this unfortunate campus and bring it all up to a reasonable level of seemliness. Bertram Cope's Year Refinement, seemliness, "ladylikeness,"—even Sir Robert Blanchflower in his sorest moments would scarcely have denied her these. Delia Blanchflower There was no gormandising with me, no handsome slaves in waiting, and at my table your sons saw more seemliness than at head-quarters. The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History In the former, it was pure philanthropy; the same feeling urged him to seek out and relieve distress in humble life; while in the latter it was love of station and seemliness. Precaution Thou sayest true, Jacopo: the truth is never in greater danger, than when whole communities lend themselves to the vicious deception of seemliness, and without truth there is no virtue. The Bravo Not for her were the flaring, coarse, scant garments whose lack of seemliness was supposed to be atoned for by a profusion of cheap, sleazy trimming. The Power and the Glory Behold a lady sweet and fair In simple dress, But right well clothed upon is she With seemliness. Margery — Complete Only in the church and the manor is there any care for seemliness and stateliness. Escape, and Other Essays It ends in a mournful and distracted kind of fatigue, a tired sort of padding along after life, a timid bewilderment at conditions which one cannot alter, and which yet have no dignity or seemliness. Where No Fear Was Now for a fair copy, and in a hand, mind you, that gave no hint of his care for caligraphic seemliness: bold, forthright. Born in Exile On his return after bathing, he found the breakfast-table very carelessly laid, with knives unpolished, and other such neglects of seemliness. The Whirlpool Her, whose each act Shows but a mettled modest woman's zeal, Without a hazard of her dignity Or moment's sacrifice of seemliness, To fend off ill from home! The Dynasts But, as wonder gave place to conviction of the truth, he extolled in the amplest terms the constancy and virtue and seemliness with which Zinevra, erstwhile Sicurano, had ordered her life. The Decameron, Volume I And there was a native dignity, and, above all, a wonderful seemliness, about the Klosking that inspired respect. A Woman-Hater So the Emir went out from her, without having gotten a single dirham; and on this wise she delivered the Jew by the seemliness of her stratagem. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] He replied, "O Vicar of Allah, these be no dogs, but two young men, endowed with beauty and seemliness, symmetry and shapeliness, and they are my brothers and the sons of my father and mother." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 A cultivated understanding, and an affectionate heart, will never want starched rules of decorum, something more substantial than seemliness will be the result; and, without understanding, the behaviour here recommended, would be rank affectation. Vindication of the Rights of Woman In truth, there were not too many people in London who, in their situation, would have behaved with such seemliness—not too many so civilised as they! Fraternity He was always so anxious to find seemliness, happiness, and peace in everything, and I should have been proud to let him see us. War and Peace |
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