appearance

• And as our appearance was always sufficient to cause the colours of any ship we ever came across to be hauled down at once, there has been no occasion for shedding blood, even in fair and open fight. —  Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader
• Now go on, my boy, and explain the mystery of your sudden appearance here The prime cause of my appearance is the faithlessness of Bax," said Tommy. —  The Lifeboat
• I was thankful that I had seen the creature, for his appearance was a warning to us all not to venture into the water. —  The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco
• When we landed they lifted us up in their arms, and carried us thus to the mission house, where our appearance was a pleasant surprise to our sister-in-law, who had not been made aware of our arrival. —  The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific
• The alteration in his appearance was almost as striking as that which takes place in a country clown caught by a recruiting sergeant, half drunk at a fair, as he rolls on, looking every moment as if he was going to topple over, from public-house to public-house, and when he has been under the drill-sergeant's hands for a couple of years, and is turned into the trim, active, intelligent soldier. —  Ernest Bracebridge School Days

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