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• Besides, the elder Scaliger was drunk pretty often, and Joe seems rather 'fresh' at times Upon consideration, it may be as well to repeat what it is that Scaliger is reported to have said The Epistle of Jude is not his_, as neither is that of James, nor the second of Peter, in all which are strange things that seem (seem--mark that!) —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
• My cousin, the Professor of Paleontology, half of whose life was spent in the desert of Egypt digging for papyri in old dust-heaps, was considered the most appropriate person to stand sponsor for me--a would-be pioneer of a new civilization in the sub-arctic The words with which the Public Orator introduced me to the Vice-Chancellor, being in Latin, seem to me interesting as a relic rather than as a statement of fact Insignissime Vice-Cancellarie vosque egregii Procuratores: Adest civis Britannicus, hujus academić olim alumnus, nunc Novum Orbem incolentibus quam nostratibus notus.
• The words of some authors are said to have "hands and feet"; they seem, that is, to have a vigor and animation which only belong to things which live and move. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• Books, he says, written in plain English, "seem like shopkeepers' boxes, that contain nothing else save halfpence, three-farthings, and two-pences." —  The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse
• He and my son was always shut up in Rufus's office Did he seem--seem unhappy, Mrs. Carder Well--yes. —  In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date

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