We never seem to be able to do anything in proper style.

German authors dwell at length on the fact that many priests, very early in their career, contract the habit of faulty vocalisation of liturgy, and that they never seem to notice their fault, or at least never seem to attempt an amendment.

But did it never seem to you that this strange wayward spirit, if anything, was the very root and core of your own personality?

She was one of those helpless, clinging girls who never seem to understand anything clearly.

You never seem to be at a loss for conversation.

So he buttoned the left glove with careful scrutiny and said, "They always start those boats at such absurd hours; the tides never seem to suit one; you have to go on board without breakfast, or else stay on board the night before, and that's so unpleasant.

He had an infinite advantage in this duel of words, for he could watch from under the shadow of his long, dark lashes the effect of his speeches on the cowboy, yet never seem to be looking.

" Certain races may have been regularly trained by position and necessity in certain particular arts,as Sandwich-Islanders in swimming, and our Indians in running,and may naturally surpass the average skill of those who are comparatively out of practice in that speciality; yet it is remarkable that their greatest feats even in these ways never seem to surpass those achieved by picked specimens of civilization.

"Trouble is I never seem to have the sense to look untilafterward.

Some chaps never seem to cause their-mothers any worry or heart ache.

Hence no doubt the necessity of maintaining discipline rather by means of corporal punishment (to which the Romans never seem to have objected, though Quintilian criticises it) than by moral force; a fact which is attested both in literature and art.

It is necessary to place this definition of the first part of the belief of the Egyptian at the beginning of the first chapter of this brief account of the principal religious ideas which he held, for the whole of his theology and religion was based upon it; and it is also necessary to add that, however far back we follow his literature, we never seem to approach a time when he was without this remarkable belief.

Your mamma is cross sometimes, that is to say, she does not always give you all you ask for, crosses you now and then, is that all?" "Oh no Emilie, there are Mary and Ellinor, they never seem to like me to be with them, they are so full of their own plans and secrets.

Matilda Jane! Matilda, darling, when I call You never seem to hear at all; I shout with all my might and main, But you're so deaf, Matilda Jane! Matilda Jane, you needn't mind,

Others never seem to think about it in the least.

"Metals and blossoms never seem to me to go well together," confessed Mrs. Emerson.

If he had to tackle my dutiesbut men never seem to understand how much there is to do in a house.

To myself relations with others are cheerful enough, interesting, perplexingbut seldom absorbing, or overwhelming; such experiences never seem to say the ultimate word or to sound the deeper depth.

He had to tell her that Some Women never seem to Appreciate having Husbands to Grind and Toil all day, so as to be able to purchase Beautiful Gifts for them.

The first Rule I shall propose to be observed is, that you never seem to dislike in another what the Jealous Man is himself guilty of, or to admire any thing in which he himself does not excel.

Philandering, and especially philandering of the Platonic and ultra-sentimental order, is almost the one human pastime of which its votaries never seem to tire; and its constant ministrations to human vanity may serve, perhaps, to account for their unwearied absorption in its pursuit.

How is it you never seem to have money for anything now?

A few driving deer wander around, with their noses to the ground, looking for something that they never seem to find; evil-looking ravensthe scavengers of Tunguse encampmentsflap heavily past with hoarse croaks to a patch of blood-stained snow where a reindeer has recently been slaughtered; and in the foreground, two or three grey, wolfish dogs with cruel, light-coloured eyes, are gnawing at a half-stripped reindeer's head.

"They never seem to sit down like other people," one of the Chinese said pathetically.

"She will never seem to be the wife of my son," she said, "but she will make her children look like his children.