In those days conversation was still cultivated as an art; a neat repartee was more highly valued than the crackling of thorns under a pot; and the epigram, not yet a mechanical appliance by which the dull may achieve a semblance of wit, gave sprightliness to the small talk of the urbane.
San Salvatore had taken her carefully built-up semblance of happiness away from her, and given her nothing in exchange.
Still, even in the strangest of shapes and those furthest removed from our own experience, we are capable of glimpsing a semblance of ourselves.
If sometimes in the haunts of men , Thine image from my breast may fade, , The lonely hour presents again , The semblance of thy gentle shade: ; And now that sad and silent hour , Thus much of thee can still restore, , And sorrow unobserved may pour The plaint she dare not speak before.
I said almost offhandedly, hoping to end my intrusion with some semblance of grace land to get back to searching for my friend), "I hope my marriage is still that passionate after twelve years!
Any semblance of a normal childhood was impossible for Fisher.
For many young tech workers, there's also no semblance of work-life balance: the job is their life.
,, No longer yours than you yourself here live; ,: Against this coming end you should prepare, , And your sweet semblance to some other give.
but, love, you are No longer yours than you yourself here live: Against this coming end you should prepare, And your sweet semblance to some other give.
Doctor Manette is honest and kind but suffers the persecution actually , Lucie is beautiful and gentle ,Charles is graceful and noble,Lorry is upright and honest ,Sydney is semblance of indifferent, innermost feelings of warm,unconventional but also selfless and lofty,Miss Pross is straightforward and loyal,Evremonde brothers are cruel and sinister.
She raised herself up, and wanted to stop the horse and spring off, but the Christian priest held her back with all his might, and then sang a pious song, as if this could loosen the wicked charm that had changed her into the semblance of a frog.
