Indeed, I was still badly burnt, but a man of some stature and seeming strength now, and indeed I could feel more of the old strength in my limbs.

Weak-spirited women died of fear as they listened to their denunciations; men of robust form and seeming strength fell into idiotcy and madness, racked by the dread of coming eternity.

Writing to his father, he observed that while the leather tanner employed large sums of capital, his seeming strength was illusory because of his heavy expenses.

But their seeming strength was undermined by the severe losses they suffered in almost all of Albania's cities and by a widening split between reformers and hard-liners.

Preference for Viacom That helps explain why traders favored the Viacom bid yesterday despite the seeming strength of the total value of QVC's offer.

But Mr. Miller's seeming strength is likely to chill the ambitions of many, particularly since the congressmen would have to resign their relatively safe seats to run for the Senate.

Ansset, for all his seeming strength, was far more fragile than that.

"They tend not to greatly enhance the seeming strengths of folk like you," Jeanie said "On a basis of one hundred, they would make you seem like eighty five."

I wonder which nation will next break the chains of Rome, now your king and ours have proved those fetters so fragile, for all their seeming strength.

The steep decline has highlighted the seeming strength of Americans' concern about war-related terrorism or other risks abroad.