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a1225 St. Marher. 5 Lauerd..salue me mine wunden þat hit ne sem nowðer ne suteli omi samblant þat ich derf drehe.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2169 It semet wel ðat ge spies ben, And in-to ðis lond cumen to sen.

c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus ⁋355 And al be it so þat it seme that thou art in siker place, yet shaltow alwey do thy diligence in kepynge of thy persone.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10441 Ne wat þou noght, it semes nai, Quat a fest it es to dai?

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xvii. 184 And righte as it semethe to us, that thei ben undre us, righte so it semethe hem, that wee ben undre hem.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxii. 480 Yf it semeth you that I have doon amys, soo take ye amendes vpon me.

1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Ivij It semeth me, that it might be dispensed with in certayne cases.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 191 It seemes to me, That yet we sleepe, we dreame. View more context for this quotation

1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 52 It seemes you thought not our walkes pleasant enough for you.

1687 Lady Russell Let. 5 Oct. It seems I must remit seeing you, as you once kindly intended.

1747 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 541/1 It seems also that capt. Callis..fell in with and engaged this Spanish ship.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere in Poems (new ed.) I. 158 Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good.

1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert ix. 86 It seems to me..that looking into holes is a monotonous occupation.

1439 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 128 Like as in that partye after their conscience and good discrecions it shall seme hem necessarie for to be done and executed for the most ease of his entent.

1512 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 4 As it shall seym to my said feoffees mooste expediente.

1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. i. f. 6^v He besought them humbly y^t since it semed them best to deale so roughly w^t him they would graunt him liberty in his richest aray, to sing a song.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxix. 169 No man dare to obey the Soveraign Power farther than it shall seem good in his own eyes.

c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2131 Wende forþ in þi way, It semes astow were wode, To wede.

c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2097 It semeþ by his lat As he hir neuer had sene Wiþ siȝt.

1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. iii. 132 It seemed as though the Turks had come to their end and were dying out.

1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert vii. 63 It seemed to Jim as though the hour would never arrive at which the steamer was timed to get under way.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xviii. 117 Her suster, as it semed, cam softly walkynge.

1447 O. Bokenham Agatha in Lyvys Seyntys 369 For in hys conscyence ful confuse ys he And, as yt semyth, at hys wyttys ende.

1525 Sampson in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 263 His moderacion off gesture, cowntenance, and os it semyd allso of inwarde intente and mynde.

1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor ii. iii. sig. E4 Then you were a seruitor at both it seemes . View more context for this quotation

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 285 They were provided, it seems, only for the Ambassador Brugman, and his Ladies.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 305. ¶8 Six Professors, who it seems, are to be Speculative Statesmen.

1829 T. B. Macaulay Mill on Govt. in Edinb. Rev. Mar. 175 There is still, however, it seems, a hope for mankind.

1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 167 Who lived before the close, as it seems, of the sixteenth century b.c.

1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes 157 This case was so horrible, that it seemed to many not to speake it.

1525 Bp. J. Clerk in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 310 As for the maters off France, it shold seim that his Holynes rekonythe not gretly howe youe determyn them.

1606 P. Holland in tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars Annot. 31* For it should seeme that the Game of Tali heere mentioned was Pleistoboleuda [sic].

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. ii. 449 It should not, however, seem very difficult to distinguish those two parts of the rent from one another. View more context for this quotation

1816 W. Wordsworth Prose Wks. (1876) II. 11 It should seem that the ancients thought in this manner.

1826 R. H. Froude Remains (1838) I. 154 But, with regard to writings, as it would seem, the case is different.

1829 W. Whewell in J. M. Douglas Life & Corr. W. Whewell (1881) 129 All official papers were brought there: and among the rest it would seem these Cologne ones.

1875 A. C. Swinburne Ess. & Stud. Pref. 10 The accident of personal intimacy, it should seem, deprives you of all right to express admiration of what you might allowably have found admirable in a stranger.

1902 J. Gairdner Eng. Church 16th Cent. (1903) iv. 54 From all this it would seem that he could not have been much under fifty when he was compelled to abjure.

1442 T. Beckington Corr. (Rolls) II. 191 Sir, hit is semed right expedient unto suche as loveth the wele of the king [etc.].

1442 T. Beckington Corr. (Rolls) II. 219 As soon as hit shall be seemed unto you and hym to be doon.