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1 His manner had a semblance of the old, cool audacity.
2 By evening, the city had a semblance of calm.
3 The position taken appeared reasonable, and had a semblance of truth, and exerted its consequent influence.
4 The smoke-stacks had a semblance of pagodas.
5 And in the open squares angels that had a semblance to fishing-boats, bowed down in the blessedness of the twilight.
6 There was not much of the night left in which to sleep, even had a semblance of sleep been achievable.
7 When the voice had ceased and was quiet, I saw four great shades coming to us: they had a semblance neither sad nor glad.
8 That mere act of shutting himself and her apart, though it gave not one atom more of privacy, still had a semblance of giving it.
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