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Meanings of seemed a child in English

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Usage of seemed a child in English
1
Though taller than the lieutenant, Goldberg seemed a child in Buccari's presence.
Genellan: planetfall
2
I thought of her as twelve-fourteen- anindefinitedate ;butshe seemed a child.
Villette
3
She seemed a child, not yet on the threshold of womanhood, but was actually seventeen.
Odd John
4
Already a man, he still seemed a child.
Les Misérables
5
The girl-sheseemed a child now-followedher.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
6
At times he seemed a child in a giant's body; at other times he was just plain odd.
Assail
7
Tonio moaned, blind for a little while, struggling, his flesh so hot he seemed a child consumed with a fever.
Cry to heaven
8
At sight of the unconscious maiden, who near the enormous Lygian seemed a child, emotion seized the multitude of knights and senators.
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
9
He seemed a child again, sitting close to old Paolo's side and listening to his tales of happenings in the long ago.
Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon
10
He was a strong man, just approaching middle age for a human, perhaps almost thirty, which seemed a child to Igraine's seven hundred years.
The Irda (Children of the Stars)
11
Now she seemed a child on whom the world pressed heavily before her time for suffering had come; she had so motherless a look.
Running Water
12
He was an unaccountable little creature; in size and years he seemed a child; but in his activity and agility he seemed almost a man.
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
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