All 7 Uses of
semblance
in
The House of Mirth
- But even to her own conscience she must trump up a semblance of defence.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- Lily shook her head with a charming semblance of regret.†
Chpt 1.8
- Oh, if he really understood—if he would help her to gather up her broken life, and put it together in some new semblance in which no trace of the past should remain!†
Chpt 1.15
- The Horse Show, some two weeks earlier, had produced a passing semblance of reanimation, filling the theatres and restaurants with a human display of the same costly and high-stepping kind as circled daily about its ring.†
Chpt 2.8
- But this lingering semblance of intimacy made her only the more conscious of a change in the relation between Mattie and herself, of a dawning discrimination, a gradually formed social standard, emerging from Mrs. Gormer's chaotic view of life.†
Chpt 2.8
- Hitherto, she had kept up a semblance of movement outside the main flow of the social current; but with the return to town, and the concentrating of scattered activities, the mere fact of not slipping back naturally into her old habits of life marked her as being unmistakably excluded from them.†
Chpt 2.8
- Though the blind was down, the irresistible sunlight poured a tempered golden flood into the room, and in its light Selden saw a narrow bed along the wall, and on the bed, with motionless hands and calm unrecognizing face, the semblance of Lily Bart.†
Chpt 2.14
Definition:
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(semblance) a small amount of something; or something resembling (looking like) something else