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semblance
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    Rosaleen, on the other hand, had stopped all semblance of work and looked from June to Neil.†  (source)
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    He turns his back, allowing me some semblance of privacy.†  (source)
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    Never mind the severed heads and the men on crosses, at least there was some semblance of life.†  (source)
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    Thankfully, someone had created some semblance of order before they arrived.†  (source)
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    It didn't entirely disappear, but it gradually submerged, as semblances of order returned and our pattern of life assumed its new design.†  (source)
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    A little semblance round the forehead maybe, but this ain't her mouth.†  (source)
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    On top of each tomb, in full papal vestments, lay life-sized semblances of each Pope, shown in death, arms folded across their chests.†  (source)
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    He's wrestled his stock into the semblance of a bow.†  (source)
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    If there was anything that unsettled him it was for people not to be on the inside what their outward semblances led you to suppose.†  (source)
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    Once a semblance of silence had descended, I got on the public comm channel, which had the same effect as turning on a giant PA system.†  (source)
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    for, though she loved it and felt it tingle and sting, still these semblances, these triumphs (dear old Peter, for example, thinking her so brilliant), had a hollowness;†  (source)
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    How well I remember When it came as a visitor on foot And dwelt a while amongst us A melody in the semblance of a mountain cat.†  (source)
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    He wanted us turned into the semblances of boys, one way or another.†  (source)
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