seemingness

"It's her energy, her seemingness of being on tip toe with rising vitality."

THE KANAKA SURF 2010

I had never seen her with so little wind-surface, and the three narrow strips of canvas, bellied to the seemingness of sheet-iron with the pressure of the wind, drove her before the gale at astonishing speed.

CHAPTER XXX 2010

In fact, the very source of that disquiet, I would argue, may lie in the seemingness of the inconsistence, in our uncertainty, our inability to collapse the subjunctivity level from "could not have happened" back to "could have happened" by way of a rational explanation.

Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008

In fact, the very source of that disquiet, I would argue, may lie in the seemingness of the inconsistence, in our uncertainty, our inability to collapse the subjunctivity level from "could not have happened" back to "could have happened" by way of a rational explanation.

Freeform Critique Hal Duncan 2008

She was expert, and her body was warm and sleek and pulsing with the seemingness of vitality.

Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990

She was expert, and her body was warm and sleek and pulsing with the seemingness of vitality.

Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990

"It's her energy, her seemingness of being on tip toe with rising vitality."

The Kanaka Surf 1919

I had never seen her with so little wind-surface, and the three narrow strips of canvas, bellied to the seemingness of sheet-iron with the pressure of the wind, drove her before the gale at astonishing speed.

Chapter 30 1914

I remember being struck with the extreme mild-seemingness of all the prisoners, and wondering how such men could have been capable of such frightful brutalities as they had been in Belgium -- they looked and behaved as if they wouldn't have hurt a fly.

The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 Edward Gleichen 1900

I had never seen her with so little wind-surface, and the three narrow strips of canvas, bellied to the seemingness of sheet-iron with the pressure of the wind, drove her before the gale at astonishing speed.

The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896