semblant
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In semblant points all eyes may read The fact.
From Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Sarah Anne Curzon
After gastelich, e erased. ⁊ hwer se he is ȝemeles; nis hare nan þe ne feareð ofte untoheliche. ⁊ gulteð ilome. oðer ifol semblant; oder in vuel dede.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall
But because she would not it were known, outward she kept her countenance, and made no semblant of sorrow.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
Sir Tristram made semblant as if he were sorry, and yet better knew he how it was than the king.
From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by U. Waldo Cutler
Then took he again his sword and put it up in his sheath, and made a cross in his forehead, and came to the lions, and they made semblant to do him harm.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed
