seeming

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The unseen Lord and his reported words were to Gibbie realities, compared with which the very visible Mr. Sclater and his assured utterance were as the merest seemings of a phantom mood.

From Sir Gibbie by MacDonald, George

As he leaned against it, almost in a terror of suspense, he knew he heard again those little seemings of a presence a door's thickness away.

From The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West by Wilson, Harry Leon

And be the star That guides him joyous as his seemings are!

From Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Murray, Gilbert

Oh, Salenciens, how ignorant must you be! how dark must be your state when, judging only by outward seemings, you crowned this girl for virtue! 

From The Young Lord and Other Tales to which is added Victorine Durocher by Weir, Harrison

Is not her tale well framed; and are you, or are you not deceived by her fair seemings?

From Shanty the Blacksmith; a Tale of Other Times by Sherwood, Mrs. (Mary Martha)