| Never let the parents know, he had warned what seemed like mere glasses ago. |
| Pointless meandering in a wooded area may have, at one time, seemed like a ticket to Tinseltown respect and royalties. |
| On the other hand, the pine, ash, iron, tinplate, metal type, and tools with which we worked at Eastfield seemed very real indeed. |
| He definitely was not drunk now, but mere moments ago, he had seemed to be as drunk as an alcoholic. |
| After moving men and dunnage to the two ships, it seemed almost at the moment he was about to give the order to set sail, they were becalmed. |
| It was actually quite funny to him how the bullet weapons had seemed so advanced to him a mere seven moths ago. |
