To Basilides, Christ seemed to men to be a man and to have performed miracles.

Too soon had he attacked, though the years may have seemed long to mortal men.

But, melancholy as the deserted and shattered city might seem to a casual visitor, to men out of the line it spelled life.

"I neglected to think of how it might seem to older men for a new young woman rabbi to teach them about tefillin," she said.

It seems to me men like that have no easy road ahead.

What seemed like legends or madness to men was at the center of a woman's life.

But a distance of two days' ride seems like the world to men like them.

Fair weather and clear sun had seemed but a mockery to men whose days held little hope, and who looked each morning for news of doom.

"No trade is simple," Godarz would say, "though some seem so to simple men."

And it seemed to men that Sauron was great; though they feared the light of his eyes.