The village itself seemed outside the orbit of central government.

The village seems to be thriving with such free spirits.

Every village seemed to need one such woman, and she was the obvious candidate here.

The village did not seem to be of any obvious strategic value.

The village seems to have existed for over 1,000 years.

The village seems to have been excluded from the 1901 census.

The village seems well on its way to being abandoned.

They do this through a group effort to make the village seem like the doctor's personal idea of paradise.

For now, the village, settled by the French in the 1720's, seems to have come out a winner.

The village seems to have had a variation in spelling over the years, by the way.