Strangely Sentence Examples

The voice was strangely timid.

The name looks strangely familiar.

The idea she had a choice was strangely empowering.

We do seem strangely drawn to war.

The pupils in his eyes were dilated so large that his eyes looked black in a face that had gone strangely pale.

The stranger glowed strangely in the otherwise dim lighting.

He felt strangely sorry for her, suddenly left alone by death, or perhaps duplicity.

It'd been only a week and a half since she ventured into this new world, but she felt strangely exposed without Pierre with her.

He has, in truth, behaved very strangely ever since we came to Brewster.

Both Deans agreed the letters were polite but of zero historical interest and strangely unloving.

The ancient historians, who together cover this period, are strangely indifferent to the importance of the Jews, upon which Josephus is at pains to insist.

On July 11 1918 he accepted under the title of" Mindove II., King of Lithuania,"thus strangely choosing the style of a heathen prince of the 13th century who fiercely resisted the Teutonic order.

He knew the yellow shirted rider was long gone, but strangely, it didn't seem to matter anymore.

The creature within her was strangely still, as if it, too, were caught off guard.

Except in strangely making Zephaniah contemporary with Isaiah, Hobbes' conclusions, in so far as they differ from the traditional views, have been confirmed by the more thorough criticism of subsequent scholars.

Strangely enough, however, the missing name of the governor under whom the census of the Nativity was carried out appears to be supplied by an author who wrote more than a century after St Luke, and has by no means a good reputation for historical trustworthiness.

In his professional capacity, his attitude was correct enough; and, indeed, his anxiety for the French alliance and for the marriage between Elizabeth and Anjou led him to suggest concessions to Anjou's Catholic susceptibilities which came strangely from so staunch a Puritan.

The evening was strangely silent and as she paused with her hand at the door, she listened in vain for sounds within.

Hardy, simple and industrious, fond of music, kind-hearted, and with a strangely artistic taste in dress, these people possess in a wonderful degree the secret of cheerful contentment.

Of these the most important are Alexander of Macedon and Charlemagne, while alongside of them Priam and other heroes of the Trojan war appear during the middle ages in strangely altered guise.

It is essentially woman's work, though among the Pueblos, strangely enough, men are weavers.

Yesterday's perplexities are strangely simple to-day, and to-day's difficulties become to-morrow's pastime.

And yet she found Keaton strangely intriguing.

It is taken, strangely enough, from an Israelite source, but the tone of the whole is quite dispassionate and objective.

They could even discern dimly some generalized stock whence had descended whole groups that now differed strangely in habits and appearance - their discernment aided, may be, by some isolated form which yet retained undeniable traces of a primitive structure.

The popular faith was full of heathenish superstition strangely blended with the higher ideas which were the inheritance left to Israel by men like Moses and Elijah; but the common prophets accepted all alike, and combined heathen arts of divination and practices of mere physical enthusiasm with a not altogether insincere pretension that through their professional oracles the ideal was being maintained of a continuous divine guidance of the people of Yahweh.

And yet strangely enough the States of Holland themselves were not really representative of the people of that province, but only of the limited, self-coopting burgher aristocracies of Amster- certain towns, each of which with its rights and liberties the highest abilities and of soaring ambition.

In this spirit he at once set to work to reconstruct the state, on lines that strangely anticipated the principles of the Constituent Assembly of 1789.

For an abstract thinker he was strangely in love with the concrete facts of life.

Strangely enough, it is not recorded what part Trachis played in the defence of Thermopylae against Xerxes.

He built places of worship in many different districts, and at length became the recognized chief of the people among whom he had thus strangely cast his lot.

But when the word is used without any other qualification, it indicates the Temesvar banat, which strangely acquired this title after the peace of Passarowitz (1718), though it was never governed by a ban.

However this may be, remnants of their primitive superhuman qualities cling to the Celtic heroes long after they have been transfigured, under the influence of Christianity and chivalry, into the heroes of the medieval Arthurian romance, types - for the most part - of the knightly virtues as these were conceived by the middle ages; while shadowy memories of early myths live on, strangely disguised, in certain of the episodes repeated uncritically by the medieval poets.

Beyond a doubt he was not without a certain moral timidity contrasting strangely with his eager temperament and alertness of intellect; but, though he was not cast in a heroic mould, he must have been one of the most amiable of men.

Vigfusson, Origines Islandicae (1905), which strangely expresses a preference for the Flatey Book " account of the first sighting of the American continent" by the Norsemen.

Upon one famous occasion in 1892 he succeeded in bringing to a peaceful solution a long and bitter strike which had divided the masters and men in the Durham collieries; and his success was due to the confidence which he inspired by the extraordinary moral energy of his strangely "prophetic" personality, at once thoughtful, vehement and affectionate.

The symmetry is remarkable, and the reverberations are strangely musical.

Strangely enough, this liberty meant increase of power for the Clericals; for besides putting an end to stringent state interference in the education of future priests, it made possible a free and far-reaching Catholic school system whose crown was the episcopally controlled university of Louvain (1834).

The housewife long persisted in deceiving herself by purchasing filled calicoes, and the movement in favour of purer goods owes a good deal, strangely enough, to the increase in the making-up trade and the consequent inconveniences to workers of sewing machines, whose needles were constantly broken by hard filled calicoes.

By settling along the Syrian coast they developed a strangely un-Semitic love for the sea, and advanced on different lines from the other Canaanites who occupied the interior.

As a thank-offering for the overthrow of Greek freedom, it might seem strangely placed in the Olympian Altis.

The evacuation of Egypt by Antiochus Epiphanes at the bidding of the Roman ambassadors suits the warning addressed to "Greece" (732-740) against overweening ambition and any attempt upon the Holy City, which is somewhat strangely enforced by the famous Greek oracle, "Let Camarina be, 'tis best unstirred."

Other pecuniary embarrassments arose from a contract for supplying fish to Venice, into which Paolo had somewhat strangely entered with the government.

After his return to Greenland, several successive expeditions visited the new lands, none of which (strangely enough) experienced any difficulty in finding Leif's hut in the distant Vinland.

Sicily, strangely enough, became the cradle of Italian song.

Rockets and other fireworks were also let off, but the best, strangely, after daybreak.

In his larger political relations Sixtus, strangely enough, showed himself visionary and vacillating.

Severity and extreme lenity were strangely mingled in the treatment he received.

Between 680 and 670 the Cimmerians in their destructive progress over Asia Minor overran Phrygia; the king Midas in despair put an end to his own life; and from henceforth the history of Phrygia is a story of slavery, degradation and decay, which contrasts strangely with the earlier legends.

After a profession of faith in the Buddha, the doctrine and the order, there follows a paragraph setting out the thirty-four constituents of the human body - bones, blood, nerves and so on - strangely incongruous with what follows.

The Acts of St John, attributed to Prochorus, narrates the miracles wrought by the apostle during his stay on the island, but, strangely enough, while describing how the Gospel was revealed to him in Patmos, it does not so much as mention the Apocalypse.

He had also, strangely enough, the power of captivating honest men like Moreau.

The same associations are those of the Moslem, whose religion has so strangely absorbed the prophets and traditions of the older faiths.

All of them recognize a common code or unwritten law called Pukhtunwali, which appears to be similar in general character to the old Hebraic law, though modified by Mahommedan ordinances, and strangely similar in certain particulars to Rajput custom.

Nevertheless, rhetoric and disputation, though at the present day strangely neglected in English schools and universities, are, within their limits, valuable instruments; and, as specialization in teaching does not necessarily imply specialization in learning, many of those who attended the lectures and the classes of a rhetorician or an eristic sought and found other instruction elsewhere.

The exact dates of the stages in this development cannot be fixed, for strangely enough few inscriptions of any length have been found at Petra, 4 perhaps because they have perished with the stucco or cement which was used upon many of the buildings.

If this Danish Beowulf had been the hero of the poem, the opening would have been appropriate; but it seems strangely out of place as an introduction to the story of his namesake.

Usually the sides of the carapace are strangely produced into a mock rostrum in front of the ocular lobe, be it oculiferous or not.

One thing which gives these poems their strangely unique power is the sentiment to which they appeal, and the saintly character of the poet who makes the appeal, illumining more or less every poem.

Yet he has a style of language and a cadence of his own, which steal into the heart with strangely soothing power.

The Exodus is a fine poem, strangely unlike anything else in Old English literature.

On their west edge lies an abrupt, massive, and strangely uniform chain of mountains, known in the neighbourhood of Colorado Springs as the Rampart Range, and in the extreme north as the Front Range, and often denominated as a whole by the latter name.

The royal personages of Sweden have commonly been protectors of literature; they have strangely often been able men of letters themselves.

The insect life of these strangely associated regions is likewise greatly restricted by adverse climatic conditions, a considerable part of the northern desert being absolutely barren of animal and vegetable life, while the climate of Tierra del Fuego and the southern coast is highly unfavourable to terrestrial animal life, for which reason comparatively few species are to be found.

I r, is strangely interpolated into the story of the visit of the queen of Sheba, perhaps because there is a closer connexion between the two events than appears at first sight.

Gelimer, who was strangely ignorant of the plans of Justinian, had sent his brother Tzazo with some of his best troops to quell a rebellion in Sardinia (that island as well as the Balearic Isles forming part of the Vandal dominions), and the landing of Belisarius was entirely unopposed.

They are all marked by arrogant dogmatism, violence of language, a constant tendency to selfglorification, strangely combined with extensive real knowledge, with acute reasoning, with an observation of facts and details almost unparalleled.

Portuguese cabinet-work deteriorated in the 19th century; the glassworks and potteries of the Aveiro and Leiria districts have lost much of their ancient reputation; and even the exquisite lace of Peniche and Vianna do Castello is strangely neglected abroad.

If a rigid rod, or a wing with a rigid anterior margin, be made to vibrate, the vibration is characterized by an unequal jerky motion, at the end of the down and up strokes, which contrasts strangely with the smooth, steady fanning movement peculiar to natural wings.

He was strangely unlike the commanders of his time in many respects, though as a matter of course he was, when he saw fit to follow the accepted rules, equal to any in careful and methodical strategy.

Strangely enough, however, the government passed over the incriminating conversation with Greenway, and relied entirely on the strong circumstantial evidence to support the charge of high treason against the prisoner.

The strong language in which he described them strangely misled all his earlier biographers except Southey.

Among its greatest achievements, apart from the philanthropic institutions founded at Halle, were the organization of the Moravian Church in 1727 by Count von Zinzendorf, Spener's godson and a pupil in the Halle Orphanage, and the establishment of the great Protestant missions, Ziegenbalg and others being the pioneers of an enterprise which until this time Protestantism had strangely neglected.

Strangely enough, those documents which bear the greatest resemblance to a small collection of canonical regulations, such as the Didache, the Didascalia and the Canons of Hippolytus, have not been retained, and find no place in the collections of canons, doubtless for the reason that they were not official documents.

Strangely enough it was this cession of a Northumbrian earldom to the Northern king that ultimately made Scotland an Englishspeaking country.

Nothing came of the project, which contrasts strangely with the greater part of Henrys sober and cautious schemes.

But if Harding the Berkeley ancestor be the Harding who, as the queen's butler, witnesses King Edward's Waltham charter of 1062, his dates seem strangely apart from those of Robert his son, dead a hundred and eight years later.

His reminiscences of "Things Seen" in the course of a strangely varied experience, and his notes of travel among the Alps and Pyrenees, in the north of France and in Belgium, in the south of France and in Burgundy, are all recorded by such a pen and registered by such a memory as no other man ever had at the service of his impressions or his thoughts.

Yet they were never assimilated by Kepler; while, on the other hand, the laws of planetary circulation he had enounced were strangely ignored by Galileo.

Great as was the importance of these paradoxes of plurality and motion in stimulating speculation about space and time, their direct influence upon Greek thought was less considerable than that of another paradox - strangely neglected by historians of philosophy - the paradox of predication.

Its whole structure is strangely modified to enable it to procure the woodboring larvae which form its food.

Among the Arunta, the Alcheringa folk are part of a strangely elaborate theory of evolution and of animism, which leaves no room for a creative being, or for a future life of the spirit, which is merely reincarnated at intervals.

The truth of his views he rests, rather strangely, on the argument that Moses, the writer of the Pentateuch, lived long before Homer, whom he regards as the earliest Greek religious writer, and to prove this he quotes a series of synchronisms, which were made use of by many subsequent chronologers, including probably Julius Africanus, who in turn was used by Eusebius.

A flora consisting entirely, with a single doubtful exception, of Gymnosperms and Cryptogams gives place to one containing many flowering plants; and these increase so rapidly that before long they seem to have crowded out many of the earlier types, and to have themselves become the dominant forms. Not only do Angiosperms suddenly become dominant in all known plantbearing deposits of Upper Cretaceous age, but strangely enough the earliest found seem to belong to living orders, and commonly have been referred to existing genera.

The committee seemed strangely reluctant to hold the auction.

The average user is strangely absent, like the laborer in eighteenth century landscape painting.

Strangely enough, the first two types were lead accumulators.

Maybe there should be a WARNING expressed here that rowing is a strangely addictive sport for many who take it up.

There's something strangely alluring about posting an old piece of writing about an old piece of writing.

There was one strangely large and empty area which was a big anticlimax, tho.

So the Saturday night screening would have been exciting anyway but it was made even more so by a strangely apt journey there.

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Strangely enough however, the end of level baddie provides you a with chance to draw your breath.

Rather strangely, this was actually the first night I'd spent where I didn't have a bothy to cook in.

Yep, big orbs, long cervix, what strangely challenging anatomy I have!

The man was disarmingly direct and I found it strangely charming.

Nevertheless, being thus strangely compelled, the man descended and focused his camera on the snowy roadway.

Going on a bit too much... But then, there's something strangely compulsive about the style.

Strangely, Marinatos suggested that tsunami caused the destructive conflagrations.

Strangely, there doesn't seem to be any mention of a catalytic convertor or cylinder head valve seat inserts.

Strangely this will be the first convocation at which I will understand the address.

For a serial killer movie, Taking Lives is strangely devoid of murders.

A large kitchen, long disused linked to a strangely cool room used a s a pantry occupied one segment of the level.

I've been giggling over this rather horrific yet strangely endearing little book.

Her movements are strangely erotic but it's a wonderment that she fits in with the crowd as an obvious if not sexy robot.

There is a young boy, a " special child " in their community who has an amazing habit that strangely exhilarates his soul.

The trees stood strangely expectant, as if they were aware that something quite unique was about to descend upon their world.

A few skeptical eyebrows were raised when Sven revealed his squad strangely written on the backs of children.

Whilst chasing up a motor insurance renewal Walter becomes strangely drawn to Phyllis Nirdlinger - a true femme fatale.

Exercise the toxins out Ever felt strangely frisky with a hangover?

The effect of these strangely garbed men marching through endless corridors seems very Kafka!

The Duke of Cambridge, usually so genial, was now strangely reserved.

Strangely hypnotic blue ball machine type thingy, should be experienced with the sound on to get the full effect.

Strangely, it was much quieter than the previous day, although the weather seemed identical.

Strangely enough, most go silent when I ask how many other ides they've used for a significant amount of time.

We finished the day with an outstanding and strangely incongruous restaurant.

I've read books, looked at websites and become strangely infatuated with the whole artform.

Strangely, if a cat actually eats the catnip it will likely act as a sedative as opposed to giving the kitty a high.

What might sound merely morbid is actually strangely beautiful.

Then there's a strangely mute taxi driver in New York who fails to rise to even the most outrageous bait.

The mist came down over the fields and everywhere looked very mysterious, and strangely beautiful.

I felt strangely helpless and vulnerable as the first tinkling chunks whizzed by, Es cursing increasingly loudly from his precarious perch high above.

I tell you this is somehow easy tv guide becoming strangely portentous.

Strangely enough, this ' peculiar ' court continued even after the death of Edward Jay, the last prebendary of Salton.

His solution may be heroic, but the book may also be seen as strangely prophetic.

For some reason the sky above Alaska seems strangely receptive to images of Bristol.

The atmosphere of silent concentration inside the cafe is absolute, strangely reminiscent of a university library before exams.

He covers each subject extraordinarily well and isn't afraid to ridicule the frankly ridiculous while finding merit in the strangely compelling.

Strangely enough, this is true, although it's a somewhat risky practice.

For all the talk of sex, the film is strangely sexless.

Strangely silent on the moral problems of going to a country being bombed back to the stone age to fill your boots rebuilding it.

Skipping on the backs of recent Asian music trends, the Buttersprites subvert the stereotypes into strangely classic interpretations of a fad.

There was a strangely subdued atmosphere around the Show Court.

Margaret Thatcher's assistant, Robin Harris, is strangely unwilling to express a view on the Croatian situation.

Take Harry Potter, for instance -- I'm quite a fan of those films; I find them strangely uplifting.

All other sifakas have a gray or black visage, but the faces of some of these individuals were strangely pink with dark blotches.

He was beginning to banana guide feel strangely youthful; the sound of his own heart suddenly became apparent.

In many cases a more complex ear is developed, which may be situated in strangely diverse regions of the insect's body.

They are strangely modified and degenerate, but seem to be (as explained in the systematic review) the remnant of an Arachnidan group holding the same relation to the scorpions which the Laemodipoda hold to the Podophthalmate Crustacea.

Strangely enough the only attempts to consult the Yugosla y s themselves were an audience to which the Emperor Charles summoned Father Korosec and a journey undertaken by Count Tisza in Sept., with the crown's approval, to Zagreb, Sarajevo and Dalmatia.

The central point of the geste du roi is the i 1 thcentury Chanson de Roland (see Roland, Legend Of), one of the greatest of medieval poems. Strangely enough the defeat of Roncesvalles, which so deeply impressed the popular mind, has not a corresponding importance in real history.

The struggle against the bishops, in which a clamour for a reform of clerical life and a striving for local self-government were strangely interwoven, had raged for a couple of generations when King Henry V., great patron of municipal freedom as he was, legalized by a series of charters the status quo (Cremona, 1114, Mantua, 1116).

Yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and strangely softened but agitated expression on his face.

But such undercurrents still existed among the people and gathered new forces ready to manifest themselves just as strangely, unexpectedly, and at the same time simply, naturally, and forcibly.

His curly hair, its color, and the shape of his head seemed strangely familiar to Prince Andrew.

He did not answer and looked at her strangely, not understanding.

Their necks, with their wet, close-clinging manes, looked strangely thin.

Petya was galloping along the courtyard, but instead of holding the reins he waved both his arms about rapidly and strangely, slipping farther and farther to one side in his saddle.

He covers each subject extraordinarily well and is n't afraid to ridicule the frankly ridiculous while finding merit in the strangely compelling.

Strangely enough, this is true, although it 's a somewhat risky practice.

Margaret Thatcher 's assistant, Robin Harris, is strangely unwilling to express a view on the Croatian situation.

Take Harry Potter, for instance -- I 'm quite a fan of those films; I find them strangely uplifting.

The fog was set a bit strangely, tho, hence the washed-out colors.

Yet even the most educated amongst us might consider tossing out those rules in favor of a name that is spelled or pronounced strangely.

If the prices seem strangely low for gold, then do some research on the website or any company listing or affiliation.

I have a four-year-old spayed female cat that has recently began acting strangely.

She also sleeps strangely; she has started sleeping on the arm of the sofa with her head pressed into the cushion while snoring gently.

Strangely she went to a cattery for two weeks last year when we went on holiday and her fur grew back.

If you can't get rid of the mites in a month or your cat begins to run a fever or act strangely, go ahead and take her in to the vet.

A strangely powerful influence where the mystery is translated into a delicate perfume bottle.

Strangely, no matter how much I built it up, I couldn't achieve anything brighter than a vaguely pink tint.

While many of the pets resemble animals you know, when you browse other user's pets, you'll notice they've been changed strangely, mostly in different colors.

Strangely enough, many people find information related to marriages in 'attics'.

Even many detailed wedding cake cutting guides don't provide information for how to cut a strangely shaped cake.

The items she tried to lift included two celebrity gossip magazines and batteries, strangely enough.The actress was on her way to Albuquerque, New Mexico to film Love Ranch, a movie starring Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci.

Strangely enough, instead of staying in Los Angeles, Downey Jr., decided to pack up again and move in with his sister, who was at the time, living in New York.

Free Online Games has links to typing games such as "Falling Words" and "Keyball" that are strangely addictive.

Hello,It may be nothing but my Shih Tzu/Maltese puppy is acting strangely.

Strangely enough, it is also the most tender, many plants having been cut to the ground or killed outright in the winter of 1880.

The chord progression to "Fear of Flying" is timed strangely and can be difficult to play.

Strangely, although Canada has two official languages, when you choose the Canadian flag, the game is in French.

Birdie is easily distinguished by his blonde mohawk, leather jacket, and strangely shaped shoes.

Strangely, the included Bluetooth is not a fully-functional version of Bluetooth.

Strangely, the Nokia N96 -- which fit right in between the N95 and N97 -- could not run the Netflix application.

The 80s were rife with strangely imaginative tops.

Many people find the idea of blood-sucking strangely erotic!

Strangely enough, men also start fiddling with their socks, or shoes.

While it is still not a very common cut, jewelers will not look at you strangely if you request it.

Additives or ingredients such as modified food starch, natural and artificial flavors, or monoglycerides and diglycerides represent just some of the strangely labeled ingredients on the back of certain commercial goods.

He recalled that the wolf had acted strangely, and wanted to learn more.

The idea of ordinariness being made into fodder for television is strangely appealing, mainly because the characters provide such exaggerated, well-portrayed views of just how horrible (and, much less commonly, wonderful) life can be.

Soap made with food coloring can fade or mottle, and some food dyes may react strangely with your soap.

On the blog, Suncatcher Eyes there is a pattern for a baby banana that is shown with a white center and a strangely baby-blue peel.

The second album, which shortly followed, was entitled, strangely, 'Oral Fixation' and was, of course, dedicated to her English-speaking followers.

Also in the fifties, Bradbury published Dandelion Wine (1957), a novel that is neither science fiction, fantasy nor mystery, but simply a strangely beautiful remembrance of life in a small Illinois town.

In this movie, selected people from various parts of the world find themselves strangely drawn to a place they've never seen.

Shinzon acts strangely and offers a knife with his own blood, which confirms he is a Picard clone.

Nichelle. The Challenger.” I react strangely to good or bad news.

Strangely, they don't offer customized pocket options, but the lab coats are usually made and delivered within a little more than a week.

Strangely enough, this isn't so; while server space and applications abound, there's a power in a domain name that makes it too dear to simply be provided gratis.

Besides those and other strangely described categories you'll find regular categories like Script, Kids and Formal fonts.

Strangely addictive fried pickles are a house specialty.

Strangely enough, in this exile - rendered still more irksome by his father's mania for solitude and by his tyrannical temper - the genius of Octave Feuillet developed.

But architecture, on the whole, is strangely reticent to play openly on emotion.

Howie says the guy was tall and skinny and acted strangely.

How did he act strangely?

But what about the dark eyed man who stood gazing down at her so strangely?

He was watching her strangely.

Clara was watching her strangely.

The air around him was strangely still, the heat of a body unlike any she'd ever seen before reminding her she hadn't dated in four years.

Strangely enough, the government did not refuse its consent.

The noble buildings, contrasting strangely with the wharves adjacent and opposite to it, make a striking picture, standing on the low river-bank with a background formed by the wooded elevation of Greenwich Park.

Strangely enough, all the letters are written in the Babylonian character, and most of them are in the Babylonian language.

She could not follow the opera nor even listen to the music; she saw only the painted cardboard and the queerly dressed men and women who moved, spoke, and sang so strangely in that brilliant light.

They all raised their heads to listen, and out of the forest into the bright firelight stepped two strangely clad human figures clinging to one another.

Strangely, Fred made no further mention of Monday night's revealing identification of Jeffrey Byrne by Chip Burgess.

The crown which strangely enough surmounts the shield with the arms of the Commonwealth on the coins of Oliver Cromwell (as distinguished from those of the Commonwealth itself, which have no crown) is a royal crown with alternate crosses and fleurs-de-lys round the circlet, and is surmounted by three arches, which, though somewhat flattened, are not bent.