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adverb

Strangely adv.

As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange. (Obs.)

In the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly. "You all look strangely on me." "I do in justice charge thee... That thou commend it strangely to some place Where chance may nurse or end it."

In a strange manner; in a manner or degree to excite surprise or wonder; wonderfully. "How strangely active are the arts of peace!" "It would strangely delight you to see with what spirit he converses."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Strangely" Quotes from Famous Books

... so considerate; and for Raeburn to be more considerate meant a great deal for in private he was always the most gentle man imaginable. His opponents, who often regarded him as a sort of "fiend in human shape," were strangely mistaken in their estimate of his character. When treated with discourtesy or unfairness in public, it was true that he hit back again, and hit hard; and, since even in the nineteenth century we are ...

— We Two • Edna Lyall

... replied McLeod, "especially when coupled with the letter from Gambart, which has so strangely reached us at the same time with that of Redding. Well well, after all, things looked bad to me at first. I'm sorry, however, that I gave way to temper when we met, for the explanation might have come ...

— Wrecked but not Ruined • R.M. Ballantyne

... strangely scandalized at this work. Samuel Desmarets answered it with great bitterness, which drew another piece from Grotius in defence of the former, with this title: Appendix ad interpretationem locorum Novi Testamenti, quae de Antichristo agunt, aut agere putantur, ...

— The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius • Jean Levesque de Burigny

... despondently; "but I should have been so glad if you could have allowed me to see him. Not that I pretend to the smallest right to do so; but we were very good friends once—before my husband's death. He has changed to me strangely since ...

— Fenton's Quest • M. E. Braddon

... point where he expected him to appear, he was amazed to see the third native, who whisked off before Long could draw a bead on him, step from the wood not twenty paces away. His back was toward the Professor, and, strangely enough, he did not observe the white man—an oversight that never could have occurred, but for the tumult in the undergrowth ...

— The Land of Mystery • Edward S. Ellis

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