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strangely

/ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒli/ adverb B1
  1. In a strange or coincidental manner. · Though I'd never gone to Boston before, everything looked strangely familiar.· Daniel was walking strangely because he had twisted his ankle.
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Mercédès shuddered, and, fixing on her son a scrutinizing gaze, “You speak strangely,” said she to Albert, “and you appear to have some singular prejudices.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 892 · C1
They looked at Dorothy and her strangely assorted company with wondering eyes, and the children all ran away and hid behind their mothers when they saw the Lion; but no one spoke to them.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 64 · B2
“Gentlemen,” said he, in a tone strangely firm for a servant speaking to his masters under such solemn circumstances,—“gentlemen, M.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 761 · C1
Anne came through the hall, her hands full of white narcissus,--it was long before Anne could love the sight or odor of white narcissus again,--in time to hear her and to see Matthew standing in the porch doorway, a folded paper in his hand, and his face strangely drawn and gray.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 310 · C1

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