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Example sentences for "seemed strange"

  • Her earnestness, a something of bitterness imparted into her words, seemed strange, considering that as a rule she avoided discussions of this kind.

  • It seemed strange to Alyosha that he asked so confidently and precisely, about one of his brothers only—but which one?

  • It seemed strange that at such a moment the serene swans should float about them, that the water-fowl should move in and out of the reeds, and that the green park and the cloudless sky were like painted paper.

  • How strange it was; it seemed strange to be herself, and yet it was quite true.

  • It seemed strange to sit discussing such subjects in the sunshine.

  • It seemed strange to Tom that he should obey so readily; but he climbed upon his steed's back at once and the grasshopper started from the bush with a great jump and passed under the fence as if some one was chasing him.

  • It seemed strange to Tom, that this stout, old gentleman should appear to know him so well and should address him so familiarly.

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  • In a little time Edwin became wholly subject to the spell of this amazing personality, until it seemed strange to him that he could ever have doubted the propriety of anything that L.

  • It seemed strange to Edwin that his father should know none of these men.

  • It seemed strange to him that his father should not be anxious to look inside the house where his childhood had been spent.

  • It seemed strange to Edwin that they should have worked side by side for a couple of years and scarcely spoken to each other when all the time they had so many delights that might have been shared.

  • And it seemed strange to him that he had grown so much older, so much plainer during the last few years.

  • It seemed strange to me that she could still take an interest in clothes and go into ecstasies over her purchases.

  • And it seemed strange to me that Zinaida Fyodorovna was not conscious of it; it vexed me.

  • It seemed strange to him that his long-felt wish, which had seemed unattainable, had at last been realized.

  • Almost smiling, he gazed straight into her eyes with such an enraptured caressing look that it seemed strange to be so near him, to look at him like that, to be so sure he admired her, and not to be acquainted with him.

  • To Pierre as he looked at and listened to Willarski, it seemed strange to think that he had been like that himself but a short time before.

  • It seemed strange to hear one’s own tongue again spoken in the streets and hotels, and to read in many cases the names of the latter and of shopkeepers written in French over their doors.

  • Men, women, and children, were working in the fields, and it seemed strange to a European eye to see the peasantry gathering the harvest and making hay at the same time.

  • It seemed strange to me that the enemy ceased firing at the moment we began the advance in proper fashion.

  • However, it would be all in the family they supposed they must really look upon Mr. Bosinney as belonging to the family, though it seemed strange.

  • It seemed strange to him that there was no trace of repugnance, no trace of disgust, no tremor in her hand.

  • And now, bare walls, no furniture; it seemed strange.

  • He lost consciousness; it seemed strange to him that he didn't remember how he got into the street.

  • It seemed strange that a popular song set to a popular tune could influence a whole army, and incidentally depose a monarch from his throne.

  • But it seemed strange to us to be sitting down hour after hour reading the books our hostess kindly lent to us instead of walking on the roads.

  • It seemed strange to me, for instance, that I had not known till then that the whole world was made up of sixty elements, I had not known what oil was, what paints were, and that I could have got on without knowing these things.

  • Everything here was soft and elegant, and, for a man so unaccustomed to luxury as I was, it seemed strange.

  • For the first time, it seemed strange to Bertha that the boy, whom she was now helping into his coat, was her own child, whose father had long been buried, and for whom she had endured the pangs of motherhood.

  • Somehow, it seemed strange to her that Emil should, incognito, so to speak, be playing the solo in a Haydn Mass here in the Lerchenfelder Church.

  • And it seemed strange to him that in the last few years he should have got so old and ugly.

  • I thought I saw my sister coming in with my supper, but I remembered at once that she was ill at Radish's, and it seemed strange to me that I should have climbed the fence and be lying in the cold shed.

  • It seemed strange to me that I had not known before such things as that the whole world consisted of sixty elements.

  • It seemed strange, but Krak was homesick for Styria.

  • No doubt his ideas were not mediæval, as mine were; yet it seemed strange to me that he should fire at me as he would at any other man.

  • I had risen--or fallen--in some degree to my position, and it seemed strange to me that my sister should wish to marry this Baron Fritz.

  • Indeed it seemed strange, for, if the whole affair were traced back to the egg, William Adolphus' flirtation was the origin of it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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