Oddly

Examples

• I have never seen two men look more oddly at one another than Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick did after this apostrophe. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Little Sophia, bred in the school of nature, handled her brother rather oddly, I thought. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Really, Mr. Carton, returned the other, oddly disconcerted, I have not asked myself the question. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Do stop a minute, Clym, and let me speak first, for oddly enough, I have been wanting to say something to you. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn is always the same speechless repository of noble confidences, so oddly out of place and yet so perfectly at home. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• On the drive homeward May remained oddly silent; through the darkness, he still felt her enveloped in her menacing blush. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• With head oddly lifted, like a man who draws his head back from an insult, half haughtily, he watched the cold, mute, material face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They either lay their eggs in the nest thus appropriated, or oddly enough build one for themselves on the top of it. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• But he turned uncouthly, awkwardly aside, glancing up at her with quick bright eyes, oddly suggestive, like a quick, live rat. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• No, answered Caliphronas carelessly; oddly enough, I do not care much for flesh. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Very sad, said Sir Percival, speaking like a man who was disappointed, and yet, oddly enough, looking at the same time like a man who was relieved. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The passengers were all dressed so oddly too! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In answer to this question, which was oddly abrupt, I said I liked her very much and thought she was more agreeable than she used to be. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Very pleasant fellows,' added Mr. Winkle, after the waiter had retired-- 'officers of the 97th, whose acquaintance I made rather oddly this morning. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• These things happen so oddly sometimes,' said Bella with a steady countenance, 'that there seems a kind of fatality in them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Oddly enough, a few years later, some inventor actually took out a patent for making incandescent lamps with carbonized hair for filaments! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Oddly enough, they do not seem to have eaten the hare, although it was available as food. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Loerke laughed, wrinkling up his face oddly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She looked at him again, oddly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Things are settled so oddly. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

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