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Usage examples of surprisingly.

Every physical comportment is the immanent product of a struggle or a pact among competing demonic forces: hence the violent, yet often surprisingly delicate, ambivalence with which the body expresses heterogeneous or conflicting intentions.

None too surprisingly, the Naked Purple movement had never gotten along well with the Autocrat of Ceres.

A guard, dressed in surprisingly severe plate armor, brandishing a spear in one hand and a turkey leg in the other, stood by the open gate.

Impersonation has been at the heart of many detective stories, but it has seldom carried the emotional charge of Brat Farrar, and our sympathies are never in a mere puzzle so skilfully and so surprisingly manipulated.

He took the other, tying triple knots in the thong that held his burse to his belt, loosening his jerkin, swinging his booted feet onto the hard, thin mattress, and pulling up a blanket of surprisingly soft merino.

They were leathery, hairy, dark-skinned feet, broad and flat and surprisingly long, with toes so extrusile and multiple jointed that they almost seemed to have the function of fingers.

It was a narrower room, furnished with a square oak table and heavy, old-fashioned chairs with surprisingly comfortable saddle-seats, and a court-cupboard decorated with maiolica plates and dishes from the same set as those in his office.

He and Malet arrived with a strong escort and three stout carts drawn by oxen, carrying the lead-lined oak coffins which, surprisingly, William had provided.

Holy Orders than a boy of thirteen: a richly illuminated Book of Hours, a rosewood and silver crucifix worthy of a cathedral chapel, a relic of the martyred Saint Willim sealed in a crystal reliquary, and from Hubert, a starkly functional silver chalice and paten and a chasuble of creamy wool, surprisingly plain compared to the other gifts.

He looks surprisingly fit for a fifty-six-year-old man with metastatic carcinoma.

Thus, surprisingly, and despite the overhanging shadow of Montayne, the company climate suddenly looked brighter.

Once there, it had proved surprisingly difficult to find a boatman who would either admit to knowing the whereabouts of San Vitale in Palude, or show himself willing to take them to its shores.

The curved console in front of him was surprisingly compact, with three holographic panes angling up out of it.

It was surprisingly close to the lodge, but well screened by trees and shrubs, a fair-sized house with fine pargeting and black and white timber cladding.

Michael and Kerena, followed by Billy and Denise, sandwiching a surprisingly participatory Captain St.