What is "curiously"

Usage examples of "curiously".

No less curiously, Acheulean tools are found in the Middle East well over a million years ago, but scarcely exist in Europe until just 300,000 years ago.

He limped a little, his right side leaning curiously atwist, away from the arm that no longer hung on it.

It was very much the kind of house Banks would associate with someone pulling in a hundred grand a year or more, but for all its rusticity, and for all the heat the fire threw out, it was a curiously cold, bleak and impersonal kind of room.

General leaned back, and put his hands behind his head, studying Beller curiously.

For through the infinite pain of loss, a thread of awareness stole, high flight, the world laid out beneath her like one of the maps in her schoolbooks, only colored and curiously sharp, with a sight stronger than her own, and little flickers of life coming from here, from there, small birds in flight, small animals in the grass.

Avenging Blowfish looked at curiously as we stood around the pool table with bottles of beer, like members of the Allied Supreme Command preparing for a final strike against Nazi Germany.

When the destruction was done Amy turned breathlessly to her parents, her face glistening with a pale, oily sweat, then, lifting the irises of her eyes curiously upward and over, she fainted, sliding into a weak heap at their feet.

Carlton House Terrace was curiously impersonal, although Burgo Smyth must have occupied it for long enough.

Jackson, watching him curiously and probably trying to fathom his thoughts, was at the tiller and the rest of the men who had been with him at Cartagena were manning the oars.

Curiously, there was little to indicate that he spent most of his working days on or under the sea, except for a primitive painting of a clipper ship and a few other sailing vessels, a photo of his catboat under full sail and a glass-encased model of his racing hydroplane.

Outside several women were among the huddle of Evenks, and they bear-hugged the medical officer, gazing curiously at her Chukchi assistant.

Four servants came forward, two carrying a clockwork man of polished brass and steel, the other two a huge and heavy box full of cogs, pins, hooks, fastenersand most curiously of all, a large chessboard of alternating brass and steel squares.

Grundyism, less Comstockery, and, at the same time, less dirty Don-Juanism, less of that curiously malignant and vengeful love-making so characteristic of the debauchee under a Christian dispensation.

He glanced at the criminologist and noted that Zerndorff was eyeing him curiously.

Emily, a big Bouvier des Flandres, looked at him curiously, wondering if he was offering a walk.