255 examples of surprisingly in sentences

And instances are known of negroes, who, being reduced by the fatal influence of Obeah to the lowest state of dejection and debility, from which there were little hopes of recovery, have been surprisingly and rapidly restored to health and cheerfulness by being baptized christians.

And truly, if we may believe the chronicles, the arrangement worked for a time surprisingly well.

Wife he had none, but Moll Dawson was his daughter, who was a most sprightly, merry little wench, but no miracle for beauty, being neither child nor woman at this time; surprisingly thin, as if her frame had grown out of proportion with her flesh, so that her body looked all arms and legs, and her head all mouth and eyes, with a great towzled mass of chestnut hair, which (off the stage) was as often as not half tumbled over her shoulder.

Its nominees received a surprisingly large vote.

The number of explanatory animal tales thus far collected is surprisingly small.

Face and neck and lively hands had a surprisingly brilliant yet so natural a sheen that they exhaled amorous invitation as if they had been verily of flesh and blood.

It was ticklish work, I allow; but they succeeded surprisingly well in taking care of themselves.

This is a truth of which Lucretius was profoundly, though not surprisingly, ignorant.]

His face was shrewd, but also kindly, and the gray stubble on his cheeks and chin did not in the least hide a smile that was surprisingly boyish and winning.

She had fine, dark straight brows that served to darken her eyes, dark brown hair waving enough to soften every line of her face, a girlish throat and a red mouth surprisingly tender and childish.

It rose surprisingly high, hovered a ghastly instant, and then was almost drowned out and obliterated by another sound, such a sound as left Ben only wondering and appalled.

It had lasted, all things considered, surprisingly longfive years.

" His system of symbolic logic enabled him to work out the most complex problems with absolute certainty in a surprisingly short time.

"If is surprisingly like a rich earth, if it be not actually so.

The sledge came surprisingly lightly after lunchsomething from loss of weight, something, I think, from stowage, and, most of all perhaps, as a result of tea.

There are days when she looks surprisingly young and blooming.

The feeder, too, on these machines is of excellent design, while the arrangements that have been introduced into the Willcox & Gibbs straw hat sewing machine are surprisingly effective in spinning up a hat from a loose roll of braid.

When he came to devote his mind to the matter of escape, Moussa Isa found it surprisingly easy.

She has feeble health, but a surprisingly alert mind, and a keen sharp memory.

It lacked, surprisingly, the element of surprise.

One day is surprisingly like another about these times, for us mariners in particular.

He passed this promontory just as day dawned, in his lugger, this very morning!" "Aye, he has got that notion from having seen the fellow we fell in with off the harbor here," answered Cuffe, when this speech was translated to him; "and I don't wonder at it, for the two vessels were surprisingly alike.

The manuscripts themselves will be printed, with a full introductory Dissertation by the discoverer, Mr. Raspe, a very learned German, formerly librarian to the Landgrave of Hesse, and who writes English surprisingly well.

For a man of his power and attainments he was as a speaker, and in conversation, surprisingly awkward.

And, speaking generally, those who make use of its facilities, however much certain of the more strait-laced may frown, are considered by society at large to have done a thing which is surprisingly right and often enviable.

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