1.   In the climate of the time anyone who appeared strange was suspect of heresy, especially those who voluntarily embraced poverty and wandered about.

2.   Among Japanese voters, the idea of hereditary MPs does not appear strange or improper and second generation candidates do little to justify their ambitions.

3.   However, the spokesman said it appeared strange that no one else had used the list for a fund-raising appeal.

4.   Many of them, thousands of years old, may appear strange.

5.   New England culture itself appeared strange to her.