It was a long time before he could steady his nerves to answer my questions, and then he answered perplexingly and brokenly.
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It was a long time before he could steady his nerves to answer my questions, and then he answered perplexingly and brokenly.
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These perplexingly dissimilar objects found their way into her work at different stages in her artistic development.
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