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The situations of farm-houses, or steadings, as we call them in Scotland, are very rarely selected so much for their beauty, with reference to the surrounding scenery, as for conveniency; and hence it is that we find but few of them in positions which a view-hunter would term strikingly felicitous.

—Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17

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In a striking manner; in such a manner as to surprise or impress; forcibly; impressively. The force of many strikingly poetic passages has been weakened or unperceived, because their origin was unknown, unexplored, or misunderstood. T. Warton, Pref. to Milton's Smaller Poems.

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Most strikingly, the captain personally interviews alleged drug dealers and corrupt politicians of the old regime, live on television.
But that which demonstrates the humidity of the climate most strikingly is the number of earthen sponges or oozes met with. — The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I
Most strikingly, a cursory search of the holdings of the Library of Congress located at least 50 publications substantially devoted to such information, all readily available to any member of the public interested in reading them and copying their contents. — Report on the Availability of Bombmaking Information
Most strikingly, after less than a week in Venezuela, he landed a job translating in Chavez's presidential palace. — MRZine.org
Most strikingly, all miRNA expression differences were due to significantly higher expression in omental fat — PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles