Recalling the duke's words made Mary feel strangely warm.

Out on the volcano's floor it was strangely warm and humid.

When Simon lifted one of them, the shiny metal felt slippery and strangely warm against his skin.

It was strangely warm, and salty as a tear.

But inside it was strangely warm and comfortable - too comfortable.

Outside, the air seemed almost breathlessly still and strangely warm in the wake of the storm.

The woman came to his side and touched his cheek with her fingers; they were strangely warm.

Cold hands touched Shandril's and pressed the ring, strangely warm, into her palm.

The tower lay across the ruins like an immense black worm, dead and still, strangely warm to the touch.

His skin was strangely warm, and covered with a light coat of fine hairs.

But it felt strangely warming to wallow for a time in their reversed roles.

In 1738, while reading Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans, John Wesley famously felt his heart "strangely warmed", a conversion experience which is often seen as the beginning of Methodism.

Its heritage can be traced back to May 24, 1738, when a young Anglican priest and Oxford don felt his heart "strangely warmed" during a prayer meeting in northern London.

It was strangely warming.

It was a Moravian Church meeting, during a reading of Martin Luther's commentary on Romans that Wesley reported his heart "strangely warmed" - an event he described as his conversion.

At the same time, their interest is strangely warming.

In 1738, he heard a reading of Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans, and penned the now famous lines: "I felt my heart strangely warmed".

Carson found it strangely warming.

"But, Yuan, that is"-he laughed, a boyish laugh of delight that strangely warmed Li Yuan-"that's wonderful!"

I felt my heart strangely warmed.