strike one as being
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“He can strike one as being a very formal person, and he has cultivated that to some degree,” said Marie Arana, a Peruvian-American writer and former editor of The Washington Post’s books section.
From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2018
His features, too, somehow or other, strike one as being those of a gentleman; which is all the more singular when, as a fact, he told me he had been brought up in a workhouse.
From For Name and Fame Or Through Afghan Passes by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
"At least you agree with your friend here, that my poor brother did not strike one as being a man liable to make away with himself?"
From The Hunt Ball Mystery by Magnay, William
The songs of yesterday, when revived, strike one as being very antiquated, and the songs of the day before yesterday also rarely bear the test; but what of the songs of the sixties?
From A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
The airs strike one as being very strange, and decidedly unlike the rolling songs of British music.
From Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by Ray, G. Whitfield
