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Sentences starting with strange

Strange circumstances occurred which connected themselves with him in an ominous and unaccountable way. [6]
Strange and varied were the paths along which Fate had led this man. [10]
Strange as it was to her to acknowledge this feeling in herself, yet there it was. [2]
Strange that she was so young still, and that was so long past--when he stood on a mountain, and, clambering a high wall of rock, looked over into a happy No-man's Land. [11]
Strange suggestions and unsafe speculations began to mingle with his dreams and reveries. [6]
Strange lights were to be seen about this rock, and though wise men guessed them mortal glimmerings, easily explained, they sufficed to give the headland immunity from invasion. [11]
Strange things seem to be occurring, and yonder--or am I mistaken? [10]
Strange indeed was the silence brooding over the once happy, noisy home of Jane Withersteen's pets. [13]
Strange indeed was the effect upon our heroine of that greeting! [9]
Strange it seemed that war had come to this village, so peaceful and remote. [9]

Sentences ending with strange

I thought it would be better that I should come than somebody quite strange. [12]
That pretty woman, who's just as nice as she looks, is Mrs. Victor Strange. [9]
It seems strange, too, so strange. [5]
I believe all this--and suddenly Princess Mary will tell her, and she will be sure to smile and say: 'How strange! [2]
She had taken the chanting train for the wandering souls of the dead and--how strange! [10]
What is it that is strange? [5]
Now, isn't that strange? [5]
This was sufficiently strange. [9]
I feel so strange. [2]
The seasons are strange. [11]

Short sentences using strange

How strange it was! [11]
I hear strange things. [13]
Then a strange thing happened. [9]
The address was strange. [11]
I thought it strange. [11]
It is very strange! [10]
It is a strange world. [5]
It was a strange vision. [10]
It was a strange throng. [9]
Isn't it a strange thing? [5]

Sentences containing strange two or more times

He said the witches was pestering him awful these nights, and making him see all kinds of strange things, and hear all kinds of strange words and noises, and he didn't believe he was ever witched so long before in his life. [5]
Well, well, we travel far in the world, and sometimes we see strange things, and no two strange things are alike--no; there is only one Macavoy in the world, there was only one Shon McGann. [11]
But here, in this strange house, amid such strange surroundings, I was heartbroken. [9]
We have seen strange things"--he pointed to Young Eye-- "and heard voices not of men; but we would see great things as well as strange. [11]
It was a strange sight, for the water was a vivid green, and the man wore garments of white and scarlet, and looked a part of some strange mosaic: as one has seen astonishing figures set in balls of solid glass. [11]
It was a strange meeting; but we who profess to tell the truth must tell strange things, or we shall be liars. [6]
It was a strange manoeuvre,--so strange and threatening in aspect that the young man forgot his nervousness in an instant, cocked his pistol, and waited to see what mischief all this meant. [6]
She knew how strange it would seem to the rest of the world, yet it did not seem strange to her. [11]
They will be scourged; and I, whom they have comforted and kindly entreated, must look on and see the great wrong done; it is strange, so strange, that I, the very source of power in this broad realm, am helpless to protect them. [5]
The strange, retrospective mood which had come over him this afternoon led his thoughts into strange paths, and he found himself wondering if, after all, it had not been in his power to make her happier. [9]

More example sentences with the word strange in them

This fact of yours, which seems so strange to you, belongs to a great series of similar facts familiarly known now to many persons, and before long to be recognized as generally as those relating to the electric telegraph and the slaving `dynamo. [6]
No one but your brother himself can possibly explain the strange way in which he disappeared. [10]
How many other young men from the East have travelled across the mountains and floated down the rivers to enter those strange cities of the West, the growth of which was like Jonah's gourd. [9]
We will chasten you with bread and water; and it were well for you, even by your strange religion, to qualify for passage from this world. [11]
In the museums you will find acres of the most strange and fascinating things; but all museums are fascinating, and they do so tire your eyes, and break your back, and burn out your vitalities with their consuming interest. [5]
And I ask you to regard with some leniency customs which must be strange to Americans. [9]
Tell me, can you think of anything like it?--the strange light, the white bear of the Pole, that has no friends at all except the shooting stars, the great ice plains, the quick night hurrying on, the silence--such silence as no man can think! [11]
Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction! [5]
Let me tell you one of my fancies, and then you will understand the strange sort of fascination she has for me. [6]
How strange that you and I alone to this day should have his secret! [6]
After all the years he had disapproved of Austen's deeds it seemed strange indeed to be called to account by the prodigal for his own. [9]
I have been wrought and unsettled in mind by apprehensions, and that is a thing that is not helpable when one is in a strange land and sees his resources melt down to a two months' supply and can't see any sure daylight beyond. [5]
Mr Brass, after writhing about, in a great many strange attitudes, and often twisting his face and eyes into an expression like that which is usually produced by eating gooseberries very early in the season, was by this time awake also. [12]
Nature, too, it would have seemed, had forged a mood in keeping with the time, for there was no air stirring when we came in, and a strange stillness had come upon the landscape. [11]
Out in the world where she was now so important, the newspapers told strange romantic tales of the great singer, wove wild and wonderful legends of her life. [11]
Captive in a world bounded by a man's will, she simply did not begin to understand this strange and overpowering creature who had taken possession of her body, mind and soul. [11]
As the winter wore on, and March town meeting approached, strange rumors of a Democratic ticket began to drift into Jonah Winch's store,--a Democratic ticket headed by Fletcher Bartlett, of all men, as chairman of the board. [9]
They could exchange words and looks, they could arrange private interviews, they would be stooping together over the same book, her hair touching his cheek, her breath mingling with his, all the magnetic attractions drawing them together with strange, invisible effluences. [6]
These strange and wonderful achievements move our awe and compel our admiration. [5]
With strange hopes, with trembling fears, with mingled belief and doubt, wherever I have found myself I have sought with longing yet half-averted eyes for the "elect lady," as I have learned to call her, who was to lift the curse from my ruined life. [6]
To me, preoccupied with the knowledge that the tug would soon be upon us, there seemed nothing strange in the attitude of these two, but Miss Trevor remarked something out of the common at once. [9]
As he reclined with the Bithyman, before the supper which was standing ready, he said: "A strange evening! [10]
The streets swarmed with people, waiting impatiently to see the strange spectacle which the punishment of one of the king's wives, who had proved false and faithless, promised to afford. [10]
And he had with him a strange, Scotch sea-captain, who had rescued him from pirates, bless you, no less. [9]
He was pleading with her, in his voice was the peculiar vibrancy that thrilled her, that summoned some answering thing out of the depths of her, and she felt herself yielding with a strange ecstasy in which were mingled joy and terror. [9]
Suddenly, in conflict with her desire to remain indefinitely talking with this strange man, Janet felt an intense impulse to leave. [9]
So it is with birds; but many cock birds do not so much pursue the hen, as display their plumage, perform strange antics, and pour forth their song in her presence. [1]
He never drank with any one, nor asked any one to drink; and, strange to say, no one resented this. [11]
How strange that, with all his thought of others, he should fall short here! [9]
Angele watched him with a strange thrill of timid admiration and delight. [11]
He opened it with a strange slowness. [11]
They spoke together with a strange inconsistency, in whispers; unwilling to disturb again the dreary echoes they had just now raised. [12]
Medea, so the wise woman was called, though scarcely past five and forty, harmonized in appearance with this strange habitation, full as it was of objects calculated to rouse repulsion, dread, and amazement. [10]
Why does the wild ass forage with a strange herd, or the pig put his feet in the trough? [11]
Now she understood why she had shrunk from Gaston that first night and those first days in Audierne: that strange sixth sense, divination--vague, helpless prescience. [11]
As Pierre said, whose wisdom was more to be trusted than his general morality, "It is strange that most men think not enough of themselves till a woman shows them how. [11]
Besides the soldiers who formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. [2]
A group of white fan-tailed pigeons had lighted on the green plot before it and clustered about one of their companions who lay on his back, fluttering in a strange way, with outspread wings and twitching feet. [6]
Presently a strange whisper began to be heard about the palace. [5]
Later, came things which were strange and eventful in his life, but that under-glow was for ever afterwards in his eyes. [11]
The statues, of which there were many, bore strange symbols, the mosaic flooring was covered with images intended to excite the fancy and the fears of the beholder. [10]
The single torch which spluttered from the wall as they drank their coffee lighted up faces as strange, withdrawn, and unconsciously secretive as ever gathered to greet a guest. [11]
The deep blush which crimsoned Euthymia's cheek at Lurida's suggestion was in a strange contrast to her own undisturbed expression. [6]
I knew not whether to pity or to be angry, such a strange blending she seemed of former pride and arrogance and later suffering. [9]
Heaven only knows where we are going, and heaven knows what is happening to us--but it is very strange and pleasant whatever it is. [2]
Like a caldron where a witch mixes all manner of strange things for a philter, each barricade consisted of every sort of rubbish, together with objects originally useful. [10]
Strange, isn't it, when Lady Harriet over there aches for him, Indian blood and all? [11]
I was thin when I went, but I was meagre indeed when I returned, my face looking grey and very old, with strange deep lines ploughed in it--my eyes stared unnaturally. [14]
It was only when he drifted into strange and untried fields that he began to chase rainbows, to blow iridescent bubbles, and count unmined gold. [5]
She knew not what was to be required of her, she was a stranger in a strange land; but persecution and exile had gone far to strengthen her spirit and greaten her composure. [11]
It is strange what power the reiteration of an essentially poetical thought has upon one's feelings. [5]
No matter at what hour Gaston returned, he found Jacques waiting; and when he woke he found him ready, as now, on this morning, after a strange night. [11]
It is strange what an uncommonly poor lot of voices there is, even among good people. [4]
It is strange what a taste you suddenly have for things you never liked before. [4]
Then, from the wharves, I saw the bay dotted with islands, their white sand sparkling in the evening light, and fringed with strange trees, and beyond, of a deepening blue, the ocean. [9]
Beyond the mountain were unexplored regions, hill and valley floating into hill and valley, lost in a miasmic haze, ruddy, silent, untenanted, save, mayhap, by the strange people known as the Little Good Folk of the Scarlet Hills. [11]
Three strange comrades were these, who knew each other so far as one man can know another, yet each knowing from a different stand-point. [11]
Perhaps because they were rather deeply set, though large, and because they seemed to glow in the shadows made by the brows, the strange intensity was deepened. [11]
If this man were not Gignoux, then the Lord had cast two in a strange mould. [9]
There certainly never were more gods than there are now; and among those of whom the myths tell us things strange enough to bring those who worship them into contempt, or to the gallows, is the countless swarm of good and evil daimons. [10]
So there we were in a strange city and no chambermaid. [5]
The old couple were delirious, and were doing strange things. [5]
The Alexandrian populace were accustomed to see much that was strange in the busy streets of their crowded city; but this vehicle attracted every eye, and excited astonishment, admiration and mirth, wherever it appeared, and not unfrequently the bitterest ridicule. [10]
The further we went the worse the roads were, and yet when my companions turned at the city-gate to ride homewards again, a strange, fierce confidence came upon me. [10]
So Master Dick went off on his travels, which led him into strange places and stranger company. [6]
She knew full well, he said, that his living loves changed in frequent succession, and it would be strange indeed if a dead one could bind him any longer. [10]
Many deemed it well worth a short voyage to see the actors in so strange an adventure and be the first to greet them. [10]
The song was weird, with a strange thrilling charm; it had the slow dignity of a chant, the roll of an epic, the delight of wild beauty. [11]
An' as the weeks an' months went by I growed into a strange sort of a man, I guess. [13]
In Frankfort everybody wears clean clothes, and I think we noticed that this strange thing was the case in Hamburg, too, and in the villages along the road. [5]
And presently, as we strayed down the shore we came upon a strange sight, the same being a huge fort rising from the waterside, all overgrown with brush and saplings and tall weeds. [9]
In the morning we broke camp and started off for the strange place which we hoped to capture. [9]
There is no way to understand this strange situation. [5]
This was the way in which it happened that she mingled her fears in such a strange manner with their doctrines. [6]
Out of the waters of the proletariat they fished, assiduously and benignly, but at random, strange specimens! [9]
I suppose I was the proudest stripling that ever traveled to see strange lands and wonderful people. [5]
How strange it was that one should read so truly without words spoken, or through seeing acts which reveal. [11]
How strange it was that in conquest the tumult of my being should be stilled, that my passion should be transmuted into awe that thrilled yet disquieted! [9]
He said it was strange that we had not met years before, when we had both been in Washington. [5]
The old lady was sitting wearily in an arm-chair; she could still walk, but amid her anxiety and distress a strange twitching had affected her hands. [10]
Meantime, the abbot was sitting in his pleasantly-warmed study, which was pervaded by a faint, agreeable perfume, gazing now at the logs burning in the beautiful marble mantel-piece, and then at the magistrate, who had brought him strange tidings. [10]
The strange voice was saying: "I have collected five thousand dollars-- all that can be got in the two counties. [11]
The head apprentice was reading aloud the accounts for the burials of the month, while the master checked off the items, nodding approval, commenting, correcting or condemning with strange expletives. [11]
The large room was perfectly still, but the peace that surrounded her was often disturbed by strange noises and tones, that rose from the dining-hall directly under her chamber. [10]
A strange peace was over Stephen. [9]
To me there was nothing strange or incongruous in heaven's making such an uproar about Lem Hackett. [5]
But perhaps there was nothing strange in that. [11]
After all, it was not strange that some one should be singing in that deepest wood beyond. [11]
And, indeed, it was not merely strange, but it filled her heart and mind with astonishment and terror. [10]
Landulph rose, and was in the act of claiming judgment by default when a strange clacking sound was heard coming up the stairs. [5]
And soon I was in his arms; but although that he kissed me lovingly, meseemed that something strange was on his lips which pleased me not, and I yet remember that I put my kerchief to my mouth to wipe that from it. [10]
Some strange exhilaration was in Dorothy. [9]
Now, the chamber was in a corner, so that the window faced another way, but the incident seemed strange to her, and she stood for a moment listening. [11]
How long I was gazing at the shifting coast I know not, for a strange wildness was within me that made me forget all else, until suddenly I became conscious of a presence at my side, and turned to behold the captain. [9]
That west wind was fresh, cool, fragrant, and it carried a sweet, strange burden of far-off things--tidings of life in other climes, of sunshine asleep on other walls--of other places where reigned peace. [13]
The sudden appearance was even more startling than the strange canoe that crossed their track on Lake of the Winds. [11]
At this Caesar was enchanted; it was to him a further proof of his strange fancy. [10]
But this idea was cast aside by and by, as the mystery of the strange alphabet began to clear itself. [5]
But Hester's face was beside them, and it told of strange and unsubstantial things. [11]
And now she was aware that Susan's blue eyes were fixed upon her, and that they had a strange and penetrating quality she had never noticed before: a certain tenderness, an understanding that made Honora redden and turn. [9]

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