23 adjectives to describe strangenesses

In the room of that Civility and Familiarity I used to be treated with by her, an affected Strangeness in her Looks, and Coldness in her Behaviour, plainly told me I was not the welcome Guest which the Regard and Tenderness she has often expressed for me gave me Reason to flatter my self to think I was.

And all had been a-lack through great thousands of years, as she did know of their Records, and had grown dim-lit and lonesome, and a Land of deepness to starve the spirit with an utter strangeness and discomfort, where that the men went quietly as ghosts, through many ages; and all a place in dire want of sound and laughter.

Wandering and wayside people, such as we had long since become, retain a few of the instincts that belong to a more settled way of life, and often prefer familiar and commonplace objects (for the very reason that they are so) to the dreary strangeness of scenes that might be thought much better worth the seeing.

Felicia, who had not quite realized the depth of friendship which had grown between this old gentleman and her small brother, noted with the familiar strangeness of a dream the proprietary action with which the Maestro drew Kirk to him, and Kirk's instant and unconscious response.

I do not refer to the professional holiness of saints and ecclesiastics, but to that sense of hallowed strangeness, of mystic purity, of spiritual exquisiteness, which breathes from a beautiful woman and makes the touch of her hand a religious ecstasy, and her very garments a thrilling mystery.

And the hazardous strangeness of life enchanted her.

The horrible strangeness of these words is quite beyond me to compass; nevertheless, realize it or not, it is a fact.

But though mother and child gave them a sense of insuperable strangeness, it plainly never occurred to them that both would not be gradually subdued to the customs of Saint Desert.

" "Noble princess," he replied, "this holy spot takes away all sense of mutual strangeness.

She thought, with a renewed sense of the mysterious strangeness of life: "Last night I was there, far awayall those scores of miles of fields and towns are between!and to-night I am here.

Those of us who were his friends and neighbors, by whose firesides he sat familiarly, and of whose life upon the pleasant Staten Island, where he lived, he was so important a part, were so impressed by his intense vitality, that his death strikes us with peculiar strangeness, like sudden winter-silence falling upon these humming fields of June.

The dramatist has invested the story with the glamour of that poetical strangeness which is the very salt of such narrations: "Alf.

A person less experienced than Dr. Cashmore in the secret strangenesses of genteel life in London might have been astonished by this information.

Mark could probably explain this sexual strangeness, but it was none of his business.

Only one, a child of 2-1/2, slept, because he cried himself to sleep from sheer strangeness.

Also, that the quality that had impressed me first as being malefic was really only its singular and original strangeness.

That this pet toy of the modern millionaire should be set to work out the crude vengeance of wild men in these primitive surroundings, crowded up on a little rocky path of these savage mountains, at the door of a cave spring-housesuch a food-cache as a nomad Indian might have utilized, in the gray bluff against the sky-lineit took the breath with its sinister strangeness.

A slight strangeness sprang up between them which he was too distrait to notice.

The novel beauty of the Dabney gardens can scarcely be exaggerated; each step was a new incursion into the tropics,a palm, a magnolia, a camphor-tree, a dragon-tree, suggesting Humboldt and Orotava, a clump of bamboos or cork-trees, or the startling strangeness of the great grass-like banana, itself a jungle.

Again and again she felt a sweet strangeness in her new position.

The transient strangeness of the earth Their spirits no more see:

[50] Miss Burney, describing her first sight of Johnson, says:'Upon asking my father why he had not prepared us for such uncouth, untoward strangeness, he laughed heartily, and said he had entirely forgotten that the same impression had been at first made upon himself; but had been lost even on the second interview.'

Coming to it now, as to port after storms, with the intention almost openly avowed to herself of lying down upon the bed and, for an hour or two, feeling as sorry for herself as she could, she found an appalling strangeness about its very familiarity that pulled her up short.

23 adjectives to describe  strangenesses