33 Metaphors for strange

Strange was the scene as little Captain Cosset walked up to the member of Herculean proportions, and men wondered how the order would be enforced; but Charles Bradlaugh was not the man to make a vulgar brawl, and the light touch on his shoulder was to him the touch of an authority he admitted and to which he bowed.

Strange was the theatre whose play was all and only a frightful reality; whose swarming, thundering, smoking stage had its audience, its New Orleans audience, wholly behind it, and whose curtain of distance, however thin, mocked every bodily sense and compelled all to be seen and heard by the soul's eye and ear, with all the joy and woe of its actuality and all its suspense, terror, triumph, heartbreak, and despair.

Strange is that ant-like down's appearance circling the oval of thy face; Yet musky shade is not a stranger within the Hall which paintings grace.

Strange indeed are the whirligigs of Time!

The good man answered, "The king and all the nobles of this city have been excommunicated; strange are their manners and religion!

Strange was the story which came to light.

wild was the storm, and loud was its roar, And strange were the sights that I hovered o'er: I saw the babe with its mother die; I listened to catch its parting sigh;

Strange was the difference between this scene and the one in which, eighteen months before, these two had last been together in this room.

Strange indeed must have been the procession of races, parties and factions that passed along here between these very houses, or others which stood before them.

Strange lights from pale moony Memory lie On the weedy columns beneath its eye; And strange is the sound of the ghostlike breeze, In the lingering leaves on the skeleton trees; And strange is the sound of the falling shower, When the clouds of dead pain o'er the spirit lower; Unheard in the home he inhabiteth, The land where all lost things are gathered by Death.

Dark in the forest, strange is time.

A strange couple they would make, and strange would be their conversation!

Mysteries strange its still walls keep, Strange are the forms that through it sweep Walking by night and by day.

And this here stranger is just sittin' around and waitin' to be killed!

[Footnote: Lady Strange was Alice Spencer, sixth daughter of Sir John Spencer of Althorpe.

Strange were the ways of this office; Shakespeare might have sent in prose and poetry, but he would have gone into the wastepaper basket had he not previously straddled.

Strange is the gift that I owe to you; Such a gift as never a king Save to daughter or son might bring, All my tenure of heart and hand All my title to house and land, Mother and sister and child and wife And joy and sorrow, and death and life!" DORRILLON (Sir William), a rich Indian merchant and a widower.

Strange must be that heart which can behold a being such as Emmeline cling to it, as if its protection and its love were now all that bound her to earth, and still remain unmoved and cold.

Mr. Strange was a white man.

And Ethelyn herself had many and varied feelings on the subject, the strangest of which was a perverse desire to let Frank know that she did not carethat her heart was not broken by his desertion, and that there were those who prized her even if he did not.

Strange was the diversity of fate which befell these envoys.

It was swarming with hill-people the day we were there, and strange was the contrast between the crowd inside the circle of picketed horses and the white-robed cockneys from Rabat who fill the market-place of Salé.

"It is now too late to hesitate," said Mrs Wyllys; "we are seen, let the stranger be friend or enemy.

Chancing to look at Ann, she saw that stranger than the men was the look with which Ann regarded them.

"One morning, I cannot tell you how long after, I awoke and found myself in a strange-looking room, filled with strange objects, not the least strange of which was the thing that seemed myself.

33 Metaphors for  strange