"In fact, Mr. Watson, it's a queer world, and the longer I live in it the queerer I find it.

That was queerer than having so many step-mothers.

"Whoever walks through London streets," Said Momus to the son of Saturn, "Each day new edifices meets, Of queer proportion, queerer pattern: If thou, O cloud-compelling god, Wilt aid me with thy special grace, I, too, will wield my motley hod, And build a church in Langham-place.

All the queerer because every item of lace and linen was variegated with huge black spots and blotches, as if some one had begun to wash it in ink.

"This is queer plantin', Jamie," put in Joel, "and queerer grain will come of it.

The only thing queerer is women.

"Um! Now, in my humble opinion, Fullaway, that's a good deal queerer than the Van Koon incident.

I don't believe he's a bit queerer 'n you are, child."

What queerer, pleasanter berth could he find than that offered him here in the quietude of the old manor, among books, tending the feeble flame of this old aristocrat's life?

She couldn't meet the look that went with the queer smile, for it was even queerer and more pained, and was, somehow, too old a look for Dickie.

That's even queerer than your fancy, isn't it?"

She's acting queerer and queerer, and she is getting to be like Aunt Jane.

She's acting queerer and queerer, and she is getting to be like Aunt Jane.

"Even queerer than supper-time was.

Nothing is queerer than human nature, and will you be surprised if I tell you that I believe I was a better priest when I was drinking than I am now that I'm sober?

She wore a queer little black dress, very short and narrow, made after some peculiar fashion of her own, and over it a queerer little cape of the same stuff.

Yet life in the wide world, I find, is a queerer thing than ever any swineherd dreamed of in his wattled hut, and people everywhere are nourished by their beliefs, in a way that the meat of pigs can nourish nobody.

"Is it any queerer," asked her governess, "than to make it from leaves?

They were very strange to his eyes, and indeed the whole aspect of that valley became, as he regarded it, queerer and more unfamiliar.

The place seemed larger as he drew near to it, and the smeared plasterings queerer, and a crowd of children and men and women (the women and girls, he was pleased to note, had some of them quite sweet faces, for all that their eyes were shut and sunken) came about him, holding on to him, touching him with soft, sensitive hands, smelling at him, and listening at every word he spoke.

" "Life's a queerer thing," Gavinia replied, sadly enough, "than we used to think it when we was bairns in the Den.

But surely no legatee ever found himself in possession of a queerer legacy than that which my poor friend Challoner had bequeathed to me when he made over to me the mortal remains of some two dozen deceased criminals.

But here's a queerer thing yet.

"Well, sir, it sounds queer to tell it, and it seems queerer still to think of the doing of it, but I hadn't dug two feet before I come to bed rock, and there was some heavy black chunks.

Bodley's Library has sheltered through three centuries many queer things besides books and strangely-written manuscripts in old tongues; queerer things even than crocodiles, whales, and mummiesI mean the librarians and sub-librarians, janitors, and servants.