There are many strange sorts of humans bred in a mining country, each sort despising the queernesses of the other, but of them all I found the Pocket Hunter most acceptable for his clean, companionable talk.

She had always noticed a certain queerness in her husband.

Myra felt a queerness about her heart, a subtle sense of impending events; of great dramatic issues.

"I will bear all her impositions and queernesses for the sake of his health and pleasure, but I cannot give up my little room to Cicely Drane.