Which preposition to use with strange

to Occurrences 497%

Several I recognized almost immediately as mythological deities; others were strange to me, utterly strange, beyond the power of a human mind to conceive.

in Occurrences 143%

W. dined out the first night we slept at the Quai d'Orsay, and about an hour after we had arrived, while I was still walking about in my hat and coat, feeling very strange in the big, high rooms, I was told that the lampiste was waiting my orders (a few lamps had been lit in some of the rooms).

than Occurrences 111%

We thus perceive the significance of the apothegm, "Truth is stranger than fiction."

of Occurrences 71%

And now, I come to the strangest of all the strange happenings that have befallen me in this house of mysteries.

about Occurrences 40%

"Of course; there's nothing strange about it; it happens quite often.

as Occurrences 34%

You understand?" She could not understand why he should make a mystery of it; but then, he was almost as strange as her father.

at Occurrences 23%

"All appeared new and strange at first, inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful.

for Occurrences 17%

Not strange, perhaps, for Mr. MCLAUGHLIN, whose very youth in New York, where he was an active politician, found him a frequent nightly familiar of the Tombs; but strange for the organist, who, although often grave in his manner, sepulchral in his tones, and occasionally addicted to coughin', must be curiously eccentric to wish to pass into concert that evening with the dead heads.

with Occurrences 12%

I should have observed it if she had done anything strange with them.

on Occurrences 8%

This young lady stood by the cab expectant and smiling while the cabman pulled a tin trunk off the roof of the vehicle, and then, when the cabman had climbed down and was dragging the trunk after him, she put out an arm and seized one handle of the trunk to help him, which act, so strange on the part of a young lady, made Hilda, coming nearer and nearer, look more carefully.

from Occurrences 6%

Lady Chatterton now perceived, when too late, that she had overshot her mark, while, at the same time, she wondered at the reason of a result so strange from such well-digested and well-conducted plans.

after Occurrences 5%

When Ida went upstairs for the wash, the need for which Miss Isabel had so kindly informed her of, she found that her room was clean and fairly comfortable, though its appearance seemed strange after the huge and old-fashioned one at the Hall.

unto Occurrences 5%

And so we did go forward again, as I have told, and the Maid did strive that she make me to give attention to her naughtiness, for she did walk alway offward from me, and did sing aloud, and truly they did be songs strange unto me, but yet to be of love, and much as the songs of this Age; for, truly, there doth be but one song upon all the earth, and

without Occurrences 4%

I ask you to come and see us unitedI shall not reproach you if you do not; yet I shall feel strange without a single relative to kiss or bless me in that most eventful hour of a woman's life.

beyond Occurrences 3%

In one word, the sphere of darkness in which I floated seemed to be filled with points of light, while the absolute blackness that surrounded them, the absence of the slightest radiation, or illumination of space at large, was strange beyond expression to an eye accustomed to that diffusion of light which is produced by the atmosphere.

Into Occurrences 2%

O luckless hour, when men and manners strange Into these calm and happy valleys came, To warp our primitive and guileless ways!

against Occurrences 2%

Their ponies whinnying like old friends, they met, by chance or appointment, before the power of sleep had lifted from eyes still new and strange against the morning.

between Occurrences 1%

The breath that is so fragrant and strange between the fronting rows of shacks is simply that of the forest: inept the woodsman who would not recognize it at once.

like Occurrences 1%

Oh, I wish Claire wouldn't be strange like that, (helplessly)

under Occurrences 1%

"While I learned but little last evening, that little was enough to convince me there is something strange under the surface.

among Occurrences 1%

If we have misunderstood this book, and its cautious understatements are not understatements at all, but represent the limits beyond which the writer does not go, we can only say again it is one-of the strangest among books.

amid Occurrences 1%

By this time it was quite dusk, and very strange amid the great fungi as we struck across the upper edge of the valley to the opposite beach.

within Occurrences 1%

But Sivert himself felt something strange within him: "'Tis most as if he stood looking into the garden of Eden," he thought.

uf Occurrences 1%

It iss not so strange uf you, Robert Lennox, who are white, but I would expect better uf Tayoga, who is to be a great Onondaga chief some day.

by Occurrences 1%

We can picture Hanani walking by his side, showing him all the different objects, to himself so familiar, to Nehemiah so well known by name, but so strange by sight.

Which preposition to use with  strange