I had not their common sense, their blunt cheerfulness, their complete lack of sensibility, and while they resented my queerness they could not know how anxious I was to be an ordinary boy.
Winter at least seemed to me to have put something into these seats of antiquity that the May sun had more or less melted away--a desirable strength of tone, a depth upon depth of queernessand quaintness.
She was used to queerness in her master, but if he were going crazy all of a sudden, why that would be a different matter altogether.
Knees quivering with the queerness of it all as well as with the icy frigidity of the hallway, I mounted the uncarpeted stairs.
Realization of the queerness of their drive was growing upon her, beginning to shock her; she stepped aside from the light that fell through the glass panels of the door and withheld her hand as it touched the old-fashioned bell-handle.
I had a girl who knew young Waters talk to him about Tom's new and alarming queerness and suggest that he telephone to Mr. E.
I can never," he said, "get over the monstrous queerness of it all.
Yet really it was on the queerness of things as they are in the uniform jacket of propriety and the same things when circumstance thrusts the human creature out of his enveloping customs and sends him into battle.
All the things about him became strange and unfamiliar with that subtle queerness one feels oftenest in dreams.
Bert's sense of the queerness of this experience was so keen that it blotted out any fear he might have felt.
For himself, he was not afraid of shadows, and the queerness of this one was not enough to distract his thoughts from Guenevere, nor from his love-making with Guenevere.
So Anaïtis petted and pampered her Prince Consort, and took such open pride in his queerness as very nearly embarrassed him sometimes.
In every heart lay the secret and sinister thought of the queerness and the incalculableness of Hilda.
Susan did not puzzle over the queerness of this abrupt question.
Densher listened with his eyes on the ground, but he presently raised them to speak, and there was that in his face which proved him aware of a queerness in his question.
The actual grand queerness was that to be faithful to Kate he had positively to take his eyes, his arms, his lips straight off her--he had to let her alone.
In the summer he was the guest of a Devonshire cottage, but for the first week or two he would be frightened by the vastness and queerness of out-of-doors.
David turned reluctantly away; he choked down the queerness in his throat and firmly laid hands on a gilt-rimmed mustache cup.
The queerness of everything was so very big that the little boy's voice almost got lost in it.
After that her queerness came on very fast, and she descended into the hell of pain that is given to women alone to know.
And so they all say it, knowing men and the queerness of men's love the way they think they do.
Of the brute that is in all men, of the queerness of them that breaks the hearts of stupid women who do not understand.
I have been sick," she lied; for she never dreamed of connecting her queerness with sickness.
Latterly, owing to Tanqueray's behaviour, whenever Jane looked in the glass, it had been the element of queerness and ugliness that she had seen.
It was part of her queerness that she had the square brows, the wide mouth, the large, innocent muzzle of a deer, and a neck that carried her head high.
With a queernessamounting to perversity some gentle, fawn-like, ruminant woman had borne her.
Jennie saw a little more plainly wherein his queerness lay.
His queerness was taking on a new phase--and she felt a sense of surprise such as one experiences when the conjurer causes a rose to grow into a tree before your very eyes.
Jim's queerness lay not so much in his clothes as in his personality.
On the other hand, Jennie could not help thinking that Mrs. Irwin's queerness was to be found almost solely in her clothes.
When she heard the clang of the gate behind him she went slowly in and stood by her lily for a moment, looking down at it, and not so much thinking in any definite channel as feeling the queerness of things.
Now here it was again, the spectre of her queerness rising to distress him.
When Eleanor went into the library to hunt for the blotting paper, she, too, commented on the queerness of Edith's stumbling on the lady who wasn't a lady.
As it was, she had spent a good deal of time during this last week in attempting to penetrate this queerness of Elizabeth, and seeing if it fitted in with other oddities.
People credited Moriarty's queerness of manner and moody ways to the solitude, and said it showed how Government spoilt the futures of its best men.
The queerness of the situation and the reply, made Mrs. Landys-Haggert laugh.
Just the little two-for-a-cent queerness of our happening to meet in Rome instead of in Brooklyn, and your happening to know the town where my uncle lived and owned the mill he left me .
Perhaps part of their little Ralph's queerness and abnormality comes from lack of proper food.
I could believe now quite all the tales I had ever heard of the queerness of Americans.
But it is a nice, likable sort of queerness they all have; so very interesting, too, that we enjoy them the better for it.
They came by all their different kinds of queerness naturally enough, Mis and Mother Nomer did, for it seemed to run in the family to be peculiar, and all their relatives had oddities of one kind or another.
Yes, and she had persuaded herself that the queerness of his look was only in her fancy!
The queerness of the name had attracted Hilda's attention several years earlier, when the signs were fresh.
