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Example sentences for "strange mixture"

  • Her husband regarded her with a strange mixture of humour and discontent.

  • The Staatsraethin stood beside them, her eyes resting with unspeakable affection upon her child, but there was a strange mixture of delight and anxiety in her heart.

  • Johannes regarded the passionate woman in her demonic beauty with a strange mixture of admiration and horror, sympathy and aversion.

  • Hodder started as he recognized her; her gaze was a strange mixture of effrontery and --something else; sorrow did not quite express it.

  • He opened a box, and with a strange mixture of impetuosity and reverence came forward.

  • In Mowbray's countenance there was a strange mixture of contempt and curiosity.

  • At every stroke, characteristic of the skilful actor, or of the master poet, I felt a strange mixture of admiration and regret.

  • O'Shea, with a strange mixture of drollery and displeasure.

  • He continued to look at her, with a strange mixture of admiration and astonishment.

  • Hearn was a strange mixture of humility and conceit, but there was not a particle of literary jealousy in his composition.

  • A strange mixture of frivolity and earnestness characterised the world of art.

  • Her eyes grew misty while she gazed, her heart swelling with a strange mixture of emotions: love, joy, pride, and a touch of sadness at the thought of the partial loss that night was to bring to her beloved husband and herself.

  • The young mother's eyes grew misty with a strange mixture of emotion, in which love and joy were the deepest and strongest.

  • Her delicate complexion had faded away to a dull white; her eyes were averted from her visitor with a strange mixture of confusion and alarm; she looked an older woman than she was, by ten good years at least.

  • I feel some curiosity sir," he said, with a strange mixture of doggedness and timidity, "about Miss Gwilt.

  • He looked at me with a strange mixture of expressions in his face.

  • Don't call him that until he is your betrothed," replied Amrei, with a strange mixture of feelings in her voice.

  • No, you have not kept geese for nothing," said the lad; and there was a strange mixture of feelings in the tone of his voice.

  • I read these lines with a strange mixture of sensations.

  • Giusti's brief life was a strange mixture of potential joy and actual suffering.

  • Eugenie de Merville was a strange mixture of qualities at once feminine and masculine.

  • As the peer thus spoke, Vaudemont, leaning against the door, contemplated him with a strange mixture of interest and disgust.

  • I found my brother with a strange mixture of pride, perplexity, and solicitude in his looks.

  • My indignation on those occasions had a strange mixture of fear in it, and both together suffocated my speech.

  • At last Eckhardt spoke, a strange mixture of mirth and irony in his tones.

  • Looking up he met the enigmatic gaze of the harper resting upon him with a strange mixture of derision and disdain.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both gold and silver; dance looby; find also; first mate; mile off; negro troops; returning home; severe pain; strange adventures; strange country; strange enough; strange feeling; strange kind; strange look; strange people; strange place; strange sail; strange sense; strange sight; strange sort; strange story; strange woman; stranger here; stranger still; sweet savour; will cease