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Example sentences for "strange sort"

  • It was a strange sort of laughing, for there were tears in the younger man's eyes.

  • Macleod burst out laughing, in a strange sort of way, and put the wet letter in his pocket, and led Jack out into the road again.

  • The breath of night rustled lightly through the bushes, and seemed to follow her steps with a strange sort of sigh and a titter.

  • On the whole, however, they had a strange sort of liking for him.

  • The clerk smiled a strange sort of smile.

  • It was a strange sort of a meal this, away out at the end of the world, as it were.

  • Yes, that is true,” said Sheila; and then she looked up with a strange sort of smile on her lips.

  • This time he polished it harder, so that when he gave it to Doris again it was quite warm from the polishing; and Doris seemed to be standing in a strange sort of room, full of old-fashioned furniture and heavy ornaments.

  • So Doris went upstairs, and he unbuttoned the hook, and when she caught hold of it she felt a strange sort of thrill.

  • Then they heard a strange sort of coughing and grunting and spluttering, and they saw the oddest of little men.

  • Let me tell you one of my fancies, and then you will understand the strange sort of fascination she has for me.

  • To say that Mr. Langdon had a strange sort of thrill shoot through him at the sight of this harmless little implement would be a statement not at variance with the fact of the case.

  • She blushed a little as she said, "I can't help feeling a strange sort of interest about the other, Mr. Kirkwood.

  • Mr. Bernard had a wired cage ready for his formidable captives, and studied their habits and expression with a strange sort of interest.

  • A strange sort of respect, involuntary, of mingled admiration and pity; surged into Conniston's heart.

  • So there had sprung up between the two men a strange sort of friendship, a strange sort of intimacy.

  • The instant I had chosen this employment for myself, I found a strange sort of pleasure in it.

  • It is a strange sort of a vagary you have taken, to stand in your own light, and disoblige all your friends.

  • Man is surely a strange sort of creature, who never praises any one more heartily than him who has spread destruction and ruin over the face of nations!

  • So that is he," I thought to myself, and my heart stirred within me in a strange sort of way.

  • He lay motionless and puckered up his eyes in a strange sort of way.

  • Lukyanitch stood with his grey head bent on his breast, and stared at me askance in a strange sort of way.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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