Their strangeness to her gave certain well-worn topics novelty, and the familiar project of a pastoral career in the far West invested itself with a color of romance which it had not worn before.
It puzzled Staniford to make out whether she felt any strangenessin the situation, which she accepted with so much apparent serenity.
She was pale, but he scarcely noticed that, engrossed in the strangeness of finding her there.
He looked about the familiar street of Hooker's Bend, the old trees over the pavement, the shabby village houses, and it all held a strangeness when thus juxtaposed to the thought of Nazareth nineteen hundred years before.
Even when he went to bed that night the strangeness of Cissie's flight kept him awake inventing explanations.
His reflections renewed his perpetual sense of queerness and strangeness that hall-marked every phase of Niggertown life since his return from the North.
On a gusty night, when the rushes moan and shiver, and the great river sounds hoarsely, it is hardly possible to look out into the darkness without feeling a sense of strangeness and even of fear.
She remembered the strangeness of Julia's look and her heart ached, guessing.
His question smote her with the strangeness of their compact.
It was a coincidence trifling in comparison with the general strangeness of the situation, but still striking, that her name should be Edith.
Another feature of the real Boston, which assumed the extraordinary effect of strangeness that marks familiar things seen in a new light, was the prevalence of advertising.
Even then, however, in pauses of the conversation I had had glimpses, vivid as lightning flashes, of the horror of strangeness that was waiting to be faced when I could no longer command diversion.
The strangeness of her surroundings kept her awake, and it seemed to her, as she went over the last twenty-four hours, that she was years older than she had been when she left The Cedars.
His gaze passed away from her, and she leaned back in her chair, while the sense of strangeness and unreality vanished as quickly as it had come.
For a long moment the dentist's wife and the retired dressmaker, the one at the window, the other on the sidewalk, remained lost in thought, wondering over the strangeness of the affair.
He was puzzled and harassed by thestrangeness of it all.
And he had left her--left her alone with the memory of his strangeness and his harshness, alone with her heart breaking, alone with her fear.
O Hara San stared at him in bewilderment, frightened at the strangenessof his voice.
The novelty, the strangenessof it, left her breathless with the feeling that years, not weeks, had rushed by.
Imagination does, however, give us novel connections; and experiment shows that an idea comes to us as imagined only if it comes as unfamiliar, with the feeling of novelty or strangeness upon it.
Memory is characterised by the feeling of familiarity and by imitative kinæsthesis; imagination by the feeling of strangeness and by empathy.
It was needful, on the contrary; to sever him from the priests by proving the strangeness of his teaching, by bringing him forward as a Quietist.
She was charmed with her modesty, with her invalid grace, with a certain strangeness at once mysterious and melting.
But nothing can detract from the inexpressibly quaint spirit of Gipsy originality in which these odd credos are expressed, or surpass the strangeness of the reasons given for them.
To me there was something deeply moving in the simple earnestness and strangeness of this adjuration.
It is a paradox worth noting for itsstrangeness that the first revival of mediaevalism in modern English literature was in the Renaissance itself.
And there was Ann, with a greater strangeness and a greater familiarity in her quality than he had ever found before.
He had ceased from rowing and rested on his oars, and suddenly he was touched by the wonder of life, the strangeness that is a presence stood again by his side.
Hovering still about this gentleman, and beguiled by the strangeness of all things we see into a curiosity like that of children, we admire his sword.
That is the secret of the strangeness and beauty of things, the secret of the thrill they give, the secret of the elfish charm of the people and their ways.
Strangeness, we are told by the Romantic school, is essential for the highest beauty; it was a theory Hearn always maintained, but his strangeness now became spiritualised.
I should be disingenuous to deny it, answered I; far from doing so, I will own that I should prefer him before all the world, if the strangeness of his present situation did not frighten me.
And yet, notwithstanding the seeming strangeness of this, it was nothing but what was very natural, and most consonant to her own designs.
And he could recall what Sir James had not seen--the strangeness of Alicia's manner, and the peremptoriness with which she had endeavored to carry him home with her.
The two girls confronted each other, and, vaguely, perhaps, each felt the strangenessof the situation.
In her inmost mind she knew well that it was from her mother--and her mother's death--that all the strangeness of the past descended.
From silence one can plunge into noise, from stillness one can hasten to movement, from the strangeness and the wonder of the antique past one can step into the brilliance, the gaiety, the vivid animation of the present.
They gain in grandeur from the night in strangeness from the moonrise, perhaps specially when the Nile comes to their feet.
V THE NILE I do not find in Egypt any more the strangeness that once amazed, and at first almost bewildered me.
Though still puzzled by the wet garments, the presence of the gentleman wearing them seems to solve that other enigma, unexplained as painful--the strangeness he has of late observed in the ways of Miss Wynn.
It is a buff waistcoat," he said, all sense ofstrangeness gone.
He felt himself tremble at the name,--at the strangeness of its sound on Euphrasia's lips.
And though I was somewhat awed by the strangeness of that dark, ill-smelling room, and by the rough company in which I found myself, I held my ground, and spoke up as strongly as I might.
Those which occur in the waking state are by no means always painful, though their strangeness not infrequently alarms the child, and his horror at the dark arises, not from his seeing nothing, but from his seeing too much.
It is only thestrangeness of the occurrence in the eyes of non-medical people, that makes them fancy it something worse.
But the more the element of proportion in beauty is sacrificed to strangeness the more the result will seem to the normal man to be, not beauty at all, but rather an esoteric cult of ugliness.
Poe was fond of quoting a saying of Bacon’s that “there is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangenessin the proportion.
This pursuit of strangeness and adventure will be found to predominate in all types of romanticism.
Buddha might perhaps marvel with more reason at ourstrangeness than we at his.
But when the wonder and strangeness that he is chasing are overtaken, they at once cease to be wondrous and strange, while the gleam is already dancing over some other object on the distant horizon.
Along with this idealistic Don Juan we also see appearing at a very early stage in the movement the exotic Don Juan who wishes to have a great deal of strangeness added to his beauty.
