It was only a queer place, to be laughed at, to them, and I was ashamed of it, and bitter and angry.
She looked at me kinderqueer fer a minnit," he replied at length.
What are the men kneeling down for, and why do they keep stopping to put on those queer little caps and things?
Queer is no word for it," agreed Clark; "and what bothers me is that we are likely to have trouble with him yet if we're not careful.
She felt that, for him, it was a queer kind-of compliment that he had paid her.
Strange thoughts ran through his head, and when he looked up again, with a shrug of the shoulders, there was a queer look in his eyes.
Whatever she did or did not in that queer life of hers, she never flattered man or woman, and fashioned no false image of herself.
Perhaps I was fulfilling my own; but my dream of life was a queer vision.
And across this consciousness came a queer little remorse for not having rescued Victoria from this husband whom she sent to teach me.
It's dashed queer stuff," said William Adolphus, scratching his head.
We have just noticed, in the case of that queer room of the Boffins', how the mere representation of setting may contribute to the delineation of character.
Neither Boffin nor Mrs. Boffin appears in this descriptive paragraph; yet many of the idiosyncrasies of each are suggested by the conglomeration of queer belongings that they have gathered round them.
QUEER |An exchange says that the people of that locality were considerably excited the other day over a three-cornered dog fight that occurred there.
Uncouth enough he was in that queer coat, but since he threw that aside he has become another being.
Hitherto her attention had been given to the queer black coat, with its long, pointed tails.
That she had reversed this decision, on the unsolicited counsel of an extremely queer stranger, was a phenomenon the peculiarity of which did not strike her at the time.
Living in countries where, however queer the people may be, they at least observe ordinary human courtesies, one forgets--if one ever knew.
Go ahead wid de pump," calls a queer voice, and forthwith a sweetish, warmish breath enters the helmet, and I hear the wheeze and groan of the cylinders.
It's queer how people get wind of a thing; the crowd seemed to know in a minute that I was going to use dynamite, and before I was twenty feet up the ladder a police officer was after me, ordering me down.
I well remember, for instance, the occasion when I heard how Rajah once got out of his cage and chased a quagga--one of those queer little animals that are half zebra and half mule.
Suppose we begin with the balloon farm, which is certainly a queer place.
Queer how they like to be hit by a fast express," reflected Lewis, "when a slow freight would do just as well.
There were free elephants all over Bridgeport that night, and a queer thing was we had to look sharp that some of the elephants we'd saved didn't run back into the fire.
No, they said it was lightning; but it's queer how lightning could kill a man without being seen, isn't it?
This queer method of transit is practised on the St. Lawrence, by those who dare, during certain weeks of winter when the river is no longer open nor yet frozen into a solid ice-bridge, but partly open and partly solid.
There are lots of queer things about our business," reflected an old pilot.
And the queer thing was he never could explain it--none of them ever can; he just changed his mind.
With them would come Danny, made up as a fat man, and do a backward somersault and a full twister at the same time, the effect being a queercorkscrew turn that made the people laugh.
Simple as the question was it seemed for some reason or other to put a queer sort of pucker into everybody's pulses.
His creditors permitted him to occupy, besides, a queer little domicile, little better than a cottage, which stood just under a wooded hillock in the vast wild park.
This library was contained in an old chest; consisted of some score of shabby volumes of all sizes, and was, in truth, a queer mixture.
She is a queer little girl," said one, "but I do love her.
The only totally unidentifiable piece of apparatus in the place was one queer contrivance at one side.
They came out, as it happened, sideways instead of point first, which was due to some queer effect of dimension change upon an object moving at high velocity.
The grim, gaunt figure of Denham came out of the tree-fern forest, the queersmall golden-metal trunchion in his hand.
Then he saw a queer movement on the earth near the edge of the morass.
And that he was inordinately suspicious of someone, and filled with a queer desperation.
And there was a queer deadliness in the very grace of its outlines.
That gentleman dances very well, but he's a queer creature: he talked to me about geography.
His black clothes, formal hat, hair powdered and curled round, so far disguised him that he was unknown to us all at first, though Hooper's queer dialect must have soon discovered him to the waiters.
There is something queerabout this--What are you doing in there, Jip?
It all seemed like some queer dream; and I was beginning to wonder if I was really awake, when I heard the Doctor speaking again: "My blessed matches are all wet.
To help pass away the weary hours we learned it by heart, 'Oh, look, here's a queer one!
Then the Doctor too seemed to get all worked up and began talking and making queer signs to the dog.
Dear heart, what queernames them foreign folks do get!
I can't tell what you expect me to say: and you give such queer reasons for not doing things.
I ask your pardon," cried Temperance, with a queer set of her lips.
Dick is a queer un," Bob remarked to a neighbor lad to whom he related the incident later.
Before morning, though, Ross said the animal woke him, but received no answer, only groans and queer sounds.
Shock with a tug at his heart and a queer little smile on his face.
The young man complained that the soup had a queer taste; Marot's son took a spoonful, tasted it, and agreed with the painter.
His eccentricity was made public by one of his queer sallies, which were peculiar to himself.
The soup," Marot replied, "tastes queerbecause it is made of pig's head.
He was quite contented in this queer resting-place, and being absolutely confident in his little mind that the woman was carrying him home to Faith, he laid his curly head on her shoulder and dropped asleep.
Over the dirty thin face of the older girl there came a queer but expressive change.
So it does," acquiesced Mr. Brougham, again looking over the queer hieroglyphics.
There is no better authority for the truth of the many queer stories told about the rough benevolence of Dr.
The puffed sleeves of silk yielding under his touch gave him a queer impression of the girl's fragility.
Clarice stood still; and he became possessed with a queer longing that she would move again, forwards, within the focus of the firelight.
His consciousness became in some queer way centred upon the girl who was listening, to the exclusion of the subject she was listening to.
Clarice suddenly recollected her old image of the veld, and she laughed at the recollection as one laughs at some queer fancy one has held in childhood.
When once, indeed, she had grown used to it, she had seemed almost to express some queer sort of sympathy with him.
I thought so," said Don, with a queer catch in his voice.
Precisely; and it came jolly near accounting for yours truly as well," said Jack, with a queer little laugh and a significant shrug of the shoulders.
