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Example sentences for "strange sight"

  • A strange sight it was to see these twenty naked men crouching in a half-circle round the fire with their trembling hands extended to the blaze.

  • A strange sight it was that met them now in the circle of light, the frightened girl, half-unconscious against the table, the prostrate cripple, and Nigel with foot and sword upon his body.

  • Our English writer remarks on page 57: "To those who had read the mutual recriminations that had been bandied between these two bodies, it was a strange sight to see the names of Messrs.

  • One day, as he was out hunting, he came upon a strange sight.

  • A strange sight on that clear, still, dark ocean, the white iceberg with its living freight drifting aimlessly about.

  • A strange sight it was, that awful coming squall.

  • It is a strange sight to see the relics of a forgotten civilisation, in the midst of a pathless forest.

  • A Manipuri military expedition was a strange sight, the men besides their arms and ammunition carrying their spare clothes, cooking vessels, food, etc.

  • Another time when out riding in the evening, I witnessed a strange sight.

  • Suddenly, as they rode, they came upon a strange sight.

  • His way lay through a forest, and he was riding along sadly enough when suddenly he saw a strange sight.

  • And when they had prayed, and were coming forth from the cathedral they saw a strange sight.

  • It was a strange sight to see the men trying to stamp them to death, and the women and children rushing to and fro shrieking and brushing them from their hair.

  • By its ghastly illumination they saw a strange sight.

  • In the open space beyond they saw a strange sight, for across it were streaming all the dwarf-mutes carrying their aged and sick and infants, and bearing on their backs or piled up in litters their mats and cooking utensils.

  • It was a strange sight to see him stealing up, and Hobson and some of the others drew their revolvers, thinking for the moment that he must be an enemy who had boarded the ship.

  • On the afternoon of the seventh day of July, 1853, or the third day of the sixth month of Kayei, in the reign of the Emperor Komei, the farmers working in the muddy rice-fields near the village of Uraga saw a strange sight.


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