STRANGE in Classic Quotes

1  His words had a strange effect upon me.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17

2  These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

3  Such is my journal of what relates to this strange occurrence up to the present day.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4

4  Once, however, the lieutenant asked why he had come so far upon the ice in so strange a vehicle.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4

5  If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12

6  This was a strange tale, but it did not shake my faith; and I replied earnestly, "You are all mistaken; I know the murderer."

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

7  Several strange facts combined against her, which might have staggered anyone who had not such proof of her innocence as I had.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

8  While I listened to the instructions which Felix bestowed upon the Arabian, the strange system of human society was explained to me.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

9  Besides, the strange nature of the animal would elude all pursuit, even if I were so far credited as to persuade my relatives to commence it.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

10  Hear my tale; it is long and strange, and the temperature of this place is not fitting to your fine sensations; come to the hut upon the mountain.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

11  The mountains of Switzerland are more majestic and strange, but there is a charm in the banks of this divine river that I never before saw equalled.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

12  My return had only been delayed so long, from an unwillingness to leave Clerval in a strange place, before he had become acquainted with any of its inhabitants.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

13  So strange an accident has happened to us that I cannot forbear recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me before these papers can come into your possession.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4

14  Some of my comrades groaned, and my own mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts, when a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention and diverted our solicitude from our own situation.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4

15  A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt at the same time; and it was, indeed, a long time before I learned to distinguish between the operations of my various senses.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

16  It may appear strange that such should arise in the eighteenth century; but while I followed the routine of education in the schools of Geneva, I was, to a great degree, self-taught with regard to my favourite studies.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

17  The stars shone at intervals as the clouds passed from over them; the dark pines rose before me, and every here and there a broken tree lay on the ground; it was a scene of wonderful solemnity and stirred strange thoughts within me.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17