Similarly he had arrived at a
strange and wonderful spelling of his own name.
Instantly my brain cleared and there swept back across the threshold of my memory the vivid picture of the horrors of that ghostly Arizona cave; again, as on that far-gone night, my muscles refused to respond to my will and again, as though even here upon the banks of the placid Hudson, I could hear the awful moans and rustling of the fearsome thing which had lurked and threatened me from the dark recesses of the cave, I made the same mighty and superhuman effort to break the bonds of the
strange anaesthesia which held me, and again came the sharp click as of the sudden parting of a taut wire, and I stood naked and free beside the staring, lifeless thing that had so recently pulsed with the warm, red life-blood of John Carter.
There was nothing either exceptional or
strange in a man's calling at half-past nine on a friend to inquire details of a proposed dinner party and not coming in, but it seemed
strange to all of them.
What music they make!" Seeing, I suppose, some expression in my face
strange to him, he added, "Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter." Then he rose and said.
At first I was puzzled by all these
strange fruits, and by the
strange flowers I saw, but later I began to perceive their import.
The floor of the chamber was of concrete, the walls of smooth granite, upon which
strange figures of men and beasts were carved.
Suspense must have weakened my nerves in some
strange way.
"I may have appeared
strange and queer then," he thought, "but I was not so mad as I seemed.
The
strange man, after glancing at Joe, and seeing that his attention was otherwise engaged, nodded to me again when I had taken my seat, and then rubbed his leg - in a very odd way, as it struck me.
At other times Clayton wrote in his diary, which he had always been accustomed to keep in French, and in which he recorded the details of their
strange life.
The creature was considerably less than half as tall as the green Martian warriors, and from my balcony I could see that it walked erect upon two legs and surmised that it was some new and
strange Martian monstrosity with which I had not as yet become acquainted.
With a movement of compunction as new and
strange to him as everything else within the last hour, he started from his chair and went close up to Jem, looking at him as if he wanted to assure himself of the expression in his face.
