United States or Czechia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He went to the orchard himself to fill his pockets with apples, when he saw the Muley Cow his own Muley Cow acting in the strangest manner. She was staggering about among the trees and making the queerest sounds. Johnnie Green ran quickly to the barn and called to his father. "There's something wrong with the Muley Cow!" "Where is she?" his father asked him. "In the orchard!" Johnnie said.
"She doesn't know herself. I asked her." Edward whistled a long, soft whistle. "Aren't girls the queerest things ever made!" he ejaculated in wonder. "I don't think it's queer," defended Ethel. "First, it was all guesswork with her because you never had told her that you cared. And then she was angry at your having talked about her when you hadn't talked to her. Her feelings were hurt badly.
The Princess was a music-hall artist who imagined she was a dead and gone Egyptian Princess; and the queerest of all, 'Arry Axes was also a music-hall singer who imagined himself Chevalier you know, the great Koster artist and that's how we took him for a Frenchman.
Button-Bright and Trot were staring with all their might at the queerest person they had ever seen. They decided it must be a man because he had two long legs, a body as round as a ball, a neck like an ostrich, and a comical little head set on the top of it. But the most curious thing about him was his skin, which was of a lovely sky-blue tint.
But that does not bring us one inch nearer to allowing them the right to define what is a calamity; or to call things calamities which common sense does not call calamities. We call in the doctor to save us from death; and, death being admittedly an evil, he has the right to administer the queerest and most recondite pill which he may think is a cure for all such menaces of death.
Presently he called out, 'I can see it clearly now! It is an engine, on our rails, coming along at a great pace! It looks as if we were being pursued! The miserable Toad, crouching in the coal-dust, tried hard to think of something to do, with dismal want of success. 'They are gaining on us fast! cried the engine-driver. And the engine is crowded with the queerest lot of people!
Of all the queer breeds that interplanetary travel and exploration had produced, this was the queerest. I swung to Koto, who was crouching beside the gun. "Get rid of that cable before we go under!" I exclaimed. I had already guessed that the plate which held the cable to our stern was magnetic.
"And the queerest thing is that Inez Varney plays with her all the time, and she doesn't ever play with any of us now. She hasn't been to my house since that new little girl came here to live," said Leslie. "And Leslie don't care," declared Harry, "because Inez was getting queerer and queerer, and she wasn't the pleasantest playmate, but now she's so gay you'd hardly think she was Inez Varney."
But then he had told her that he was going away on Saturday. How could she expect to find him? The hour of her visit was not stated; probably she hoped to catch him before he left. And was her appearance in the neighbourhood on Friday her troubled aspect to be explained as an abortive attempt to have a private interview with him? The queerest affair and maddening in its issues!
It was an hour or two after reading this, when Conquest had gone away, that Evie herself as dainty as spring, in flowered muslin and a Leghorn hat crowned with a wreath of roses came fluttering in. "I've had the queerest letter from Uncle Jarrott," she began, breathlessly. "The poor old dear well, something must be the matter with him.
Word Of The Day