queerest

The sage desiring to think well and wisely about a poker will begin somewhat as follows: Among the live creatures that crawl about this star the queerest is the thing called Man.

A Miscellany of Men 1905

And Kwaque, leaning back in the queerest chair in which he had ever sat, was unaware that the end of his finger had been burned and roasted half an inch deep, and merely wondered when the medicine doctor would cease talking and begin looking at the swelling that hurt his side under his arm.

CHAPTER XIX 2010

That sailor – I remember he had the most spectacular orange hair – just gave me the queerest smile and bowed and thanked me and left.

The Sound Thief « A Fly in Amber 2009

It is an orgy, a debauch; and I am sure the addled sailors adjudge me the queerest creature on board.

CHAPTER XX 2010

The queerest ship that ever sailed is a yacht on wheels, a graceful land-going clipper, that glides over the pathless stretches of sun-blistered plain, and carries her plucky navigators to and from their gold mine in the desert.

2008 April 2008

Then she said: "He may be dangerous," and the man said the queerest thing: that any man whose name could make Bismarck grit his teeth was liable to be dangerous.

Watershed 2010

 Sawyer gave a genuine smile but Walter, poor poor Walter let out the queerest noise somewhere between a chuckle, a whimper, and a hiccup.

'Bout Apples Jake Hull 2010

For it led to an encounter that was to save my life, and set me on one of the queerest and most terrifying adventures of my career, and perhaps shaped the destiny of British India, too.

Fiancée 2010

 I expected to get some fans of the female persuasion, but the queerest thing happened — it was Didi and Joanie who had the admirers!

The Big Name Buttons Mandee Wright 2010

The real history of the world is full of the queerest cases of notions that have turned clean head-over-heels and completely contradicted themselves.

The wheels of justice grind slow… 2010