For if it occurred to me that I might occasionally excite suspicion by the little outbreaks of my sharper passion for them, so too I remember wondering if I mightn't see a
queerness in the traceable increase of their own demonstrations.
From that my thoughts went to the indefinable
queerness of the deformed man on the beach.
"The
queerness doesn't matter so long as they're friends," was the answer.
I reasoned something like this: It is a
queerness of these people that they like this vile-tasting wine.
At first he thought o' little, I daresay, but the
queerness and the fun."
Next, Daylight surmised that he might be touched with religion; but, quest about as he would, in a conversation covering the most divergent topics, he could find no hint of
queerness or unusualness.
And so they all say it, knowing men and the
queerness of men's love the way they think they do.
Certain simple principles had been instilled into him so anxiously (on account of his "
queerness") that the mere names of certain transgressions filled him with horror.
Did he not repre- sent public opinion and had not the public opinion of Winesburg condemned the Cowleys to
queerness? Did he not walk whistling and laughing through Main Street?
Silas had never before been closely urged on the point of his absence from church, which had only been thought of as a part of his general
queerness; and he was too direct and simple to evade Dolly's appeal.
The wood, then," said Lucy, startled at his
queerness, but pretty sure that he would explain later; it was not his habit to leave her in doubt as to his meaning.
She was next overcome by the unspeakable
queerness of the fact that she should be sitting in an arm-chair, in the morning, in the middle of the world.