bizarre

This ideal point of the estuary, this centre of memories, is marked upon the steely gray expanse of the waters by a lightship painted red that, from a couple of miles off, looks like a cheap and bizarre little toy.

Here the case was very different, as might have been expected from the duke's love of the bizarre. The apartments were so irregularly disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time.

Then, again, in his personal attendant there was a bizarre quality which had impressed me profoundly.

It was so bizarre and mysterious as to commend itself to his mad humour.

No amount of solemnity could make such a statement other than bizarre. What a strange condition to be in.

It appeared certain that we must perish, but even that was not the bitterest thought; no, the abjectly unheroic nature of the death--that was the sting--that and the bizarre wording of the resulting obituary: "SHOT WITH A ROCK, ON A RAFT." There would be no poetry written about it.

The floor inlaid in two kinds of wood in a bizarre pattern was highly waxed, reflecting objects like still water.

"The relation of thought to action," he writes, "filled my mind on waking, and I found myself carried towards a bizarre formula, which seems to have something of the night still clinging about it.

As I looked I began to appreciate the reason for the strangeness of the landscape that had haunted me from the first with an illusive suggestion of the bizarre and unnatural--THERE WAS NO HORIZON!

Her Tahitians leaped out and rushed the boat high up the beach, and she led her bizarre following through the gate of the compound.

It was true, his bizarre judgments troubled her in the moments they were uttered, but she ascribed them to his novelty of type and strangeness of living, and they were soon forgotten.

When it comes to beating the subjects in the dissecting-rooms with a stick, it is certainly taking rather a bizarre shape."