"Strang" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you a rose father and Mother as sent there best love to you I think it is very strang you have never wrote it is Twenty year if live till may it is a strang thing you doant com to see her She is stark stone blind and lives with son john at gurtain I hope and trust you will send us word how you are getting Fanny mother is not only a very poor crater somtimes Mother ...
— Gipsy Life - being an account of our Gipsies and their children • George Smith
... Willie was wae: What can be the matter wi' siccan a twae? For Annie was bonnie's the first o' the day, And Willie was strang an' ...
— The Portent & Other Stories • George MacDonald
... pairtit it them, auld man?" I said; "Was't the sea cam up ower strang? Oh, gien thegither the twa o' them gaed Their pairtin wasna lang! Or was are ta'en, and the ither left— Ane to sing, are to greit? It's sair, I ken, to be sae bereft— But there's the tide at yer feet!" "Robbie and Jeanie war twa bonnie bairns, And they playt thegither i' ...
— Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Vol. 2 • George MacDonald
... first edition, and that "under this order large numbers were destroyed, few being preserved, some of which fell into the hands of those now with the Reorganized Church. For this destruction we see no adequate reason. "James J. Strang, in a note to his pamphlet, "Prophetic Controversy," says that Mrs. Corey (to whom the pamphlet is addressed) "wrote the history of the Smiths called 'Mother Smith's History.'" Mrs. Smith was herself quite incapable of putting ...
— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn
... only one fruit in the garden of which he might not freely eat, and that was the productions of modern rationalism. A story has come down which, though not mentioned by Dugald Stewart, is stated by M'Culloch to rest on the best authority, and by Dr. Strang of Glasgow to have been often told by Smith himself, to the effect that he was one day detected reading Hume's Treatise of Human Nature—probably the very copy presented him by the author at the apparent suggestion ...
— Life of Adam Smith • John Rae |
