queer

• Books of popular information, however, have always had many queer things,--queer, that is, to subsequent generations,--and it is rather amusing to pick up an encyclopedia of a century ago, much less a millennium ago, and see how many absurd things were accepted as true. —  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
• Seemed kind of queer, they say. —  The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
• It was whispered that Phil was "queer"--that his old passion for petting reptiles and lower animal forms had merely been diverted into another channel. —  The Hand in the Dark
• That he was, by what he calls a queer coincidence, the youngest officer of his regiment and its only member of the Legion of Honour, afforded him an unaffected satisfaction From this time--the end of October 1914--the letters of Camile Violand testify to the rapid development of his mind and character. —  Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France
• He could not make out the man's face and form because of the darkness Mighty queer, that is!" —  Frank Merriwell's Reward

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