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Meanings of strange sweetness in English

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Usage of strange sweetness in English
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There was only the strange sweetness of acid and the throbbing music.
The Beast of Space
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There was a strange sweetness to his disposition that I have found in no other dog.
Further Adventures of Lad
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But, as yet, it calls us with strange sweetness, and the music of love in every tone.
Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
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Floats the strange sweetness of the ferns.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 / A Mag...
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And then a strange sweetness stole over her face, and the dream of Elizabeth's life was ended.
The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance
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I want to tell you about it, honey-heart, 'cause it have got a strange sweetness to it.
The Road to Providence
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The wondrously sunny expression of countenance, blended with strange sweetness, was even more conspicuous than in the portrait.
Elster's Folly: A Novel
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He had never been in the house since he knew her, and now what strange sweetness, and what pangs!
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 3
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Surprised with wonder at this strange sweetness, they did not think of speaking of the sensation or of seeking its cause.
Madame Bovary
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There was a strange sweetness in Miriam's smile, a smile softened by something that was almost pathetic, a touch of sadness.
God's Country—And the Woman
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The tale was all in the past and something has changed him since, giving him a strange sweetness as he addresses us.
The Irish Times
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So, to my fond faith, poor Pip, in this strange sweetness of his lunacy, brings heavenly vouchers of all our heavenly homes.
Moby Dick
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But Birdalone stood there with her heart beating fast and her flesh quivering, and a strange sweetness of joy took hold of her.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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At last she arose and came toward the Doctor, with a strange sweetness playing about her mouth, and a strange calm in her voice.
Ester Ried
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Thus, long after, she would come to him in day-dreams, wafted on its strange sweetness, and clothed about with that mystical lustre of pearl.
The Book-Bills of Narcissus / An Account Rendered by Richard Le ...
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It had been agony to feel her conscious eyes upon him, but he realized now that there had been a strange sweetness in it, too.
The Golden Road
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