But king Solomon loved many strange women.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings11:1.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we 98 wept, whenwe remembered Zion.We hanged ourharps uponthewillows inthemidst thereof.For therethey that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one ofthesongs of Zion.Howshall wesing theL'ssong in a strange land?

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms137:1^4.

Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop to speak to you And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems, and new!

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'Memorabilia'.

Don't let us be familiar or fond, nor kiss before folks, like my Lady Fadler and Sir Francis: nor go to Hyde-Park together the first Sunday in a new chariot, to provoke eyes and whispers, and then never be seen there together again; as if we were proud of one another the first week, and ashamed of one another ever after† Let usbe verystrangeandwell-bred: Let usbe asstrangeasif wehad beenmarried a great while, and aswell-bred as if we were not married at all.

-Congreve,William
  Millamant to Mirabell. The Way of the World, act 4, sc.5.

Not manycomposershaveideas.Far more ofthemknow how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

-Gershwin, George
  'The Composer in the Machine  Age'.

My life was a strange one that summer, the last summer of its kind there was ever to be. I was riding high on sex and self-esteemöit was my time, my belle e¤  poqueö but allthewhilewith a faintflickerofcalamity, likeflames around a photograph, something seen out of the corner of the eye.

-Hollinghurst, Alan
  The Swimming Pool Library, ch.1.

Since 'tis nature's law to change, Constancyalone is strange.

-Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of
'A Dialogue between Strephon and Daphne', l.31^2 (published 1691).

How strange the stars have grown; The presage of extinction glows on their crests And they are beautied with impermanence.

-Scott, Duncan Campell
  'The Height of Land'.

I'll say, a strangemanisa marvel, with hismighty talk; but what's a squabble in your back-yard, and the blow of a loy, have taught me that there's a great gap between a gallous story and a dirty deed. 834

-Synge,John Millington
  Pegeen Mike.The Playboy of theWesternWorld, act 3.

   Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more. Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanzas 3^4.

   The Past is a strange land, most strange.

-Thomas, (Philip) Edward
  'Parting'.

A Stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; StrangeTreasures lodg'd in this fair world appear, Strange all, and New to me, But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That Strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.

-Traherne,Thomas
The Salutation (published1903).