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Strang  adj.  Strong. (Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.)






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"Strang" Quotes from Famous Books



... reproduction of Wm. Strang's recent etching of Mr. Kipling, by far the best portrait yet given to the public. The picture itself is a photogravure, size 9 x 11-1/4, enclosed in a portfolio of extra thick deckle-edge Strathmore cover ...
— Found in the Philippines - The Story of a Woman's Letters • Charles King

... ordered the suppression of the 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 her recollections ...
— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn

... congregation. She might struggle like a fly in a web. He wrapped her around and around with beautiful sentences. As Speaker of the State Legislature he had learned well how to handle men in the mass, but nature had doubly endowed him for entrancing women. The spiritual part of James Strang, King and Prophet of a peculiar sect, appealed to the one best calculated to appreciate him during the remainder ...
— The King Of Beaver, and Beaver Lights - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... 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 ...
— Life of Adam Smith • John Rae

... went, an a preeched. It wor a varra stirrin meetin. Sum o' yor paid preests sud ha' bin theer. A gien it 'em strang. A tried ta hit 'em ...
— Helbeck of Bannisdale, Vol. I. • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... not expected. Anyway, you're not expected to be expected! Cautious—a born general—mighty clever thing to do. Strang should appreciate it." The old man gave vent to his own approbation in a series of inimitable chuckles. "Is that your sloop out ...
— The Courage of Captain Plum • James Oliver Curwood



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