Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Strange
As strange as a wedding without a bridegroom.
—Anonymous
Strange
As Hindostanee to an Ind-born man
Accustomed many years to English speech.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Strange as death.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Strange to me as dreams of distant spheres.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Strange as the stars.
—Gilbert K. Chesterton
Strange as a vision.
—Agnes M. F. Darmesteter
Strange as a dream.
—Lewis Morris
Strange as a dreamer’s mad imagings.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
I feel as new and strange as a free spirit which had shaken off the wrappings of this life.
—Alexander Smith
Strange as the curlew’s song.
—Richard H. Stoddard
Strange … like a fine lady swapping her moles for the mange.
—Jonathan Swift
Strange as are night and morning, stars and sun.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strange as chance or doom.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strange as hope’s green blossom touched with time’s harsh rust.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strange as life.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strange as light
That cleaves in twain the shadow of night
Before the wide-winged world takes flight
That thunder speaks to depth and height
And quells the quiet hour with sound.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strange as sleep.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strange as heaven.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strange as fate.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strange as the sea.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strange as a wild flower.
—Henry D. Thoreau