Word: queering
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...Carter had queer sentiments concerning man and wife...
...must be said that there are some queer stories afloat in Hartford about a little performance decidedly hurtful to Harvard's success, in which a certain Hartford sporting man, with heavy bets on Yale, some gallons of punch, and some six members of the Harvard Nine, figured prominently the night before the match...
...manly failing which few women have, - and if you venture to moralize on life she will tell you it is soon over and too short to waste in building up theories. If you are rash enough to talk about the world, she will say it is a very queer one, and few people get out of it alive. If you talk philosophically, she will call it nonsense; if you talk romance, will listen with impatience; if love, with a sad yet knowing smile, say she has no time to talk, and begin diligently to roll up innumerable yards of ribbon...
...questions; she has a woman's heart, and it may be almost breaking, yet a kind word would ruin her. She does her best, and has her faults; but we are like her in the latter, and often behind her in the former. She is one of a queer element in the city's vast population, and her life passes as a tedious dream; but after the dream she sleeps and wakes...
Thinks I, "'T is mighty queer...