Suddenly it came to him that the night had become strangely still.

Collier felt slightly ashamed to realise that he was becoming strangely fascinated by the macabre story.

One nurse caught him injecting some "medicine" into a patient who later became strangely ill.

The air became strangely still.

There were curious rumours about these escapes; they had become very frequent and singularly daring; the people's minds were becoming strangely excited about it all.

And now he realized his destiny had become strangely interlocked with theirs, through time and circumstance.

I became strangely ill.

Our communications were by sign, action and instinct, and I found myself becoming strangely close to my silent, padded students.

Then he also became strangely still.

In the absence of the Batys and Pris he found himself fading out, becoming strangely like the inert television set which he had just unplugged.