When assured by Mersenne that it was, indeed, the product of the son not the father, Descartes dismissed it with a sniff: " I do not find it strange that he has offered demonstrations about conics more appropriate than those of the ancients ," adding, " but other matters related to this subject can be proposed that would scarcely occur to a sixteen-year-old child.

* The preface of Concrete Mathematics includes the following anecdote: " When Knuth taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft.

When Louise goes below deck momentarily, a large, strange cloud on the horizon passes over the craft, leaving a reflective mist on Scott's bare skin.

When Jim comes home, he looks at Della with a strange expression.

When a strange message written in Max's genetic code makes an appearance on her skin, it is revealed that Sandeman is a renegade from the breeding cult and Ames White is his son, who is still loyal to the cult and hates his father's transgenic creations with a passion.

When Grimm's law was discovered, a strange irregularity was spotted in its operation.

When it was first presented by Joseph Banks to English naturalists it was thought to be so strange that it was a cleverly created hoax.

When he travels to college campuses, audiences dislike his strange sense of humor and simply want to see his more famous TV characters, so he deliberately antagonizes them by reading The Great Gatsby aloud from start to finish.

Dodds described his impressions of New York as a place where people listened to jazz rather than danced to it: " When I first went to New York it seemed very strange to have people sitting around and listening rather than dancing.

When she was released at the end of seven years, the young woman was endowed with a strange power: the ability to recognise the Drac with one of her eyes.

When he picked up his own household phone his assistant had to explain what the strange noise was, as well as how to use a rotary dial phone.

When Metellus Celer died in strange circumstances in 59 BC, Clodia was suspected of poisoning her husband.

When these sets ( or the motions on them ), are harder to describe than the classical geometric objects, then the attractor is a strange attractor, as described in the section below.

When she came to write her works on marriage and birth control, it was not strange that they were infused with eugenics theories.

When Connecticut authorities later appealed to Andros for assistance, Andros replied that it was " strange " that they would do so, considering their previous behavior, and refused to help.

When questioned about Ridgway after his arrest, friends and family described him as friendly but strange.

When the girl arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange.

When I was the first time put to the torture, Dr. Braun, Dr. Kotzendorffer, and two strange doctors were there.

When the annihilating proton and antiproton are at rest relative to one another, these newly created pairs may be composed of up, down or strange quarks.

When Lara drops the Orb into the hole that opens the entrance to the Cradle of Life, the Guardians fall to pieces and both Lara and Reiss are drawn into the Cradle of Life, a labyrinthine cavern made of some strange crystalline substance, racked by bolts of energy.

When the corrupted memory contents are used later in that program, it leads either to program crash or to strange and bizarre program behavior.

“ Among the other Curiosities of New-England, one is that of a mighty Rock, on a perpendicular side whereof by a River, which at High Tide covers part of it, there are very deeply Engraved, no man alive knows How or When about half a score Lines, near Ten Foot Long, and a foot and half broad, filled with strange Characters: which would suggest as odd Thoughts about them that were here before us, as there are odd Shapes in that Elaborate Monument .…”

When the monastic Elders living in the desert heard about Simeon, who had chosen a new and strange form of asceticism, they wanted to test him to determine whether his extreme feats were founded in humility or pride.

When he asks about it, the pub becomes very quiet and the pubgoers start acting very strange and hostile.

When the victory cheer went up this officer found himself still mounted, with his horse pressed broadside against Cleburne's log parapet in a tangled group of infantrymen.

When Mehmed finally entered Constantinople through what is now known as the Topkapi Gate, he immediately rode his horse to the Hagia Sophia which he ordered to be sacked.

When Aran died, Asmund brought his own possessions into the barrow: banners, armor, hawk, hound, and horse.

When the horse tramroad from Plymouth to Princetown was completed in 1823, large quantities of granite were more easily transported.

When it became clear after another six ballots that Van Buren would not win the required majority, Polk emerged as a " dark horse " candidate.

* When a white horse is not a horse

When the Children of Tuireann asked to borrow this horse, Lugh begrudged them, saying it would not be proper to make a loan of a loan.

When Otto was carried off the field by his wounded and terrified horse, and Ferdinand, Count of Flanders, severely wounded, was captured by the French, the Flemish and Imperial troops saw that the battle was lost, turned and fled from the battlefield.

When the Trojans discovered that the Greeks were gone, believing the war was over, they " joyfully dragged the horse inside the city ", while they debated what to do with it.

When Terrill and the men ride to the Hannassey place in retribution for Buck's harassment, McKay stays at the ranch and successfully rides the unruly horse while telling no one except ranch hand Ramon ( Alfonso Bedoya ).

When the bar closed, he found that his entire rig — horse, buggy, and samples — had been stolen.

When Afonso saw the Leonese arrive tried to flee, but he was disabled by a broken leg caused by a fall from his horse, and made prisoner at one the city's gates.

When the Chorus reappears, he describes the country's dedication to the war effort – " They sell the pasture now to buy the horse.

When the six nobles gathered outside, Oebares placed his hands beside the nostrils of Darius's horse, who became excited at the smell and neighed.

When the towpath changed sides, it was necessary to take the towing horse and its driver across the river.

When Berger died in 1974, Félix inherited his multi-million dollar thoroughbred horse racing stable.

When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,

When Blumenschein returned three days later with the repaired wheel, they continued to Taos, where they sold their horse and equipage, set up a studio and began to paint.

When Garraty suffers a charley horse and comes within two seconds of being killed, McVries keeps him talking and distracted long enough to drop a warning, saving his life.

When shooting started, the horse that Tom McLaury held jumped to one side.

When Jocelyn defends herself during an argument with William by saying, " Better a silly girl with a flower than a silly boy with a horse and a stick ," an offended Wat calls after her, " It's called a lance ...

When they inspect General Mapache's new automobile, they perceive it marks the end of horse travel, a symbol also in Peckinpah's Ride the High Country ( 1962 ) and The Ballad of Cable Hogue ( 1970 ).

When the Trojan Horse was in the city, Deiphobus accompanied Helen as she walked around the horse, calling out the names of the Greeks within in the voices of their wives, because she did not want to look like she was helping them.

When Oaklyn seceded from the Township in 1905 there was an agreement made between Oaklyn Borough and Haddon Township that Oaklyn would still protect the District 3 section since they were much closer and the fire apparatus was horse drawn at the time.