| 1 | This is a very odd business. | |
| 2 | Truth is often stranger than fiction. | |
| 3 | A strange story has been going round. | |
| 4 | Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman. | |
| 5 | The history of the nuptial pastry, though, is even stranger than these modern rituals suggests. |
