Surat could not feel emotion and his voice was always evenly modulated but, even so, Montarg sensed a peculiar strain.

You put a peculiar strain on the whole framework of time.

If this is love, then it is a most peculiar strain.

"I too am an example of the New Nepotism and am thoroughly familiar with the peculiar strains of 21st-century heirship," he writes.

Our training," he was saying, "did not consider the peculiar strains of those with repeated temporal displacements, even though you brought the original problem to our attention.

A whispered laugh that came with an eerie shudder - a peculiar strain of mockery that seemed to cling with sighing echoes.

Nevertheless, Clyde could not shake off the peculiar strain that gripped him.

Even outside, there was a peculiar strain, and the air between the two big silver grids seemed to crackle with invisible fury.

At the core of Baron Cohen's outrageousness lies a peculiar strain of comic uncertainty.

He did sense a peculiar strain in the relationship between the two women, though they seemed to like each other.