They gave herbs and strange concoctions; but as their patients usually died immediately we had little confidence in them.

Not a bad way way of losing 90 odd minutes, but a strange concoction.

"Are you suggesting we eat this strange concoction?"

When Michael cooks up a strange, green concoction for his friend to drink, Fuzzbucket turns visibile again.

He stoppered the bottle tightly and then shook it vigorously to mix the strange concoction within.

Even the strangest concoctions of our imaginations have to do with humanist values - with people, society and context.

Prior to this I had used many strange concoctions for the hopeful parents to swim in, even a brew made with oak leaves.

So how on earth did this strange, foreign concoction come to be recognized abroad as the culinary classic of Hunan?

I felt like a walking blender mixing strange concoctions of different liquors.

Chang fixed himself some tea, adding a strange concoction that included instant coffee with the highest concentration of caffeine he could find.