But quickly there followed stranger stuff, fragments of bright, strange metal, and other material less easily identifiable.

He was working only with the strange metal now and found it easy to shape.

There was a shining pool of strange metal on the altar.

And strange, hard metals rained down upon the land; some of them are still worshipped to this day.

"We're coming to the works - the mine - where that strange metal is!"

And maybe now the right people will get that strange metal - it's worth a hundred times its weight in gold!

Soviet partisans take notice of the care with which the Race goes about collecting the strange metal.

Like a portable CD player, but made from a strange black metal that seemed to absorb light.

But nickel is a strange metal for coins.

I didn't think, when I asked you about my old friend, I should strike on such strange metal.