What is interesting about this sentence?
Strange sorceresses swallow scarlet swedes, see - snubbing saintliness.
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Strange sorceresses swallow scarlet swedes, see - snubbing saintliness.
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I think that ...
... the sentence can be rewritten with synonyms for each word so that the starting letters of the words correspond to the letters of the top row on an English keyboard in order:
Queer witches eat red turnips, you understand — ignorant of piety.
Here, "see" and "snubbing" are both replaced with two words. "Ignorant of" isn't really the same as snubbing; the ingoring is inadvertent for the former and deliberate for the latter. I tried to think of other words or expressions on the pattern of "i—ing on/of", but couldn't find anything useful. The rest seems to fit nicely, though.
Is there more to it?
I also thought that the sentence could perhaps be rewritten to fit every line of the typewriter. The second row starts off promising with "Alien spellcasters devour ...", but then trickles out. The seven letters of the bottom row could be matched by coalescing two words of the original sentence, and there is a b for beetroot, which could mean red swedes (with a bit of biological licence), but it comes too late on the row.
So let's not overthink it. I'll go with my original answer.
This might be a big stretch, but it (interestingly?) reminds me of
Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
Because
The (Strange sorceresses) three witches force Macbeth to trust (swallow) the (scarlet) red (swedes) herrings of their omens: They (see) foretell the future, like, totally (snubbing) discrediting his (saintliness) morailty.
Best I can do so far, along the lines of the puzzle in the hint, is
Goofy hags ingest Jezebel's kohlrabis, lo -- mocking nobility
where
successive words begin with successive letters of the alphabet
but several of the words aren't terribly convincing. I've also looked for similar sentences where
all the words begin with the same letter, but despite some promising fragments (weird witches wolf ...; red rutabagas, right? -- rebuffing righteousness) I haven't been able to make it work.
Partial guess. The words of the sentence...
...could be replaced by synonyms that each contain a single "i" and "e":
Weird witches ingest reddish (swedes?), view - fending piety
Not sure yet about "swedes". "See" could also be: cite, in re (regarding), glimpse, discern