How To Use Curio In A Sentence

They were now surrounded on all sides by a ring of excited, curious faces.
A lot of us are curious to know exactly what the navy has been told to do.
On arriving in Britain she found herself to be a virtual slave to Dunlop, who exhibited her to curious Europeans who were eager to view Baartman's steatopygous buttocks and genitalia. ANC Daily News Briefing
Although I was already a fan of both authors, it was this curious title overlap that led me to snatch these two off the New Releases table at my local bookstore. Romi Lassally: My Literary Indiscretions
Curiously, for a politician who made much of the fact that what happened in the rest of the world was not always Washington's concern, diplomacy has been the keynote of his first months in office.

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Seeing her eyes unwavering, he was curious to know what had brought such a change in her attitude.
The pageant promises to be a curious mixture of the ancient and modern.
Yet he's also studied jazz and Indian music and learnt to play the sarod, so his band achieves a curious rapprochement between world-jazz and heads-down, no-nonsense boogie.
It was the most curious sensation to know she was about to die, and not care.
Some came to seek the new power, some to chuckle, others to satisfy their curiosity.
His curiosity excites the most patronising sympathy. Times, Sunday Times
Most of us tend to entertain our friends in the family room; a formal dining room becomes a mail sorting place, and a formal living room is a museum for curios and uncomfortable furniture.
the gift of a fresh eye and an untrammeled curiosity
But lately I have begun to feel intensely curious about Anna herself.
He noticed the curious stares of the regular patrons of the inn.
The voice is Kelly's throughout, down to the lack of punctuation, eccentric spellings and curious syntax.
The matter of taste could be addressed in a number of curious ways. The Times Literary Supplement
The animating idea remains curiously unplumbed. The Times Literary Supplement
The name, the recognised features, rubbed saltily against his worn curiosity, stinging it. THE LAST RAVEN
The freaks of nature displayed here appealed to peoples’ prejudice, their unquenchable curiosity for the outlandish and the unknown, and the paradoxical human attraction and repulsion for the diseased and deformed.
A curious and unwary fish would become a meal when the goosefish inhaled and quickly engulfed its prey.
Chiengmai; but it was curious, even amusing, to observe the serene contempt with which the "interlopers" were received by the rival incumbents of the royal gynecium, -- especially the Laotian women, who are of a finer type and much handsomer than their Siamese sisters. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
Given its inherent curiosity, even the simplest mind will exhaust itself devising solutions to challenges it confronts.
The haircut is merely the latest stage in his curious and unusual battle to avoid overexposure.
But at the core of it all is a profound curiosity about the thinking process.
Dalgliesh thought that the design would have been more successful if the fagade had been balanced by extended bays, but either inspiration or money had ran out and the house looked curiously unfinished. She Closed Her Eyes
In unguarded moments he says he is just curious. Times, Sunday Times
Manchester, " I replied quietly as 500 pairs of curious eyes swivelled round to a pasty-faced outsider. "Manchester!
One curious survivor from the early days of headed cabbages is the enormously tall Jersey or walking stick cabbage, whose stem is as high as a man and has been recorded as reaching 5 metres.
This was especially valuable at a time when curious currencies circulated freely throughout the Mediterranean, including coins of values that were not self-evident. The English Is Coming!
Rarities are always helped by any device which will rouse curiosity and compel remark.
Richard asked suddenly, impelled by the curiosity that drives people to stare at and question the survivors of some calamity.
The emphasis on the word Israelite excited my curiosity. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
He'd come uninvited, but not unexpected; if it was rude of us to be such unsolicitous hosts, I told myself, it was only rudeness paid in kind, so we tried to forgive one another, Willie and I, for our eager, curious hunger grown insatiable. Heron Lake
That is a curious position to occupy.
In manner he was a dapper ironist, soft-voiced and accepting of the curious turns that fate was inclined to take. We Shall Not See His Like Again
It's a cultural curiosity now, but perhaps a portent of the future. Christianity Today
Rick, back in late July we saw one of your competitors sold some land, basically what they called a timber deed, and I'm curious if you care to comment on the structure. Undefined
The youngster examines minutely curiously: The flavour of that drumstick how?
Curious tourists and reporters were often trapped in the melees.
Curiously, while sperm whales unquestionably have teeth, recent molecular data and a reanalysis of their anatomy has suggested that they may be highly derived mysticetes.
DaeSung was on for the telerecording for SBS YaShimManMan recently where he revealed about his antics for irrelevant imagination and curiosity. BIG BANG Fansite
The joys of food and wine are there for everybody - and all you need to bring is your corkscrew and curiosity.
It was a curious position for a lady — this being known as a repudiated wife; and it is worthy of observation that the The Europeans
After an initial search, police left the crime scene unguarded and open to rain, tides and curious visitors. Times, Sunday Times
I have sent the curious lepidopteron case to Mr. Meldola. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
After an initial search, the stretch of beach where the bodies were found was left unguarded and open to rain, tides and curious visitors. Times, Sunday Times
In running the same course of action is likely to do little more than raise a few curious glances from fellow competitors.
Cleveland, had often mentioned him, without in any respect diminishing the insignificancy with which fame insinuated he had conducted himself in those amorous encounters: she nevertheless had the greatest curiosity to see a man, whose entire person, she thought, must be a moving trophy, and monument of the favours and freedoms of the fair sex. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
Church's shoulders to reach to his ancles, and curiously inwrought with figures of birds, beasts and flowers. Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia
But there was no apparent reason for anybody to harbour idle curiosity about this particular backwater. THE LAST TEMPTATION
He was a cheerful, gregarious man, as endlessly curious as a cat, highly emotional and susceptible.
I too peeped through out of curiosity and found a young house wife crying in front of a policeman.
He felt a curious mixture of elation and unease.
He was a tall, coltish, bespectacled young man, curiously lovable.
A little to the south-east of this summit lies a curious constellation of rock tors, three individual outcrops of fine-grained granite.
Power Computing was packed with show-goers curious to see the new, low-cost, high-performance Mac clones.
I would be curious to know whether composers who work with just intonation came to it through diatonicism and then realized how cool it would be to adapt it to chromaticism, or whether they were chromatic from the start and just continually dissatisfied with the equal-tempered results. Arguments, agreements, advice, answers, articulate announcements
One curious point is the "Romanov" label attached to this and other meat entrees. The Prague Post
-- "By the way, I received from Dr. Torrey a curious mixture of petrosilex and prehnite in radiating crystals, which was sent him by you, and collected at the West. Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
I noted with curiosity that Phil made no move to assist her.
Drake 12.148 reports a curious instance of polyphagia. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
He hadn't travelled far in love himself and was still curious about everything to do with affairs of the heart. A DEAD LIBERTY
It is curious, too, to note that echidnas also possess spurs but their venom gland is non-functional.
Cadfael found something so significant in that arrow-straight progress towards the church that he followed, candidly curious and officiously helpful, and finding Rafe of Coventry standing hesitant by the parish altar, looking round him at the multiplicity of chapels contained in transepts and chevet, directed him with blunt simplicity to the one he was looking for. The Hermit of Eyton Forest
Curiously, there was an anticipatory quality to her voice -- as though she had thrown a conversational bone. THE CALLIGRAPHER
Curiously, her mother never saw it either and died at a ripe old age with that particular ambition unfulfilled.
Put simply, National Geographic picked up on a story of a couple who, having set the autotimer on their camera to take a holiday snap of themselves, found their picture ruined by a curious squirrel 'portrait-crashing'. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
After an initial search, police left the crime scene unguarded and open to rain, tides and curious visitors. Times, Sunday Times
Just mentioning the name sends a curious shiver through our household. Times, Sunday Times
The whole combination of curves which go to make up this sketch is a curious arrangement of words inscribed with the utmost care, in the smallest of characters. The Filigree Ball
There are several dings and dents in the body where the guitar has suffered the slings and arrows of a curious public.
They linger, gazing curiously at the portraits and asking questions.
So, the tension is in the past and the sexual curiosity was appeased.
She was also a grand needle woman, a talent which rather curiously led to a change in her religious affiliations.
Last night I went to my first breath therapy session, mostly because the therapist is a close friend - whoops, there I go, now you see what I mean - and I was curious. One year on
It is the Oporto silene (S. portensis), a curious growth, a lover of the sea-side dunes, which, though of Portuguese origin, as its name would seem to indicate, ventures inland, even as far as my part of the country, where it represents perhaps a survivor of the coastal flora of what was once a More Hunting Wasps
The stone cages have a curiously sensual, primeval quality, like the ancient dry stone walls in fields.
The most curious usage, because it seems to have spread furthest from its origins, whatever they are, is snail.
'Well,' began Lawford ruminatingly, 'there was something curious even then, perhaps. The Return
Through it runs a curious trackway, marked "disused" on the Highways and Byways in Surrey
In that shop she had caught the virus of curiosity about the feeling of power over possessions.
There is a curious and perverse incentive in the very concept of a lifetime allowance. Times, Sunday Times
MTV sees an increasing number of youth as non-committal about their sexual preference, identifying with inherently transient labels like "questioning" or "bi-curious. Nick Shore: What Gaga & Minaj's Alter-Egos Say About the Shape-Shifting Millennial Generation
I heard a curious noise last night.
'Friend,' whispered he, 'for charity conduct us to some safe place where we may withdraw this bier from the sacrilegious eye of curiosity.' The Scottish Chiefs
There are also curious red-painted contraptions known as pedicabs, a sort of cycle-and-sidecar.
Curiously, I had a dream last night that Latham absolutely caned Howard.
Just curious as they seemed to be crying about how bad the atmosphere is here while going out of their way to make it worse. Think Progress » Right-Wing Fringe Rebels Against Palin Over Her Endorsement Of ‘RINO’ McCain
Maria Montessori advocated respect for the mind of the child, within the prepared environment, as the way to stimulate curiosity, inquisitiveness, and life-long learning.
Both ignored the curious stares thrown their way as they rushed towards their science class.
It is good to be curious about the world around you.
With its wildly outsized fender flares, saucer-eyed round headlamps, squat fuselage, tapering roofline and curiously latent, not-quite-formed rear contours, the Juke looks like a Nissan Murano at the larval stage. Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
Gellatly was curious about studies of male shrimps, marine worms, and yes—human males—that showed that their likelihood of producing male offspring seemed to mimic that of their parents.
It is curious and probably fitting that the first clear evidence for discarnate intention was taught to me by my deceased mother. The Sacred Promise
Their curiosity piqued, they stopped writing.
This was an ai or three-toed sloth. It was in the possession of a gentleman, who was collecting curiosities.
At first glance, it was a curiously cold moment, uncharacteristic of such a popular and outgoing figure.
While waiting for help to arrive, the crew haggled with missionary priests for wine, rice and yams, and struggled to keep curious natives off the pontoons used for water landings.
The curious thing is the absence itself. Times, Sunday Times
The castle looks cool, though ... and I am curious what butterbeer tastes like. We Could Do a Lot With Two Hundred and Sixty-Five Million Dollars
Anyways in that post you mention something about structuring a class for "multilinear editing" and I'm curious if you can point to me to any sources where I can learn some more on this topic. Game programming in Norway
He saw a book on the table and picked it up, idly curious.
There has been precious little international protest about all this; UNESCO remains curiously quiet.
And small children — especially if beautiful, blonde, and under five — sometimes get a pass, though they are liable to appear in curiously fey and stylized ways. Home Alone
An elegant ding dong, dang dong rang throughout the house, and a small mouse of an old woman answered it curiously.
From a printed curiosity -- a letter written by one of those brave and confident Hindoo strugglers with the English tongue, called a "babu" -- I got a more compressed translation: "Godville. Following the Equator
The curious "axolotl," which we shall meet with in Mexico, belongs to a closely allied genus. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
Wonder of wonders, this curious people called "baccy" tabac! "Contemptible", by "Casualty"
Teachers say Down's children are just as curious and interested as other children.
My children bring me great joy (especially as the little ones vacillate between squirming with curiosity and tittering with barely kept secrets in anticipation of Christmas).
The town has another curiosity - the farm shop, which has ballooned into Britain's poshest supermarket, complete with wicker trugs instead of shopping trolleys and quails' eggs by the dozen.
He telegraphs a curious expression across the curious pseudo - restaurant that serves as the canteen in the bowels of Television Centre.
You take them as a matter of course if you are outward bound, but on your call homeward (if you make it) you will look on them as a blessing and a curiosity. Travels in West Africa
The young woman was sitting forward in her seat, a look of almost childlike curiosity on her face.
He was a tall, coltish, bespectacled young man, curiously lovable.
Since the end of the 18th century we know of the existence of a curious structure in the region of the sinus, the glomus caroticum or carotid body which, in man, extends over only a few millimetres. Physiology or Medicine 1938 - Presentation Speech
The neighbourhood, however, is interesting enough on account of the curious aqueducts for supplying the town with water, and the Mercede forest which, in D'Urville's opinion, might more justly be called a coppice, for it contains nothing but shrubs and ferns. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
Nizan's political stance at this juncture was a curious mixture of uncompromising denunciation and sweet-talking collaboration.
Out of curiosity I have installed the prebuild version of Windows 7. ... Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
We don't have a car or a TV and we cycle a lot so we were already viewed as slightly curious.
Emerging into daylight, they are the subject of curious stares from passers-by.
The inside was also padded and lined with curious little projections.
At the extreme north-west corner of Ngargo Island, near a massive bomb-scar in the rocky cliff, lies a very curious wreck.
The naval high command's response to these developments is rather curious.
It was a large room, with a "boughten" ingrain carpet, stiff chairs, two great square ottomans, a big sofa, and some curious old paintings, besides a number of framed silhouettes of different members of the family. A Little Girl in Old Boston
Strap on a mask and snorkel, and you can swim with sea lions, so curious and friendly that they will brush past your face.
Well, the inquisitor in our party was curious about the specifics of the policy, and jokingly needled the ranger about the prohibition.
A curious number of sources asked about the guest list simply respond "nope," as if working from a script. Chelsea Clinton's wedding: A very inviting proposition? Not for some VIPs.
Esta Relaçion saco por mandado del Gouernador destas yslas miguel de loarca Vz° de la Villa de areualo Vno de los primeros que en ellas entraron curioso é estas cosas y asi la tengo por çierta y Verdadera -- The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
Antonio de Ciudad Real happily notes the day, in Tratado curioso, when he realized that he was finally free from quartan fever (cuartanas), which had plagued him for more than three years. 64 Intermittent fevers like these were probably malarial, and these two cases could very well have originated in Spain, as their carriers had only recently arrived from the Peninsula. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
In light of this "curious case of the cacophonous snack pack," I find that many people see sustainability as a version of a Faustian dilemma; they often knowingly make choices that have immediate personal benefits, but in the long run are disastrous for all of us. Ron Ashkenas: Sustainability's Faustian Dilemma
Constitution, like Topsy, was not made but "growed," and that which grows is never logically perfect; it is like an old tree, strangely gnarled, with countless abrasions and mutilations, and sometimes even curious grafts. Without Prejudice
She was an undemanding friend, ready to listen with attention, whereas I was incurious about her, perhaps assuming that since she was so young, she had nothing to teach me about books or life, an idea which seemed terribly sad years later.
Our hotel with its pleasant garden and the fine shops -- (where it seems you can still buy every fascinating thing from newest jewellery and oldest curiosities, to Amiens 'special "_roc_" chocolates) -- the long, arboured boulevards, the cobbled streets, the quaint blue and pink houses of the suburbs, and the poplar-lined walk by the Somme, all, all have the friendliest air! Everyman's Land
For those whose curiosity remains unassuaged, a recent CD "Les Travailleurs de la Mer", songs in Dgèrnésiais, is available - clips can be listened to online from Amazon: Languagehat.com: THE LANGUAGES OF GUERNSEY.
By a curious twist of fate, cricket was also my favourite sport.
As geology has become the focus of more attention, it has aroused the curiosity of young people about nature in general.
Curiously, familiars do not appear in continental witch confessions. Times, Sunday Times
Dr. Mead, above mentioned, gave a curious description of the symptoms of tarantism. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
His conduct that evening was to say the least curious.
Future performances may well be tighter, but for now this concerto is an uncompelling curiosity. Times, Sunday Times
The curious red-eyed female headed straight to the well ripe banana we had been given on our arrival to tempt the furry creature.
Both these plants have loose bunches of curious pink or red fruits. Times, Sunday Times
The atmospherics and mood seem less translucent than ever and the fact nobody can work out exactly what's happening in front of them, leaves the intriguing sense of curiosity and desire to see more.
Curiously, family physicians were more likely than cardiologists to order transfusions.
The night on which this curious machine was first brought into use was one of great anxiety and alarm. Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
In the curious ceremony of the fixing of the Nones (the first quarter of the month), held on the Calends in the _curia Calabra_, she seems to appear as a moon-goddess: the _rex sacrorum_, after a report from a _pontifex_ as to the appearance of the new moon, announces the result in the formula: The Religion of Ancient Rome
But when we started to sing, a few passers-by began turning their heads in curiosity and gradually a crowd formed and some even sang with us.
This is just one of an extraordinary sequence of curious encounters between orcas and divers in the waters off New Zealand.
For anyone who has ever been curious about a whole range of sexual behaviors, cybersex offers a private, safe, and anonymous way to explore those fantasies.
The technical terms systolic pressure, diastolic pressure, mean arterial pressure, etc are clear enough, but, curiously, what should be most objective numeration is least so.
At least the wines tasted very curious to my inexpert palate.
The result is a wilderness of ethereal beauty, teeming with wildlife that regards human beings as curious oddities, and a haunting loneliness that is almost tangible. Times, Sunday Times
(_ictides_), the coati (_nasua_), the paradoxure (_paradoxurus_), and even the curious little teledu of Java (_mydaus_). Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
Nor do the figures include the women who still honour the curious custom of adopting their husband 's surname on marriage. Times, Sunday Times
Curiously, she'd experienced no such feeling when she'd studied his file. CHAMELEON
He eyed me curiously with amusement, ‘For a while there you sounded like a mother hen clucking over her chick.’
There was an air of expectation and great curiosity.
Curiosity took me further and further afield as I got older. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, she lists the intellectual pursuit model, which is self-directed and self-motivated by intellectual curiosity.
The French adventurers, however, seem always to have restricted the word "boucanier" to its proper signification, that of a hunter and curer of meat; and when they developed into corsairs, by a curious contrast they adopted an English name and called themselves "filibustiers," which is merely the French sailor's way of pronouncing the English word "freebooter." [ The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
What remains is a niche market for the curious and sated.
The godlike part of the cod, which, like the human head, is curiously and wonderfully made, forsooth has but little less brain in it, -- coming to such an end! to be craunched by cows! Cape Cod
But, curiously, Maazel did not allow the glorious waltzes to stretch out in their languor or reach their full plangency -- instead going for relatively clipped endings and sudden dynamic changes. Donna Perlmutter: Maazel to the Podium -- Still Collecting Orchestras
She is certain that cruelty could never be apprehended from the Gentleman to whom this is addressed; and the poor animal would have suffered more as the victim of domestic economy, than of philosophical curiosity. Poems
The curious thing is that in that tale the prophet is aided by one of the few women who play much part in the hagiology of Islam. Greenmantle
Professor Ian Stewart, Warwick University maths professor and occasional Telegraph contributor, points out: Reindeer have a curious arrangement of gadgetry on top of their heads which we call antlers and naively assume exist for the males to do battle and to win females. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The unusual surface textures of fossil cycads have been interesting curiosities to collectors for a long time.
He crept up the singles draw, away from limelight focussed on the seeded players, till the final when he became an object of curiosity.
He was, too, essentially and curiously the son of his father -- even to his minor tastes, such as his connoisseur's palate for a good wine and his judgment in "smokes" -- and this feeling of a certain detachment from the larger emotions of life was always his father's pose -- the philosopher's. A Student in Arms Second Series
Her voice is as sexy as ever, yet, for such a small venue as the Blue Heron Arts Center, often too loud, and sometimes curiously strangulated.
It was a topic of conversation for the naturally curious players. Times, Sunday Times
The only motive to devote myself to study Nepenthes viking in habitat is curiosity. Its existence is quite interesting as well as its amazing pitcher shape.
I asked out of curiosity.
That lobby is a curious mixture of interests, reflected in influential sections of the newspaper world, with little in common except their hostility to Europe.
Curious about the stage of fruit maturation preferred by other wild primates, I sent out a brief survey.
This may be one place where we should satisfy our curiosity and then move on. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
So you are always interested and curious. Times, Sunday Times
Nothing could be gathered from the outside, except remarks on the various properties which philosophers ascribe to matter, -- length, breadth, depth, and weight, The packet was composed of strong thick paper, imperviable by the curious eyes of the gossips, though they stared as if they would burst from their sockets. The Antiquary — Complete
One need only read the curious doublespeak of the so-called black block anarchists, the group responsible for the only destructive protests at the Vancouver Olympics, to realize what kind of addle-brained morons we're dealing with. Vue Weekly
Out of the side streets opposite the jail they came by scores, drawn for the most part by idle and morbid curiosity.
There are two Churches; Ely minster is a Curious pile of Building all of stone, the outside full of Carvings and great arches and fine pillars in the front, and the jnside has the greatest variety and neatness in the works. Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
Exasperated with the straitlaced protocols of concertgoing, Mr. Kantor and Mr. Handler decided to open a club that would present an eclectic mix of programming, not just old and new works from the classical music tradition, but rock, jazz, world music and anything else that might entice people, especially young people, who are curious about out-there music and care little about labels. DesignerBlog
Discussions of the American alliance in this volume, and our economic and cultural bonds therein, are in general incurious, dogmatic and one-dimensional.
Canada and others walked out on the odious Ahmadinejad’s battological drivel, thus sparing themselves from a similar breakdown, while Obama made the rather curious statement: 2009 September « Anglican Samizdat
The science is in the elodea a water plant bubbling away on the windowsill when the sun hits it, the Newton's cradle clinking for the 27th time by a curious student. Archive 2008-08-01
Then, upon reflection, Erik went back to fetch the Punjab lasso, which is very curiously made out of catgut, and which might have set an examining magistrate thinking. The Phantom of the Opera
Those who butt in because they are curious, nosy and feel entitled to the involvement they seek.
Curious was an evening visit to the Russian Embassy, Mrs. Straus being carried in a sedan-chair, her husband walking beside her in evening dress at one door, I at the other, and a kavass, with drawn sword, marching at the head of the procession. [Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White
And given that this is the same crew who rallied around the bi-curious Adrianna last season, it not only makes sense that someone would step up and stand up for Ian, it would also make a statement that needs to be made more than ever. Watercooler: Bully for 90210?
The best illustration of this strange reversal is the curious fate of the Downing Street memo.
Curious, he went toward the light and after his eyes adjusted, saw a crude camp of sorts, with a small fire going, four bedrolls, and what appeared to be a cache of foodstuffs.
Among the curiosities are the necklace [FN#682] of human bones given to Burton by Gelele, some specimens of old Istrian china picked up in the cottages near Trieste, and a three-sided mirror and two crystals with which Burton used to mesmerise his wife. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Their father is still feeding them, and they make a curious hissing noise when he arrives. Times, Sunday Times
The wooden groining of the tower is curious, and the base of the walls show the existence of a former building that lacked the present aisles. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
In the Little Shambles, too, there are many curious details in the high gables, pargeting and oriel windows. Yorkshire
Here he produced a decanter of curiously light wine, and a block of curiously heavy cake, and administered installments of those dainties to the young people: at the same time, sending out a meagre servant to offer a glass of something to the postboy, who answered that he thanked the gentleman, but if it was the same tap as he had tasted before, he had rather not. A Christmas Carol
There is no denying that this is an odd moment captured forever - the curious intersection of a revolution and a dissipated Hollywood has-been.
It was idle curiosity that made me ask.

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