How To Use Curious In A Sentence
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They were now surrounded on all sides by a ring of excited, curious faces.
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A lot of us are curious to know exactly what the navy has been told to do.
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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
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Balzac expended a great deal of pains, and one of whom he seems to have "caressed," as the French say, with a curious admixture of dislike and admiration.
The Thirteen
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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
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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.
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The pageant promises to be a curious mixture of the ancient and modern.
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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.
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It was the most curious sensation to know she was about to die, and not care.
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But lately I have begun to feel intensely curious about Anna herself.
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He noticed the curious stares of the regular patrons of the inn.
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The voice is Kelly's throughout, down to the lack of punctuation, eccentric spellings and curious syntax.
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The matter of taste could be addressed in a number of curious ways.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The animating idea remains curiously unplumbed.
The Times Literary Supplement
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A curious and unwary fish would become a meal when the goosefish inhaled and quickly engulfed its prey.
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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
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The haircut is merely the latest stage in his curious and unusual battle to avoid overexposure.
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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
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In unguarded moments he says he is just curious.
Times, Sunday Times
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Manchester, " I replied quietly as 500 pairs of curious eyes swivelled round to a pasty-faced outsider. "Manchester!
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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.
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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!
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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
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That is a curious position to occupy.
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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
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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
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The youngster examines minutely curiously: The flavour of that drumstick how?
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Curious tourists and reporters were often trapped in the melees.
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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.
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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
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After an initial search, police left the crime scene unguarded and open to rain, tides and curious visitors.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have sent the curious lepidopteron case to Mr. Meldola.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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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
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In running the same course of action is likely to do little more than raise a few curious glances from fellow competitors.
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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
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He was a cheerful, gregarious man, as endlessly curious as a cat, highly emotional and susceptible.
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He felt a curious mixture of elation and unease.
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He was a tall, coltish, bespectacled young man, curiously lovable.
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A little to the south-east of this summit lies a curious constellation of rock tors, three individual outcrops of fine-grained granite.
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Power Computing was packed with show-goers curious to see the new, low-cost, high-performance Mac clones.
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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
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One curious point is the "Romanov" label attached to this and other meat entrees.
The Prague Post
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-- "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
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Drake 12.148 reports a curious instance of polyphagia.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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He hadn't travelled far in love himself and was still curious about everything to do with affairs of the heart.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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It is curious, too, to note that echidnas also possess spurs but their venom gland is non-functional.
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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
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Curiously, there was an anticipatory quality to her voice -- as though she had thrown a conversational bone.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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Curiously, her mother never saw it either and died at a ripe old age with that particular ambition unfulfilled.
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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
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After an initial search, police left the crime scene unguarded and open to rain, tides and curious visitors.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just mentioning the name sends a curious shiver through our household.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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There are several dings and dents in the body where the guitar has suffered the slings and arrows of a curious public.
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They linger, gazing curiously at the portraits and asking questions.
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She was also a grand needle woman, a talent which rather curiously led to a change in her religious affiliations.
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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
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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
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The stone cages have a curiously sensual, primeval quality, like the ancient dry stone walls in fields.
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The most curious usage, because it seems to have spread furthest from its origins, whatever they are, is snail.
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'Well,' began Lawford ruminatingly, 'there was something curious even then, perhaps.
The Return
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Through it runs a curious trackway, marked "disused" on the
Highways and Byways in Surrey
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There is a curious and perverse incentive in the very concept of a lifetime allowance.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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I heard a curious noise last night.
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There are also curious red-painted contraptions known as pedicabs, a sort of cycle-and-sidecar.
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Curiously, I had a dream last night that Latham absolutely caned Howard.
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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
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Both ignored the curious stares thrown their way as they rushed towards their science class.
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It is good to be curious about the world around you.
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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
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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.
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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
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At first glance, it was a curiously cold moment, uncharacteristic of such a popular and outgoing figure.
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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.
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The curious thing is the absence itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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He saw a book on the table and picked it up, idly curious.
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There has been precious little international protest about all this; UNESCO remains curiously quiet.
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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
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An elegant ding dong, dang dong rang throughout the house, and a small mouse of an old woman answered it curiously.
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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
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Wonder of wonders, this curious people called "baccy" tabac!
"Contemptible", by "Casualty"
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Teachers say Down's children are just as curious and interested as other children.
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He telegraphs a curious expression across the curious pseudo - restaurant that serves as the canteen in the bowels of Television Centre.
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He was a tall, coltish, bespectacled young man, curiously lovable.
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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
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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
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Nizan's political stance at this juncture was a curious mixture of uncompromising denunciation and sweet-talking collaboration.
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We don't have a car or a TV and we cycle a lot so we were already viewed as slightly curious.
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Emerging into daylight, they are the subject of curious stares from passers-by.
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The inside was also padded and lined with curious little projections.
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At the extreme north-west corner of Ngargo Island, near a massive bomb-scar in the rocky cliff, lies a very curious wreck.
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The naval high command's response to these developments is rather curious.
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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
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Strap on a mask and snorkel, and you can swim with sea lions, so curious and friendly that they will brush past your face.
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Well, the inquisitor in our party was curious about the specifics of the policy, and jokingly needled the ranger about the prohibition.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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By a curious twist of fate, cricket was also my favourite sport.
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Curiously, familiars do not appear in continental witch confessions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dr. Mead, above mentioned, gave a curious description of the symptoms of tarantism.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
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His conduct that evening was to say the least curious.
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The curious red-eyed female headed straight to the well ripe banana we had been given on our arrival to tempt the furry creature.
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Both these plants have loose bunches of curious pink or red fruits.
Times, Sunday Times
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Curiously, family physicians were more likely than cardiologists to order transfusions.
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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
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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
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This is just one of an extraordinary sequence of curious encounters between orcas and divers in the waters off New Zealand.
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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.
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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.
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At least the wines tasted very curious to my inexpert palate.
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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
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(_ictides_), the coati (_nasua_), the paradoxure (_paradoxurus_), and even the curious little teledu of Java (_mydaus_).
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
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Nor do the figures include the women who still honour the curious custom of adopting their husband 's surname on marriage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Curiously, she'd experienced no such feeling when she'd studied his file.
CHAMELEON
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He eyed me curiously with amusement, ‘For a while there you sounded like a mother hen clucking over her chick.’
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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
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What remains is a niche market for the curious and sated.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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It was a topic of conversation for the naturally curious players.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Curious about the stage of fruit maturation preferred by other wild primates, I sent out a brief survey.
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So you are always interested and curious.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Discussions of the American alliance in this volume, and our economic and cultural bonds therein, are in general incurious, dogmatic and one-dimensional.
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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
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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
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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
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Those who butt in because they are curious, nosy and feel entitled to the involvement they seek.
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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
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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?
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The best illustration of this strange reversal is the curious fate of the Downing Street memo.
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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.
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Their father is still feeding them, and they make a curious hissing noise when he arrives.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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In the Little Shambles, too, there are many curious details in the high gables, pargeting and oriel windows.
Yorkshire
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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
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There is no denying that this is an odd moment captured forever - the curious intersection of a revolution and a dissipated Hollywood has-been.
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The peafowl appears to be curious by nature and they are allowed to roam free in most of the city's zoos.
Proud Escapee Turns Heads
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They're browsing the wet grass the snow has left and, statued, stare at me in deep silence and I see whatever light there is gather to glossy pools in their eight mild, barely curious but wary eyes.
What Light There Is
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The mill still stands and is a curious mixture of brick, elm, slate and corrugated iron.
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But now something curious is happening.
Times, Sunday Times
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[Illustration: page226] and this passage particularly seems to be a reproof to man, who, while with his domestic animals he is curious to improve the race, by employing always the finest male, pays no attention to the improvement of his own race, but intermarries with the vicious, the ugly, or the old, for considerations of wealth or ambition.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
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It was quite the custom, after dinner, for many of the better classes of society, especially when entertaining curious Easterners, to spend an hour or several in motoring from dance-hall to dance-hall and cheap cabaret to cheap cabaret.
CHAPTER XVIII
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What is curious is that it remains such an unevolved art form.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet, curiously, it is a secondary, indirect, and vicarious experience.
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Young yet, barely thirty-six, eminently handsome, magnificently strong, almost bursting with a splendid virility, his free trail-stride, never learned on pavements, and his black eyes, hinting of great spaces and unwearied with the close perspective of the city dwellers, drew many a curious and wayward feminine glance.
Chapter I
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He's 45, he writes plays, directs operas and choreographs ballets - his curious version of Swan Lake ruffled feathers when it was staged at the Edinburgh International Festival two years ago.
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These areas are then overlaid with a curious but beautiful, whitish veil-like layer, as if to remind us that her scenes are fictive.
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Then he began to feel a curious tingling sensation all over him.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
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Well, the Lord he'p the nigger!" exclaimed Miss Becky, in a tone that seemed to reproduce, by some curious agreement of sight with sound, her general aspect of peakedness.
Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools
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They remembered their Ruskinian youth, and the confidence with which they would once have condemned it; and they had a sense of recreance in now admiring it; but they certainly admired it, and it remained for them the supreme expression of that time-soul, mundane, courtly, aristocratic, flattering, which once influenced the art of the whole world, and which had here so curiously found its apotheosis in a city remote from its native place and under a rule sacerdotally vowed to austerity.
Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3
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The troparion sung during our celebration of the feast indicates how we have come to appreciate this curious phenomenon:
Scott Cairns: Holy Theophany: The Baptism Of Jesus And The Blessing Of The Waters
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Your editorial memory is curiously selective.
Times, Sunday Times
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But to my surprise, the futuristic seats don't actually spin round; we end up hunched awkwardly over the flashing armrests, gawping around and discussing the curious venue.
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How do they get to such a curious and hateful place?
Times, Sunday Times
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It came to him curiously that it was his destiny ever to stand on this high place, looking down on unending hordes of black trouble that required control, bullying, and cajolery.
Chapter 11
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Regardless of the reasons, Indian anatomists and zoologists, who were no doubt just as curious as the Greeks about the origins of life, and as skilled in dissection, did not feel compelled to set their disciplines up in opposition to metaphysics.
LSD and the Third Eye
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That Reagan has in recent years become the undisputed polestar of the American Right is itself curious.
Daniel Cluchey: Searching for Ronald Reagan
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Hermite had a kind of positive hatred of geometry and once curiously reproached me with having made a geometrical memoir.
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Such a curious thing for an established and respected elderly gentleman to do, now that she came to consider it seriously.
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Blood Thorn—with his pom hairstyle, his Uzachile-cut breechcloth, and his curious star tattoos—was a constant source of attention.
Fire The Sky
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So 700 curious faces stared me down from head to toe as I walked up to the podium.
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The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.
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They stop and chat to small knots of curious residents.
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So you start out from some curious notion you have hit on, or even not so curious.
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Upon the bushes that grow on the mountaintop is found a curious fibrous substance formed by the action of the air upon the vapour rising from the molten minerals beneath; it is like cobwebs of spun glass.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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I mean, c'mon, you just have to be a little curious, right?
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She didn't realise she was holding his hand for so long, and that people were beginning to give them curious stares.
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Another curious ad on a bus shelter: Summit Beer has a new brand called ‘Grand’ - it's a cheerful beer for the Bud crowd, the people who find hoppy beers too bitter, too harsh, too unbeery.
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I observe Barry Diller, with his powerful, vulnerable skull that conveys the air of a Picasso, with his smile that's habitually so melancholic but which, now that I've stopped pestering him about his memories of Paramount, his tussles with Murdoch, his conversion to teleshopping, has become curiously childlike.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part V)
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The small apparent quantity of matter that exists in the universe compared to that of spirit, and the short time in which the recrements of animal or vegetable bodies become again vivified in the forms of vegetable mucor or microscopic insects, seems to have given rise to another curious fable of antiquity.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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Facts about the direction of one's attention occupy a curiously liminal position in respect to the divide between the rational and the non-rational in our psychological lives.
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Children are curious about everything around them.
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The bernicle, or brent goose, is interesting from the curious superstition which formerly prevailed respecting it, as it was supposed to have sprung from the shell called the barnacle or lepas, which adheres to the bottoms of ships, and which has a fringe of cirri projecting from between its valves bearing some faint resemblance to the feathers of a bird.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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Once again Sabine had the curious sensation that time had stopped and run back.
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Be sure the private papers cannot be got at by curious eyes.
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Her graceful neck rises higher than the trees, like a giraffe in slow motion, her liquid eyes staring curiously, then dismissively, at the gaping humans; she returns to her grazing as if these late-model mammals were no more worthy of note than their scruffy shrewlike ancestors, with whom she shared the Earth 130 million years ago.
Here Come The Dnasaurs
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For some time I heard nothing more of the Princess of 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
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Something curious to the unaccustomed eye, these curling, clutching, digitated members raised above their usual range and common avocations, suddenly endowed with speech, and holding forth there in the silent upper air for the whole human economy.
The Convert
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She felt nothing at all but a curious tingling sensation in the left side of her face.
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Lagutin was the subject of a curious coincidence the following day.
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He's a curious figure - Oscar Wilde meets an Andy Warhol superstar with a punk-rock haircut, a coiffure he inflicted on himself the day after Joe Strummer died.
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It is a curious paradox that our very progress in multiplied capacity for production has made us individually less independent and more inter-dependent.
The Open Shop: Why Is It; Why Should It Prevail?
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This "foppery" of Shakespeare's day had, then, its really delightful side, a quality in no sense "affected," by which it satisfies a real instinct in our minds -- the fancy so many of us have for an exquisite and curious skill in the use of words.
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
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The show attracted not only ardent dog lovers but curious onlookers too who possessed little knowledge about the dogs.
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BTW if any of you are curious, it looks like that desktop background was made with Apophysis. [www. apophysis.org] phoenix
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