How To Use Curiously In A Sentence
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And as the Roman Consuls held this to be the principal praise of their glory, they had this title curiously sculptured in marble on the Quirinal and in the forum of Trajan --- "Most powerful gift in a Prince is liberality [12].
History of the Incas
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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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The animating idea remains curiously unplumbed.
The Times Literary Supplement
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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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The youngster examines minutely curiously: The flavour of that drumstick how?
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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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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 tall, coltish, bespectacled young man, curiously lovable.
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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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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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The stone cages have a curiously sensual, primeval quality, like the ancient dry stone walls in fields.
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Curiously, I had a dream last night that Latham absolutely caned Howard.
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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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At first glance, it was a curiously cold moment, uncharacteristic of such a popular and outgoing figure.
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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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He was a tall, coltish, bespectacled young man, curiously lovable.
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Curiously, familiars do not appear in continental witch confessions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Curiously, family physicians were more likely than cardiologists to order transfusions.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Yet, curiously, it is a secondary, indirect, and vicarious experience.
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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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Your editorial memory is curiously selective.
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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Hermite had a kind of positive hatred of geometry and once curiously reproached me with having made a geometrical memoir.
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The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.
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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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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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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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Its curiously and irregularly pinnate fronds are borne on slender stalks, terete toward the base, and covered with reddish brown, downy scales, instead of being produced loosely, as in most other Nephrolepises; these are densily crowded, and the outcome of closely clustered crowns.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884
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Curiously, Jamie and another important character play gin rummy instead.
Timing the Moon
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The area we have circled is grouse moor, liberally scattered with boulders and crags and with ‘shooters shelters’, as grouse butts are curiously called here on my new map.
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He had exquisite taste in literature, but curiously enough these wonderful books didn't sell.
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I love the parallel nuttiness of the denotations and the curiously balanced and opposed vowel sounds that follow.
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Instantly, and curiously, the slide was halted.
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Around me in the East Stand upper tier are an assortment of senior company directors, bankers, hedge-fund managers, and, curiously, quite a few mini-cab drivers.
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That this is based on a true story is perhaps more interesting than the film itself, which feels curiously disengaged from its characters.
Times, Sunday Times
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That this is based on a true story is perhaps more interesting than the film itself, which feels curiously disengaged from its characters.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the specials menu, you'll encounter colonies of tapioca balls swimming in a milky, curiously refreshing cinnamon liquid, and a less refreshing pineapple granité mixed in a frosty glass with a helping of mung beans.
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' he replied, pulling from his waistcoat a curiously constructed pistol, having a double-edged spring knife attached to the barrel.
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But what we see on stage is curiously Janus-faced.
Cool Hand Luke – review
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Evers lifted his chin to frown curiously at Trace, the cigar wigwagging from his teeth.
The Best Way to Lose
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Curiously, perhaps anticipating a conflict with Eastern European cavalry forces, his manual also contains advice in facing a charge against lancers.
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 When you do, you'll live more adventurously, more curiously, and with more wonder and amazement than you ever thought possible
Karen Talavera: The Journey Is The Destination
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He was reminded of the previous night's events and glanced curiously to the window, a magnetic force pulling his head in that direction.
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the baby looked around curiously
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Less practical surely than the fur coat, -- more amusing, certainly, than encyclopedias, -- the funny "false faces" grinned up at her with a curiously excitative audacity.
Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs
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It would be inquiring too curiously to ask whether Camilla, when she embraced him, discerned that he had fortified his courage that morning with a glass of curacoa.
He Knew He Was Right
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This beautiful and curiously shaped lake lies at around fifteen thousand feet.
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Each stem reached a height of just nine inches and, curiously, was battleship grey.
The Sun
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The single burned match has a curiously forlorn feeling.
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There was tenderness and pity in the tone of his voice as he said the name Bessie, and the sick girl looked at him curiously, as if struggling to recall something in the far past; then a smile broke over her face and the lip quivered a little as she replied:
Bessie's Fortune A Novel
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Curiously weak-kneed and breathless, I climb onto the trackside and check my time: 74.16 seconds.
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Curiously quiet she was , almost abstracted , answering these questions.
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Many are shaped like small potatoes but others are curiously long and curved like crooked sausages.
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Isabella watched him curiously as she stood across from him, her pulse and heart racing.
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The splitting of the rostellum, curiously enough, never happens without insect aid; but if a bristle or needle be passed over it ever so lightly, a stream of sticky, milky fluid exudes, hardens, and the boat-shaped disk, with pollen masses attached, may be withdrawn on the bristle just as the bee removes them with her tongue.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
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Her gaze was curiously fixed and bright, brighter even than her usual druggy glare.
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Yet the cultivation of such wisdom seems curiously lacking in many of our degree programmes - partly because there is so little space on the curriculum to consider simple unspecialised questions.
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A main course of cannelloni in rosé sauce with risotto primavera was curiously served together in a bowl rather than on a plate.
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Here comes one of them, in a long green robe of shining silky stuff, which is called samite; round his neck is a curiously cut collar of dark red cloth, and in his hand he carries a white hood.
Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago
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Roy looked at the man curiously, making his way over to him as Vincent took another draw from the cigarette.
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Curiously, the standard radio had a cassette but no CD player, so an upgrade here might be required as well.
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Larger, yet still immature, wolf fish, and scorpion fish peered curiously at us from crevices in the rock, waiting no doubt for a passing meal or the opportunity to dart out and seize some unsuspecting prey.
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Curiously, there is no attempt to integrate these points into the main body of the text.
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Her face looked curiously unstable, sometimes young and unlined, sometimes withered with years.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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The extremely limited possibilities of the machine yielded images which are at once frankly realistic and curiously mysterious.
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Curiously, she looked at the card, and saw a name that was not familiar to her.
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Before Biro told me about his research into "La Bella Principessa," and what he described as startling findings, he shared with me the story of how he became the world's first authenticator of art works through fingerprinting-a story that began, curiously enough, with the very paintings I was staring at.
GoodShit
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Curiously enough, all the stuff I forgot to write about earlier has to do with Boys.
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Curiously, they all carry (wear, pet, hug) rocks on strings like prehistoric necklaces - a metaphor, perhaps, for survival in a flinty world of not very much.
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The curiously-shaped dust structure occurs in our neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud, in a star forming region very near the expansive Tarantula Nebula.
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Curiously, a blitz game I won gave me a lot of confidence and motivation, even though I won it purely by chance.
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The south facade is a curiously flat and blocky affair, only partly leavened by the awkward, two-bay, single-column upper arcade, the unsatisfactorily cinched lower entablature, the four eccentric little ground-floor windows, and the raised platform supporting it all.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The incident of sending a present of clothing is curiously like the tale about a certain English envoy, whose proprieties were sadly ruffled in the Nair country, when a lady sent him a grand shawl with an intimation of her choice.
Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty
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Even judged as a piece of crusading journalism, it was curiously unpolitical.
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Mangold's curled figure proves a curiously allusive and vulnerable emblem as it unfurls across one, two or three panels, nearing but never quite touching the edges of the support.
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He was solidly built with short black hair and curiously red eyes, his physical strength was apparent, as was his short temper when he snapped at his brother.
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Curiously, this is the one solo keyboard piece of Bach's I've heard that really demands a harpsichord.
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"Girlfriend?" I asked curiously, perhaps a little too worriedly.
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Curiously, that sort of ended any further heart-to-heart dialogue between father and son.
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Arnold noted that, curiously, many species of parrots that live in rain forests have not evolved fluorescent pigmentation.
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Curiously enough, Clark's cricket coaching stimulated his interest in Australian history.
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Curiously, there does not seem to be any footage of the select committee subjecting Alastair Campbell to equivalent treatment.
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The game was absolutely skewered by the critics, although curiously it's hard to find exactly what was thought to be objectionable.
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He remains curiously aloof and is one of the writer's greatest challenges - a man who can't be reached: unconvinced, irredeemable.
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In summer the range is wider, and besides many trifoliolate leaves the curiously shaped seven-bladed ones are not at all rare.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
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Curiously, Yang avoids the claustrophobic tension of the mineshaft.
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I peered curiously out the window, wondering who on earth would knock on my door.
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That's like seeing a psychiatrist plying a tendon hammer, or an orthopaedic surgeon with a pleasant bedside manner nice in a curiously old fashioned way.
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He took a big bite of cookie, then looked curiously at the man before him.
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Here a huge column of curiously contorted basalt has been connected by a solid high-arched causeway with the cliff, which is equally remarkable, showing a central boss of stone with lines radiating quaquaversally.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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Curiously, they were the only newspaper to grasp this story, which splashed under one of their extremely long screamers NOW IT'S THE FRANKENFISH!
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Tern rubbed his neck as though he had hurt it in the fall, made a little consoling noise like a chirp to himself, and glanced at her curiously.
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Curiously enough Campbell's men sustained far more frostbites than we at
South with Scott
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She also saw how curiously the sun sallowed him, and how many more hollows he had in his face than most people.
The Path of a Star
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It was curiously vivifying, and in it the diamonded atoms of light shook and danced.
The Moon Pool
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Instead, they were looking at me curiously, like I was a particularly absorbing monkey at the zoo.
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His clothes were curiously old-fashioned.
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Three superstars in central midfield all trying to do the same job, no natural width and just two recognised strikers in a curiously unbalanced squad.
The Sun
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Softness and that curiously mild-mannered touch dominated Lang Lang's playing.
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The pretext for socialization of minting - one which has curiously been accepted by almost every economist - is that private minters would defraud the public on the weight and fineness of the coins.
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They looked at him uncuriously and seemed to pay little attention.
The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna
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Updates, 11/23: David Lowery: For all its empyrean visuals, I found The Fountain curiously earthbound.
GreenCine Daily: Interview. Darren Aronofsky.
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His eyes met mine and I felt curiously light-headed and weak-kneed. I tore my eyes away with an effort, trying not to think about him.
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Moving around the vast, churchlike space last week, many people found the juxtaposition curiously moving.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jace sat next to Eric in the passenger seat of the red minivan, looking curiously out of the tinted windows at the increasingly derelict buildings and streets of downtown.
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the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved
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Whining little Peter Andre is number one with a song which sounds curiously dated, eight years after it was first released.
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His lips were narrow and uncharitable, his eyes curiously bright, and not with love.
MAMBO
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Curiously, the footage of her performance on that day showed this audience not quite as keen - indeed, they stood stock-still and looked bemused.
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he raised his eyebrows curiously, impressed by Mark's advice.
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The result is a balanced, touching and enlightening portrait of a great writer and a curiously lovable man.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jonas asked curiously as he guided me towards a classroom, a little offset from the main hallway.
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Despite what has been said so far about the use of the camera to make drawings, it is curiously an absence of linear outline in Vermeer's finished work to which Gowing points.
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Sniffing at them curiously, and not finding their scent to his taste, he lifted his slim muzzle, and "belled" sonorously several times, pausing between the calls to listen for an answer from the forest.
The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life
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Barbie, that plastic icon of childish femininity, has appeared in many guises over a long but curiously unwrinkled life.
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He is as gruff as a bulldog's bark, yet underneath the hoary rock 'n' roll bluster, Lemmy, author of songs such as ‘Die You Bastard,’ is curiously old fashioned and a stickler for good manners.
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“Old!” exclaimed the knight; “now, by the gods and saints, if there be a gallant at the British Court more fancifully considerate, and more considerately fanciful, but quaintly curious, and more curiously quaint, in frequent changes of all rich articles of vesture, becoming one who may be accounted point-device a courtier, I will give you leave to term me a slave and a liar.”
The Monastery
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She felt curiously content.
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Curiously, Mercedes appears a little coy about telling us what it is.
Times, Sunday Times
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A long French liner slipped majestically by with a mixture of European and Asian faces staring curiously from the decks.
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Next he noticed a bewhiskered, youthful-looking man, sitting at a roll-top desk, who regarded him curiously.
Chapter 33
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They fingered me curiously, and spoke freely to many of the men, brought the ibrik and soap; we washed, and I was invited to eat with the men of the house, and Marko and the Franciscan.
High Albania
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Curiously, though, my boys had recently watched my treasured copy of that brilliant Beatles parody All You Need Is Cash about the semi-legendary Rutles.
David Wild: Giving Thanks to Paul, Ringo & the Long and Winding Road
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Nissan 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.
Purposely and Deliberately Imperfect
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Mikhail is a curiously ambiguous character in that we are not aware of his allegiance.
The Tail Section » LOST - Who Can Ya Trust?
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In fact he had a curiously dry - albeit pleasant - soft spoken voice that was more soothing than intimidating, and he even had a slight lisp.
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And for the more thirsty souls there were curiously compounded "cups:" hock and seltzer; claret and soda-water, fortified with curaçoa and flavoured artistically with burrage or sliced pine-apple.
The Lovels of Arden
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With her curiously-named, camera-toting sidekick Rolf, Jemma takes you through a daily video diary for an eventful two weeks of quantum-transported best mates and ne'er-do-well lab technicians.
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Yet his style is curiously gripping and the story is intriguing and often disturbing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sarah blinked for a moment, then laughed, her voice light and curiously beguiling.
Raziel
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He depicted a version of his scarred but curiously often blissful family life: nine siblings (three of whom died in infancy), a drained and loving mother, and a tortured, violent-tempered father who died when Davies was 6; his burgeoning homosexuality and struggle with his Catholic faith; the solace and rapture that the cinema bestowed on him.
Intimate History
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She felt curiously unreal, as if she were in the midst of a dream.
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Both the horse and the hawk are unruly, the latter swirling its head around instead of waiting in obedient stillness, and the dogs have curiously rounded leonine heads.
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When you do, you'll live more adventurously, more curiously, and with more wonder and amazement than you ever thought possible
Karen Talavera: The Journey Is The Destination
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Curiously, Franklin deprecates me for calling the papers a ‘study.’
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The house felt curiously empty without the children.
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I think the curiously Italian milky coffee they call galao in Portugal just about qualifies.
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But although his performance is excellent, the overall effect is curiously sad.
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So it was no surprise that this upwelling of speaking truth to power would meet with organized resistance from a front group disguised behind a name curiously appropriate to the task: the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE.
David Sassoon: Climate Change and Race: Naked Truths & Ugly Politics
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The innings have a curiously lopsided look to them because of a string of low individual scores.
Times, Sunday Times
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He sympathizes with the curiously antispeculative, positivistic frame of mind which characterizes the whole Russian effort in the first place: he pleads for more careful elicitation
LINGUISTICS
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This is not least because - curiously for a student of discourse - his own discursive practices give hostages to fortune.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In these uniforms, banners and slogans, in this posturing and stridency, there was something curiously unreal, theatrical.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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In breaking open a building stone, the diker had found the inside of it, he said, covered over with curiously carved flowers; and, knowing that Mr. Duff had a turn for curiosities, he had brought the flowers to him.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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The opening track ‘Ghetto Musick’ jumps from hardcore rave to sauna soul without pausing for breath, a curiously addictive juxtaposition.
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Finally, in the numerals used by the natives of the Marshall Islands, the following curiously irregular sequence also contains a single senary numeral: [216] 6. thil thino = 3 + 3. 7. thilthilim-thuon = 6 + 1. 8. rua-li-dok = 10 - 2. 9. ruathim-thuon = 10 - 2 + 1.
The Number Concept Its Origin and Development
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In single file, their ostrich plumes nodding, their leopard skin tunics contrasting curiously with the marble and arabesqued metal of the ancient palace, they moved across the wide room and halted momentarily at the golden door to the left of the throne-dais.
The Conquering Sword of Conan
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And as he looked at her and considered her curiously, an object to enamour an ascetic and make a devotee lovesick, fire was lighted in his vitals and he cried, Folk say that whoso taketh up his abode in this house dieth or sickeneth.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He complained of feeling curiously weak and faint.
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Harlesden, you know, or I expect you don't know, is quite on the out-quarters of London; something curiously different from your fine old crusted suburb like Norwood or Hampstead, different as each of these is from the other.
The House of Souls
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A sleek statuette of a naked ephebe, with narrow limbs and a small convex belly, curiously anticipates, except in one small detail, Degas's nude study for an adolescent ballerina, six rooms and 4,000 years away.
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This is curiously illustrated by what may be termed a conjoint epistle addressed to Professor Janet by Madame B. and her secondary self, Léonie II.
Real Ghost Stories
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This drama series is supposedly modern yet its characters live in a curiously dated world.
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Because we vse the word rime (though by maner of abusion) yet to helpe that fault againe we apply it in our vulgar Poesie another way very commendably & curiously.
The Arte of English Poesie
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Curiously, she'd experienced no such feeling when she'd studied his file.
CHAMELEON
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The equation between study in higher education and social mobility still holds in curiously similar ways.
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Curiously enough, so confident was the belief of the settlers that they were founding towns, that they called their representatives "burgesses," and down to 1776 the assembly continued to be known as the House of "Burgesses," although towns refused to grow in Virginia, and soon after counties were organized in 1634 the burgesses sat for counties.
Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins
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He was holding a pizza box and had a curiously eager expression on his face like a munted troll doll.
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I look at it curiously, my name hurriedly scribbled on the front.
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Ko-chin looked curiously at Molly who was noisily slurping her soda.
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And have a nice beer, in a tankard, if you have one; and ignore the curiously enraged "host with the most" and "bleeper".
"It’s one thing to watch Paul Giamatti scowling about in a presidential wig," as John Adams.
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This is a curiously masochistic explanation and not one available to the restaurant in the Scottish parliament, that this week canvassed its customers as to why it was rubbish and nobody used it.
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Isn't that pretty nearly what people call a cloudburst, uncle Phaeton?" asked Bruno, curiously watching that receding mass of what from their present standpoint looked like vapour.
The Lost City
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And because that he wist well and knew that chastity in delices, pity in riches, and humility in honour often perish, he took and gave his courage to sobriety and good diet, to humility and misericorde, keeping himself right curiously from the pricking sautes and watch of the world, the flesh and the devil, and chastised his body and brought it to servitude by the ensample of the apostles.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7
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The woman in the shop had looked at them curiously.
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Maybe these lines were a late addition - though the dialogue seems curiously inconclusive without them.
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No episode more graphically conveys the pent-up longing of those curiously shadowed and elusive days we lived through between the end of the war and the birth of swinging Britain.
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Curiously, googling on this does not any more succinct definition: this is the clearest, but it does not address the fact that amoral familism could well be a highly viable social strategy when most of the rest of the population behaves otherwise.
The Jeremiah Munsen/Jena 6 Atrocity: Who, whom?
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Oedipus seems curiously at home everywhere, as if he were the Everyman of the 20th century.
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Curiously, his terror had subsided when the bargee had spoken.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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In the Vulgate it is retained and in popular French Wyclif renders it "darnel or cockle", and curiously enough the name of his followers, the Lollards, has been derived from a Latin equivalent, "lolium.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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What about that curiously incurious cadaver, the body politic?
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He came up to me, as if knowing his benefactor by instinct, looking curiously about him, and curling and retracting his flexile snout and lip, after the manner of his kind.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Curiously more than a fair number of covers creep in, but eventually the band warm up to some classic cuts from their album.
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He might even - and the thought curiously excited him - have a decorous turn around the floor with the dishy Mrs Sawtry...
THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
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Curiously, Holloway uses both harpsichord and organ as basso continuo instruments.
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The sensation passed, leaving her nauseous and curiously empty ....
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Curiously, you might not actually perceive this as a question designed to elicit information.
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The green and fertile region, which is thus interposed between the "highland" and the "lowland" deserts, participates, curiously enough, in both characters.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
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Those who are still partying through the night are either gripped by the catatonia of the truly drunk or have talked their way back to sobriety and are curiously calm.
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Her curiously juvenile prattle — "The way it began, it was a bit like a repeat of earlier," she begins one anecdote — and her worshipful obsession with all things Hailshamite quickly make it clear that Kathy, if not demented, is at least imperfectly removed from her schoolgirl self; and as she rabbits on, the oddness of her schooldays becomes increasingly apparent.
New Fiction
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(Curiously, Bennhold refers to perineal therapy as "vaginal gymnastics.")
Debra Ollivier: What's Wrong with the (Fighting) French?
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She studied it scientifically, then calmly wrenched off the lid and stared curiously at the thick red liquid inside.
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Maybe these lines were a late addition - though the dialogue seems curiously inconclusive without them.
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They looked for the story in the windings of the checkerberry-vine and blue-eyed periwinkle, on the lichens curiously growing on the boles of aged trees; but for all these they had no dictionary.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861
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A trio of cats gazed up at her, curiously eyeing her approach with heads tilted one way or another.
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These substantial and curiously ugly animals use their bony foreheads to smash off great lumps of coral before they crunch it up with massive front teeth.
