How To Use Peculiar In A Sentence

I find her attitude a bit peculiar, to say the least.
Somebody comes forward, examines, and then draws from out the grave, where it has lain, directly under the body, a knife -- a knife of peculiar shape and workmanship -- a long, keen, _surgeon's knife_! The Diamond Coterie
However peculiarity is a characteristic of all things Royal, not to say outright barminess.
But suppose, Maggie, suppose it was a man who was not conceited, who felt he had nothing to be conceited about; who had been marked from childhood for a peculiar kind of suffering, and to whom you were the day-star of his life; who loved you, worshipped you, so entirely that he felt it happiness enough for him if you would let him see you at rare moments15 IV. Another Love-Scene. Book V—Wheat and Tares
Hence there is in sin a peculiar inconformity to the holiness of God; which is the "macula," the "spot," "stain," and Pneumatologia

It's survived in a very peculiar form, with the so-called monks are actually married and have their hair long, unlike in the South where they're tonsured, and they wear civilian clothes but with the robes just over the tops of them.
This figure shows the peculiar ocular part of the altazimuth, with the vertical and horizontal circles. Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
The main thoroughfare there is Midsummer Boulevard, or H6, if you prefer the totalitarian grid system peculiar to the area.
Objective : To improve retainers aesthetics and alleviate buccal retainers peculiar sense for patients removable partial denture.
We have known a male mierkat so assiduous in feeding young that were quite unrelated to himself, taking to them every morsel of food given him, that we have been compelled to shut him up in a room alone when feeding him, to prevent his starving himself to death: the male mierkat thus exhibiting exactly those psychic qualities which are generally regarded as peculiarly feminine; the females, on the other hand, being far more pugnacious towards each other than are the males. Woman and Labour
While the other threads were developed and resolved, leaving one rather exhausted and peculiarly unsatisfied, this one remained outstanding, haunting the reader's memory.
It must be entertaining to hear the peculiar phraseology and observe the humorous vulgarities of these _naiades_, if one could do so The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
Well," said Jervis, "it might have been a peculiar finger; a finger, for instance, with some characteristic deformity such as an ankylosed joint, which would be easy to identify. The Eye of Osiris
True it is, that one can scarcely call _that_ education which teaches woman everything except herself, -- _except_ the things that relate to her own peculiar womanly destiny, and, on plea of the holiness of ignorance, sends her without one word of just counsel into the temptations of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
Of course, the most peculiar thing is that she was semi-transparent, glowing in a soft yellow hue - that, and her eyes seemed to be empty, two black ovals floating in the middle of the light.
A moment later, another of the invaders lashed him with a peculiar weapon that looked something like a cat-o'-nine-tails.
The whole page was blotted with fresh tears, and, upon the opposite interleaf, were the following English lines, written in a hand so very different from the peculiar characters of my acquaintance, that I had some difficulty in recognizing it as his own. The Assignation
The fish are dependent for survival on the peculiarities of the environment that they live in.
a peculiar bond of sympathy between them
The doctor could not help laughing at the sort of "moue" she made: when he laughed, he had something peculiarly good-natured and genial in his look. Villette
It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it.
The fulgurator was a sort of auto-propulsive engine, of peculiar construction, charged with an explosive composed of new substances and which only produced its effect under the action of a deflagrator that was also new. Facing the Flag
Mr Kennet has a rather peculiar sense of humour.
Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Norfolk, &c., shows remarkable deviations in local organization and justice (lagmen, sokes), and great peculiarities as to status (socmen, freemen), while from laws and Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
The Boer never rides his horse at the trot, but at a quick walk or canter, and a step peculiar to the country and called ‘trippling’, or, as we should style it, ambling.
Now, as he spoke, his voice trembled with that peculiar vibration which is the result of tensity. Sister Carrie
A peculiarly subtle expression haunts the lower part, sensual and incredulous, like that of a man tasting good Bordeaux with half a fancy it has been somewhat too long uncorked. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
With his long arms and peculiar flatfooted gait, his opponents compared him to an ape. Times, Sunday Times
Amanda, in an orange sunsuit, had tried of chasing moths and was studying the peculiar afternoon shadow projected across the countryside by Bow Wow Mountain. Another Roadside Attraction
But certain character peculiarities are corrected by helping a person change his writing.
He was only partially dressed; his face had the peculiar bulginess of the hard drinker; his eyes were watery and shifty, and several days 'growth of beard, with patchy grey and black spots, gave a stucco effect to his countenance. The Cow Puncher
I knew the black hound's peculiarities, and was prepared for the appearance of a deer, unushered by the baying of hounds, but I had not expected the game to come so quickly, for Rufe had hardly had time to start the dogs. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
The basal ganglia of the brain are peculiarly rich in acetylcholine, the presence of which must presumably have some significance; and suggestive effects of eserine and of acetylcholine, injected into the ventricles of the brain, have been described. Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture
With the cant of abolitionism well amplified, Missourians took up the cognomen of Southerners more widely, yet still largely as a defense of the peculiar institution.
And thus the ideas of time and space have each its peculiar and exclusive relations; position and figure belonging only to space, while repetition and rhythm are appropriate to time.
The London Hungarian Committee in 1849 quoted Article X, by Leopold II, of the House of Hapsburg, in 1790, which definitely stated that "Hungary with her appanages is a free kingdom, and in regard to her whole legal form of government (including all the tribunals) independent; that is, entangled with no other kingdom or people, but having her own peculiar consistence and constitution; accordingly to be governed by her legitimately crowned king after her peculiar laws and customs. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
He was about to make his excuses when Mr Halloran asked him a peculiar question. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
It had a peculiar gearstick, and the driver could find reverse only after various undignified contortions.
In many of the fungiform and most of the circumvallate papillæ are peculiar structures called taste buds or taste goblets. A Practical Physiology
Encouragement and support do they derive from James, in maintaining the "peculiar institution" which they call patriarchal, and boast of as the "corner-stone" of the republic? The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it.
The store plays a peculiar blend of 70s and 80s rock, massaging the memories of the latter-era boomers who populate my neighborhood.
He was different; he was peculiar in the most conceivably beautiful way.
This is exacerbated by the actors' cloth-eared delivery - stresses invariably in the wrong places render potentially hilarious lines peculiar and baroque.
But on this particular day it seemed as if some of the ingredients were wanting, for the morning and afternoon passed, to the astonishment of all, without a single "phiz" as the girls were wont somewhat felicitously to call the frequent passages of arms in which the two girls considered it their peculiar privilege to indulge. Hollowmell or, A Schoolgirl's Mission
a peculiarly French phenomenon
This kind of tendentious whimsy is more peculiar than interesting; as the pages turn, one becomes inured to it and begins to yawn. Archive 2007-09-01
It is a peculiar notion of masculinity that is naturalised and internalised in everyday practices and relationships by both men and women.
One reason has to do with what is a real American peculiarity.
At the Manharen, a peculiar kind of kopje, we halted, but had to retreat further towards evening. On Commando
Peculiarly shaped rocks and hillocks having striking features lie scattered all over the earth.
He stood upon a glamorously designed rug in which bore a peculiar star-shaped symbol sewn in red, the rug itself was black; it appeared he was in a strange cave.
They gave the officers to understand that far from wishing to act as enemies, they were willing to afford the shipwrecked people all the assistance in their power; but these barbarians shewed, on all occasions, a perfidiousness which is peculiar to the inhabitants of these climates; when the brig had sent biscuit on shore, they seized the half of it, and a few moments after, sold it at an exorbitant price, to those from whom they had stolen it. Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English
It does not tell us why or how a particular want can have, among all of a person's desires, the special property of being peculiarly his own.
Breakfast was an excitement shared in peculiarly by the Ancient CHAPTER XIV
In the hands of lesser songsmiths, such lines would inevitably sound like so much rot, but Gough has a peculiar charm about him that gradually disarms the jaded listener.
All hurry or bustle is peculiarly painful to the sick. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
There was something peculiar in the way he smiled.
Here was worn the "barret," of scarlet or white, the rich brown jacket and red sash of the peculiar costumes of the Basque and Bearnais peasants -- a fine race of men, and one, too, historically noble. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
Is social media a peculiarly female phenomenon as it is uncontrolled + unhierarchical? euan semple @womenintech soc media event # SQHQ» Blog Archive » Twitter Digest for 2010-03-15
The peculiarly disinterested institution of science develops only in special circumstances and remains constantly vulnerable.
For some reason - whether through snobbery, ignorance, or the peculiarly British disease of self-deprecation - this valuable national treasure has been systematically trivialised and ridiculed over the years, to such an extent that today it remains almost unknown.
It has been sought to obtain badges or other distinctions for baronets and also to purge the order of wrongful assumptions, an evil to which the baronetage of Nova Scotia is peculiarly exposed, owing to the dignity being descendible to collateral heirs male of the grantee as well as to those of his body. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Then along came one of the most peculiar passages of play you'll see all season.
For it is the peculiarity of linear extension that it alone allows its magnitudes to be placed in _absolute_ juxtaposition, or, rather, in coincident position; it alone can test the equality of two magnitudes by observing whether they will coalesce, as two equal mathematical lines do, when placed between the same points; it alone can test _equality_ by trying whether it will become _identity_. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
From the edge of the small waves Somers heard one man talking to another, and the English tones — unconsciously he expected a foreign language — and particularly the peculiar educated – artisan quality, almost a kind of uppishness that there is in the speech of Australian working men, struck him as incongruous with their picking up the coal – cobs from the shore. Kangaroo
Specially characteristic of Egypt, though not altogether peculiar to it, were the papyrus and the lotus -- the _Cyperus papyrus_ and _Nymphæa lotus_ of botanists. Ancient Egypt
They all recognized him when he came closer, and they watched him with that peculiar concertedness which seizes upon an expectant company, until he dismounted at the corral gates and came toward them. The Range Boss
But probably God's foreknowledge of His own people means His "peculiar, gracious, complacency in them," while His "predestinating" or Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The liver cells (the peculiar forms of which had been described by Purkinje, Henle, and Dutrochet about 1838) have the power to convert certain of the substances that come to them into a starchlike compound called glycogen, and to store this substance away till it is needed by the organism. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
One of the first objects then of this pursuit, as I have observed, should be, to learn how to distinguish with accuracy between that peculiar pustule which is the true cow pock, and that which is spurious. On Vaccination Against Smallpox
There is a farm on a neck of land belonging to this town (Marblehead, Mass.), which has peculiar advantages for collecting sea kelp and sea moss, and these manures are there used most liberally, particularly in the cultivation of cabbage, from eight to twelve cords of rotten kelp, which is stronger than barn manure, and more suitable food for cabbage, being used to the acre. Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop
In the peculiar circumstances of this case, I find that a case has not been made to deny the directors their right to enforce the by-laws of the corporation.
The superior honorableness of agriculture, is shown by the fact, that it was _protected and supported by the fundamental law_ of the theocracy -- God thus indicating it as the chief prop of the government, and putting upon it peculiar honor. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
-- The distention of the surface veins of the legs, the condition known as varicose veins, is not a peculiarity of pregnancy. The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy
The word tiff in connection with her tale had a peculiar savour, a paralysing effect. Chance
Another important point is to demonstrate how culture and politics shape borders, by showing examples of borderlands where each side of a boundary has its own peculiarities.
The impression is thereby given that an emphasis on revival is a peculiarly Welsh phenomenon.
The insect called the lanthorn-fly, which is peculiar to warm climates, emits light as it flies, producing in the dark a remarkably sparkling appearance. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
The yam bean's crisp, juicy quality - and the idea of eating the tuber raw - struck the Tongans as exotic and peculiar.
This tetterous complaint is peculiar to warm countries; we know scarcely anything of it in our northern climate. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
Our music-hall performers have invented a kind of clowning peculiar to this country, in which kicking and leaping are also a part of the business. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory
And that consideration which ingenerates shame and self-abhorrency on the account of the defilement of sin is taken peculiarly from the holiness of God. Pneumatologia
This is an issue of extradition which we say is peculiarly based on the exercise of the executive power.
I noticed a certain peculiarity about his appearance.
He would regale us of tales about the rich and famous, their peculiar ways and their strange vices.
Here are the Republicans, a cast of largely white males, looking peculiarly unevolved. Obama's Unspoken Re-Election Edge
The spoken word, even in the colonial period, had a peculiarly prominent place in America.
One peculiarity of this artist's pictures was that he used actual gold leaf to make the high lights upon hair, leaves, and draperies.
As they have been realised, the dreams themselves have assumed a peculiar character of sobriety, of the spirit of positivism, and beyond that, of boredom.
A brief preface goes before the first part which provides a brief biography of Hugo Wolf including the forming and development of his peculiar style.
You couldn't help but be aware of the peculiarity of the situation.
Used together these two strategies comprise that peculiar language game known as a double bind.
He ended up in jail because he was peculiarly stubborn, and quite possibly also stupid, but mostly because he was unlucky.
Will was loved for his vivid colors, the creation colors of the Edenlike islands, including the urinous mango-juice yellow, green from crushed hibiscus leaves, dusty purple from wild plum trees on Java, and a peculiar russet in his _Country Road_, _Kamuela_ was a pigment of red clay he had scraped from the very earth he had depicted. Beard
A man must be strong enough to mould the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.
The star which looked upon a child at the hour of his birth, was called the horoscopus, and the peculiar influence of each planet was determined by professors of the genethliac art. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.
It is self-understood, however, that the appliance of this rule will depend upon the peculiar laws of each country, and that, apart from legal obstacles, no independent local society shall be precluded from directly corresponding with the General
Her behaviour was a peculiar mixture of the sophisticated and the childlike.
They say that the width between those long-lashed eyes is a common peculiarity of the artist's face; but she is no longer an artist; she is only the brave young yachtswoman who lives at Castle Dare. Macleod of Dare
Headline is an important component of a newspaper with peculiar language features; Here a preliminary survey is made on the English headlines,[sentence dictionary] mainly on its lexical and grammatical features.
a peculiar application; for while the Pan tribe proper is called Ganda in Chhattisgarh and the Uriya country, the Pankas form a separate division of the Gandas, consisting of those who have become members of the Kabirpanthi sect. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
_Galathea strigosa_ is peculiar for the spinous character of the carapace and cheliform legs. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
He noticed a peculiar weight on his chest and looked down to see a breastplate forged from bone.
Encouragement and support do they derive from James, in maintaining the "peculiar institution" whence they derived their wealth, which they call patriarchal, and boast of as the "corner-stone" of the republic? The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
Collembola: an ordinal term applied to species which are apterous; have no metamorphoses; have variably developed abdominal saltatorial appendages and a peculiar ventral tube at base: the spring-tails. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
The reata in those days was nearly always made of plaited raw hide, and often made by the boys themselves, though a good reata required a long time to complete and peculiar skill in the making of it. Ranching, Sport and Travel
If Australopithecus is sexually dimorphic and Ardipithecus isn't, that's kind of peculiar. Catch a Pithecus by the Toe
These small spiced cakes are a peculiarity of the region.
The way octonions interact, however, is peculiarly exasperating and unlike anything we are familiar with from our conventional number system (see diagram).
The peculiar kind of causality exhibited when measurements at stations with space-like separation are correlated is a symptom of the slipperiness of the space-time behavior of potentialities. Archive 2009-02-01
Mr Ivory, who had a good many years before made himself favourably known as a mathematician, especially by his acquaintance with Laplace's peculiar analysis, had adopted (as not unfrequently happens) some singular hydrostatical theories. Autobiography
The shopkeepers, restaurants, and gambling-houses, with an amiable confidingness peculiar to such people, had trusted the miners to that degree that they themselves were in the same moneyless condition. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
He stood up awkwardly and strolled mysteriously to the corner of the room where a peculiarly large gramophone horn dominated.
There are peculiar cases of hair in the bladder, in which all history as to the method of entrance is denied, and which leave as the only explanation the possibility that the bladder was in communication with some dermoid cyst. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
They've created new American characters as well, placed in peculiarly American settings. HBO's 'Little Britain USA' lends us lots of laughs
At the root of the hysterical fear of premature burial was the fact that physicians recognized, and patients suffered, a number of peculiar conditions characterized by immobility and insensibility, and known variously as trance, catalepsy, cataplexy, and suspended animation. The Serpent and the Rainbow
Mineralogy _-alogy_, not _-ology_ nature _nature_, or _choor_ oleomargarine _g_ is hard, as in _get_ orchid _orkid_ oust _owst_, not _oost_ peculiar _peculyar_ pecuniary _pekun'yari_ perspiration not _prespiratian_ prestige _pres'tij_ or _prestezh'_ pronunciation _pronunzeashun_ or _pronunsheashun_ saucy not _sassy_ schedule _skedyul_ semi not _semi_ theater _the'ater_ not _thea'ter_ turgid _turjid_ usage _uzage_ usurp _uzurp_ vermilion _vermilyun_ wife's not _wives_ Practical Grammar and Composition
The form of body peculiarly subject to phthisical complaints was the smooth, the whitish, that resembling the lentil; the reddish, the blue-eyed, the leucophlegmatic, and that with the scapulae having the appearance of wings: and women in like manner, with regard to the melancholic and subsanguineous, phrenitic and dysenteric affections principally attacked them. Of The Epidemics
Way back in August 1996, a 20-year-old kid with a peculiar name teed up his first professional shot, at the Greater Milwaukee Open. Yahoo! Sports - Top News
When finally he is convinced that Macduff is sincere, however, he retracts his self-denigration and explains why he has lied in this peculiar fashion.
Even in those parts of des where peculiar means are used to get rid of the dead – the Tibetans, for example, grind up corpses into keema which is fed to the local vultures – it is an act of desperation, in this case a reaction to the unfortunate habit corpses have of refusing to decay at high altitudes. Ways of Dying
A very peculiar, literate yet threatening bagman, Fred, accosts him.
The Park had that peculiar bleakness that foreruns the first promise of spring. Turn About Eleanor
And yet that tradition's peculiar virtues - understatement, plainness, a willingness to explain one's ideas - create the effects here which will surprise Americans most.
How these two films conclude reveals much about the stresses (and inferable hopes) peculiar to their respective societies.
The ethical position advocated by Judge Wilhelm in “Equilibrium Between the Aesthetic and the Ethical in the Composition of Personality” (Either-Or II) is a peculiar mix of cognitivism and noncognitivism. SÃ¸ren Kierkegaard
Royal patronage in China certainly had an aesthetic edge, so essential to the nourishment of art, even if generated by peculiar foibles.
Once you have tasted life in southern California, it takes a peculiar kind of masochism to return to a British winter.
For example, Star Anise, that peculiar spice that looks like a fossilised flower, has really changed my stews, adding an unfamiliar glamour to shin of beef.
Moving over matter which has the qualities that we denote by the term fluid, the swayings which the air produces are of a peculiar sort, though they much resemble those of the fiddle string. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography
It is called pawpaw by the natives, who regard it highly for the sake of its one peculiar virtue. The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades
Words Containing One Basic Root canine cynic ` dog 'febrile pyretic ` fever' lingual glossal ` tongue 'peculiar idiotic ` one's own, private' popular demotic ` people 'position thesis ` place, put' rabies mania ` madness 'regal basilic ` king' risible gelastic ` laugh 'scientism gnosticism ` know' stellar astral ` star 'terrene chthonic ` earth' testis orchid ` testis ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3
A song burst forth right over their heads with the peculiar piercingness of a boys voice when he sings with all his might. Chapter XII
I have a fragment of their plaster postiche copying the close-grained Egyptian granite; the oily lustre of the quartz is so fresh and the peculiar structure of the rock, with its mica scintillations, so admirably rendered as to deceive, after two thousand years, the eye of a trained mineralogist.] Old Calabria
England, and he was persuaded to drink and exhibit proofs: which were that he had the constitution of the Family, as aforesaid, in every particular; that he was peculiarly marked with testificatory spots; and that his mere aspect inspired all members and branch members of the The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete
It suddenly seems as peculiar a notion as the balance of one's mind.
According to the peculiar capacity modulation mode of digital scroll compressor, the response discipline of condenser's mass flow rate was translated to an external input signal.
First came the appetizers in form of thin slices of salami and of a peculiar Mexican sausage, so extremely hot with chili pepino as to immediately call for a drink of claret to assuage the burning. Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.
Whenever the course of events proved objectionable, Miss Rylance took refuge in a complaint which she called her neuralgia, indicating that it was a species of disorder peculiar to herself, and of a superior quality to everybody else's neuralgia. The Golden Calf
Irregularity of menstruation and certain other uterine troubles, the peculiar condition called greensickness or chlorosis, and general debility may lead to some skin lesions.
Thus, by a kind of sacred procedure, I immerge myself into those old stones and recreate my peculiar Roman mood. Alone
He knew what Kershaw didn't - the tie-up between this and the peculiar way in which Cantrell's guards had been treating him. PASSION IN THE PEAK
He walked or sat with his eyes continually fixed upon these feet -- reproachfully, it seemed -- as if their disproportion were a source of perennial woe; he carried his arms looped behind him, and had acquired a peculiar stoop -- to facilitate his vigilant guardianship of his feet, apparently. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
Without doubt, Lamb's taste on several matters was peculiar; for instance, there were a few obsolete words, such as arride, agnize, burgeon, which he fancied, and chose to rescue from oblivion. Charles Lamb
Their manners and movements are unaffected and elegant; they dress in exquisite taste; and with a grace peculiarly their own, their manners have a fascination and witchery which is perfectly irresistible. The Englishwoman in America
Hurtling through the air, it seemed, with a sense of fierce speed, the varied clangors of the train, the ringing of the rails, the frequent hoarse blasts of the whistle, the jangling of the metallic fixtures, the jarring of the window-panes, all were keenly differentiated by her exacerbated and sensitive perceptions, and each had its own peculiar irritation. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
University education is a benefit that accrues peculiarly to the individual.
The juglet with cylindrical neck (type VII a) copies jugs of type V a. Some types are, however, peculiar to the juglets, such as that with additional spout (type VIIId) andtypeIXb. Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform]
And he was gifted with that peculiar power which enables a man to have the last word in every encounter, -- a power which we are apt to call repartee, which is in truth the readiness which comes from continual practice. The Duke's Children
Buelow was appointed kapellmeister of the Court Theatre; reforms, peculiarly disagreeable to those reformed, were set on foot; and singers, players, regisseurs, who had anticipated sleeping away their existence in the good old fashion, were violently awakened by this reckless adventurer, charlatan, and what not, who had won the King's ear. Wagner
The original film was subject to the censorship mores of the time - a consideration that meant that the book's Catholic themes (Pinkie is afflicted with a peculiar kind of devoutness), and some of its more violent scenes (a murder by choking on a stick of Brighton rock), were dampened or excised. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
In the meantime he acquired strange peculiarities of habits.
This peculiar state of affairs led to the suggestion of a cannibal mythology as a feature of Western cosmology.
The pennillion were sung by one voice to the harp, and followed a quaint air which was not only interesting, but owing to its peculiarity, it set forth in a striking manner the humour of the verse. The Poetry of Wales
In my view, the relationship with Linda was so difficult and so peculiarly distressing upon him, that it heightened those personality weaknesses.
We're grateful for the peculiar pleasures of gardening in the subtropics. Houston Chronicle
Half-way through rolling it, something peculiar revealed itself: a metal grate in the floor.
Gradually, the island's peculiar charm and unique culture are giving way to global commercialism and economic homogeneity.
There was a peculiar gleam in his eyes, and a half-amused, half-mocking expression lurked on his inscrutable features. The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada
_The gelatigenous tissue_: This tissue, chemically and otherwise peculiar as it is, forms the chief component part of many of the human organs, and it may be truly said that the lack of attention which its peculiarities have received in the past is responsible for more disease and its fatal issue than almost anything else. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
The industry's unpopularity makes its stocks peculiarly appealing now, particularly if we're on the cusp of a new bull market.
But this sense of being on outsider is not peculiar to the Irish, but rather to the writer.
Some time ago, however, a peculiar fish was caught near Madagascar.
‘When you ask a Bulgarian a question it isn't the answer that matters, but the silence before the answer,’ Baker said, illustrating a peculiarity of Bulgarians.
With the relish of a gormandizer it had taken more of its peculiar food than even its prodigious maw could assimilate. Omega, the Man
Every now and again a gentle hop or two, perhaps that peculiar walk where the tail becomes a third leg.
Each is a period evocation, a study of a bygone performance style, full of peculiar details of very precise flamboyance.
Peculiar, parasitic beechdrops grow on the roots of beech trees; squawroot, another plant devoid of chlorophyll, gains its nutrition from the leaf litter.
And yet these two biographical details provide important clues to an understanding of Magnard's peculiar psychological makeup.
Tanka means eggboat; they resemble an eggshell divided longitudinally, and are peculiar to Macào, the shoalness of the water preventing a landing in larger vessels. Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas
Formerly slavery was looked upon as peculiarly pernicious to the diffusion of wealth and the progress of national greatness; now the South is intoxicated with ideas of the profitableness of slave labor, and the power of King Cotton in controlling the exchanges of the world. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862
Virginis), because the name sodality was in a special manner peculiar to these, also because their labours for the renewal of the life of the Church were more permanent and have lasted until the present time, so that these sodalities after fully three hundred years still prosper and flourish. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
In France, batter is transformed into crisp beignets and croquettes, into traditional waffles peculiar to each region, and into smooth, light crêpes.
Weather has also contributed to the seclusion and peculiarity of the Azores - stormy winter seas often prevent access to the smaller islands even by air for days at a time.
In separation of the epiphysis there is a peculiar deformity of the posterior aspect of the joint, consisting of two projections -- one the olecranon, and the other the prominent capitellum with a scale of cartilage which it carries with it from the lateral condyle (R.W. Smith and E.H. Bennett). Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
Once the purely linguistic approach has been abandoned, an opportunity has been provided for a new kind of onomastic vision which treats names as names and not just as words with peculiar properties. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4
Slave patrols, rather than being desultory or inadequate, turn out to be one of the chief ways that the southern states enforced their peculiar institution.
I knew next to nothing about Othello before this, and the single point that jumped out at me, given my peculiar interests, is that apart from the first act the whole thing is set on Cyprus, a place where interethnic fault lines remain sufficiently sharply drawn to keep me in business. Winters Tale follow-up
What is peculiar about what is referred to as ethnicity among both is that neither is an assertive identity of "selfhood". CONTENTS
National peculiarities aside, Western Europe continued to converge, a process facilitated by the development of a new post-social-democratic outlook.
The prince was a great amateur of the peculiar viol called the barytone, and it was one of Haydn's duties to provide new compositions for this instrument. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
This species has a peculiar mechanism by which the flower dispenses pollen to different visitors.
The problem of racism is not peculiar to this country.
The mania about guns emanating from America's white middle-class liberals seems peculiarly off-base to me.
Did you ever hear anyone sound so peculiar?
Let no man's greatness be a bar to full utterance; but let temperance and charity -- duties peculiarly imperative when uttering derogatory truth -- be especially observed towards a resplendent suffering brother like Coleridge, suffering from his own weakness, but on that very account entitled to a tenderer consideration from those who are themselves endowed to feel and claim something more than common human affinity with a nature so large and so susceptive. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
The relatively few words the Clan spoke-which Jondalar could hardly reproduce, just as she was not quite able to pronounce certain sounds in Zelandonii or Mamutoi-were made with a peculiar kind of vocalization, and they were usually used for emphasis, or for names of people or things. The Plains of Passage
The problem was not pain but the peculiar feeling of an unfamiliar grip, especially at the top of the backswing.
Now this is nothing more than an attempt on the part of the translator to wring from the Old English lines some scrap of proof for the peculiar theory that he holds of the origin of the poem. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography
The interneural plates are peculiar to the dog-fish in this comparison. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
True, there may be a great many cuter animals - koalas, chinchillas, moomins and ewoks to name but a few, but guinea pigs reap extra appeal due to their peculiar nature.
The instrument which they employ to measure the angles from which to deduce the height of the clouds is a peculiar form of altazimuth that was originally designed by Prof. Mohn, of Christiania, for measuring the parallax of the aurora borealis. Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
In consequence of the peculiar method of growth, the crinoids often escape the damage done by the disturbance of the bottom, and thus form limestone beds of remarkable thickness; sometimes, indeed, we find these layers composed mainly of crinoidal remains, which exhibit only slight traces of partings such as we have described, being essentially united for the depth of ten or twenty feet. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography
The Merriam-Webster dictionary provides the following definition for the word anomaly; "something anomalous: something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified. Forbes.com: News
Harris writes well about the South because she knows the region; its ways and its blemishes and its peculiar charms are as familiar as her own reflection.
History in Edinburgh has a peculiar penchant for throwing together people, politics and passion.
It was a part that captured a peculiarly repellent side of the Reagan-Thatcher era and it rightly brought Michael Douglas an Oscar for outdoing the hyperactive villains his father, Kirk, played in postwar melodramas. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – review
Islamic moon cake, it is the moon cake with the Huis peculiar place with Mohammedan belief, do not contain the component of the pig, became famous most with Islamic beef moon cake.
However, our dilemma is compounded by a peculiar trait of our society; far too many people despise whistle-blowers, as much or more than persons who commit crimes.

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