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  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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  • a peculiarly French phenomenon
  • Peculiarly shaped rocks and hillocks having striking features lie scattered all over the earth.
  • 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
  • All hurry or bustle is peculiarly painful to the sick. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
  • 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"
  • The impression is thereby given that an emphasis on revival is a peculiarly Welsh phenomenon.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • He ended up in jail because he was peculiarly stubborn, and quite possibly also stupid, but mostly because he was unlucky.
  • The way octonions interact, however, is peculiarly exasperating and unlike anything we are familiar with from our conventional number system (see diagram).
  • He stood up awkwardly and strolled mysteriously to the corner of the room where a peculiarly large gramophone horn dominated.
  • They've created new American characters as well, placed in peculiarly American settings. HBO's 'Little Britain USA' lends us lots of laughs
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • University education is a benefit that accrues peculiarly to the individual.
  • 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
  • In my view, the relationship with Linda was so difficult and so peculiarly distressing upon him, that it heightened those personality weaknesses.
  • The industry's unpopularity makes its stocks peculiarly appealing now, particularly if we're on the cusp of a new bull market.
  • 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
  • The mania about guns emanating from America's white middle-class liberals seems peculiarly off-base to me.
  • 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
  • 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
  • In particular the bronze 'fibulae' of Roman Britain are peculiarly British. The Romanization of Roman Britain
  • The difficulty of keeping soldiers from straying out of quarters by night, would have sufficiently accounted for the appearance of a straggling foot-soldier; but it was more difficult to account for a mounted horseman, in full armour; and such was the apparition which a peculiarly bright glimpse of moonlight now showed at the bottom of the causewayed hill. Castle Dangerous
  • The flunkeyism, which is a characteristic of all the Germanic races, was peculiarly marked in England from the earliest times, and induced men, even in those "spacious days," not only to overpraise fair hair, but to run down dark hair and eyes as ugly. The Man Shakespeare
  • These prophets relied upon the presence of a certain motivity, from which a definite response could be evoked by an appeal which they were peculiarly able to make; but though "they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening oblation," there was none that regarded. The Approach to Philosophy
  • As a result, the simple roundabout - a peculiarly British invention that works on the principle of courtesy - has become a white-knuckle ride of fear.
  • It can readily be recognised by its acicular, needle-like leaves, and more particularly by its peculiarly shaped seed vessel, which resembles the pattern on an old-fashioned Indian shawl. Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
  • This land, you will observe, Mr Campbell, is peculiarly good, having some few acres of what we call prairie, or natural meadow. The Settlers in Canada
  • Not long into the voyage, the ship is attacked by a peculiarly pacifistic band of pirates, who take the children on board their ship.
  • At an age when her slow brother is still stubbing along somewhere in the neolithic period, she has flown way ahead to a kind of mediaeval stage, or dawn of mediaevalism, which is peculiarly her own. The Damnation of Theron Ware
  • The quick-beam [_ornus_, or as the _pinax_ more peculiarly, _fraxinus bubula_; others, the wild sorb] or (as some term it) the witchen, is a species of wild-ash. Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
  • This is, I believe, on the whole true, but it is also true that there are grave diseases which attach themselves peculiarly to the unselfish side of our nature, and they are peculiarly dangerous because men, feeling that the unselfish is the virtuous and nobler side of their being, are apt to suffer these tendencies to operate without supervision or control. The Map of Life Conduct and Character
  • It is in fact a peculiarly rapid decay caused by a kind of leprous growth which nothing can arrest. The Keeper of the Door
  • It never ceases to amaze me just how peculiarly idiotic the occasional individual can be.
  • Was it prudently considered that the dullest of critics can read only as long as his eyes are open? and that the function of judge must incessantly bring under his cognisance papaverous volumes, with which only a super-human endowment of vigilance could hope successfully to contend? so that the goddess is driven, by the necessity of the game, to admit within the circuit of her somnolent sway, a virtue to which she is naturally and peculiarly hostile? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
  • Her nippulars were peculiarly mammarial whilst her nethers were singularly slituarial Daily Rotten
  • By the light of a charcoal fire, clay images were ruddily discernible; before these the enchanters moved unhumanly clad, and doing things which, mercifully perhaps, were veiled from Manuel by the peculiarly perfumed obscurity. Figures of Earth
  • Occasionally a deficiency in the osseous material of the cranium or an abnormal dilatation of the fontanelles gives rise to a hernia of the meninges, which, if accompanied by cerebrospinal fluid in any quantity, causes a large and peculiarly shaped tumor called meningocele. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • A fad that occupies the hands, such as carpentering, turning, or photography, is peculiarly useful if one's taste runs in that direction. Why Worry?
  • One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life. Chapter 4
  • The blain is a vesicular enlargement on the lateral and under part of the tongue in horses, oxen, and dogs, which, although not of unfrequent occurrence, or peculiarly fatal result, has not been sufficiently noticed by veterinary authors. The Dog
  • It may be faid, in general, that all God's con - daft towards Abraham was kind and benevolent; but there were fome particular ihftances of his con* duiSl, which wei-e more peculiarly expreffive of friendfhip, and which defervc to be diftindly men - tioned. Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects
  • I was distracted from my thoughts by the clumping of male feet on the stairs, accompanied by snorts and that peculiarly Scottish sort of giggling usually depicted in print-but by no means adequately-as "Heuch, heuch, heuch! A Breath of Snow and Ashes
  • Jones had written that ` One sometimes hears of miners earning substantial sums when working in peculiarly fortuitous circumstances. Revisiting Orwell's Wigan Pier
  • The kind of hip hop that he makes is called crunk, a peculiarly Southern variant that's molasses-thick and influenced by the local drug of choice, syrup.
  • More info at website of the Brooklyn-based label that released the full-length version, temporaryresidence.com, and at Eluvium/Cooper’s site, eluvium.net, which houses two additional MP3s: the lush, if peculiarly detuned, “Under the Water It Glowed” and the deceptively rudimentary piano piece “Genius and the Thieves,” which sounds like Rufus Wainwright playing a Harold Budd cover. Disquiet » Three Eluvium MP3s
  • However choice examples of their kind, too, these plants were of a kind peculiarly adapted to the embowerment of Mrs Pipchin. Dombey and Son
  • An almost impossibly rich work, it explicates a host of thorny theological, philosophical, and epistemological controversies and positions (Marsden, for instance, insightfully draws the connection between, on the one hand, the intellectual appeal of dispensational premillennialism and the opposition to Darwinism and, on the other, the peculiarly American “non-developmental” understanding of history). Modernism, Minimalism, Fundamentalism
  • I don't know whether or not this is a peculiarly Australian characteristic, but I have no doubt that in this country, people have a deep aversion to believing that their government is incompetent.
  • Nor is this remarkable, for persons who are occupied with what is called "brainwork," are peculiarly sensitive to the disturbances of the streets. Lost Leaders
  • They invoke their particular (and often overlapping, and indeed she was one of his) gods and plunge out of downscale teenage bedrooms, brandishing shards of imagery as peculiarly-shaped as prison shivs.
  • Not only was their empire a military despotism, it was also peculiarly distrustful of any form of self-help, much less self-government, on the part of its subjects.
  • We also found a smashing exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (which appears, peculiarly, not to have a working website), mostly consisting of temporary rooms and buildings buried in sand.
  • the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams
  • Also, your slavish use of obsolete, twee and anglicised Hibernicisms is peculiarly un-Irish, not to mention unconvincing and uncouth.
  • The tyranny of custom, it is true, compels your friend and myself to dress peculiarly, but I assure you nothing could be finer than the way that the olive green of your coat melts in the delicate yellow of your cravat, or the pearl gray of your trousers blends with the bright blue of your waistcoat, and lends additional brilliancy to that massive oroide watch-chain which you wear. Drift from Two Shores
  • These plants are peculiarly prone to disease.
  • He pulled his cigarette spiritlessly, and his voice was peculiarly dead and monotonous.
  • 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"
  • If a yearling is found unweaned it is caught and "blabbed" which is done by fitting a peculiarly shaped piece of wood into its nose that prevents it from sucking but does not interfere with feeding. Arizona Sketches
  • Philip Roth, in a 1973 New York Times essay on baseball, called "its longueurs and thrills, its spaciousness, its suspensefulness, its heroics, its nuances, its lingo, its 'characters,' its peculiarly hypnotic tedium. NYT > Home Page
  • One thing people may not realize about Arnold is that he is peculiarly unqualified for office even by Hollywood standards.
  • In this, as in so many ways, we have in these men simply an expression of ceratin peculiarly British maladies (the class system and romantic attachment to "Arabia") that has nothing to do with any modern trend, Nu Laber included. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Scripture terms not men peculiarly captivated unto brutish affections, anthropous psuchikous, "natural men," but rather alogs zoa phusika, 2 Pneumatologia
  • I need scarcely expatiate upon the delicate and long-continuing fragrance which this luxuriant perfume imparts to all things with which it comes in contact; it is peculiarly calculated for the drawer, writing-desk, &c. since its aroma is totally unmingled with that most disagreeable effluvium, which is ever proceeding from alcohol. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 334, October 4, 1828
  • A fine, solid, brown species, generally more or less eroded, and with a peculiarly strongly plicate columella. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
  • Demise twisted and weaved in the air, dancing peculiarly.
  • But she seems peculiarly unconcerned about the distraction a fainting father might present to the midwife.
  • The turpentine gathered from the newly boxed or virgin tree is very valuable, on account of its producing a peculiarly clear and white rosin, which is used in the manufacture of the finer kinds of soap, and by 'Rosin the Bow,' and commands, ordinarily, nearly five times the price of the common article. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • Holy Innocents 'Day or Childermas, whether or not because of Herod's massacre, was formerly peculiarly unlucky; it was a day upon which no one, if he could possibly avoid it, should begin any piece of work. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
  • My appreciation for all things peculiarly British, let alone particular to the westcountry, rose a notch yesterday whilst sat at Taunton station waiting for the bus to Minehead.
  • This book is perhaps the best introduction to the Pali texts, with their peculiarly meticulous and laconic style.
  • The building is a peculiarly shaped construction.
  • Nuit -- and that peculiarly French gift, the gift of exquisite speech, argute loqui, attained in them a perfection which it had never seen before. Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
  • The vapor of iodine coming in contact with the silver surface, forms an iodide which is peculiarly sensitive to light. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
  • Instead there is a peculiarly Irish sprezzatura.
  • The name "Fenian" is of very remote antiquity, and appears to be most comprehensive in its signification, and to be peculiarly adapted to the great confraternity of patriots which now engrosses so much of the history of passing events. Ridgeway An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada
  • She would have run off, if I had let her - I caught her one day heading for the thistled horse paddocks; after that I kept her tender feet unshod and let the bindi-eyes do the policing with their peculiarly masculine and wordless perseverance.
  • It seems probable that The Athen鎢m mistook Oscar Wilde for a continuator of the Pre – Raphaelite movement with the sub-conscious and peculiarly English suggestion that whatever is Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
  • Schäfer has worked out the minute anatomy of muscular fiber, particularly in the wing muscles of insects, which are peculiarly adapted for this purpose on account of the large amount of interstitial sarcoplasm which separates the sarco-styles. IV. Myology. 2. Development of the Muscles
  • Officially, Russia seeks to lure tourists to its charms, which range from its rich cultural history to the anachronisms which are peculiarly its own, like Lenin's mausoleum, still faithfully guarded on Red Square.
  • She's a peculiarly attractive woman.
  • The flunkeyism, which is a characteristic of all the Germanic races, was peculiarly marked in England from the earliest times, and induced men, even in those “spacious days,” not only to overpraise fair hair, but to run down dark hair and eyes as ugly. The Man Shakespeare
  • We can hardly expect to prevent all development of adenoids by these prompt and painless stitches in time, for some children seem to be born peculiarly subject to them, either from the inheritance of a particular shape of nose and throat, -- "the family nose," as it has been called, -- or from some peculiar sponginess and liability to inflammation and enlargement of all these tonsilar or lymphoid "glands" and "kernels" of the body generally -- the old Preventable Diseases
  • In this peculiarly modern mood of social pessimism, the end is believed to be nigh but never comes.
  • Printing offices and book binderies are peculiarly subject to fires, and many editions have thus been consumed before more than a few copies have been issued. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
  • a peculiarly Romantic figura is helpfully elucidated in the following modern poem. The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology
  • It is a restaurant that has somehow fashioned for itself a peculiarly unironic atmosphere of decency.
  • Mr. Justice Collins was the judge and the case was conducted at first with the outward seemliness and propriety which are so peculiarly English. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
  • He has gone into hiding and a peculiarly Jamaican chaos has erupted as everyone - police, local yardies and hoods from afar - are after him, trying to track him down.
  • The exterior is richly and peculiarly ornamented, to show the progress of fictile art. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • If its soil is well drained, this little plant with its peculiarly shaped tubers will have no trouble naturalizing.
  • Succinct but solemn warnings against vices to which kings are peculiarly tempted, as carnal pleasures and oppressive and unrighteous government are used to sustain sensual indulgence. strength -- mental and bodily resources for health and comfort. thy ways -- or course of life. to that ... kings -- literally, "to the destroying of kings," avoid destructive pleasures (compare Pr 5: 9; 7: 22, 27; Ho 4: 11). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Instead she has chosen to gather a harvest more distinctively and peculiarly her own, a decision that sounds more sensible with each subsequent listen.
  • This time, he was peculiarly flushed, leading a colleague to speculate whether he was on something.
  • However, this case does raise the moral and ethical issues in a peculiarly sharp form.
  • It was then tried with speaking: the result was the same: a powerful and perpetual hum, not resonant peculiarly to the diatessaron, the diapente, or the diapason, but making a new variety of continuous fundamental bass. Gryll Grange
  • And yet woman is coerced through submission to the Symbolic order to abandon feminine desire and a peculiarly feminine relation to origins.
  • To be subject to such tyrants is, moreover, a peculiarly terrible fate, since one cannot escape servitude by running away.
  • Gangs of youths sauntered along, yelling randomly at other pedestrians and dressed in peculiarly dandified clothes contrasting with a partiality for working-man's boots.
  • The valley of the Tay, from the source of that river in the west to its debouchment at Dundee, is peculiarly rich in historic memoirs.
  • In general, the classical perspective contained a peculiarly narrow view of what it actually is that controls human behaviour.
  • There is a certain attentive tenderness, difficult to be described, which the manly of our sex feel, and which is peculiarly pleasing to woman: 'tis also a very delightful sensation to ourselves, as well as productive of the happiest consequences: regarding them as creatures placed by Providence under our protection, and depending on us for their happiness, is the strongest possible tie of affection to a well-turned mind. The History of Emily Montague
  • This intrusion or invasion into the thick impasto of the declamatory surface is peculiarly poignant and suggestive.
  • This "lope" as it is called, seems to be a gait peculiarly adapted to the mustang, as they will break into, and keep it up the entire day; evincing no more distress than our ordinary horse does in trotting leisurely. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography
  • Not a dozen feet away another Shetland, a coal-black one, was behaving as peculiarly as it was being treated. CHAPTER XXV
  • The turpentine gathered from the newly boxed or virgin tree is very valuable, on account of its producing a peculiarly clear and white rosin, which is used in the manufacture of the finer kinds of soap, and by "Rosin the Bow. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
  • Richard had turned from O'Mare's records of his accounts to mull over a peculiarly fantastic sketch (mermaids, a sequoia forest, a flock of doves) that O'Mare had recently proposed for the bar wall of Maxies 'Club De Luxe, when the street door suddenly flew open and a strange character stepped in. The Secret Animal
  • But before I disappeared she assured me that I should meet with a most gracious reception, for her altesse royale had declared she would see me with marked favour, if she saw no other English whatsoever; because Madame d'Arblay, she said, was the only English person who had been peculiarly recommended to her notice by the Queen of England. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
  • This is a peculiarly nasty technique of persuasion, causing great psychological anguish throughout the middle ages and even today.
  • One day, when I was in my teens, I wanted something new to read, so I went into the study and looked around on my parents's bookshelves and found this peculiarly titled book.
  • The seaboard of Capernaum in which Peter dwelt is said by travelers to be a peculiarly damp, marshy, aguish, feverish place.
  • It is the Father unto whom we have our access, whom we peculiarly invocate; as it is expressed, chap. iii. Christologia
  • Group participation is a peculiarly Chinese characteristic of the back-to-nature movement.
  • Nor can any thing more peculiarly unqualify a man for the office of an apostle or preacher of the gospel, than this degenerous quality: for it makes him unable to look a bold sinner in the face, to assert a disgusted truth, or to own his commission, when power and interest shall frown him into silence and mean compliances. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
  • And as a remedy for this fatal evil he is everywhere peculiarly emphatical in his encomiums on the habeas corpus act, which in one place he calls "the BULWARK of the British Constitution. Balkinization
  • A friend of mine suggested that "lilied" was peculiarly appropriate to form "cold nymphs chaste crowns," from its imputed power as a preserver of chastity: and in MR. HALLIWELL'S folio, several examples are quoted from old poets of "peony" spelt "piony;" and of both _peony_ and _lily_ as Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
  • This word gulch is applied to the peculiarly abrupt, short ravines, which are a characteristic feature in Californian more than in any other mountains. The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West
  • The result is a peculiarly U.S. hybrid of industrial boosterism which contributes to anti-environmentalism's decidedly sinister cast.
  • Not only does the rush of water into the cistern disturb any sleepers on the Prince of Wales Road side of the house, but my cistern is afflicted with peculiarly loud gurglings and thumpings, while frequently the pipes emit a loud groaning sound. Whose Body?
  • Pretending to honor God by direct disobedience is peculiarly affrontive. Sermons on Various Important Subjects
  • It must be allowed that Dryden would have been hard-pressed to find another episode from ancient epic which so peculiarly recalled recent history.
  • Cultural Exchange: Humiliation and the Scarlet G yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Cultural Exchange: Humiliation and the Scarlet G'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: We can tell ourselves that we have no cultural equivalent of the shame described as peculiarly Muslim, but it\'s not true. Cultural Exchange: Humiliation and the Scarlet G
  • Others deploy stylised forms of that peculiarly Western origami, the paper dart.
  • But she grew pale, her eyes became peculiarly brilliant, her voice took a lower key, and lost a kind of hoarseness it had in the past. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
  • Certainly, that touring party was more than partial to a peculiarly Kiwi version of bacon and egg pie.
  • these peculiarly cinematic elements
  • Well, not literally -- but I was gazing at a fat Zenith with wooden legs when he mimed "I Wanna Be Your Lover" on American Bandstand in 1980, then peculiarly told Dick Clark he played "a thousand" instruments. Gregory Weinkauf: Happy Birthday to Prince!
  • A person can be successfully evil only if he or she can embody a peculiarly nasty blend of vicious evil and laudable good.
  • He writes openly and very simply about his struggles with faith, explaining, for example, how he has always found prayer and Bible reading peculiarly difficult.
  • This is not a role for which Latin and Greek are unusually appropriate, but neither are they peculiarly inappropriate.
  • However, they have to reverse out of a small, narrow and peculiarly shaped space and it's not going to be easy.
  • However choice examples of their kind, too, these plants were of a kind peculiarly adapted to the embowerment of Mrs. Pipchin. Highways & Byways in Sussex
  • This tendency is peculiarly marked, of course, in artists possessing the "diffluent" type of imagination, and A Study of Poetry
  • The dialogue, though, is chanted in a peculiarly laconic way.
  • I am not," said Mr. Slope, to whom the word worshipper was peculiarly distasteful. Barchester Towers
  • It seems that he had dived down into what was peculiarly his kingdom, and beside him on the settee was a brand which he had brought up in the shape of a slim, flame-like young woman with a pale, intense face, youthful, and yet so worn with sin and sorrow that one read the terrible years which had left their leprous mark upon her. The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
  • Sir Philip Ramon, the British foreign secretary, "a firm, square-jawed, big-mouthed man with that shade of blue in his eyes that one looks for in peculiarly heartless criminals and particularly famous generals" you can tell right away that Wallace cut his literary teeth in Fleet Street, receives a death threat. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice – reviews
  • This topic is peculiarly difficult to write about.
  • He turned away, and, looking from Helena landwards, he said, smiling peculiarly: The Trespasser
  • There is also a peculiarly fascinating apparatus known as a vacuum-pan, peeping into which, through a little tale window, a species of brown porridge transforms itself into crystallised sugar of the sort known to housekeepers as "Demerara" under your very eyes; and another equally attractive, rapidly revolving machine in which the molasses, by centrifugal force, detaches itself from the sugar, and runs of its own accord down its appointed channels to the rum distillery, where Here, There and Everywhere
  • + The sensible rhetorick of the dead, to exemplarity of good life, first admitted to the bones of pious men and martyrs within church walls, which in succeeding ages crept into promiscuous practice: while Constantine was peculiarly favoured to be admitted into the church porch, and the first thus buried in England, was in the days of Cuthred. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
  • Moreover, at the present time, when there is so much talk about the inoculative treatment of pulmonary consumption by the cultivated virus of its special microbe, it is highly interesting to know that the helenin of Elecampane is said to be peculiarly destructive to the bacillus of tubercular disease. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • In the entresol of this house was one of his finest treasures — a carved and floriated base bearing a tapering monolith some four feet high, crowned by the head of a peculiarly goatish Pan, by the side of which were the problematic remains of a lovely nude nymph — just the little feet broken off at the ankles. The Financier
  • Set against the mass of textured stone, the thin man-made planes of a rusted steel door and rusty faceted piling are peculiarly resonant.
  • Other witnesses deponed that Rebecca muttered to herself in an unknown tongue, that the songs she sang were peculiarly sweet, that her garments were of a strange mystic form, and that she had rings with cabalistic devices. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
  • When, presently, the summer storms gathered on that rock-bound, open hill, with its wide reaches of vine and shrub-wild, fierce storms that bent the birch and cedar, and strained at the bay and huckleberry, with lightning and turbulent wind and thunder, followed by the charging rain — the name seemed to become peculiarly appropriate. Mark Twain: A Biography
  • The battle between the evolutionists and the creationists is a peculiarly tragic one, because it is amplifying the worst tendencies of both sides, and making it more and more difficult for most people to find a resolution.
  • Taking offence, making a show of it, is a peculiarly self-theatrical, melodramatic, histrionic gesture in the annals of criticism.
  • Fortunately for an answer to this question, air is as vital to change in the inorganic processes of nature as it is to those other changes which we call peculiarly life. Mars
  • That condition of soil known as honeycombed furnishes a peculiarly opportune time for sowing these seeds, as it provides a covering for them while the land is moist, and thus puts them in a position to germinate as soon as growth begins. Clovers and How to Grow Them
  • And yet woman is coerced through submission to the Symbolic order to abandon feminine desire and a peculiarly feminine relation to origins.
  • Women are peculiarly fitted to further such a combination — first, from their greater tendency to mingle affection and imagination with passion, and thus subtilize it into sentiment; and next, from that dread of what overtaxes their intellectual energies, either by difficulty, or monotony, which gives them an instinctive fondness for lightness of treatment and airiness of expression, thus making them cut short all prolixity and reject all heaviness. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
  • Peculiarly Kenyan is “a testimony to the curiously Kenyan habits, smells, tastes and flavours that make this country of ours hilarious at best and annoying at worst.” Global Voices in English » Kenya: A nation laughing at itself
  • It was probably the unusual and peculiarly charming gait thus presented that attracted the sculptor's notice and that still, after so many centuries, riveted the eyes of its archaeological admirer.
  • There is a curious creature, called the quash, resembling the ichneumon, which possesses a peculiarly fetid smell, and is known for its powerful, lacerating teeth. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
  • Gangs of youths sauntered along, yelling randomly at other pedestrians and dressed in peculiarly dandified clothes contrasting with a partiality for working-man's boots.
  • It is a conceit to pretend that New Year festivities are somehow peculiarly Scottish though there were particular reasons for their retention and the special regard in which they were held.
  • And with those who are friends from other countries, so far as their traditions and experiences go, it is the same; but with our own kith and kin peculiarly it is so. The Boy Scout Movement
  • The order is peculiarly Moslem, in fact the succedaneum for the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • It was supposed to be a panacea for the jobless, founded on the peculiarly European notion that if more people work less (but keep the same salaries as when they worked more) lots of good jobs will be created.
  • gives rise to a hernia of the meninges, which, if accompanied by cerebrospinal fluid in any quantity, causes a large and peculiarly shaped tumor called meningocele (Fig. 96). Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • A commonplace observation on my part, a piece of naïveté perhaps, but this fact has been peculiarly neglected in so many recent commentaries about violence on the screen.
  • Delightful though that is, it makes them peculiarly unsuited to expressing Scotland's place in the 21st century world.
  • The want of mental strength rendering them so peculiarly suasible, they possess no powers of resistance.
  • Recently, I was watching a cable channel that programs fashion shows almost continuously and noticed that the long-legged models prancing in high heels seem to walk peculiarly.
  • If we allow this ban to go through unopposed, we are giving the government permission to criminalise people who pursue an activity that most people disapprove of on no better grounds than a peculiarly British snobbery.
  • he's behaving rather peculiarly
  • Here the religious divisions that plagued English society, between churchmen, Dissenters, and papists, were presented in a peculiarly acute form.
  • He knew that if he could just stand back a little he could apply his peculiarly deterministic volition to the problem.
  • I find I am much less argumentative with people in person when I have the opportunity to work through vexations in the peculiarly public way blogging allows.
  • Salvation is peculiarly assigned to Him, and so He bears the "inkhorn" in order to "mark" His elect (Eze 9: 4; compare Ex 12: 7; Re 7: 3; 9: 4; 13: 16, 17; 20: 4), and to write their names in His book of life (Re 13: 8). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • It tasted peculiarly watery and unappetizing.
  • His prose can rise to majestic, biblical heights and his cast of mind has a peculiarly North American sadness.
  • Union Station, one of the first of those dividend-built and dividend-building terminals that were to spring up quickly and palatially the country over, rose with a peculiarly American trick out of one of the most squalid sections of the city. Star-Dust
  • I may also, in the last instance, mention that I have found the above methods of electro-dissolution peculiarly adapted for the preparation of unstable compounds such as stannic nitrate, potassic ferrate, ferric acetate, which are decomposed on the application of heat, and in some instances have succeeded by the following means of crystallizing the resulting compound obtained. Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887
  • Unfortunately, he's a runaway freight train of creativity, with no one in the brake room to slow down his torrent of hangdog, peculiarly American balladry.
  • Some English people are familiar with that peculiarly Welsh communal emotional mood identified by the name hwyl.
  • “I am not,” said Mr. Slope, to whom the word worshipper was peculiarly distasteful. Barchester Towers
  • He nodded with a peculiarly male satisfaction at her capitulation.
  • But the thing which in eminent instances signalizes so exceptional a nature is this: though the man's even temper and discreet bearing would seem to intimate a mind peculiarly subject to the law of reason, not the less in his heart he would seem to riot in complete exemption from that law, having apparently little to do with reason further than to employ it as an ambidexter implement for effecting the irrational. Billy Budd
  • The prevailing opinion respecting the substances known as condiments is, that they possess essentially stimulating qualities, rendering them peculiarly fitted for inducing, by reflex action, the secretion of the alimentary juices. Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884
  • The conflict was peculiarly bloody with both sides responsible for committing atrocities.
  • The spoken word, even in the colonial period, had a peculiarly prominent place in America.
  • Psychiatry was invented by a man named Freud and was based on his theory that people had no way of knowing why they were unhappy or behaved peculiarly, because the origins of the problem were hidden from them, lurking in what he called the subconscious, and only a trained, expensive specialist could uncover and uproot them over the course of a long, expensive treatment. WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories
  • Here, as in the first picture, the eyes looked forth with a curious, proud directness; but beneath the directness was a glint of humor, a flash of daring absent in the other face; the mouth smiled, seeming to anticipate life's secrets, the ungloved hand held the gun with a touch peculiarly caressing, peculiarly firm. Max
  • To give it, at the same time, a degree of novelty and consequence, Lady Penelope Penfeather had long since suggested to Mr. Mowbray, that the more gifted and accomplished part of the guests might contribute to furnish out entertainment for the rest, by acting a few scenes of some popular drama; an accomplishment in which her self-conceit assured her that she was peculiarly qualified to excel. Saint Ronan's Well

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